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Welcome to a special edition of the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.

In this special edition of the PDB, I want to focus on a group that's been making headlines and drawing U.S. military action, and that, of course, would be the Houthis of Yemen.

You ask yourself, who are they? Where'd they come from? And why is the U.S. currently engaged

in military operations against them? Those are all very good questions. Hopefully, we'll be able to provide you with some

answers. Now, if you're a regular listener to the PDB, you should know that this isn't a new story,

but it's escalated in ways that affect global trade, U.S. security, and U.S. naval operations.

So let's break it down step by step, starting with who these guys are,

they're rolling Yemen, their ties to Iran, and why they've created such waves in the Red Sea.

Oh, see what I did there? Pun intended. The group we all know as the Houthis are officially

called Ansar Allah, or supporters of God. They're a movement that emerged

in Yemen in the 1990s. They're named after Hussein al-Hutti, that's a Zadis-Shiya cleric,

who founded the group to push back against Yemen's government and what he saw as foreign interference,

particularly from the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Now, the Zadis are a Shia Muslim sect, unique to Yemen, distinct from the larger Shia branch that's

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