From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

The Armstrong and Getty show.

And in terms of how we got here on November 19th we started to see the huthies conducting these

indiscriminate attacks against commercial vessels putting mariners at risk.

And we've had 27 attacks since mid-November.

In early January, 14 nations and the United States all issued a warning to the

huthies that this type of illegal and reckless activity

needed to stop or there would be consequences

and last night there were consequences.

So we're going to continue to monitor initial indications

are that we had good effects, but of course we're prepared to take additional

action should we need to. How many attacks did they say?

Uh, one did I can't remember?

27?

This Major General Patrick Ryder of the Department of Defense, uh, he's, I think he was talking

about attacks on shipping in the the Gulf there or in the

I had this morning I heard this morning that the huthies had fired 2,000 times at shipping in the last several months.

Interesting. Yeah, and as David Ignatius said in the Washington Post, this small group had effectively shut down one of the biggest shipping lanes in the world for the last several weeks.

Yeah just to bring you up to speed.

Yeah, what a great question. I was absolutely going to get there. We lobbed a bunch of ordinance that their rocket

launchers and their radars and defense facilities allegedly.

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