Who Are The Houthis?
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, national security correspondent Greg Myre, and editor/correspondent Ron Elving.
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| 0:46.3 | and working on tooth number three. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:59.6 | I miss those days. They were a little more Dossa my kids back then. Well hey there it's the NPR Politics Podcast I'm a Smachal and I cover the White House. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm Greg Myri and I cover national security. |
| 1:05.8 | And I'm Ron Elving, editor- correspondent. |
| 1:08.3 | The US government has been launching missiles at a group that is based out of Yemen called the Huthies. And today on the show, who are the |
| 1:16.1 | huthies? Why is the US striking them? And could this tie the US into a broader regional |
| 1:22.4 | war? The President Biden says he's been trying. tie the US into a broader regional war |
| 1:23.0 | the President Biden says he's been trying to avoid. |
| 1:26.0 | Greg, I want to start with you because you have been covering this story. |
| 1:29.0 | The United States, as we say, has been firing missiles into Yemen for about a week now. |
| 1:35.4 | Why is that happening? |
| 1:37.5 | So the U.S. is going after the Houthis. |
| 1:40.1 | They are the strongest military force in Yemen, and they've been attacking commercial |
| 1:45.6 | ships in the Red Sea that runs along Yemen's Western coastline. |
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