‘It Is a Long Overdue Striking the Houthis Who Are Backed by Iran’: Joni Ernst on US-UK Airstrikes in Yemen

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BAIER: “We will talk about the caucuses in just a second. I do want to get you, you are on the Senate Armed Services Committee. I want to get your thoughts about the strikes overnight on the Houthi rebels and the fallout from that and your take on that.”
ERNST: “Yes. It is a long overdue striking the Houthis who are backed by Iran. The Houthis have been targeting American service members in the Middle East region for several months now without any retribution coming from the United States. As well as the Houthis are targeting American carriers, other international shipping carriers and it has become a very dangerous situation in the Red Sea. So, again, these strikes are long overdue but I will remind everyone this is retaliation for strikes against our own people and innocent civilians that are operating shipping carriers and it was an international effort as well. So I’m glad the Biden Administration finally moved on this. So, we’ll see what happens next. But, we need to show leadership, and we haven’t seen that in the past from this administration.”