Kayleigh Lyons

ground forces then the other escalatory thing we have to keep an eye on here is of course the iranian proxies the houthis who over the weekend launched attacks missiles and drones at israel specifically remember how disruptive the houthis were in the red sea beginning back in 2023 very disrupted to commercial shipping so that poses a threat to the alternate route through the red sea that other gulf nations like the saudis are using to try to get their energy exports

So there's escalatory risks at the same time, Tim, that the president is still talking about this diplomatic off-ramp.

I guess, though, when you still have Iran saying that the claims the president is making around Iran, accepting these points when Iranian officials are calling them excessive and illogical, it doesn't seem like we are necessarily getting any closer to concrete resolution here.