Nancy Youssef

The estimates are anywhere from 3,000 to 30,000 killed in the push to end those protests.

And then we started hearing this discussion about needing to strike a deal.

I don't know if it's a scenario where the president started on this path with one goal in mind, thinking that the regime was in trouble and that there was an opportunity for the U.S.

with just a little bit of help could sort of tip the scales in the protesters' favor and it's expanded to something else.

That's one potential one.

But

There hasn't been an articulation for the urgency now.

Well, that's a great question.

So far, we haven't heard allied support.

We've heard from Gulf partners in the region that they don't want U.S.

military jets taking off.

from bases in their countries because they're worried about potential retaliatory strikes by the Iranians.

We haven't seen an effort by the United States to build a coalition of nations that could help.

Now, could some be doing intelligence sharing?

Potentially.

That might be one way.

But in terms of military assets, this is not like the U.S.

campaign against Yemen, where you saw a few allied partners support those strikes.

So far, this is a U.S.-only operation in terms of military assets in the region.

So there aren't many.