Houthis Reject Trump’s Claims as Attacks on Saudi Arabia Escalate (with Hussain Albukhaiti)

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That's how we see the United States under Donald Trump, Donald Trump also in this interview with Robert Sherman from News Nation when asked, "So what are you looking to see from Iran on this decision whether you're going to annihilate them or not?" Because Trump called Barack Reveed, his personal stenographer over at Axios and said, "I think I'm going to annihilate them, but we'll see, it's my decision, sometimes I just decide this or that. Well, we'll see ultimately what I do." Donald Trump said, "Well, we're going to see what happens. Right now they want to make a deal, and if the deal is not a correct deal, then I wouldn't even think about it, but right now they want to make a deal because they're losing in every way and they're losing financially, they're losing militarily, they're losing every single way. So yeah, we're going to see what happens now." Meanwhile, the Houthis are responding with their actions and the Houthis launched their largest wave of missile and drone attacks yet, targeting multiple areas across Saudi Arabia in the past 12 to 24 hours. Many civil defense issued alerts for Jeddah, Abba, Al-Ulajazan, Yanbu, Kamis Mushe, Tyfe, and for the first time the Farsan Islands also, we heard the air sirens go up over Riyadh. That's right, Riyadh and their footage of explosions that can be heard right in Riyadh. I'll show you what happened as you have the Houthis or Amserallah as they're called in the region. Launch ballistic missile attacks, apparently targeting King Salman Air Base nearby, and you can hear the explosions right by Riyadh here playing this clip. Then you can see right here and Anserallah, the ballistic missile, scene over Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, and it looks like it was able to maneuver around the interceptors that Saudi Arabia had. You can see for yourself, let's play it. Those want to count notes, Al-Kharsh having air sirens alerting the people is most interesting if they hit nearby as well because Prince Sultan Air Base is nearby. Also you have a Riyadh refinery right there should also be noted that the east-west pipeline as we've discussed before in Saudi Arabia has been hit pretty hard. Number of power stations there have been destroyed, and so Saudi Arabia made a formal announcement to European refiners that there will be no crude oil delivered to European refiners next month after a drone attack shut down the east-west pipeline, and we were expecting that announcement. We had been reporting on it for quite some time, and that announcement was now made official. You take a look at what's going on in Sana right now, which is the capital of the Houthi Ansarallah controlled area of Yemen, and you can see for yourself I mean look at these large crowd gatherings that take place, this takes place every Friday, you can see for yourself just the mass mobilization that exists, I'll show you this, let's play it. Another angle of this mass mobilization right over here in Sana you can see over here what that looks like, let's play it. You know and now I want to get an understanding of how people in Sana are perceiving Donald Trump constantly saying the Houthis want to do a deal with me, the Houthis want to do a deal with me, it's going to be a grand deal, that's what he says. So why don't we talk to people from Sana, how about that, want to bring in now Hussein al-Buhati, he is a pro-Houthi journalist, he is inside Sana, he has family members, his brother is in the political bureau as well, he's high up in the ranks of Ansarallah right there, and so he speaks with the leadership over there, and so I'm curious when Donald Trump makes these statements, what are actually people in leadership positions in the Houthis saying, so why don't we ask, why don't we see how they perceive Donald Trump, how do they perceive Trump's war in Iran with Netanyahu, how do they perceive it, what's the response. So bring in the interview I just did with Hussein al-Buhati, he's in Sana right now, let's bring him in. Now I want to bring on Hussein al-Buhati reporter from Sana pro-Houthi reporter, you're in Sana right now, you know what's going on in the area, and so I want to bring a perspective from you about what you're hearing, obviously in Sana will get into a bunch of stuff here, but Donald Trump announced on Friday, he went on a show here and said that very close to doing a deal with the Houthis, and he says he was asked about it, we're talking with them, we're very close to doing a deal, you know this is something that you probably have heard him say about Iran a number of times, deal, deal here, deal there, deal there, so I'm just genuinely curious, I mean you're there, you're speaking with leadership, you are, you know the people who are in the political bureau there, do you know what's going on? I mean I think it's just a big, I mean a big lie, Trump has been known for lying since he took office, he keeps lying till today that he stopped eight words, I mean I still have said everything, I don't know which word has he stopped, he started actually worse, but regarding this issue, I mean it has started maybe a few days ago, look at the attack against Saudi Arabia. If everyone was asking why Sanaa 40 as they called him Ansar al-Dahuhti are not targeting US ship, because they were clear when they were, when they attacked Saudi ship, when they started after they broke the ceasefire and target Sanaa airport, they said that this bluecade is only against Saudi ships, and when they arrived and liberate, but I will bend up straight near Mocha, they said as well exactly this, it bluecade is only against Saudi ship, because all the countries and Saudi media have been saying that they will threaten the shipping, so why does the statement that coming from Trump, because the media, Saudi back media and some international media, they always asking why are you are you not targeting United States ships, so Trump want to kind of take advantage of that question, like to show that we are in talk with the Saudi and they said that the Saudi have contacted us and they requested us, they don't want to war, they ask us, they don't want to get us involved because they know what I did, before I resolved this latest statement from him, I mean what kind of talk will we have with the United States at this time, if we do have a war with it? What kind of talk or reach that we are Ansar al-Arab as Yemen will try to reach Donald Trump, if we have said from the beginning that's only Saudi ship is blocked from Yemen, so this means that Britain can say as well that they are not targeting our ship, we have an agreement with them, any other country, we said only the Saudi ship, so this is actually all lies and to prove that we remember that when Trump had launched the attack against Yemen when he continued the Biden, he said in the true social media that we will do during the prosperity garden and Yemeni blocking that it's in front of Israel because of the genocide in Gaza, he said in a tweet that the truth media said that we are hitting the Houthi is really bad and we are like badly and we will continue until they stop attacking our ship and Israeli ship, even though we only target United States ship because of the prosperity garden attack against Yemen. Let me ask you this who say, I mean, from our view over here, are you an And are people there following the developments in the United States, you know, when he's out there saying these things, you know, like, there's this deal and that, you know, here's what I'm, you know, I mean, I think in addition in the past 24 hours, he said, you know, I'm thinking about whether or not we're going to annihilate Iran or not, you know, and things like that. I mean, are you all seeing that and how is that being, you know, just discussed there? I mean, I think it's just a, from an interesting standpoint, just to think, how is that impacting behavior where you are in sauna? Yeah. I mean, just we look at him here in Sanaa and maybe in all Yemen, as like someone who is a fool, who doesn't want, who doesn't know what to say. He doesn't know what not to say. He just like what comes to his mouth, he will just say it and is actually making the reputation of the United States as one of the countries that's considered the free world, making it bad. And if you hear, I mean, if somebody will break an agreement or a war with someone, we call him Trump. So he's someone who just like the media, he doesn't care about the area we are living in. We remember his speech when he got in the White House, he spoke about peace. We don't want to get United States involved, we don't want to do that, we don't want to do that. Actually, when I heard it, I said that this is actually a fine, make America great again. We thought, oh, I mean, how to make America again great is not to get involved. That's why even people in the United States are against it, but for us it affects us, it affects our life, it affects our country because all this war is actually destroying our region. All the United States involvement is making us fight in each other. All the United States intervention in the region is like helping Saudi Arabia to target us, to kill us, to have a blocate, the United States, during Obama, have sold the largest deals with Saudi Arabia during the war against Yemen, weapons deal, during Obama and they give him the peace, noble price. But in America and in the West or in the United States, the only effect that the people will feel of Trump and his crazy movement and politics in our country is that they will see that the gas price has increased maybe five percent, ten percent. And you're all very familiar with those numbers, I mean, and so when we take a look though at the way Trump conducted the war in Iran, you, people in the Houthi leadership, I'm sure observed the way the war was handled and you probably hear the statements coming out from Trump about the U.S. one and Iran doesn't have a navy and Iran's out of missiles and Iran is, you know, begging, begging for a deal. And so was there anything from the perspective of the Houthis that was surprising about how Trump actually conducted the operationally, the war in Iran and how Iran responded to the war? What do you think here? I mean, he done it really miserably. I mean, he targeted Iran, he didn't thought of the strength of Iran, which was the straight of form. Iran has never ever used it, I mean, if I was him, when I targeted Iran, but he thought Israel targeted Iran for 12 days, Iran hasn't done that, it's the opposite because the United States have all the bases. So we should have thought as well, where Iran get a retaliate, they do have missile to the United States. I mean, a child will know that they will retaliate against your bases, they will target your bases there, they will destroy the economy, and this will affect your economy as well in the United States and you promised for peace and for all of that. So to go and launch that huge war and that huge attack that could actually cripple Iran, killing their supreme leader. So using the expect all type of retaliation, but the thing that's actually make me think, I mean, does Trump, of course, you have military advisers, you have people, I'm not talking about the minister of defense because he's just another copy of Trump. I'm talking about the commander of the aircraft carrier, the commander of the Districts of the United States Army, wasn't there anyone who's wise or tell him, this is actually make us say, this will damage our reputation. You can see now that the United States reputation as one of the strongest power, it was evidenced by Yemenis in the retreat, it shows that those aircraft carrier has become a liability for the United States. They try always to keep protecting them because no one has ever dared to target them. So as well their bases have damaged the reputation of the United States as they can protect those countries in the region, they couldn't protect Saudi Arabia, they couldn't protect the own base, so this actually will have a huge impact on the United States existing and present in all the entire region or maybe in the entire world. Who's saying to that surprise you about, I mean the US, I talk about it or sometimes people talk about it in these geopolitical terms, which sometimes are obviously disconnected to what people are actually feeling in a place like Sana. When we talk about the US security umbrella, and I'm using that terminology to say the US had all of these bases in the Middle East, and regardless of what you would think about US policy going back, the idea of US being strong and projecting strength, I don't want to put my biases, but the idea, I think I'm hearing you saying, they still had a reputation of being strong and a reputation of what you seem to be saying is how you and others in the Houthis are seeing it though, is that reputation, which we can talk about policy, but there's a whole history there. But the reputation, when you see these bases that are being hit and not being defended, and you see the issue about what's being reported with interceptors, it almost sounds like you're saying, and almost surprised you as well, which is like, really, to talk to us about that. I mean, this is actually what's happening as United States reputation, as like a powerful country, that it will protect its allies, it will make a safe guard to them. All that when it was happening is because United States war, against, for example, Iraq was weak at that time, targeting Libya, which was after the revolution. So there wasn't an army that will face him or someone that will show the real thing to the United States since after the war of Vietnam. So, and as well, so anything it started from Yemen, that prosperity, garden, as I said, there's a path to becoming a liability, and for Iraq, now we've seen that United States as well, it lost its reputation as like a human right, guardian, a guardian, and a freedom guardian, because we see all the country that United States supporting in the region are dictatorship, and as well, what's happening in Palestine, the genocide, and the full support from, from United States, all that actually have damaged the United States reputation. And finally, it is Trump and his war against Iran, what I think, I was speaking as an example with my brother Muhammad, he is a member of the political bureau of Ansarullah, political bureau, and as well as the governor of the mayor, Prof. Sautov Sanaa, I'm asking about the reputation of the United States, especially after what we did in the European Gulf. He is the one who said, he said, the ship has become a liability, when I told him that a United States will be sending their battleship and the aircraft carrier to protect Israel and to stop our attack against Israeli ships, what he said, he said, it's good, it's good that they will bring the aircraft carrier, he said, why, he said, because we don't have missiles to reach the United States, it's far away, I mean, I don't know, I mean, we might not never have, so he said, they are bringing us target, they are bringing us target. And after that fight and after Yemen, he has successfully made Trump to stop attacking Yemen and Yemen stopped attacking the United States, Trump have said that we agreed that they will stop attacking our ship and we will stop attacking them and he forgot to tell about the start of the war, he said, he wants to stop attacking the ships of their allies. He means a drive. So my brother have said clearly, and I'm quoting him. After that, he said, now just look what China now is thinking. Regarding Trump until we take him to a nice state. He said, I'm sure that they are saying Taiwan, it would be something simple. If the whole they have done that in the retreat, and those people who are wearing sandals, and they have missiles that we have much, much better than them. So Taiwan will be to take over, it will be easy and simple. So this is actually just imagine what they are thinking as well now after the war against Iran. So this is one of the most, I think, the biggest mistake that the United States have done in their military history. Do you think that from your conversations, not what you think, I mean, you speak with people who are in the political bureau, has what took place in the US war on Iran, US and Netanyahu's war on Iran, has that increased the confidence of the Houthis, these of the Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi Arabia proxies in Yemen. Does it make the Houthis think, well, look, if Iran was able to do that to the United States, Saudi Arabia gets its weapons from the United States, and we were able, we, the Houthis, were able to stand up to the United States. We're going against Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia depends on the United States. Is that factor into the equation? Yeah, yeah, I mean, this actually helped Ansar Rada Houthi in Yemen after the Persuportic Guardian and Outron, the left Israel to protect ships from attack, getting attacked, but after that, we continue to target Israel. It kind of, like kind of a good reputation for Ansar Rada inside Yemen, because at that time, people knew that we shouldn't be afraid with the United States. We should, from the United States, we shouldn't be choosing a site that is like an ally to the United States. We should choose the other site, because it shows us how the United States actually cannot, and is not able to conduct war like they used to do before. And this is, as well as given, the people in the entire region, as we say here, that if you are naked, if you think that you are covered by the United States, like the United States giving you an umbrella, you still naked that umbrella will not cover anything. This actually happened after the war and Persuportic Guardian against Yemen and as well against Iran and trying to set the entire region in a war. That is, it's not the United States war. Israel war. So, and to go and take all your country and reputation with your country, just to help a foreign country that has the one who's attacked Iran is actually, is good for us, I can tell you. - Let me ask you this before we go. Do you think Ansar Ala will now be moving more east? We obviously know the west is now fully under control. Do you expect to move east towards, you know, east of Sanaa towards, you know, Mariebe, we've seen some images of that or even east towards Aiden, or do you think at this point Houthis are saying, look, we've got control over the Red Sea and that's really the prime real estate here. Do we need to go east? I know there was discussion about that previously, but where, you know, what can you share about that? - Yeah, I mean, of course, I think there are, and now the other goal is to liberate Mariebe. Mariebe's east of Sanaa is where they have 14 district, or as we call them, directories. It divided to 12 areas, the entire Marie province, what's under the control of Yemeni art forces in Sanaa is 12, director and 12 area. What's left is Mariebe city itself. It's called Mariebe, directorie or Mariebe district, the city, and as well, the district of the Wadi, or what they call them, the Sahara. So it's only mainly the Mariebe city, and now the Yemeni art forces have been advancing in the last few days, and they are kind of around Mariebe from the east, from the west, under the control of Mariebe city. West of Mariebe, west of Mariebe, north of Mariebe, south of Mariebe, and now they are advancing as well, kind of to close. And there is only one road that connects Mariebe towards Adremot and towards Saudi Arabia. So I believe that the target, and what they're always strategy, is not to close the road, is exactly what they did in Mouka, to keep the people if they want to live, especially the military personnel. So yeah, the leader of Ansar, as we call them, they have said many times after this war, after we have sealed and liberated the coast, that Yemeni will liberate the entire country, and our demand now is different than our demand, when we were begging the Saudis before they pre-excuse fire, to lift the blue gate, to allow food and medicine to enter, to stop taking Yemeni money, to spend that money on Yemeni people. Now the demand is a total depletion, and leader of Ansar said yesterday, he said about this demand. He said the first one, Saudi lift, or the entire blue gate, against Yemen, to stop all the aggression, or all kind of aggression. Third is to stop interfering in Yemen, and the total will draw for Saudi and their forces from Yemen, and to stop supporting any groups in Yemen. If those demand are not met, Yemeni Army will conduct and continue attacking against Saudi Arabia, and I just have this break in news, that there are the sirens, have been gunned for the second time in Yemen, Burkh Hamiz-Ushayt, in Saudi Arabia, and as well in Jizaan and in Abhah, and the first one was the Zoologh Hamiz-Ushayt. So Niyambur, so there should be a huge attack against Saudi, a main air base in Hamiz-Ushayt, and as well as Saudi maybe oil infrastructure and aramco, and as well Saudi have asked the mediator. It could be the Armenians, because they want to know the fate, or what you call it, of those two pilots who were in the 15 that was shut down. Saudi are now having mediator asking Ansarullah the Houthi about them. This means that they are either in the hand of Ansarullah either alive, or that they are not in the hand of Saudi Arabia. And yeah, we've seen, we've been following those strikes on Niyambur, on Abkyeq, on the east-west pipeline. We've seen those power stations, and so, we're going to keep on reporting on this. We're going to keep on talking about this. We'll see the developments as they occur, and you brought us some of that breaking news. So let's pause here. Let's see where things develop. If there's going to be a mediation, and I just thought to get the person, I cover what's happening. And so to hear you, who speaks with leadership, you have family in leadership. And so thank you for sharing your perspective on what's happening, and Hussein Al-Bukhati reporting from Sana. Thank you, Singh. Thank you very much, and thank you. Before you go, our book, WTF America, is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here, and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code, or click the link in the description. Let's do this. (upbeat music)