Houthis hit Saudi airport for fourth time in a week

TO COME AFTER HER, AND THEY DID. DAVID FOR US, THANK YOU. TONIGHT, THERE ARE GROWING. QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER. PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL USE THE. U.S. MILITARY TO HELP SAUDI. ARABIA RETALIATE AGAINST THE. IRANIAN BACKED HOUTHI REBELS. A COALITION OF FORCES LED BY THE. SAUDIS CARRIED OUT NEW AIR. STRIKES TODAY ON THE REBEL HELD. CAPITAL. THE RETALIATION COMES AFAFTER T. HOUTHIS HAVE HAD SEVERAL ATTACKS.

IN RECENT DAYS. OUR SENIOR NATIONAL. CORRESPONDENT JENNIFER GRIFFIN. TELLS US WHERE THINGS STAND. >> SAUDI ARABIA IS HOOKING TO. THE U.S. FOR HELP AS THE HOUTHIS. HAVE HIT THE INTERNATIONAL. AIRPORT IN RIYADH FOR THE FOURTH. TIME IN THE PAST WEEK. >> President Trump: THEY ARE. BEHAVING VERY BADLY. THE HOUTHIS ARE ACTING VERY. BADLY. >> ON SATURDAY, BALLISTIC. MISSILES FIRED FROM 500 MILES. AWAY FROM YEMEN STRUCK THE. AIRPORT KILLING 13 PEOPLE. THE HOUTHIS FIRED MORE MISSILES. ON SUNDAY, UNTIL NOW. TRUMP HAS RESISTED REQUESTS FROM. THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT TO STOP THE.

HOUTHIS, REJECTING PERSONAL. APPEALS FROM THE CROWN PRINCE. ACCORDING TO SOURCES FAMILIAR. WITH THE CONVERSATIONS. PUBLICLY PRESIDENT TRUMP. SUGGESTED HE MIGHT ASK FOR. TURKEY'S HELP. >> PRESIDENT ERDOGAN WOULD DO AS. I ASK. >> HE'S SENT ADVISERS TO HELP. SAUDI ARABIA WHICH IS THE U.S. USES FOR BASING TO TARGET IRAN. AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS GLOBALLY ARE. STRETCHED. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID THE HOUTHIS. ARE TRYING TO DRIVE UP OIL.

PRICES BEFORE THE U.S. ELECTION. THE HOUTHIS SEIZED KEY AREAS. NEAR THE BAB AL-MANDEB STRAIT. LAST MONTH, A CHOKE POINT, WHERE. UP TO EIGHT MILLION BARRELS OF. OIL PASS EVERY DAY. SOME OF THAT TERRITORY HAS BEEN. RECLAIMED. A RENEWED U.S. AIR CAMPAIGN. COULD RESEMBLE OPERATION ROUGH. RIDER. THE 52-DAY U.S. MILITARY. OPERATION LAUNCHED BY THE. PENTAGON IN 2025 IN WHICH U.S. FORCES CARRIED OUT MORE THAN. 1,000 STRIKES ON HOUTHI TARGETS.

THE OPERATION COST MORE THAN $2. BILLION. THE U.S. LOST TWO FA-18 SUPER. HORNETS AND SEVEN REAPER DRONES. A YEAR AND A HALF LATER THE. HOUTHIS ARE STILL FIRING. BALLISTIC MISSILES. >> THERE WERE MORE MISSILES. FIRED AT SAUDI ARABIA THIS. EVENING. LOUD BOOMS WERE HEARD NEAR SAUDI. ARAMCO HEADQUARTERS A FEW HOURS. AGO. SAUDI OFFICIALS SAID THE. INCOMING CRUISE MISSILE WAS. INTERCEPTED. EARLIER TODAY SAUDI LAUNCHED AIR.

STRIKES IN HOUTHI-HELD TERRITORY. IN YEMEN AND JUST NOW, JOHN, WE. HEARD FROM THE MINISTRY OF. ENERGY IN SAUDI ARABIA THAT A. FIRERE HAS BROKEN OUT AT ARAMC.