Iran reportedly preparing for major combat operations

CANDIDATE IN TEXAS. GOOD LUCK. >> Lawrence: TO MIDDLE EAST, IRANIAN BACKED HOUTHI REBEL. TERRORISTS ARE RAMPING UP. ATTACKS AGAINST SAUDI ARABIA, STOCKING FEAR OF WIDER WAR. BEGINNING IN THE REGION. TREY YINGST IS LIVE IN TEL AVIV. WITH THE LATEST, GOOD MORNING, TREY. >> Trey: GOOD MORNING. TENSION REMAIN HIGH ACROSS THE. MIDDLE EAST. THE REGION WAITS TO SEE IF. DIPLOMACY WILL PREVAIL OR IF. UNITED STATES AND IRAN WILL. RETURN TO WAR.

OVERNIGHT PRESIDENT TRUMP. DISCUSSED IT SAYING IT WILL END. QUICKLY ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SEVEN AND A HALF MONTHS IN, NO. END IN SIGHT. >> President Trump: THEIR. LEADERS ARE GONE. I SHOULD HAVE PROBABLY LEFT THE. LEADERS, I DON'T KNOW WHO THE. HELL WE'RE NEGOTIATING WITH. THEY HAD THEIR FIRST THREE. LEADERS ALL GONE, SECOND STRING. LEADERS ARE ALL GONE. HALF THEIR THIRD STRING LEADERS. ARE GONE AND MAIN THING THEY ASK. IN NEGOTIATION IS WILL YOU.

PLEASE ALLOW US TO LIVE. >> Trey: REPORTS INDICATE. IRANIANS ARE PREPARING FOR. POSSIBILITY MAJOR COMBAT. OPERATIONS RESUME ANY MOMENT. UNITED STATES CONTINUE TO BUILD. UP MILITARY FORCES AND. AMMUNITION IN THE REGION. MULTIPLE TRANSPORT PLANES ARE. ARRIVING EACH DAY AND IRANIANS. SAY THEY ARE READY FOR WAR. >> SO WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? I PREVIOUSLY SAID IN A SPEECH. INCLUDING REMARKS IN PARLIAMENT, OUR PATH IS THIS, WE MUST BE.

PREPARED FOR WAR, WE MUST FIGHT, WE MUST ALSO NEGOTIATE IN ORDER. TO ESTABLISH SUSTAINABLE. DETERRENCE. >> Trey: BROADER FOCUS, IRANIANS. ARE TARGETING VESSELS IN STRAIT. OF HORMUZ WITH TWO SHIPS SUFRPG. IN THE LAST DAY AND CENTCOM SAID. A VESSEL WAS DESTROYED THAT. WAS -- TARGETING. YOU HAVE EXPANDING SECOND FRONT. IN THIS ARE WA, IRAN-BACKED.

HOUTHIS IN YEMEN ARE CONTINUING. ATTACKS AGAI.