contributor. gillian, welcome. good to have you back today. >> thanks. martha: you've got a proxy war because the houthis are backed by iran, and saudi arabia does not want iran to have a far-reaching influence over the country of yemen which is all across their southern border there. so is this, you know, a larger proxy war that could draw us in as well? >> it's absolutely poised to become a spectacular proxy war between iran's shia and saudi arabia's sunni. you know, the national government of yemen collapsed in january and since that time chaos has reigned supreme inside the country. i fear that the most dangerous potential now is for other countries from across the middle east and central asia to try and insert themselves into this conflict so that eventually yemen's war bubbles up is and becomes a broader regional war. and that's a really worst case scenarioment. martha: all these hot spots across the middle east, jordan egypt damascus all these areas