possibly winning through. zarif, along with john kerry, hatched the deal with painstaking diplomacy. this took months and years to put together. so the idea that a sudden flash meeting between hassan rouhani and president trump itself might fix this all back together again, a tough sell frankly at the best of times. and i think many people woke up this morning and saw the accusations over the saudi oil attacks and thought things have changed again. >> admiral, i want to close the conversation with just a little more on the complexity of this. for americans who maybe don't follow this on the daily basis, this is a long-running civil war. the saudis have been involved, often using american weapons and intelligence to conduct the operations. murphy responded to pompeo saying you're oversimplifying. the aud cease and houthis are at