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CNN CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto September 16, 2019 13:20:00

the houthis have been using which tells you it was a little more sophisticated and likely came from the shia militias in iraq which are proxy forces for iran. they are definitely using their proxy forces to the fullest. remember hezbollah, proxy force for iran, actions in syria, so they have been disrupted in the middle east of late and i think this was a pretty serious attempt. with the precision, the targeting, the ability to get those drones on target to do their mission, shows you how much they've gained, they being the iranians, in their ability to strike and i think that's why you're going to have to have an international look at what are our options to try to contain the really a state-sponsored terrorism being supported by iran in the middle east. >> it strikes me, chairman rogers, that iran knows the president's sensitive spot here, right, because you drive up oil prices that has an economic effect, this is a president very focused as we head into 2020 on

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