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>> reporter: for the last three years, yemen has been the site of a devastating proxy war, p pitting hoti militias against the government. in that time, local activist groups have collected data showing an estimated 17,000 aerial strikes, as yemenese attempt some semblance of life. on august 9th, the world was aghast when images emerged of schoolboys covered with blood after their bus was hit. a cnn investigation found the bomb was supplied by the u.s. to the coalition. we now know that wasn't the first or last incident of civilian deaths, using u.s.-made

Deaf stating proxy war. pitting iranian backed houthi mulish yeahs against a u.s.-backed saudi led coalition seeking to restore the government of the overthrown leader. in that time, local activist groups have collected data showing an estimated 17,000 aerial strikes. as yemenis attempt some semblance of normal life. these are some of the stories of life under bombardment. on august 9th, the world waw aghast when images emerged of school boys covered in blood after they bus was hit by a coalition plane. a cnn investigation subsequently identified the 500-pound bomb dropped directly on the bus ...

They're doing in terms of their family. and when you talked about, you know, the bump-up in trump's approval ratings, and i think they've hit the highest they've ever been now, it's because of the economy. it's because people are feeling better about their own financial situation. >> it's the economy stupid, somebody once said. that was a significant statement. back in 1992 when he was helping bill clinton become president of the united states. what's going on with the koch brothers? all of a sudden they've given a lot of money to conservatives out there, to conservative politicians, to conser...

This topic but we're going to continue to. i'm not imagining the acceleration of the rhetoric. where are we on that continuum, do you think? >> yeah, i'm worried. we're past the event horizon right now. the reason i'm worried is i think what's going on here -- but in the past we've had kind of this iron triangle of activist groups, liberal politicians, and the media. and their tactic has been very strictly enforced gaslighting. repeat a narrative, whatever it is. repeat it confidently and isolate people from the truth by collectively reporting the narrative together. i think what's happening r...

Confirmation battles new information comes out that changes the kind of political landscape, but as things stand now it seems that judge kavanaugh is likely to be confirmed and i think senator grassley has it right that democrats will then release these democrats that are in these very tough situations, including a five that are in president trump carried by more than -- by double digits, more than ten points. we had the west virginia senator, joe manchin. i think trump carried west virginia by like 40 points. that is a very -- that makes it a very hard vote for him to cast against his supreme...