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Saudi arabia egypt, qatar these are sunni nations which are fighting houthi rebels which are shia. the shia as you know by now are backed by iran. those are the people involved. geography is fascinating. persian gulf 20 miles across. gulf of aden about 20 miles across. two significant choke points for trade, for oil that serves the entire world. now the uss theodore roosevelt steaming out of the persian gulf, down to, along with another warship off the coast of yemen. it will join 10 other u.s. warships that have, for the most part been in this area for some time. so all the action here, south...

When you look at the strait of hormuz it's talked about as a choke point. if you look at this gap between yemen and the east coast of africa. both are choke points and the long common border yemen shares with saudi arabia, you can see so much turmoil whether in syria or iraq and now yemen they have one common thread and that's the support of iran on the warships that have been parked off the coast of yemen. the defense minister in iran tweeted muslims should fight israel not each other. you can imagine benjamin netanyahu will have a comment about that as well.

Talks, which, as you know, crashed and burned in april, and our ability to be the dealmaker right now. the biggest problem is that egypt and the rest of the landscape has changed. egypt is no longer led by the muslim brotherhood. it's led by a government led by alceasy, which is an avowed enemy of hamas, and egypt holds the choke points, the access to the border crossing, so there's very little that can be done overtly by kerry, but he is firing up the phones. you may see some travel. turkey is willing to be engaged, but egypt is trying to hold turkey and qatar back because it wants to be the ...

Diplomacy is good at the foreign minister level to keep the lines, the channels of communication opened. but i would hope that what the president would do would be drawing a line, a very clear line and indicating what the costs are to our relationship in real terms, economic terms, if these troops aren't withdrawn and there isn't a political plan. >> colonel shafer. in terms of what the united states can do, you know, aside from diplomacy, i would not send the sixth fleet or major elements of the united states navy into the black sea, it's a rub right there. you can't get in or out of it you h...

To disrupt the stay at those two hotels. >> reporter: these high-speed boats are well equipped with counterterrorism technology with radiological technician to infrared sensors. >> this is equipped with a sew snar they will use during super bowl week to look for any kind of underwater explosives. it was instrumental back in the summer of 2009 in finding the black box in that airplane helicopter midair collision over the hudson river. how sensitive is it? >> extremely sensitive. extremely. we can pick up very small targetings and send divers down and recover whatever it is. >> reporter: another...