retired brigadier general don bolduc served 10 tours in afghanistan and he joins us now.you. >> good morning, sir. how are you today? >> steve: i'm doing great. thank you very much for joining us on this monday. general, will you explain to folks so we know that the people who are shooting at us u.s. assets over in the region are backed by iran. why are they shooting at us. the houthi rebels. what are they trying to do? it looks like they are trying to provoke us into doing something bigger. >> well, i think the reason that they're attacking us is because they can we have a strategic failure a national security b-team in place that left afghanistan with a huge debacle. has demonstrated that it w waffs on every single strategic issue. doesn't on the root problem. allowing policies to pretty much do whatever they in the managing their proxies, in that region and over 57 times now attack u.s. soldiers at the tactical level without any it's because the biden admin weak. no teeth. national leaders are not respected or trusted as a result they are attacking or monday and women