we dig deeper into this battle for hodeidah, the broader war and humanitarian crisis with gregory johnsen, a residents scholar and last refue of yemen, al quaida and america's war in arabia. welcome. why hodeidah? what's the significance of it? >> hodeidah is probably the most imt port city in yemen, accounts for 70 to 80% of all coe food and aid that comes into the entiretry of yemen, it emirates and allies in the yemeni government are worri about two things. one is that the houthis are receiving smuggled ballistic missiles from iran through this porttnd they also believe t the houthis are making a vast amount of money through illegal taxation at this port, and, so, they want to deprive the houthis of this port and keep them land locked. >> i referred to it as a proxy war but it is one that hbeen off the radar for most of us for a while. mi just to re us of the players you mentioned, the houthis and iran.ht >> r do we know how much aid iron is giving? >> we iran is givingthem aid. for the past two years i have been on the yemen panelt the u.n. security council and we found in a report ir