. >> joining me now is colonel lawrence wilkerson and treta parsy. thank you both for being here.rump talk that way about our nato allies who we do have a pact to defend. he doesn't talk that way about the taking of crimea, the occupation of crimea by russia but he definitely talks that way now about the kingdom, that we have to protect them because they've got oil and they pay cash. >> joy, this is a really tragic situation and not for the reasons that many people are focusing on so much as it is for the real crisis in that area is yemen being raged by mohamed bin salman and the uae, the ladder has become a little bit more circumspect and begin to pull away. that's what the region players are really worried about, that war. what trump is doing by sending u.s. troops to saudi a abe yeah, by taking the side of mohamed bin salman ostensibly because he's reinforcing the image in the region that this is the u.s.'s war, not awe saudi war. the saudis are proxies for the united states prosecuting one of the most brutal wars in the u.s. deaths from cholera and humanitarian disaster, salva