Edmund Fitton-Brown

That's Bill Murphy, I'm sorry, Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

Bill, do you have a question for Edmunds?

Edmund, on Russia's support for Iran and the Houthis, should we be surprised that Russia is providing support there, considering that the United States is arming Ukrainians, not only arming the Ukrainians, but providing support? intelligence and weapons systems to the Ukrainians to launch strikes inside of Russia, including strikes on their critical petroleum infrastructure.

And in one instance, it's long range nuclear strike capabilities.

First up, the war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis threatens to engulf more of the Middle East as Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan become increasingly involved.

We'll be joined by former UK ambassador to Yemen, Edmund Fitton Brown, for a look ahead.

Later in the show, China's Communist Party, the CCP, confirms the expulsion of 33 senior officials as Xi Jinping's sweeping purge raises new questions about his grip on power.

Author Gordon G. Chang, friend of the show, will stop by for more on that.

Yes, it's very likely.

Joining us to break it down is Edmund Fitton Brown.

He's a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Middle East scholar and former UK ambassador to Yemen.

Well, Mr.

Finally, I hope you'll take some time over the weekend to catch the latest episode of our PDB Situation Report.

This week's guests include Edmund Fitton Brown.

He's the former UK ambassador to Yemen and a Middle East scholar.

Now, he provides a fascinating overview of the current Saudi conflict with the Iran-backed Houthis.

Anyway, so anyway, I did want to find out what was going on.

And you know what? Edmund Fitton Brown from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies hooked me up with our guest, our first guest that we have today.

And I have to say, she is, first of all, she's gorgeous.

Let's just say it.

Another Parisian woman who's gorgeous.

But Simone Rodan is also brainy, and she's a senior envoy for Europe at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

And my friend, Edmund Fitton Brown, made sure I was connected with her so that I could have her on the program today, so that we can talk with her and ask some questions of her.

And she's based in France and she was, in fact, right in ground zero, if you will, of all the riots in Paris and got her family out of there so that she could do this and other reports for the media around the world and so she came on and uh such a delight she's terrific let's let's listen to what she had to say at o dark 30 this morning when i spoke with her she's terrific Welcome to the Adult in the Room podcast.

Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do? Come on.

I'm pleased to welcome today Edmund Fitton Brown.

He's a senior fellow focusing on Arabian Peninsula issues at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

He was previously Britain's ambassador to Yemen from 2015 to 2017 and also worked at the United Nations.

Well, then I think even that timeline is not long enough for those two fronts to become entirely separate from each other.

We'll take a short break now.

Coming up after, Edmund Fitton Brown, the former British ambassador to Yemen about his time deployed to the region.

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Now, her sis- her sister, I think, lives back in Somalia.

You know, Somalia, let me just parenthetically say, as, as, uh, Edmund Fitton-Brown and I talked about a few weeks ago when we went over the UN report that's...

It's a, it's sort of a state of play by all of the, uh, folks who are terrorists in the world, which countries are hosting terrorism and supporting it and financing it.

Turkey is now the number one, uh, financer of terrorism as opposed to Iran, because we just, we just, uh, ruined their, their, uh, business plan, uh, United States of America and Israel.

Ilhan Omar's home is raided.

Why would that be? And we've got an excellent Iran sitrep with Edmund Fitton-Brown, and I know it's excellent because Edmund Fitton-Brown's always, always excellent.

He, of course, is a former diplomat, uh, he... former UN guy, and now with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and he's always excellent.

But I also know that I got up at oh dark 30 this morning so that I could speak with him and get that in the can.

Now, in, uh, since we've spoken at six o'clock this morning, uh, there have been a couple of different things that have come up.

President Trump has commented on what's going on in Iran, especially what the Houthis are doing to Saudi Arabia.

Now, Edwin, Edmund Fit- why do I keep wanting to do that? Edmund Fitton-Brown is a, uh, former diplomat for the UK.

He was a, an ambassador to Yemen, which meant that he had to deal with all kinds of bad actors in Yemen, and he's also keeping his hand in and a very accomplished, uh, individual who has, um, kept his, well, you know, he keep, continues to be a steady source of information.