US envoy to Yemen

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Martin Griffiths is the United Nations’ Special Envoy to Yemen, a nation which has been torn by civil war for more than four years. The United States backs one side in the war, but also calls for a negotiated peace. Griffiths, who briefed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this morning, joins us from Washington, DC. 

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