On Monday's broadcast of "CNN News Central," House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that the U.S. has ensured it has "an adequate deterrent capability" in the Middle East but Iran has "empowered all manner of different terrorist organizations in Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis and various militia groups throughout Iraq and Syria and they've turned them loose and they seem to think that they can control them."