begin with a fox news alert. we have just been notified within the last few minutes that the united states, along with our allies in the u.k. have begun striking the iran-backed houthi group inside of yemen. now, we do not know the extent of these strikes but they come after the houthis have been launching missiles and one way drones on u.s. positions and commercial vessels in the middle east now for a number of months. picking up in recent days in fact this action by the administration comes only after there have been 130 such attacks. the white house has called a lid. that means biden has gone to bed, so as we strike the military targets in the middle east tonight, we don t expect to hear from our commander-in-chief. meanwhile these strikes come as defense secretary lloyd austin is still out of commission. earlier today the pentagon spokesperson strolled to the mics and leveled what now looks like a telegraph. we will continue to call on these iranian proxies to cease the
and, also, how we are going to deal with this. being involved in a global conflict in multiple parts. laura: when we re broke. yes. and but it matters to people. and how we do it matters. and it doesn t seem like a lot of our defense industry or that our defense leadership have been thinking about how to effectively win wars very good entering in them. we need to know what the strategy is before we get another one. laura: i think ability a matter of trust. who is trusting what is happening here? and that s why you really do have to have someone in place. you can say okay, even if we disagree with this action, they are laying it out for us. peace through strength. that s what president trump talked about last night. and when you have a weak economy, when yourself loathing, talk about this in a little bit. teaching people to hate your country. supporting the pro-hamas
And i remain to be convinced that a cease-fire will rule hold. because yesterday they did announce that they were going to have the humanitarian corridors, and they were actually shelved, weren t they? of course. and it s gonna be very difficult for people, any civilian, to actually go through that humanitarian corridor today? believing that they will be safe? don t you think? yes, a matter of trust. and i think there is zero trust for what russia s done amongst the ukrainian population. so it was meant to hold, and they would have to be ultimate silence, no gunfire. and nothing for anyone to take advantage of. so we will see, but i can t get my people out. but as i said, i m by the chances. what s happening in mariupol do you think that s what we would see in kyiv? well mariupol is much mueller.