steve: thank you very much, todd. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. last day of dry january, januar. it s been a long month, folks. welcome to fox & friends. fox news alert. overnight, impeachment tar heels against dhs secretary mayorkas have moved ahead in the house. carley: as cities reel from the border crisis, lawrence is in denver and spoke exclusively with the democrat mayor there. every hotel room we have in the city of denver is full. we are at 5,000 people in shelter and we have more coming every day. i think our city is very close to its breaking point now. brian: an 11-year-old is safe this morning after terrifying footage shows her escaping an attempted kidnapper. look at this. fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, your mornings are better because you have chosen to be with friends, meaning us. watch. all right a fox news alert on this wednesday morning. the house homeland security committee yesterday advanced articles of impeachment against
israeli troops disguised themselves as palestinians to kill a suspected terrorist in a west bank hospital. hamas political leaders do not rule out a hostage deal. with me this hour, former bush national security advisor steven hadley on the tensions throughout the region and mike lawler and jared moskowicz to punish iran. house republicans prepare to vote on launching impeachment hearings against homeland security secretary mayorkas, what could be the first impeachment of a sitting cabinet member since 1876. catherine cortez-mastro joins me with the latest on the border and the 2024 campaign. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the president has decided, he says, how and when to strike back against the iran-backed militias who killed three u.s. troops in jordan. he appears to have ruled out striking iran itself. i don t think we need a wider war in the middle east. that s not what i m looking for. local reports say that iranian-sponsored fighters ar
american troops? the strikes that we have taken in the past have definitely had an impact on degrading and disrupting the activities of some of these groups. clearly they have decided to keep conducting those attacks and now it s had lethal consequences for american troops and so we will weigh an additional set of options before us, the president will make his decision to respond appropriately. the attacks need to stop. does the president have all the legal authority he believes he needs to respond to these attacks? yes. what is the legal basis? constitution, commander in chief, self-defense of our troops. president has the authority to take the action he needs to protect our troops and our facilities overseas under article 2. thanks. the president faces a great deal of political pressure here at home with the republicans, for example, calling for direct strikes on iran. does the president feel that pressure and how much does that pressure weigh on his decision-ma
to reopen a key stretch of the southern border. we are watching both those live events happening right now. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. gillian, great to have you here today. gillian: thank you, gillian turner out of washington in for john roberts. this is america reports . that feud between president biden, texas governor greg abbott is ratcheting up by the hour now. sandra: some legal experts warn it could trigger a constitutional crisis. the president demanding the federal government have access to the 50 acre shelby park, likely remove the boxes and the razor wire along the rio grande. gillian: the latest on the ground inside eagle pass. sandra: right to peter doocy, live at the white house as we await this briefing. key to hear what we hear directly from the white house on all of this. for now, how far is this administration willing to take their battle with texas? peter: it s a big tug-of-war, and they have to come up with something new
and countries around the world to address that. post counter isis campaign, you know, the active operations and when isis was defeated in syria, what we ve seen is isis metastasize like afghanistan. this is not only an iraq and syria challenge but a global challenge. you can t wish it away. you have to keep pressure on isto keep from a resurgence. as they demonstrated in 2014, if that is allowed to happen, disastrous consequences. i d like to focus on isis threat in iraq as you said. it s been largely suppressed. the u.s. has been advising and training iraqi security forces in iraq for years now. does the pentagon think that iraqi security forces are able on their own to deal with current situation that is or the threat of isis that has been largely suppressed? that s a question for the iraqi security forces to answer. we re there at the invitation of the iraqi government to help train and advise. we ve been watching this for a long time. the iraqi security forces parti