middle east. and i am jackie ibanez and back to regular programming in progress. laura: of course rumors ofws the strikes have been around for hours. knows how effective they are and in fact the wall street journal says and anticipation, the houthi with equipment andhi fortified other positions while houthi militants evacuatesed the red cy city. a what we know is that we have a middle east raging out of control while the white houseag and the pentagon give thees impression, at least nothingsi more than listless vessels driving the american people into this understanding that there is just no one at the home. joining me now is fox news e correspondent peter doocy. this just broke.g what are you hearing tonight?th speak with the first word of this is coming from the team ata the pentagon. they are saying a dozen locations with em and have beena combination of surface and air basically weapons. that means some sort of missile and then aircraft, we are told m if i can just l
out.at the houthis are attackingti american soldiers. they are attacking commercial shipping. they are putting americat non ls at risk and our response has been to not just fight with one hand behind her back but both hands behind her back. we have been scolding them and saying pretty please and guess what, the terrorist like the houthis, terrorist like iran,o they don t respond to pretty please but respond to shows up for a spirit of what we need toy do is establish deterrence andos send a clear message not by e word butsc by deeds that we control the escalation ladder. any attempt by the houthis or the patriots in tehran toship threaten our people, threaten us, commercial shipping will beo met with overwhelming response. it is the reagan doctrine, peace through strength. that is how we make sure we don t get sucked into a war.ance if the enemies of the united states think we are weak, that is the chance to get suckei into were at its greatest. laura: there was no warning coming fro