Hello. Im kris jansing and there is Breaking News at this hour. The u. S. Military announcing it launched two air strikes on two locations over Eastern Syria used by iran guard and troops. The defense secretary said the launches were against ongoing iranian backed Militia Groups that began just over a week ago. In those instances militants used drones and rockets to attack multiple u. S. Installations in the region. The pentagon said those attacks left 21 americans with minor injuries, one u. S. Contractor die of a cardiac event. Now, there is a precedent here. The u. S. Has launched similar air strikes in Syria Including Last march when another u. S. Contractor was killed by a Militia Drone in syria. Defense secretary Austin Describeded the overnight launches as, quote, selfdefense and in a statement called them separate and distinct from the hamas conflict. But of course iran is a backer of hamas. All of it putting u. S. Forces in a delicate position, trying to protect personnel whil
presidency, but perhaps the only thing those nine additional charges against hunter are killing is his dad s key campaign message, pay your pair share. we ve got andy mccarthy on where where this is the headed legally and karl rove on how this could play out politically. plus, tracking a university president, liz magill so far staying put. we ll talk to one student who says while magill needs to go, the policies allowing anti-semitism on campus need to go with her. and the battle over border security is far from over as the situation at the border is far from improved. we re on the push by republicans to pick fix it by tying ukraine aid to it. and we are over it, all of it, starting now. neil: happy weekend, everybody. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. we begin right now on the hunter biden business and the fallout for dad who s out west. right now we we get thest from the white house where you ll find our lucas tomlinson. reporter: well, neil, the 56-page indictment do
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captain, everyone was kind of, you know, getting a bit frustrated here on this plane that we weren t taking off. why would we boarding if we re not going to take off and then the captain told everyone to sit down until we re going to go right now and we ve been taxing. we seem to be getting into position for the runway. but as i said, until actually in the air. i can t tell you for sure that we are going to be taking off. although, of course, and at this point that my son is operating our cameraman as we as we hope to jet off for our family holiday. yeah, i was just wondering if the if the airport is shut down, and things aren t moving. why are you taxing? but we ll continue to check back with you. thank you very much. we appreciate that. you can see the turmoil that s happening there. it s also turmoil happening here of a different kind. there are more storms are on the way this morning for the southeast, torrential rain in alabama and georgia overnight, leading to widespread flood th
not be one of those never ending conflicts of a proxy war on someone else public land? i don t think so. at some point, the russians are going to run out of missiles and that point will come pretty soon. we have seen at least eight barrages of missiles, and this is 80 to 90 missiles, and we are expecting another three to five before the russians run out. the question is will ukraine s electricity grid hold7 we don t know the answer to that question. i have asked a lot of technical specialists in kyiv and it is sort of a cat and mouse game. so putin cannot win on the battlefield. he is spent, his forces are spent, he has major problems with morale, with training, there will be a hard winter for his side, so they are hitting civilian infrastructure and they are trying to convince ukrainians to quit and leave and move to a safer place, and so far the ukrainians aren t moving. let s get some of the day s other news. president biden has spoken optimistically of improved links with africa du