area like the red sea that sees 15% of the world s commerce go through it. as the president said and secretary said we ll always reserve the right to take action if we need to. last night what you saw was the united states in coalition take action against the houthis that have launched repeated strikes against the international flow of commerce we see on a daily basis. that s what why we responded the way we did last night. a series of questions. thank you for your time. lloyd austin still in the hospital at walter reed. did his condition this past week delay this operation? either this week or the week prior? it did not. thanks, bill, for the question. the secretary is doing well, recovering as you mentioned in the hospital. he is focused on his health and at the same time he has been directly engaged not only in the action that was taken last night, but earlier this week you saw the biggest barrage of houthi attacks on commercial and international vessels.
that signals to our enemies the biden administration is reluctant to provoke iran despite the fact that iranian backed terrorists have already attacked u.s. forces 130 times since october. just consider the fact that the administration has not put the houthis back on the terrorist list yet nor did they even mention the islamic republic of iran in their statement. that leads us to final and important point. as the biden administration looks to spike the football on the strikes, this is a problem of their own creation. biden removed the houthis from the list in 2021. forced our saudi partners into a truce with iran and houthis by withdrawing military support for saudi efforts in yemen and all the while relaxed sanctions of iran. until we put maximum pressure on iran i don t think we ll have a chance of restoring deterrents. dana: what would you say to the members of congress who said this is begins the constitution and calling for the biden administration to back off?
spiral and build upon itself. the biden administration, whether it s going back to afghanistan or some of the mistakes leading up to ukraine, has thus far proving unwilling to admit mistakes and change course or change the team surrounding the president so he can have a better set of expertise in order to make better decisions. dana: mike gallagher, congressman from wisconsin. i bet it s cold there today. bill: thank you for your time. wall street journal is reporting that the houthi towers forces transported weapons and equipment and fortified some positions. local reports there say the militants were evacuating that town that we just showed you on the map. that s out there. what did robert gates say in his book about joe biden? dana: he has been wrong on every foreign policy decision his entire career? bill: maybe you put the houthi rebel decisions on that. dana: back then they thought it would help lessen the war
we will be here outside of the park over the next couple of days and keep you updated how the situation unfolds, bill. bill: they are trying again. governor abbott, there he goes. matt finn live in eagle pass. thanks. dana reads sports. dana: tyrus, i hope you are watching. i have news for you, the new england patriots have found a replacement for bill belichick. multiple reports say jared mayo will be named head coach working under belichick since 2019 and played for new england. tom brady is honoring belichick. he said i m incredibly grateful to have played for the best coach in the nfl. do you agree that he is the best coach in the nfl? bill: based on the championship run, one of the best coaches. dana: good luck, mr. mayo. we ll be watching. bill: president biden heads for pennsylvania. going to talk about bidenomics
that was one of the first acts as president. i m not suggesting they ll reverse decision now but they must regret it, don t you think? they have to regret it. i hope they reverse it. the thing to reverse is economic pressure with respect to iran. iran is using the money that it is getting because it has less pressure on sanctions and funneling into the houthis, into hamas, and hezbollah. if the goal was stability in the middle east, we have not achieved that. if the goal was to reduce energy prices or overall the inflationary effect of the biden administration s bad domestic policy, we re seeing shipping costs go dramatically up as commercial vessels go around the red sea. up 55% to the east coast and 70% of cargo going to the west coast has an inflationary effect. all of this chaos tends to