direct action, president biden says the strikes were defensive, meant as a deterrent. the houthis are vowing to not back down and experts in the region believe them. is this the moment israel s war officially expanded into a regional war. if so, who else might get dragged in. turkish president erdogan slapped the u.s. and the uk for what he called a disproportionate use of force and so did iraq, warning such strikes don t deter but rather expand the scope of the war. like hamas and hezbollah, the houthis are backed by iran to which the white house issued another warning this morning. here was nfc s john kirby. we re not looking for conflict with iran, and there s no reason to escalate beyond what happened over the last few days by the houthis, they are the ones who have been escalating. we re not looking for conflict with iran. that said, we know that iran supports the houthis, we know that they supply them with the missiles and drones, the same things they have been using
getting new reaction from the biden administration on defense secretary austin s decision to hide his hospital stay. just a short time ago john kirby told a reporter no change regarding austin s position, despite growing calls for resignation. hello, this is outnumbered, i m kayleigh mcenany, here with emily compagno and harris faulkner. hudson institute senior fellow rebecca heinrichs and fox news contributor and host of guy benson show, guy benson. austin s ordeal began december 22 right-hand, when he underwent a procedure at walter reed and returned to intensive care unit last monday with severe pain. austin s next in command was given some duties next day but not told he was in the hospital. the white house had no clue that the secretary of defense was hospitalized. senior pentagon officials and congress learn the news on friday. austin s condition was closely guarded. one dod official was told the secretary was working from home. austin is recovering in the hospital
The deals on top before there job the defense has rested. Testimony has wrapped, and donald trump notably did not take the stand of course, sanchez, alongside jessica dean in the nations capital, and soon the judge and attorneys for both sides are expected to go back in court to go over Jury Instructions. In this historic Criminal Hush Money Trial of the former president. Earlier today, jurors were dismissed for the week the judge telling them to be ready for Closing Arguments next tuesday it comes after the defenses second and final witness, attorney Robert Costello, took the stand for a second day, and once again, the former adviser to Michael Cohen face some tough crossexaminati on prosecutors, youth castellows, emails in an attempt to show he made several efforts to stop cohen from flipping and assured him that he had a backchannel to trump won email dated april 19, 2018, indicated trumps former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was joining trumps team and costello wrote to cohen, quote im su
deepest love to michelle crag barak, kelly, and the sixth, irrepressible grandchildren whom she helped to raise. and so loved and in whom her kind and gentle spirit lives on marion robinson was 86 the skis cnn breaking news hello everyone. thank you for joining me. i m alison chemla radha in for fredricka whitfield today. so we do have breaking news out of florida, nasa officials are expected to speak soon. this will be the first time that they re speaking since rubbing the launch of boeing s historic starliner test flight today, an automatic hold stopped the countdown clock with less than four minutes to go. the two astronauts who were headed to the space station are now back at crew quarters after leaving the capsule. a short time ago cnn space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live from the kennedy space center for us. so kristen as you explain to us, while we were all waiting and watching and hoping this what happened, this potential launch has been in the m
news hello everyone. thanks for joining me. i m alison camera was triggered with less than four minutes until launch. the computer that launches the rocket stop the countdown clock now officials are racing to learn why both astronauts are now back at crew quarters after leaving the capsule, a short time ago joining us now from the kennedy space center is cnn space and defense correspondent kristin fisher so kristinn obviously this is not the news that nasa or boeing wanted today. what happened? we just don t know yet and we re going to find out hopefully quite a bit more during a press conference that nasa, boeing, and the united launch alliance have called, which is set to start in exactly one hour. now, all we know right now is that there was an issue with the ground launch sequencer and that is the computer that s responsible for launching this rocket. it s essentially an automated process. once you get down that close to lift off and there was some kind of problem wit