and 8 o clock los angeles. this is fox news at night. he won t debate during the primaries but took the stage in iowa at a fox news town hall that came on the heels of christie suspending his campaign for president but won t support any of the remaining candidates of the wait until you hear what he said about nikki haley and ron desantis caught on a hot mic. the latest from the very cold campaign trail. we will get to the drama in a second. headlines from the former president s town hall on fox news. he said that he is not worried at all that nikki haley might close the gap with him this new hampshire now that chris christie dropped out of the race. he said this does not change the dynamic at all. watch this. we are leading by almost 60 points. i am not exactly worried about it. i understand new hampshire well. i won it twice and did very well. i love the people and they love me. he said the bigger news out of tonight was that chris christie got caught on a hot mic diss
that s a bus in new york city and behind that is trump tower. there we go. former president trump about to depart for closing arguments today in his civil fraud trial. the judge has barred him from speaking in court. he wanted to make his own closing argument. the judge said forget about it. so he has been known to talk to reporters on the way in. we re watching that. no buses or trucks, good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana: just us. that s all you get for right now. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we had a wild day yesterday. see how this one turns out. the fraud trial culminating as iowa casts the first votes in the presidential election. the former president was there last night for a fox news town hall and tried to assure voters his second term would not be focused on revenge. i m not going to have time for retribution. we ll make the country so successful i won t have time for retribution. our ultimate retribution is success. dana: bill melugin is
7:00 a.m. in the wes asian country of yemen where breaking to night the united states and allies launched a retaliation strike on the hugh think rebels. a more than a dozen air targets were hit. u.s. and uk force conducted the attacks using fighter jets and warships and submarines. this is after months of hugh think attacks in the red sea. president biden and partners are sending a message that provocation will not go unpunished and the question now is if the hugh thinks respond with more attacks. the military keith kellogg are standing by but first kevin with late-breaking information. we begin live on the ground with our middle east correspondent trey. good evening tonight the region is bracing for the possibility of hugh think retaliation following those strikes earlier today. we understand around a dozen took place conducted by the united kingdom and the united kingdom and the united states. this started with attacks in mid october against commercial shipping vessels in
starts right now. martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. live in des moines, iowa. this is the story. we re just hours away from our third big event of this week. tonight we will speak with former president donald trump as he heads in to caucus week, monday night, very important night for him. he will take the stage here this evening with me and with bret baier. that will happen at 9:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. here in iowa. we have a lot more ahead on tonight s town hall as we prep and get ready for all of that. we re looking forward to it. first though, a shocker on capitol hill this morning. hunter biden showed up at a hearing, no one was expecting him. it was his contempt of congress hearing that was getting underway after he defied a subpoena from house republicans to testify behind closed doors. that s the general procedure before you do a public hearing. so here s how that went over both sides of the aisle. watch. you re the epitome of whi
and welcome to hannity. we begin tonight with the fox news alert tonight, the united states and the united kingdom conducted precision against the houthi rebels, the terrorists in yemen. now, after months of serious terror attacks, two critical shipping channels in the red sea and iranian missiles fired into israel. the biden administration has finally responded. but will it be enough to deter future attacks? and by the way, what about iran? iran they re basically the backbone of the houthis. they are armed. they train, they offer supplies. they direct the houthi rebels. they re the ones fighting every proxy war that they re involved in. any consequences at all for them. one important reminder tonight, in one of his first acts as president, joe biden removed houthis from the designated terror list. and this very naive and foolish attempt to appease iran is now yet another major blunder for the administration. why joe biden, this obsession of up to the mullahs in iran. only go