begin with a fox news alert. we have just been notified within the last few minutes that the united states, along with our allies in the u.k. have begun striking the iran-backed houthi group inside of yemen. now, we do not know the extent of these strikes but they come after the houthis have been launching missiles and one way drones on u.s. positions and commercial vessels in the middle east now for a number of months. picking up in recent days in fact this action by the administration comes only after there have been 130 such attacks. the white house has called a lid. that means biden has gone to bed, so as we strike the military targets in the middle east tonight, we don t expect to hear from our commander-in-chief. meanwhile these strikes come as defense secretary lloyd austin is still out of commission. earlier today the pentagon spokesperson strolled to the mics and leveled what now looks like a telegraph. we will continue to call on these iranian proxies to cease the
administration i m dating myself. cat weinberger if he was missing for 15 minutes they would know about it. they didn t know about it for four days. what message does that send our adversaries? not a good one. worse than that this is exactly on deep dive show a couple days ago. had this is what i talked about. if something unexpected happens and the president need to talk to the sec def right now he is not there. is he awol. unconscionable that he would not have told the president or his deputy where he was for two days and this exactly the reason why. laura: please stay with us. i want to bring in kellyanne former counselor. mollie hemingway. both fox news contributors. kellyanne, we have a secretary of defense who is on bed rest, who was missing or not this touch or nobody was looking for him for days. so how does the administration at this point still keep the american public at in the dark with the president calling a lid