consequences. last night, there were consequences. also this hour, the iowa caucus campaign blitz with haley and desantis battling for second place. if the latest polls are correct, donald trump has a 30-point lead. kristin welker joins me live from des moines to break it all down. former president trump refocusing on iowa after his fireworks during closing arguments at his civil fraud trial in manhattan. the judge promising his decision on how much to fine the former president and his adult sons before the end of the month. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell back in washington. while u.s. forces in the wider middle east are bracing for retaliation after they struck back at houthi rebel forces in defiance of the ultimatums keeping up their attacks. the pentagon and british allies bombed more than 60 targets inside yemen overnight that they say were used by the rebels to plan and launch dozens of attacks against commercial shipping routes vital to the world econo
i think we will know more in the next few days. worth remembering, just under a decade ago in 2016, the u.s. military struck houthi targets very similar scenario. and the houthis backed down. they stopped attacking shipping. go back to the late 1980s, iran was blocking shipping coming out of the arabian gulf by mining the strait of hormuse. in the operation praying mantis destroyed a fourth of the iranian navy. they got the message at that point. we may be in forore attacks, but i know the pentagon has more targets upheir sleeve. i do want to draw line under the coalition aspects of this. very important to track that. it s not just a nato coalition. there are gulf nations in this, arab nations, australia, new zealand, pacific nations as well as traditional nato allies are involved in all of this.