steve: good morning this is fox & friends for friday, january 12th, 2024. ainsley: we have breaking news. joint strikes by the u.s. and u.k. hitting dozen of houthi targets in yemen in an effort to stop their attacks on the ships in the red sea iran backed group says they are not backing down. jack keane joining us on the military action taking place as our defense secretary still remains in the hospital. lawrence: texas national guard seizing control of a park stop the surge of illegal migrants crossing the border i jurent returned and got a firsthand look at what is happening on the ground. plus, country music star jelly roll giving emotional testimony on capitol hill on the deadly fentanyl epidemic. i have attended more funerals than i care to share with you all. this committee i could sit here and cry for days about the caskets i have carried of people i loved. i was a part of the problem. i m here now standing as a man that wants to be part of the solution.
he understands the role of attorney general is to serve and protect the people of the united states, and that is exactly what he will do and do better than anybody else can. jeff sessions was a disaster as attorney general. he s not qualified. he is not mentally qualified to be attorney general. we hope bill barr going to be as good as we think because he is a great gentleman, a great man. by the way, when bill barr, who is a coward. you know, bill barr was a coward. he didn t do what he was supposed to do. i fired him, and he has great chairman. for the joint chiefs of staff, general milley will serve as my top military adviser. i have absolute confidence he will fulfill his duty with the same brilliance and fortitude he has shown throughout his long and very distinguished career. he was, frankly, incompetent. the last one i d want to attack with as my leader would be milley. general kelly has been a star. he s done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a g
julie: we re on the homestretch, folks. the kickoff for the republican presidential nominating calendar, the iowa caucuses just three days away. eyes are on the candidates but also on the weather there. another major snowstorm is expected today. polar vortex expected to bring insanely freezing temps on caucus day. the contenders are looking to sway voters there way and convince them to even show up. i m julie banderas in for harris today. let s get into it. a new poll of likely iowa caucus goers showing former nikki haley pulling ahead in a battle for second before chris christie left the race. former president trump meantime standing at 54% support. haley at 20. desantis 13. vivek ramaswamy and chris christie with six and 2% respectively when the poll asked who voters preferred with chrissy out of the race, his two points going right into the haley column. a wall street journal piece with the headline haley/desantis food fight validates trump debate. they hammer each oth
now. ainsley: it is the #:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends on the east coast. it is friday, january 12th. steve: thank you very much for joining us. we have breaking news on this friday. joint strikes by the united states and united kingdom hit dozens of houthi targets in yemen after a number of attacks are in the red sea. the iranian back the group says we are not backing down. brings it on. this able unraveling as defense secretary lloyd austin still in the hospital calling the shots from his bed. lawrence: plus, nikki haley pulls ahead in the latest polling in iowa with the caucuses on monday. for us it s always been slow and steady wins the race. it s the people that decides. while everybody else wants to discount us, i will tell you we keep moving and we are moving for a reason to believe. brian: california police department offering $75,000 bonuses to recruit officers. and guess what? still not enough. fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, your morni
welcome to hannity . we begin with a fox news alert. the united states and united kingdom conducted precision error strikes against the houthi rebels. now after months of serious terror attacks to critical shipping channels in the red sea and irani and missiles fired into israel, the biden administration has finally responded. will it be enough to deter future attacks? by the way, what about iran? a sickly the backbone of the houthis. they offer supplies and train. they direct the houthi rebels. they are fighting every proxy war they are involved in. any consequences at all for them? an important reminder tonight. in one of his first acts as president joe biden remove the houthis from the designate terror list act and is very naïve and foolish attempt to appease iran is now another major blunder for the administration. why joe biden has this obsession to suck up to iran, only god knows. my monologue coming up. but first with the latest from the white house tonight our very