middle east. and i am jackie ibanez and back to regular programming in progress. laura: of course rumors ofws the strikes have been around for hours. knows how effective they are and in fact the wall street journal says and anticipation, the houthi with equipment andhi fortified other positions while houthi militants evacuatesed the red cy city. a what we know is that we have a middle east raging out of control while the white houseag and the pentagon give thees impression, at least nothingsi more than listless vessels driving the american people into this understanding that there is just no one at the home. joining me now is fox news e correspondent peter doocy. this just broke.g what are you hearing tonight?th speak with the first word of this is coming from the team ata the pentagon. they are saying a dozen locations with em and have beena combination of surface and air basically weapons. that means some sort of missile and then aircraft, we are told m if i can just l
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
good. i will take that into my new year. mark, appreciate it, my friend. thank you. take care. and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. republican candidates crisscrossing iowa. nikki haley, ron desantis and donald trump all holding events in the hawkeye state today and they aren t holding back against each other. defense secretary lloyd austin condemning recent attacks on commercial ships in the red sea by iranian backed u.s. forces. we will dig into what the plans look like ahead. a woman in iowa enduring a heartbreaking miscarriage 22 weeks into her pregnancy. she is facing a criminal probe. she says she was misled by police. and new this morning, donald trump s super pac launching its first attack ad against nikki haley after a recent polling showed her chipping away at his big lead in new hampshire. that s a crucial early voting state. and this that s right. high-tech haley broke
the u.s. military has been intercepting what they can but today when iranians took over a oil tanker in the red sea. it seems like that was enough of an escalationed that the white house and the brit decided they needed to go and start taking out the one way drone locations in yemen and it s worth pointing out these houthis, we don t talk about them a ton or at least we have not over the last several years, but when this administration came to power think delisted the putin houthis as a terror organization. there was a concern listing them as terrorists was preventing humanitarian aid from getting into yemen. as the president at the top of the chain of command orders these strikes against the houthis, they are not technically a terrorist group but they are a group that has been warned many, many times
a lot of damage that the u.s. military has been intercepting what they can, but today when the iranians took over an oil tankersea. in the red sea, it sm like enough of an escalation, excuse me that the white house and the brits decided they needed to go and start taking out one-way drone locations in yemen. it is worth pointing out these houthis we don t talk about them at time or at least we have not over the last couple of years, but when this administrationer came to power, they delisted thh houthis as a terrorist organization because there was concern listing them asro terrorist was preventing humanitarian aid to get to yemen. so ae tos the president at the p of the chain of command orders the strikes against the houthis they are not technically a terrorist group but they are a group that has been warned many,