pete: welcome. it is the 7 a.m. hour of fox & friends weekend. on sunday, february 4th, year of our lord, 2024. and we start with a fox news alert. the u.s. and coalition forces launching more strikes existence iran-backed houthi targets in yemen as the leader of the terrorist group warning of more escalation. rachel: plus, president biden easily wins the south carolina democrat primary. someone else in the administration reportedly has her eyes already on 2028. [laughter] will: rapper 50 cent says trump might be the answer. pete: it s fiddy cent [laughter] will: the second hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. pete: we start with a fox news alert. the u.s. and u.k. carried out a new wave of airstrikes yesterday, targeting sites in yemen occupied by the iranian-linked houthi rebels. will: madeleine rivera joins us with more. reporter: good morning, guys. this is the third round of u.s. and u.k. joint strikes targeting houthi rebels in yemen. the pentagon s
republicans are branding his surprise appearance as a p.r. stunt. peter doocy asked the white house about this moments ago. the last time he was on the hill he said the president was certainly familiar with what his son was going to say. i did say that, and what i m saying today. president biden does not help him with his business deals but does help him skirt congressional subpoenas. that is not even true. that is a jump tha incredibly john: this hour has seven days, and that s an old canadian television show, and that s the way it feels this afternoon. sandra: sandra smith in new york, america reports hour two. any moment now the house oversight hearing, wow, did it have some fireworks. it is expected to resume as the committee considers a resolution on whether to move forward with contempt proceedings for hunter, adding another headache for the president s son as he is expected to appear in a los angeles courtroom on tax charges tomorrow. john: let s go
polls for president biden, they are bad, saying that the majority of americans are losing trust in our president. a new poll shows his approval rating at 36%. that s a new low and all time low. and democrats have good reason to worry about the president s age and mental fitness heading into 2024. 63% of americans said they do not believe biden has the mental sharpness to effectively serve as president. even the left wing media couldn t ignore president biden s terrible numbers. this poll is just brutal for president biden. absolutely, george. and you talked earlier about that record low approval rating for president biden. it s actually six points down just since february. and the skepticism over his leadership extends deep inside his own party. i was told i could not send the poll around until after 12:00 midnight. i sent it out at 12:02 because it kept me up and i thought they should wake up and look at those numbers. the coalition that elected joe biden with the hist
higher taxes proposed for big companies and high earners. that revenue would fund a big federal pay raise and the largest peacetime military budget ever. republicans quick to say the proposal is a progressive pipe dream that is going nowhere fast. the president claims his plan will actually cut $3 trillion from the federal deficit. critics are saying that expiring covid-19 payments are probably to thank for that. mcconnell called it a wish list. thank goodness the house is republican. more reaction from senate republicans here. i think that what we ll be seeing is their aspirational budget if they were king of the world and could wave a magic wand, this is what they would want. they think you should give all your money and freedom in washington because they, the biden administration, knows better who you to spend it than you do. i don t agree with that. i don t suspect that we ll pay any attention to president biden s budget. julie: charles payne is here to break it dow
ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was out over the water within our, within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee on china, wisconsin congressman, former marine mike gallagher, also a member of the house armed services and intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary of state anthony blinken initially suggests just canceling his trip was enough of a response from america. it s a violation of our sovereignty, it s a violation of international law. and it was very important that we, of course, take the actions we did to protect any sensitive information, to protect our people and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action. maria: then the surveillance balloon s