thanks. good afternoon, everybody. i m bret baier in for martha maccallum. welcome to a special edition of the story. breaking reports of a new attack on a container ship in the red sea after the u.s. retaliates against iran-backed hezbollah strikes on american troops in iraq injuring three of our service members. one of them critically. the attacks against u.s. forces in the region piling up. we re at more than 100 since the start of the war. u.s. officials for weeks now have been warning the situation could spiral in to escalation. congressman michael waltz says our response has not been nearly strong enough. first to trey yingst reporting live from tel aviv. good afternoon, trey. brett, good afternoon. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targeting belongs to militants in iraq. according to u.s. central command, three separate strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of hezbollah militant
world. no jubilee for american drivers that are being pelted left and right with prices that go higher and higher and higher. but leaving that aside, concerns as well that the president while he talks up the idea of trying to address this and quickly, that he s falling back on things that we ve heard before. let s goo to the latest from the white house, peter doocy. neil, officials around here at the white house keep saying they think the president s economic plan is working and near celebrating last month s job report came in 65,000 jobs higher than anticipated. the president himself in delaware today saying that reports beating expectations may not be here for much longer. we re not likely to see the blockbuster job reports month after month like we had over this past year. but that s a good thing. that s a sign of a healthy economy. with steady growth. the president says inflation, it s his number 1 domestic priority while admitting there s nothing that he can do to
Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Julian assange and, of course, the media and punching back on twitter, lets get back to my interview with sean spicer, i spoke to him from trump tower. Sean spicer, welcome. Thank you, howie. Donald trump tweeted, im asking the chairs of the house and Senate Committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with nbc prior to me seeing it. I can understand his concern, but does that signal as president he will be ordering Leak Investigations to find out Reporter Sources . Well, its not the Reporter Sources, its trying to figure out where it came from. Theres a big difference between reportest doing their job and
sourcing thicks and people in the government improperly giving Classified Information to people or potentially doing that. I think theres a big difference whether youre targeting the source or recipient. Right. Trumps twitter Feed Paralyzes and some seem say, hey, we shouldnt cover tweets which is ridiculous, why do you think the sho
or lear seating? i hate to use the words, we re in a vicious cycle here. i m worried that not enough is getting done. i ve been yelling and screaming about the fed and fighting inflation. they re going to raise interest rates a half point soon to 1 1/4%. the ten year is 3%. so the market is yelling and screaming. they just keep saying, we ll follow suit and get there sometime. sometime is not soon enough. neil: your making a reference to the ten-year bond. right now it s 3%. that s something that the federal research can t control things, but it s the fact that it s backing up, they re worried about things. susan, mark zandy that has reported some things that the white house was trying to do with stimulus programs, parted with the president in an interview i had with him on fox bus, which if you don t get, you should demand.
$40,000, which is more affordable than other electric vehicles. neil, this thing can go from 0 to 60 in right around 4 seconds which makes this the fastest f-150 ever. and you were saying how much does it cost? right around $40,000 is the starting price for the base model. it can go up and up if you get all of the extras. neil: you were telling me on fox bus, which if you don t get you should demand, i was making a big deal or the price and you were reminding me that that was a fair price. i told you like the old man i am, i remember when $40,000 was a lot of money. you laughed at me. rightly so. i said get with the times. indeed you did. that s considered affordable. we live in different times. you re too young. more after this including what is happening right now at the