ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls to come up here. hunter biden should be arrested right here, right now and straight to jail. sandra: breaking news at this hour on hunter biden as his attorney now indicates the president s son will comply with a congressional hearing or deposition if house panel issues a new subpoena. that is happening at this hour. i m sandra smith in new york city on this friday afternoon. john: friday, such a great ring to it. john roberts in washington. this is america reports . the change in tune comes after hunter biden defied congressional subpoenas for a closed door deposition last month. also follows a decision by the two house committees who issued the subpoenas to hold him in contempt. jonathan hunt live in los angeles with this latest news. what s it all about? jonathan: well, john, this is an offer to appear but when you start looking at the fine print, it certainly comes with strin
from iphone camera half aworld away. the assault in yemen stoking fears of a wider middle east war pending the response that we await still at this hour. a big morning, big day. see what happens throughout the day. let s start here at 9:00 in new york. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home and. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. some people wondered if the biden administration would ever be willing to do. the u.s. carried out strikes in coordination with the united kingdom scorching more than 60 houthi targets. bill: part of tehran s response to the israeli war on hamas. according to general jack keane earlier today he says it is time to go after iran directly. the center of gravity for the aggression in the middle east that we re experiencing is iran. we have said this time and time and time again. and to deter the proxies themselves by hitting them will not be sufficient. we have got to go after iran. dana: all this unfolding while the head of
senator, lindsey graham, made the case he believes the proxies will not stop, general, until we hit iran directly. listen to that, your reaction. it was strongest, most significant to date but it won t change the problem. it won t change the equation. iranians could care less how many houthis die or how much from hamas die. you will never get iran through their proxies to back off until you hit iran. sandra: your thoughts on that, sir. i think hitting iran would be a big step and carefully consider that. i believe there are a lot of actions on the table to take against iranian proxies in syria and when necessary in iraq and as you noted in yemen. i would also note that iranian proxies in lebanon, though, don t appear to be particularly eager to enter the fray. i don t discount the low level attacks back and forth with israel, and those are concerning but i think lebanese hezbollah
and monday and tuesday and hope the best for the weather forecast. stay tuned for that. it was strongest and most significant to date but won t change the problem. it won t change the equation. iranians could care less how many houthis die, how many people from hamas die. you will never get iran, through their proxies, to back off until you hit iran. dana: lawmakers reacting to the late breaking news out of the middle east. u.s. launching the first known strike against the houthis in yemen. what happens next? we ll ask sabrina singh from the pentagon. border crisis prompting the texas national guard to make an unprecedented move in eagle pass. we ll tell you.