and welcome to hannity. we begin tonight with the fox news alert tonight, the united states and the united kingdom conducted precision against the houthi rebels, the terrorists in yemen. now, after months of serious terror attacks, two critical shipping channels in the red sea and iranian missiles fired into israel. the biden administration has finally responded. but will it be enough to deter future attacks? and by the way, what about iran? iran they re basically the backbone of the houthis. they are armed. they train, they offer supplies. they direct the houthi rebels. they re the ones fighting every proxy war that they re involved in. any consequences at all for them. one important reminder tonight, in one of his first acts as president, joe biden removed houthis from the designated terror list. and this very naive and foolish attempt to appease iran is now yet another major blunder for the administration. why joe biden, this obsession of up to the mullahs in iran. only go
defense attorney and covering the breaking details, marianne rafferty. we begin with matt finn on precisely what we are learning about this indictment. good evening. former president trump is calling this a dark day for america and is responded to the reported indictments on truth social. i m an innocent man. i m an innocent person practicum after donald trump, organizing the justice department, organizing the fbi. we can t let this continue to go on because it is ripping our country to shreds. we have such big problems. this should not be one of them. reporter: it is not clear exactly what the former president will be charged with but sources told fox news he faces at least seven federal counts of obstruction of justice, conspiracy and illegal retention of classified documents. it is all in relation to trump allegedly storing classified documents at his photo at mar-a-lago home. you may recall last august, the fbi made the unprecedented move of raiding that property. t
and yet they go after a popular president, a president that got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far and did much better the second time in the election than the first. to go after him on a box hoax just like the russia hoax and all of the others. it s been going on for seven years. they cannot stop because its election interference at the highest level. there is never been anything like what has happened. i am an innocent man and an innocent person. they had the molar hoax, the mueller report. no collusion after two and a half years. that was settled by hillary clinton and democrats. this is what they do. this is what they do so well. if they would devote their energies to honesty and integrity it would be a lot better for our country. they could do a lot better and could do a lot of great things. now untruth social he also wrote, quote, the corrupt biden administration has informed my attorneys that i have been indicted seemingly over
by hamas. the lead starts right now. three hostages shot and killed today. tragic news, plus, verdict watch at a dc courthouse that any moment we expect the jury will return a verdict, one that could cost and cnn exclusive. the case of the missing classified binder. once in the hands of donald trump, how did this notebook with top secret material on russia just vanish? poof. in the final hours of the trump presidency, and could the information now be in the wrong hands? welcome to the lead. we start this hour with an exclusive from a team of cnn journalists that report a binder containing highly classified intelligence on russia s attempts to in the election, disappeared in the final days of donald trump s presidency. there s many theories of where it might be. and who may have taken it. one theory is from cassidy hutchison. who wrote about mark meadows taking the file in her book. i watched him climb into the limo, noticing the binder tucked under his arm. it s a
deliberates the cost of his election lies. if he had taken the stand, imagine what a catastrophe that would have been. this is an attempt to square people and rudy giuliani should pay a huge sum. the only republican woman in the presidential race, are women voters behind what nikki haley is selling? she has the demeanor and life experience. donald trump is still the commanding leader, but there is no doubt the enthusiasm is there. the debates don t make a big difference, but they did this time. the suburbs are trump s kryptonite. do enough people turn out in the suburbs to vote against donald trump? good morning. breaking overnight, ukraine s fight against russia, the european union agreeing to officially open negotiations for ukraine to join. it is a historic decision. one president zelenskyy is calling a victory for ukraine. a victory for all of europe, one that motivates, inspires and strengthens. but in a setback, hungary did block the eu from approving mo