responsible for the middle east, says tonight that at four pm eastern, local time, the u. s. forces conducted airstrikes in iraq and syria against iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps and militia groups. the central command tells us that the u.s. bombers, like the one you see right here, struck more than 85 targets with more than 125 precise munitions. central command also tells us that the targets struck include command and control centers, intelligence centers, centers for rockets, missiles, and drones, and supply chain facilities where militia groups and their revolutionary guard corps sponsors. earlier tonight, nbc news briefed on this strike by president biden s national security council. here s what they told us. we don t want to see a single more strike on u.s. personnel, facilities in the region. we don t want to see a single one more. the action that we talk tonight, it s only the first of more to come meant to degrade and disrupt the capabilities of these grou
a member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking non-english] yevgeny prigozhin had reason to be angry. he had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putin s war in ukraine. his men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians armchair generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking non-english] there was a mutiny against vladimir putin s armed forces. it is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. he had raised prigozhin and empowered him. prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. he does not exist without putin. this is a frankenstein-like scenario. i ve been following prigozhin s extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the one-time, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. it
carley: the republican presidential field is officially a two-candidate race with ron desantis dropping out just before the new hampshire primary. you are uch watching fox and friends first. todd: just before the start of football yesterday. twitter is talking about ron. i d todd piro. it appears that 62% of desantis supporters say trump is their second choice over haley in a new poll. brooke singman will wrap things up before polls open tomorrow. brooke: ron desantis said he didn t feel right asking his supporters to. clear upgrade over biden and right party. he has my dorsement, we can t go back to repackaged corporatism that nikki haley represents. brooke: former president trump thanking the florida governor for his support. he worked very hard. it s a tough go. he worked hard, his wife is a terrific woman. he dropped out and endorsed me. i appreciate that. somebody said what are you going to do with that name desanctimonious? we are retiring that name. bro
has turned this chamber, where slavery was abolished, where medicare and social security and everything were instituted, they turned it into a puppet show, a puppet show. you know what, the puppeteer, donald trump is shining a light on the strings. you look miserable. you look miserable. the only advantage to all of, this is that instead of reversing what we did on the i.r.a. say the planet, or reversing what we did to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, you are wasting time. you look miserable, former house speaker nancy pelosi calls out republicans for the grievance politics, and using the house floor to appease donald trump by centering democrat adam schiff who the first impeachment against the former president. it comes as there is a growing rift between two of the most outspoken far-right members of the house, over how and when to impeach president biden. also ahead, we are learning more about the case, special counsel jack smith is building against donald, trump an
you get a fair shake. why would i allow a hostile network and allow people that are polling at zero, polling at zero, one is zero with an arrow left. why would i allow people at 1 and 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night. i don t think it s fair. that was former president donald trump s noncommittal answer on debating the other republican candidates because of their polling numbers when new data shows his own are starting to slip amid his federal indictment and the possibility of another indictment for january 6th coming this summer. the numbers are starting to slip, and you look at the people outside the hard core republican base, republicans and even independents leaning republican. you get outside of that to swing voters, to independents, to everybody else. something like 85% of those voters. i think he needs to drop out of the race right now. we ll have more on that ahead. also ahead, we re learning more about the plea deal for hunter biden as the