red sea as the risk to u.s. troops grows by the day. the u.s. navy helicopters destroy three iranian-backed houthi boats after they attacked yet another shipping vessel sunday. this marks the latest of roughly two dozen houthi attacks on international shipping since november. the u.s. navy because the ongoing assaults reckless, but says there are no signs of them slowing down. happy new year, and welcome to a special edition of fox news live. i m rich edson in new york. and i m anita vogel in los angeles. happy new year to you. the white house says the u.s. was acting in self-defense when it fired upon those houthi-operated boats. they say it s an all out effort aimed at preventing a wider war, that critics warn it is not the time to be on defense. this idea that we are just going to play defense, waste all our missiles, which is the benefit of the chinese and iranians, let the houthis fire at will not stop without any consequence, that s got to and now. anita: retire
announce their participation. one of them former vice president mike pence submitted his government forms today. correspondent mark meredith is on the story tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening, like you said, it s getting bigger by the day. the three men jumping into the race this week are all former prominent trump supporters. clear candidates feel more comfortable taking on the frontrunner. the question remains will republicans want an alternative next year. hello, iowa. former vice president mike pence is challenging donald trump for the demonstration. today pence filed his paperwork with the fec and will formally roll out his campaign in iowa on wednesday. republican primary voters are going to look at the field, think very deeply about who can best carry our message and carry majorities to victory. pence will face considerable competition including from south carolina senator tim scott who tonight is generating considerable buzz after appearing on
trump bowing to fight back after on the ballot in colorado. state supreme court ruling that trump violated the 14th amendment of the constitution because of january 6th. the colorado supreme court confirmed that the district court got it right, that he did engage in insurrection. section 3 of the 1st amendment has to apply to the presidency because, if not it s a get out of jail free card. literally, jack smith, who would charge donald trump absolutely everything, including jay walking if he could get away with it, didn t even charge donald trump or most of the rioters on january 6th with insurrection. presidential candidate and former governor current florida governor ron desantis calling it an abuse of power and the u.s. supreme court should reverse the decision. katie: the white house hopeful vivek ramaswamy taking things a step further. listen to this. saying i pledge to withdraw from the colorado g.o.p. primary ballot until trump is also allowed to be on the ba
bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m mike emanuel in for bret baier. new evidence that iran is helping houthi militants disrupt traffic on the red sea. taxpayers spent money on migrant housing. why is some of it not being used? we check in with weather and traffic on one of the busiest holiday travel days of the year. mike: but, first, breaking tonight, a major decision from the u.s. supreme court as justices refuse to consider former president trump s request for immunity from prosecution. the case will instead go to an appeals court early next month. this is considered a victory for the former president and setback for special counsel jack smith it. could have huge ramifications is the coming election year. senior national correspondent rich edson at the white house tonight has details. good evening, rich. good evening, mike. an election already with significant uncertainty just had more injected into it this afternoon. the supreme court s refusal to soon
no mention of europe in mr. trump s list. he uses the term poisoning the blood of our country. if you were to open up a copy of hitler s mein kampf, you would find the leader mixing non-germans with germans as poisoning. the jew, hitler wrote, poisons the blood of others. this, according to hitler, posed an existential threat to germany because according to him, the race died out from blood poisoning. unquote. there s no other way to say it. donald trump s language mirrors this directly. this wasn t a one-off. trump then went to nevada on sunday and used the same scare tactic with zero evidence that migrants are largely coming to the united states from prisons and from mental institutions. he made the campaign promise to begin the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in american history. we must use any and all resources needed to stop the invasion of our country including moving thousands of troops currently stationed overseas in countries that don t like us