Compound. Mark esper this morning on fox with a warning for americas enemies. The president has been very engaged, the National Security team has been on the phone with them daily. Every few hours. He wants to make sure that our forces are well taken care of. We are capable of accomplishing our missions on the ground, and he is absolutely correct but if anybody challenges us, they will be met with a severe response, strong response by u. S. Forces. Melissa this is outnumbered, and i am the host of outnumberedMelissa Francis. In the center see today, pete hegseth. We will get a reaction in just a moment. I want to go to trey yingst, who is life. Good afternoon. Striking interview earlier today between fox news and u. S. Defense secretary mark esper appeared acknowledging that the United States is not just considering defensive action but also offensive action in the middle east this week to try to take care of some of those iranian threats that proxies have posed against u. S. Allies, u