were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave pete: we begin with a fox news alert, armed rebellion by russian mercenary forces raging inside russia. a group that wants back in ukraine on the company s behalf claims to have control of the key russian city. will: president putin calls her betrayal as the us and the west wait to see if a move is made on moscow. rachel: alexandria is live with the latest. reporter: this focuses away from the offensive on ukraine into defending itself and the man leading this rebellion represents a striking turnaround in allegiance. former longtime valhalla mirror putin ally is promising to leave the private wegner military group into moscow, a meeting with the defense minister. he claims his group now controls the russian
florida governor desantis, former self gone governor nikki haley and entrepreneur transcend making final pitches to voters while former president donald trump scaled back his in person rallies across the hawkeye state this weekend for it he continues to dominate the polling there. good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. we have team coverage for you on the ground in iowa. grady trimble will look at tom s campaign, aisha has more on nikki haley but first bill melugin is live in west des moines it is a bitter negative . bill? john, the weather outside is absolute brutal. that s why we decided to come indoors take it a look right here we are showing a negative eight where we are at that is without any wind chill. when you go outside with the wind it s a feels like temperature of more than at negative 30 degrees. remarkable. even with that photo governor ron desantis has held multiple campaign events here in iowa today. his supporters have been canvassing th
what a fantastic spot we have here in des moines, iowa. it s great to be with you today, everybody, i m martha maccallum. it is sunday, we don t usually see you on a sunday, but we re really excited to be here for the story in iowa, one day to go. so much on the line for all of these candidates and voters across the state as we kick off the 2024 presidential race now in earnest. here in iowa you have the ability to change the trajectory of american politics. vote for the candidate who s going to speak the truth to you. every step of the way we re moving because we re connecting with people, because we re talking about the issues they care about. the entire world will be listening to you, and i believe that iowa is going to speak loud and clear. you re first in the nation for a reason, it s important. martha: former president trump sitting comfortably atop the brand new des moines register poll, always very closely watched. this is a fierce race for second place at
middle east. and i am jackie ibanez and back to regular programming in progress. laura: of course rumors ofws the strikes have been around for hours. knows how effective they are and in fact the wall street journal says and anticipation, the houthi with equipment andhi fortified other positions while houthi militants evacuatesed the red cy city. a what we know is that we have a middle east raging out of control while the white houseag and the pentagon give thees impression, at least nothingsi more than listless vessels driving the american people into this understanding that there is just no one at the home. joining me now is fox news e correspondent peter doocy. this just broke.g what are you hearing tonight?th speak with the first word of this is coming from the team ata the pentagon. they are saying a dozen locations with em and have beena combination of surface and air basically weapons. that means some sort of missile and then aircraft, we are told m if i can just l
begin with a fox news alert. we have just been notified within the last few minutes that the united states, along with our allies in the u.k. have begun striking the iran-backed houthi group inside of yemen. now, we do not know the extent of these strikes but they come after the houthis have been launching missiles and one way drones on u.s. positions and commercial vessels in the middle east now for a number of months. picking up in recent days in fact this action by the administration comes only after there have been 130 such attacks. the white house has called a lid. that means biden has gone to bed, so as we strike the military targets in the middle east tonight, we don t expect to hear from our commander-in-chief. meanwhile these strikes come as defense secretary lloyd austin is still out of commission. earlier today the pentagon spokesperson strolled to the mics and leveled what now looks like a telegraph. we will continue to call on these iranian proxies to cease the