right now. out front next, the breaking news u.s. air strikes in the middle east tonight. u.s. fighter jets right now striking parts of yemen with tomahawk missiles. we are waiting to hear directly from president biden as the entire middle east and the world right now are on edge. and more breaking news tonight. trump s tirade, a judge shutting the former president down after an outburst at his fraud trial in new york. could this be the beginning of the end for trump s business empire? and christie s hot mic moment everybody s been talking about. we have the man on the other end, who was speaking to christie on that mic. what else did he say and what was it really an accident? let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett, and we do begin out front tonight with the breaking news, the united states striking the middle east this hour. a u.s. official telling cnn that right now the u.s. military is carrying out strikes with fighter jets and tomahawk missiles on ye
ownership. but according to the u.s. navy s ship fleet which operates in the region many of the last dozen attacks had no connection at all to israel. the u.s. feeling compelled by the threats to international shopping. the setup operation prosperity guardian to protect shipping in the red sea. but that was purely offensive. this obviously goes well beyond that. after multiple warnings to both the houthis and iran, the houthis of course an iranian proxy that these attacks had to stop, the u.s. and the u.k. compelled to take action here. again, more than a dozen targets struck including radar systems as well as storage and launch platforms and sites for ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and uavs. and the u.s. not just using fighter jets but surface missiles and submarines to carry out what appears to be a broad array of strikes on houthi targets in yemen. thank you very much. and always important to note 90% of the world s trade goes by ship. and these attacks have gone unanswered