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
you can let your hair down. gotta keep your head up. you can let your hair down. good morning, welcome to the fourth and final hour of fox and friends with the beautiful shot of the sun gleaming off the atlantic ocean off of new jersey. i love to start the hour if we might in montana. okay. you guys know i spent i m in montana, living there, and i was taken in not just by the community and the beautiful state but also a specific family, the ekstroms of l diamond e ranch. today is the 80th birthday of brett ekstrom who was a surrogate mother for me, wonderful family, and i can t believe there we are, all of us together with me and one of my boys. is that brett holding the rifle there? it is. it s a bb gun. let s have a target contest while we sit on the back deck and i can t believe she s turning 80 but happy birthday. love it. rachel: those were your yellowstone days. correct. he s heading back in that direction. we all are. rachel: we re all returning
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infrastructure fight ends, which is that they ve never had t math to do what bernie sanders wants to do and joe manchin a kyrsten sinema will prevail, and they will not they absolutely will not waste a bl that 19 republicans have suppted. they will not tank it. that will get passed because they have to. it s existential. and then they ll figure out the social welfare programs with progresses and everyone will have hurt feelings, but they re not going to take us into default and they re not going to tank biden s programs. we may hold you to it. general, mercifully we come to your bali wick, and that s the u.s. military. what did you make of the disconnect on display during the testimony tod from the vice that these three military men gave the esident, the advice that the president either says he did not receive, did not hear, or did not take in?
and that i am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the united states. at no time was i attempting to change or influence the process, usurp authority, or insert myself in the chain of command. on this same topic of president trump s mental health, trump s own former press secretary, stephanie grisham, describing trump s, quote, terrifying temper among other things in her new memoir. she writes, quote, trump s handlers designated an unnamed white house official known as the music man to play him his favorite show tunes, including memory fm cats to pull him from the brink of rage. tonight the current president who nds to be more of a dog guy is trying to keep legislation based on his domestic agenda. from falling apart. biden has canceled a trip to chicago tomorrow so he can stay