and u.k. firing 100 precision guided missiles into yemen. the strikes coming from ships, planes and even u.s. submarine. carley: this is significant escalation in the region and 60 targeted at 60 houthis locations. the defense secretary warns there will be more of this if the iranian-backed fighters do not and attacks on international shipping lanes and the red sea. todd: you are watching fox & friends first friday morning my am todd piro. carley: i am carley shimkus and the u.s. and the u.k. should be prepared to pay a heavy price. todd: for overseas reaction here at home and taking to the streets in new york city and washington to condemn the strikes, alexandria hoff in washington with more, alexandria. todd and carley 100 position guided houthis in both land and sea with animal production facilities. the iranian-backed rebels launching systems and houthis air defense radar systems according to the u.s. air force command. president biden state of the strikes car
there though are going to have a lot of questions. how do you see this playing out. he hasn t had a public appearance south carolina on monday. pennsylvania last friday. it s adjacent to delaware. it only makes sense he does campaign trips on friday. he hasn t taken any questions in about a month from anybody. and we keep hearing from the press secretary that he is the most transparent, most successful president in history. but, clearly, his handlers do not want him out there because it s not only cleanup on aisle 5, it s 18, it s 22. they don t trust him outside of a teleprompter. carley: all the aisles need mopping. todd: to your point he has been to pennsylvania 30 times as president. that s a lot. the pentagon won t commit to defense secretary lloyd austin holding a news conference. listen to this. can you commit to when he is released from the hospital he will come answer questions here about the situation? it s great to have you here, i think he needs to come here as we
stores for these cluster munitions, of which they say they have hundreds of thousands available. the pentagon won t sayjust how many they available. the pentagon won t say just how many they are planning to supply, but they do say they have significant amounts they can keep sending out a new tranches. they also said they have had assurances from the ukrainians that they won t be used in urban areas and that they will be cleaned up and that they will be cleaned up afterwards. they say it s in ukraine because my interest to do this because it is their territory and it would be there civilians impacted if they didn t do that. so a significant diplomatic victory for the americans, and the ukrainians are very happy about it. we will have to see what transpires on the battlefield. but if you start to see large numbers of civilians injured by these sorts of weapons, the political calculus could easily change. we mentioned earlier how cluster bombs are banned in more than 120 countries, but th
russian war plane that was videotaped as it was shot down over the capital. remember those stinger missiles and anti-aircraft weapons that nato states like estonia provided to the ukraine government. britain s defense minister ben wallace said western intelligence assessed that the russian army failed to deliver its key military goals on day one of the invasion. russian tanks and troops encountered more resistance from ukraine fighters than anticipated. take a look at this russian tank that was destroyed likely by one of those javelin anti-tank missiles the u.s. has been providing ukraine since 2018. the pentagon won t say how many javelins were provided. that number is classified. these weapons could become the symbol of the ukraine resistance like the stinger missiles the c.i.a. provided to fight the soviets in afghanistan which eventually brought down so many helicopters at the red army
assistance, military assistance, humanitarian assistance, economic assistance to president zelenskyy and the ukrainian leaders. the u.s. trained ukrainian troops on how to use the javelins and equipment in the months before the invasion, including what a senior u.s. defense official said was, quote: just in time training in the december time frame. florida national guard and u.s. special operations trainers were in ukraine until just hours before russia invaded. bret, the total u.s. security assistance to ukraine since 2014 has been $3 billion to dated. $1 billion of that in the last year alone. the pentagon won t confirm but i m told that includes stinger missiles. bret? bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. take a look at the markets now. stocks were down today. the dow lost 180. the s&p 500 fell 35. the nasdaq dropped 224 and a half for the week the dow was off one and a third percentage points.