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
strike within iran. but that is the real question here, right? how will iran react. the houthis are an iranian proxy. they are iranian backed, and here we are. yes. first, they re definitely an iranian proxy. they re definitely iranian backed, but it s not clear they re 100% iranian controlled. meaning it s not like an on/off switch the iranians tell them now you start shooting, now you stop shooting. it s more complicated than that. and you have to add to that the iranians it s a best case scenario that the houthis and the u.s. will have those skirmishes now and the iranians will sit on the side lines as if they have nothing to do with it. and obviously the u.s. tried in recent days to send messages to iran to stop the houthis. it didn t happen. and i m not sure the u.s. is ready at the moment to go after iran in order to stop this. all right, please stay with me both of you. i want to bring in jason crow,
against the short targets the houthis have. oren, what do you understand in terms of how broad this may going off what barak just said. he mentioned australia and others as some sort of a coalition to use the word. we expect there are other countries involved and we re now seeing effectively the white house confirm that and say it wasn t just the usa and u.k. here, it was international backing. that was something the u.s. was looking for and you can see it not just in this operation. the u.n. security council condemning the talk in the red sea was important as well. if the threat continues to respond to that threat, and that s what the u.s. is trying to do here, not start a war with the houthis but try to send a message that these attacks have to stop. it s a message not just directed at the houthis but also one directed at iran as we see then another vessel earlier today according to the u.s. and iranian media. it is that threat to commercial shipping that has been one of
we are continuing to follow the breaking news out of the middle east where the united states is striking more than a dozen backed iranium militant targets across yemen. according to officials those include radar systems, drone storage, launch sites as well as ballistic and cruise missile storage and launch sites. in a statement president biden has just said the attacks were in direct response to unprecedented houthi attacks on international ships in the red sea. biden warning there could be more strikes. the houthis have been relentlessly attacking ships in the red sea from the beginning of the israel-hamas war. we re going to continue to monitor it breaking news out of yemen. we re starting to get video of some ploeks asians and strikes. it is of course just before dawn in the middle east where these strikes happened. and i want to get to the other breaking news we re
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