president should come to congress but in terms to responding to an attack on our interests thousands of ships have been acted, 15% of global commerce, and of course there s been missiles fired and drone attacks in the direction of american ships and military you have to respond and i think the president acted accordingly. thank you so much for joining us, congressman. thank you. just ahead, crippling cold impacting the campaign trail at a critical time in the race for the gop nomination. a live report from iowa on how the candidates are using new tactics to get their message out with just three days to go. stay with us. you re in the situation room.
clearly public is that iran funds a lot of this activity. right. the missiles that the how hes have are clearly from the government in iran. i don t think they got there themselves and iran has been clear who they ve funded many of their proxies in the region including hamas and hezbollah. what have you to look at now is iran itself, this is their pattern using their proxies to attack and threaten others and of course us. now they ve gone directly as well. the iran has attacked our allies, gone and that s what we re seeing here in my opinion with the houthi sglaez some of your fellow democrats are criticizing president biden for not getting congressional approval before these strikes back in 2020 after then
clear signal to hezbollah in lebanon to not act and stay put. we see obviously what hamas did on october 7th in their heinous attack on israel including killing dozens of americans six are still hostage. so we ve seen their action and that also is iran-backed activities we ve seen it through palestinian islamic jihad and of course the houthis firing at americans. the region right now is ten ewous. the bottom line is it s why we have to respond when we need to. i think the president took the right action. to what extent is iran directing these various attacks and does this strike bring the u.s. closer to a direct confrontation with iran? i can t go into specifics on that but i ll say we know historically and what s been
the houthis between drones and missiles have shot in the direction of u.s. ships, military ships and of course have gone after u.s.-owned ships. so the bottom line is in this case i think the president was completely right to respond. you can t let this go on unanswered. and as the president also said today wolf which i think is important iran does not want war with the united states but these are their proxies. they re backing the houthis and are behind this and they can t go unanswer. how do you expect them to retaliate? we ll see. we ll see what they ve been doing now for weeks. firing missiles at ships in the region including those of our allies. they ve been firing drone attacks at those in the region. they ve hijacked ships. so to bottom line is they ll continue to do more of the same but as the president said today they should expect a response. this can t go unanswered.
lines even more than now between official events that are put on by the white house and then campaign events and the truth of the matter is when it comes to the issues i think that distinction is increasingly going away. we saw the president and he s returning right now to the white house from an event in pennsylvania. that was largely focused on the economy. the issue of the economy. you can t say that is not an important campaign issue and in fact it is probably the number one campaign issue. so, yes, we expect sort of the travel and the schedule of the bind campaign to ramp up in the coming months and particularly as it becomes clearer who is republican nominee is going to be on the other side. yeah. things are heating up big time. thank you very much. just ahead, an alleged affair between jump s lead prosecutor in georgia and the district attorney is brought up in court now for the first time.