middle east. and i am jackie ibanez and back to regular programming in progress. laura: of course rumors ofws the strikes have been around for hours. knows how effective they are and in fact the wall street journal says and anticipation, the houthi with equipment andhi fortified other positions while houthi militants evacuatesed the red cy city. a what we know is that we have a middle east raging out of control while the white houseag and the pentagon give thees impression, at least nothingsi more than listless vessels driving the american people into this understanding that there is just no one at the home. joining me now is fox news e correspondent peter doocy. this just broke.g what are you hearing tonight?th speak with the first word of this is coming from the team ata the pentagon. they are saying a dozen locations with em and have beena combination of surface and air basically weapons. that means some sort of missile and then aircraft, we are told m if i can just l
ngto play the possibility of escalating another strike somewhere else. you see it is real easy to takei a zone.so we can t get into wars overem i something that was supposed towh be a problem in the red sea, which was a problem that needed to be dealt with. there were 100 ways better to dn with them we are doing it right now. laura: nathan, your response to that, concern aboutc a widening conflict in the start of what is going to be a tight and obviously very dramatic presidential election yearin choosing the next commander-in-chief and we hope a new one. you know, laura, it is responsible for the white house to call ahead and not let the american people here from the president. this is a really big deal. tomorrow, the phrase, joe biden is familiar with. he needs to be explaining to th. american people why this matters.ak it is pretty straightforward ofe i mean, it doesn t take a phd from harvard to lay the case
the president calling a lidim tonight? this seems like i can imagine this happening in the trumpbr administration. fing either president trump wd be under winrepog or the press briefing room or calling the reporters in the oval office and later in the night may be firing off a couple of tweets appearyo that were so chaotic. but at least you would know what the commander-in-chief was thinking. you would also have thel department of defense. but the secretary of defense being absent all those days should concern everyone becauser basicalldiy proves he is not a vital part of the conversation and the coordination.port laura, this is exactly whyts a commander-in-chief is important. when you stop designatingis terrorists as terrorists, you are inviting them to bem to terrorists again and inviting them to threaten america, hurting her for her people inay value. but ini think what the general saying is incredibly important because the people look at thisn and they say, this is not somew
out.at the houthis are attackingti american soldiers. they are attacking commercial shipping. they are putting americat non ls at risk and our response has been to not just fight with one hand behind her back but both hands behind her back. we have been scolding them and saying pretty please and guess what, the terrorist like the houthis, terrorist like iran,o they don t respond to pretty please but respond to shows up for a spirit of what we need toy do is establish deterrence andos send a clear message not by e word butsc by deeds that we control the escalation ladder. any attempt by the houthis or the patriots in tehran toship threaten our people, threaten us, commercial shipping will beo met with overwhelming response. it is the reagan doctrine, peace through strength. that is how we make sure we don t get sucked into a war.ance if the enemies of the united states think we are weak, that is the chance to get suckei into were at its greatest. laura: there was no warning coming fro
shipping has been affected by these houthi attacks on going. we do understand the israeli min officials herein tel aviv remain on hig h alert tonight.ight just a few minutes ago, there was an israeli fighter jets d thflying over israel, the secd largest city. there is concern the responseis from the houthis could target the southern israeli city that does sit on the red sea. tyou might remember back ind ag october, that is when the attack started against them and israel had to use air defense system to intercept that fire headed to the jewish state, laura. laura: trey, thank you. bring us more as you get it. 20 us tulsi gabbard, fox newsani contributor.ie one of those houthi leaders anticipated the attacks and as i said warned that any american attack will not remain without a response and they are not afraid of confronting american in this