president joe biden retaliating tonight, five days after three army reservists were killed in attack on jordan, strikes across iraq and syria is the beginning of what will likely be strikes on iran backed militias making attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east and will continue at times and places of our choosing unquote. while avoiding a full scale blow up with iran in a region already in turmoil over the israel-hamas war all this on the day the president performed one of the most solemn duties of the commander-in-chief, attending to the dignified return of the three american soldiers killed in the attack in jordan on sunday. tonight we are covering all aspects of this breaking news. orrin lieberman at the pentagon ben wedeman. orrin what do we know about these strikes in iraq and syria tonight. laura a series of strikes that are order of magnitude larger than what we have seen the u.s. do the last couple months simultaneous strikes in iraq syria seven different location
rich edson is at the white house with the latest. he did not make the trip but can he report on it. no trip for me but we will see where the day goes. he spent his weekend in philadelphia. he made his first major campaign rally of the campaign cycle. he announced major union endorsements in filly. today biden s first stop in california takes him to a nature preserve in palo alto where a white house official says he will tour a coastal wet land and announce more than $600 million in projects to help the u.s. expand more extreme weather from climate change. campaign money in silicon valley. gavin newsom will reportedly be at one of these events this evening. also in california today, florida governor and presidential candidate ron desantis who hab eggs on newsom to challenge biden for the democratic nomination. stop pussy footing around. are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge joe? are you going to get in and do it or are you just going to sit on the sidel
hour. what an inspire story. sandra: i love a good story with a happy ending. this very special conversation coming up as the student athlete, the sixth grader and his mother, all join us live coming up. we ll start things off with this fox news alert. john: secretary of state antony blinken wrapping up his historic trip to beijing and attempt to clear the air between the world s top two superpowers. sandra: they say the conversations were constructive but admitting they failed to reach notable breakthroughs on taiwan, slamming the talks as fruitless. the risk here of this renewed engagement strategy is we will abandon important defensive actions to engage in a series of endless fruitless talks with the ccp. john: a bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on president biden to take a page out of his predecessor s playbook. he want to expand israel s diplomatic ties with countries in africa to keep china from establishing a bigger footprint there. sandra: we will
washington. bill and dana are off. good morning to you. nice to be with you today i m gillian turner. former president trump said he would be arrested today as part of a hush money investigation. the manhattan grand jury is still as of now hearing from witnesses. law enforcement source tells fox news not to expect an indictment and arraignment until next week. preparation for the hearing underway at the courthouse in lower manhattan. nypd shutting down streets and building barriers in response to numerous safety concerns. dana: zbloo the potential arraignment of a former president is a logistical nightmare. alvin bragg has ruled out the possibility of a virtual hearing. the case centers on a 130,000 hush money payment made by trump s former attorney cohen to storm daniels in 2016. cohen pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. he is a key witness in the case against trump. yesterday the jury heard from one of cohen s former legal advisors who called hi
first-degree murder. such is the beginning of the legal action are going to take. the court today, the state attorney s office has charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. these are just the first of many charges that would be filed against him. i want to emphasize that. there will be more charges, attempted murder charges, aggravated discharge charges, aggravated battery charges. there will be dozens of more charges. live in highland park with the latest. he is facing mandatory life in prison without parole. if he is convicted of the charges against him. meanwhile, survivors are still in shock from the attack. police say he had planned it for a week. holding her front, back of a head and i was like it s going to be okay. i don t live far from you, so ryan. i just couldn t anymore, so i knew we were far enough away. now, troubling details from the past are coming to light. investigators say he has been involved in two incidents in 2019, one in april in which