night with a fox news alert retaliatory airstrikes have begun in the middle east, according to the pentagon strikes against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria striking more than 85 targets, the u.s. says it hit command and control open raigsdz and intelligence centers. this comes after three american soldiers were killed dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. launched by of course iranian proxies. iran is responsible pretty much for all the trouble in the region. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. any word why the targets were not in iran considering they re the source of these proxy and terror attacks? well sean officials i spoke to said they were ruling out striking inside iran in this first set of strikes, and they want to message to iran they re not tryinging to to war with iran. they re hoping iran gets the message based on these strikes against their proxies and against the irgc sites they hit tonight. the strikes las
with a fox news alert. retaliatory airstrikes have begun in the middle east. according to the pentagon the u.s. military conducted strikes against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria striking more than 85 targets. the u.s. says it hit command and control operations and intelligence centers. this comes after three american soldiers were killed and dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. launched by iranian proxies. iran is responsible for pretty much all the trouble in the region. here is jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. any word on why the targets were not in iran considering they are the source of all of these proxy attacks and terror attacks? sean, officials who i spoke to said they were ruling out striking inside iran in this first set of strikes. and they want to message to iran they are not trying to go to war with iran. they are hoping iran gets the message based on these strikes against their proxies and the irgc str
peaked and how much you pay in your everyday life will soon go up. donald trump goes under oath and refuses to answer moments. a marquee moment into the investigation into the former president s finances. he faced questions from new york s attorney and lawyers in the new york attorney s office. we know trump did what he says only mobsters do, pleaded the fifth. trump saying, under the advice of my counsel and the above reasons i decline to answer is the questions under the rights and privileges to every citizen under the constitution of the united states of america. tell us more. reporter: trump around here at 9:00 a.m. he said he was going to assert his fifth amendment rights and not answer any questions. trump said what he said only mobsters do. today he is taking the fifth because the new york attorney general leading this investigation letitia james, he has called her racist and her investigation is politically motivated so he was not going to answer any questions.
those special counsel and georgia investigations. 37 felony charges related to classified documents, a new york indictment related to a hush money payment and losing a $5 million defamation case in which a new york jury found they believed that he committed sexual assault. thousands of his supporters turned out in sweltering heat to hear him blast the charges and the investigations, joe and hunter biden, and his top republican rival, florida governor ron desantis. here he is. never forget, my enemies want to stop me, because i am the only one who can stop them. they want to take away my freedom, because i will never let them take away your freedom. i will never let it happen. desantis home state of florida is one of several states instituting a raft of new laws with the start of july from tighter restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care to hours that minors can work, to
as pete williams would be the first to tell you, they are very, very careful about not prejudging anything and not speaking about an indictment before it happens. so for instance, all the criticism that merrick garland has been enduring from a lot of people, including his former professor larry tribe, a lot of people going on television and complaining that there s been no action yet on mark meadows, on that criminal referral, for instance, and no evidence that doj is really looking into all of this. well, this is what happens, when they have a grand jury, and they are getting indictments, they take it step by step. you ve seen the same kind of criticism of how slow the progression has gone on the new york investigations into donald trump or the georgia investigations. this is the legal process. and i think everyone has to hope that it s not politicized as it certainly was, the justice department politicized under donald trump. they re trying to keep it under wraps for as long as the