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
begin with a fox news alert. we have just been notified within the last few minutes that the united states, along with our allies in the u.k. have begun striking the iran-backed houthi group inside of yemen. now, we do not know the extent of these strikes but they come after the houthis have been launching missiles and one way drones on u.s. positions and commercial vessels in the middle east now for a number of months. picking up in recent days in fact this action by the administration comes only after there have been 130 such attacks. the white house has called a lid. that means biden has gone to bed, so as we strike the military targets in the middle east tonight, we don t expect to hear from our commander-in-chief. meanwhile these strikes come as defense secretary lloyd austin is still out of commission. earlier today the pentagon spokesperson strolled to the mics and leveled what now looks like a telegraph. we will continue to call on these iranian proxies to cease the
fighters. and the former president trump under oath pleading the fifth more than 400 times and ron desantis fights back as one major advantage is emerging. we ll show you one number that really matters. let s go outfront. tonight nuclear break down. russia the breaking nuclear arms control treaty with the nuts for the first time. russia is refusing to allow the u.s. to inspect its nuclear weapons. now this move comes at a moment where the world faces the highest risk of nuclear conflicts since the cold war and it is happening as putin and his military leaders have threatened nuclear war. translator: with regard to the threat of a nuclear war, slet lana, you are right, the threat is growing so why hide the truth. we don t have the resources to defeat the nato block. with conventional means, but we have nuclear weapons for that. there is more where that came from. even two weeks ago putin s top ally and russia s former president medvedev warned the loss of a nuclear power
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and the rockets red glare the bombs burting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave welcome to fox and friends this saturday in august, your wonderful patriotic pictures begin our morning, send them in at friends@foxnews.com. it has been a week since i have been on the weekend couch, up been a couple weeks since i ve heard that patriotic anthem intro, good to be back. rachel: you were on vacation and the best thing about vacation is wanted is wrapped up, i am ready to go home. is that how you felt? will: i had big plans for vacation to come back rest and relaxed, you heard the weekend before, i spent most of july fighting a sickness. i got all the sicknesses and i was sick on vacation, one rolled into the other. i am not asking for any world is me. i got a little son and i m glad to be back. joey:you missed but i will nev