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
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
well, that is exactly right.t the biden administration came into office convincengd that thh were going to fix the middle east and that the trump administration had screwed up. the centerpiece of their effort was, we will cozy up to iran t inc. at them back into the deal. it turns out if you allow iran to sell billions of dollars of oil, peace does not break outllr across the middle east but instead, billions of dollars of oil revenue, what happens as hamas gets millions of dollars toolla commit terrorist attacks againscommt israel. hezbollah in lebanon get lots ou money. shiite missile groups taking shots at soldiers, diplomats and iraq and syria get on the gravy train is wealth of the houthis as well.t ir the key fact here is iran as the puppet master pulling all of the strings, iran is trying to coordinate acamp regionwide camn two, one, destroy the jewishnder
Follows iranian seizure of crude oil ship earlier today where that seem to change the tone of things and the fro trajectory of things from this administrationn standpoint. but we don t have a commander-in-chief, at least that we can se ae here they have called the lid at the white house, which concerns a number of the guests tonight, tulsi gabbard. laura, my greatest concern as a soldier who serves in the arme reserve, bedroom for over 20 years and multiple deployments, two different war zones is how shortsighted, incompetent and lack of caring this biden/harriy administration has for lack of security and the american people. y are doing here now appears to be not well thought out at all otionr considering te ramifications of what this will be and how it serves national security interest.at t just like they didn t think through the ramifications of few taking the houthis off of the terrorist list a few years ago.
Should be eliminated after we have been seeing the failure of- all of the strakes tbao deter te iranian-backed troops against iraq and elsewhere. has they have taken out they are boats but that will not do it. this has every chance to escalate at a high level becauso the houthis said if we attackan them on their territory they will start attacking american and american interest in the region so what is our plan for that? this is a potential strike thath could draw us into war.t i think the president owes it ti the american people to make sure that we do not go into a war. i don t but i would like to heah from the white house what thew plan is and how thisan poll is american law and there constitution, which it doesn t. laura: calling a lid while launching military strikes with the u.k. in the middle east seems to be like mine mind boggle outrageous. peter mentioned this but among