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
i m bret baier. president biden promised a responded to the deadly drone strike that killed three american soldiers in jordan. he promised that would happen at the time and place of his choosing the time was today just after he attended the dignified return of those bodies at dover air force base. the place syria and and iraq, tied to iranian proxy. iran was not a direct target tonight, likely won t be. but senior defense officials tell fox this is just the beginning of a series of strikes. we have fox team coverage. rich edson is at the white house looking at the presidents day and new reaction just out from the white house. mike tobin in tel aviv with what s going on in israel and reaction from the region. and retired general jack keane here in washington has his strategic analysis of these strikes. but we begin with chief national correspondent jennifer griffin. security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. will. we are told the u.s. aircraft involved in the
one opportunity we have to fix it, and we say we d love to have fixed it but it was election season so i thought i d wait. that s republican senator kevin cramer of north dakota, one of the very few gop lawmakers to go on record in favor of passing the border deal despite donald trump s demands. we ll have more from capitol hill on those negotiations straight ahead. plus a potentially significant development in the hostage negotiations between israel and hamas with the cia director set to travel abroad in hopes of closing a deal. and also ahead, we ll go through donald trump s temper tantrum in court and get legal analysis on what s next in the defamation damages trial. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, january 26th. we made it to friday. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with this news from the middle east. cia director william burns expected to travel starting in europe in the coming days to help broke
we are getting a wealth of new details today in the criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents thanks to some pretty stunning brand-new reporting. new york times reports this. prosecutors are expected to question a new witness in front of a federal grand jury sitting in florida later this week. that is according to people familiar with the matter. at least one other witness has already appeared before that florida grand jury, which is separate from the one that has been sitting for months now in washington. why prosecutors have continue seened a separate grand jury from the one in d.c. is one of the mysteries, one of the major outstanding questions every one of us from the outside has regarding this case at the moment. wall street journal has described the action in the florida grand jury this way, as, quote, tying up loose ends ahead of a decision on possible charges. bloomberg is reporting teem trump is bracing for that decision to l