♪ steve: overnight iran retaliated against the united states launching 15 ballistic missiles into iraq targeting the u.s. and coalition forces. there were, at this hour, no u.s. casualties, no u.s. service members were hurt. thank goodness. ainsley: the attacks come days after a u.s. airstrike killed iran's top military leader. general soleimani. president trump is going to address the nation at some point in morning, possibly during our show. brian: right. we have live team coverage. we have kristin fisher at the white house with what we can expect to hear from the president.

kristin tomlinson response if there is one. griff jenkins response from lawmakers. and to israel with rick leventhal. he is handling all things middle east related. so far, as the sun comes up, keep your fingers crossed, no casualties. >> right. and no strikes here in israel, at least not yet, brian and ainsley and steve. good morning to you. this attack, by the way, not a surprise to u.s. authorities. they fully expected bases in iraq might be targeted and they took defensive actions and as you mentioned no american casualties. but iran supreme leader still talking tough saying he slapped america in the face and now the focus shifts to the white house. again, we know there were 15 ballistic missiles fired from iran overnight at two military bases used by u.s. forces. one missile hit a base in erbil in northern iraq four missiles failed in flight the other 10 struck al assad a huge sprawling facility

visited by the president last christmas. often launch drone attacks. in iran people celebrated in the streets waving flags and chanting down with the u.s.a. and down with israel. we haven't seen video of any damages at the bases but we are seeing shrapnel from one of the failed missiles which landed in a field about 30 miles outside of erbil. after the strikes the iranian foreign minister tweeted iran took and concluded proportionate measures on self-defense under article 51 u.n. charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens and senior officials were launched. we do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression. if the u.s. retaliates, iran warns it will hit more targets, possibly here in israel where prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke earlier said he who strike at us will face a deadly blow. iran dealing with other major issues today there was a plane crash in tehran this morning that killed nearly 180 people on board. also multiple earthquakes in

iran today. one of them near a nuclear power plant, guys. steve: isn't there a story that there was an earthquake in iran as well? >> yeah. i just mentioned, steve, multiple earthquakes and one of them was for that one of their nuclear facilities. ainsley: what do you make of that? >> well, i mean, they have a lot on their hands. they have a lot to deal with. potential damages we haven't heard about yet. they have this plane crash that was horrific. ukraine plane crash. but it was in tehran. now they still have this crisis at hand with what's been happening in iraq. their general being killed and now what, if anything, the u.s. might do to retaliate. it's a very difficult time for pretty much all players in the region. steve: a lot going on. rick, thank you. brian: thanks keep in mind too there was a series protests in iraq because they are so unhappy with

their government. all is well, missiles launched from iran two military bases in iraq. assessment of casualties and damages taking place now. so far, so good. we have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world by far. i will be making a statement tomorrow morning. and that leads us to where we are right now. steve: he will be speaking from the white house. the president is expected to address the missile attack from the white house perhaps this morning. ainsley: so far today. the president has only tweeted once all is well. the tweet brian just read to you. brian: kristin is outside the white house to speculate what we could be looking at today. what on deck for the president. why he didn't speak last night and why he is choosing today. >> you know, we are still waiting to find out when exactly president trump is going to speak this morning, when he is going to address the nation. what exactly he is going to say. is he going to escalate the situation even further with talk of more retaliation or is he going to say something

more along the lines of enough is enough. and attempt to offer iran some sort of diplomatic offramp. as of now our best guess as to what he might say is the tweet that you all just read, in which he said, you know, all is well. and really just hinted as you will just have to wait and see what i say tomorrow morning. we are still waiting for a loot olot of details about what will take place today. as for what was happening at the white house last night while iran was launching those 15 missiles at two bases in iraq, housing u.s. troops, here at the white house, president trump was huddling with the secretary of state and the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. earlier in the day both the secretary of state and the secretary of defense have held press conferences warning iran about the u.s.' commitment and capabilities. >> the united states is not seeking a war with iran, but we are prepared to finish one. we are seeking a diplomatic

solution but, first, this will require iran to deescalate. we are prepared for any contingency and then we will respond appropriately to whatever they do. >> now, even though these attacks last night did not injure or kill any u.s. troops as best we can tell at this point in time, remember, entrepreneurship had said that the u.s. would likely retaliate even if iran hit u.s. interests in the region and last night's attack certainly constitutes as that. brian, ainsley, and steve? steve: right. what happens next. kristin, thank you very much. let's bring in republican congressman adam kinzinger national guard pilot an iraq war veteran and house foreign affairs committee. good morning to you. do you think it's all done. >> it will be interesting. maybe in the short-term, yes. a lot of it is going to determine what the battle damage assessment. it's great that we didn't have any members of our military killed or injured. what happened to our

equipment, there is airplanes there, et cetera. i think that's going to be something that will be important to note. and it may be an opportunity for us to kind of walk back from this cliff that iran has brought us to. but i want to be really clear about something because i was watching, obviously, this network all last night and there is some people that jump on and say we just killed soleimani, that's great. now is the time to leave iraq on a high note that would be exactly what iran and soleimani wanted us to leave. now is the moment where i think the president, whatever he does, he will have the information. i will make the right decision. hopefully we are walking back from iran's escalation but we can finish any fight. brian: congressman, we would not be at this place if we just took an active helping in 2010 after alaay an american ally leader won an legitimate election in iraq and reallowed iran and soleimani particularly consolidate power with al maliki and kick out all-american influence and essentially tell us there's

the door. that's why we left that was rise of its sis. joe biden, back off we will let al. another bold move by the vice president. >> this revisionism history. usually it's 200 years ago. a few years ago revising when it comes to the left. the idea this was america's fault. it wasn't our mistake in leaving iraq that actually led to this in the first place. and even just a few weeks ago it was actually in iraq and elsewhere and lebanon these demonstrations against iranian involvement that actually led to the evil general basically attacking americans and attacking american interest to change the subject. so this has been all over them from the beginning. anybody says the united states is escalating i would argue does not know the region, does not know their history even their recent history. steve: congressman, we have a tweet from the speaker of

the house, your colleague, nancy pelosi, speaking of american escalation. she said, she tweeted out closely monitoring the situation following bombings targeting u.s. troops in iraq. we must ensure the safety of our service members including ending and she says needless provocations from the administration and demanding that iran cease its violence, america and the world cannot afford war. what's your assessment of your colleagues look at what happened? >> i actually tweeted a response to that. i will tell you what my thought is let's say under obama, speaker boehner had done something like this, i would have been very disturbed. he never obviously would have. this was wrong. you know, at the time when americans are having missiles reigning down on them, we should actually rally around the flag. there is plenty of time for politics. we have a whole yearly for the election. for the speaker to basically in essence accuse the president for these missiles coming down on the american soldiers is something i

think they are going to regret. they are going to regret their basically opposition to this strike. they are going to regret all this stuff when it comes to november. ainsley: congressman ted cruz was on with sean hannity last night. he said do you know who funded these missiles out of iran? he said those missiles were paid for by american taxpayer dollars because barack obama gave iran billions of dollars. listen to this. >> in a very real sense, the missiles that we saw fired on servicemen and women tonight were paid for buyer the billions that the obama administration flooded the ayatollah with. and if history teaches anything, it's don't give billions of dollars to people who hate you and want to kill you. ainsley: is your reaction? >> it's 100 percent right. if you think about it. look at the iran before the nuclear deal and after. before the nuclear deal there was not 500,000 dead syrians. we thought assad might come out of power. yemen civil war hadn't happened yet. once this nuclear deal

happened, all this money that was told was going to be build new bridges in iran actually went into putting bashar al-assad holding him in power. destabilizing lebanon. brian: let's keep going down that path, because we did nothing, we pulled out of iraq, guess what in the russians come knocking at the door. they combine with iran. and yesterday vladimir putin in syria taking a bow as russia one of the worst people on the planet a man responsible for killing 600,000 many of his own people. vladimir putin is in, we are out. >> that's right. creating a whole new generation of terrorists. in that instability is when a new generation of terrorism is created. when you can recruit to that terroristic ideology, the president sent a good message by hitting iran also to putin. putin uses cut out forces, his mercenaries that he hires. that your actions by your shadow groups, whether it's these she a militias or the

vogner group for putin is fair game for judging you for the action of the country. brian: where are iran's allies? let me see i have them here in a second. they have no allies. russia and china have barely said anything about this. they are alone. it doesn't seem like democrats want to point that out. >> right. they don't. look, this is the second strike happened turned into politics. to me it's foreign to how i think. i always think about the flag first and the united states. i supported obama when he too close to call big actions that we needed to. they don't think that way. and that's why it's important for us to stand together and also not to leave iraq. to stand with the iraqi people who really do want us there and not their puppet government that exists to this day. steve: if you run into nancy pelosi in the hall ask her about that tweet. adam kinzinger, thank you very much for joining us today. >> you bet. ainsley: jillian has more headlines for us. jillian: that's right. good morning. more information on another story that we are following out of iran. get to this fox news alert. we have been mentioning it. there are no survivors after

a ukrainian plane crashes in tehran hours after iran launched missiles into iraq. now, ukraine's embassy originally blamed engine failure and not terrorism; however, new reports, especially out of reuters say a new statement omits engine failure as the cause. and breaking moments ago, iran says it will not hand over that plane's black box. the boeing 737 had just left the iranian capitol on its way to ukraine with 176 people on board when it burst into flames. we are working to get more information on those new details. we will bring them to you when we get them. now to this: breaking right now. rising temperatures could fuel more intense fires in australia. hot, windy weather expected to sweep through fire zones. so far more than 20 million acres of land have burned. 24 people have died. and more than a billion animals may have been lost. take a look at this photo showing a firefighter holding newborn baby after a

21 hour shift. this is going viral. reminding people of the sacrifices made by first responders and their families. the gunman who shot and killed border patrol agent brian terry will be sentenced today. he is one of seven men charged in the 2010 killing which exposed the obama administration's failed fast and furious operation. it allowed criminals to buy guns to track them. most were lost, including two found at the scene of terry's death. and the super bowl shaping up to be a battle of the billionaires when it comes to political ads. president trump and michael bloomberg both plan to spend $10 million each for commercials during the big game. super bowl 54 is sunday, february 2nd on fox. more than 100 million people are expected to tune in to the game in miami. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: jillian, of course, the big question is will the president's ad be like the bud light ad? will it be funny?

they said they have not figured out the content yet or just a regular ad? brian: who is doing the halftime interview with fox? who is going to do it? steve: i heard ainsley. brian: i am sure the president would love that it's going to be interesting. that's oftentimes what you look forward to most especially with all this stuff happening. ainsley: thanks, jillian. 15 minutes after the top of the hour. hundreds of troops are stationed at one of the bases iran targeted. a general who fought the taliban after 9/11 breaks down the significance of that move coming up next.ca most? by consolidating your credit card debt into one monthly payment. and get your interest rate right so you can save big. get a no-fee personal loan up to $100k. get a no-fee personal loan when crabe stronger...strong, with new nicorette coated ice mint. layered with flavor... it's the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. for an amazing taste... ...that outlasts your craving.

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about 1500 american troops hosted president trump during his visit to the combat zone as commander-in-chief a short time ago. ainsley: here with more on the significance of this base is retired brigadier general don baltic. thank you for being with us. >> it's a pleasure to be with you. thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. what do you know about this base? i know they targeted two ways bases but this is the one where americans are housed, correct? >> yes. this is the one where americans are housed. it's very significant base. so it's logical that it was targeted. steve: surely. it's big. but as our bomb damage assessment is going to come out later today from the pentagon we have heard general apparently nobody was killed, which is terrific. what do you make of the fact that they didn't hit anything, really. >> well, i think there is a lot that has been made over the last 24 hours about the capabilities of the iranians. there has been a lot of hand

ringing and a lot instead of rolling up your sleeves the thing that bothers me and most significant is we need to get behind our president and assure the american people of our military power of our confidence. we need to create confidence in our service members and their families. this is a big deal. this is a time for america to unite and go beyond the divisiveness of the politics. you know. donald trump, our president could cure cancer and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer would find a problem with that. this is huge. this is time for america to unite. we need to get at the iranian's proxy war. we have the opportunity to disrupt, degrade, neutralize that. that's what we need to do now. pay attention to stability in iraq and stability in the reasonable. iranians negatively affect afghanistan, africa, south america, europe. they are all over the place.

they violate international law regularly. we killed a bad man. we killed a terrorist. and it was a good thing and it's something that should have been done a long time ago. brian: so he's out. don't you believe, general, if you were somebody that criticized the president for not acting on the drone, criticized our president for not responding to the oil strike in saudi arabia or the mining of ships in the gulf, you can't be the same one who says why are you taking action against soleimani? you can't have it both ways. >> no, you cannot have it both ways. this is a time where we need to stand strong for the world. we need to leverage our partners, our european partners. we need to leverage our european partners. iran stands alone. nobody has come to their assistance, not even russia, not even china. this is an opportunity for america to be able to isolate economically, politically, diplomatically, iran.

and it is a huge opportunity for us to box them in. doesn't have to lead to war. and that's not what the president wants to do. right now, we have the leverage. iran has more to lose than we do, and they know it. steve: i think you are absolutely right. brigadier general don bulduc thank you for being here. >> it's an honor to be here. brian: president trump set to address the nation about iran's missile attack last night. our next guest worked with the trump administration and says if this is iran's only response, the president won. steve: what should he say? ♪ ♪ (whistling)

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update. maybe the next steps. likely have a message for iran's leaders as well. the reaction from lawmakers has been swift and not surprisingly breaking right down partisan lines. out on the campaign trail democrats blasting the president for its handling of the situation. >> mr. president, you have to explain your decision and your strategy to the american people. that's your job as president, mr. president. >> this is a reminder why we need to deescalate tension in the middle east. [cheers] >> the american people do not want a war with iran. >> and then there was an ominous warning from the only candidate who has seen combat in iraq. >> it would make the iraq war look like a picnic compared to the devastation and the destruction that would be caused by going to war with iran. griff: meanwhile republicans

are rallying behind the president saying he is doing the right thing and operating under full authority. >> it was an act of war by a a regime for the last 40 years. it's been a cancer in the mideast. when they stay they want to destroy israel, they are not kidding. the president has all the authority he needs under article 2 to respond. >> so we wait to hear from the president and perhaps from speaker pelosi as well. unclear if she is still pushing for a vote today on a war powers resolution. guys? brian: which would be purely symbolic. they could vote for it. what are they going to do? stop in the house. steve: regarding joe biden, griff just ran one of his soundbites. joe biden twice yesterday confused iraq and iran including at a fundraiser here in new york city. ainsley: he wants the president to explain his strategy to the american people. he said, mr. president, that is your job as a president. how much detail does the president need to explain? steve: that's what we are going to find out today. brian: we have seen his strategy and we are paying

the price for it now you can argue. steve: exactly here in new york city, a fox news alert. iran's foreign minister defending iran's attack on the united states forces in iraq. they call it an act of self-defense because we took out their general. brian: all right. foreign minister tweeting this: iran took and proportionate measures in self-defense under article 51 of u.n. charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizen and senior officials were launched. we do not seek escalation or war. makes you wonder is this over? ainsley: how should we respond. advisor in the trump administration. he joins us now. how do you think we should respond? no casualties yet they did send missiles into our territory to scare us, to try to go after our military. to avenge their general's death. how do we respond to this? >> well, when i look at the ledger, what i see is a dead enemy of the united states

who is responsible for the deaths of at least 600 american soldiers, who is responsible for an attack that killed an american a few days ago and who ginned up an attack to try to besiege a u.s. embassy any country whose embassy comes under attack has to defend it. we have this dead enemy of the united states on the one side of the ledger and other side of the ledger 12 missiles or so didn't hit a single target. when i look at that i think the united states came away from that exchange the clear winner. i don't see that we need to necessarily do anything in response. steve: you are saying that the president's strategy, the president won this round? >> absolutely looks that way to me. to me, the tweet that you just showed from the foreign minister of iran you don't necessarily want to trust the foreign minister of iran the key word was concluded. took and concluded. now he, knows the whole world is watching what they are going to do next, he is going to watch everything they say. seems unlikely he would use a word like concluded signaling to the whole world that they are done if they had something else

immediately planned. i believe this for a long time, iran is fundamentally a cautious power. they take risks when they think there is not going to be push back. if they go for a time, weeks beings months or years without getting much push back, they get riskier. as soon as they get hit, they tend to shrink back. and they don't get hit very often. but it does happen and they have a track record of pulling back. and that may be what's going on now i hope it's what's going on now. the strike against soleimani was justified and iranians take very seriously when the president says look, if you mess with us too much there will be a severe response and they're worried about that potentially severe response. brian: talk about critics. i want to hear your response to this. leon panetta writes a editorial. have badly failed to achieve their objectives. trump thought he could simply walk away from the iranian deal ignore the other nations, britain, france, russia, germany and china negotiate a deal

impose new forces in gulf and force iranian leadership to negotiate they haven't and we have this result. what's your thought? >> look, the president did try to work with allies to fix the iran deal. and it was a nice try. it didn't work out. the real problem with the iran deal he noticed all along and put a lot of this on the obama administration, including forminger secretary panetta front loaded the benefits to iran. we do a deal with a 10 year time horizon. iran gets all the stuff it wants upfront. we get the stuff we are supposed to get way later. as your other gusts have pointed out all that money, unfrozen assets, pallets of cash, what did iran do with it? they started spending it on terror and conflict and destabilization around the middle east. the president was right to object to that and i think right to put the squeeze back on iran. but not to escalate conflict, to deescalate conflict. when you reduce the amount of resources the regime has at its disposal you reduce its ability to fight these wars to fund terrorism and

spread conflict. steve: ultimately, last night overnight for us, the ayatollah said that iran had dealt a slap in the face to the united states and said that we have got to get out. just within the last two minutes, hasan rouhani from iran said. this general soleimani fought heroically against isis, at news are a, al qaeda and all. if it weren't for his war on terror european capitals would be in great danger now. our final answer to his assassination will to be kick all forces out of the region. >> they are not going to be able to kick american forces out of the region. the president -- as he said all along he wants to reduce american commitments around the world including in the middle east based on the circumstances, beared on own defense requirements. i think you can expect to see at some points during this presidency further american troops leaving the middle east not because iran chased us out because the circumstances no longer

warrant it and the president promise to wind down these wars which is exactly what he campaigned on. brian: huge bases in bahrain, huge bases in ume. huge bases in kuwait. just depends how many people we want to put in iraq and of course a huge base in turkey, too. we are not going anywhere. nice try. >> not all of those bases are there to do the same thing. the base in bahrain in particular is a naval base there to prevent iran from harassing gulf shipping and closing the strait of hormuz. that's not going anywhere. i can assure you of that. ainsley: they try closing that they will see who their enemies are thank you for joining us. >> thank you. ainsley: iran says the strike was revenge for killing soleimani. why he says these attacks are all for show. ♪ ♪

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keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. ♪ [shouting] steve: well, iran fired missiles at u.s. troops overnight. brian: president trump expected to address the nation some time in the next couple hours. ainsley: lucas tomlinson joins us live from the pentagon with how the defense department is responding to these attacks. what do you know, lucas? >> anxiously, defense secretary mark esper said yesterday before the strikes he expected iran to take revenge for president trump's decision to kill

iranian commander soleimani. >> i think we should expect that they will retaliate in some way, shape, or form. either through their proxies as they have been doing now for how many years or and/or with by their own hand. and so we take this one step at a time. we are prepared for any contingency. >> officials say no u.s. troops were hurt inside iraq those two bases. 15 short-range ballistic missiles were launched from inside iran. officials tell me 10 hit the al-assad base in western iraq. one hit the base in erbil in kurdish controlled northern iraq tourism iranian missiles failed to reach their targets. some of the ballistic missiles traveled at least 300 miles to reach al-assad. their fired off 1:00 a.m. local time 5:30 p.m. back here east coast. iran has over 2,000 ballistic missiles in its arsenal according to the latest estimate. iran's foreign minister said two iraqi bases were chosen because that's where u.s. special operations forces were based who carried out the drone strike killing

soleimani. no missile defenses located al-assad or air bases those american defense systems are located elsewhere in the middle east. as you mentioned, president trump is expected to address the nation later on this morning, guys. steve: lucas live at the pentagon. thank you. ainsley: thanks, lucas. as the world waits to see how the united states will respond to iran's. next guest says their move was just for show. steve: drone expert and former military analyst brett velicovich joins us from las vegas with the latest. good morning, bret. >> good morning. steve: symbolic, they had to do something. they said they were going to avenge the death of their general and that's it. >> look, if this really was the iranian response to the drone strike on soleimani it was weak at best. it means a massive victory for president trump and his decision to take out the general it. tells me that the iranian hardliners internally analyzeds situation and become extremely nervous about what president trump might actually do. and that it could get a lot

more dangerous for them. look, the iranians have a lot of very lethal options that they could have used to respond. yet, they chose not to use any of them. that's why this looks to be designed for show. look, it probably is difficult for the public to understand this when they wake up and see these missiles were fired. take it from a former soldier who has spent a lot of time at war and been on the receiving end of a number of iranian rocket attacks from their missions this seems to be designed for more of a deescalation of tension's in the long run. you will could even argue that a minor indirect ineffective fire that was taken place with no u.s. casualties reported is a very minor thing for us taking out their number one commander and a man that was getting ready to attack american service members and kill diplomats. brian: four missiles failed. one hit erbil. 10 missiles al-assad air base. hit the base where the drone might have been launched

from. is that a possibility the drone that killed soleimani. >> drones are launched from a number of different bases it. is a possibility. i doubt that the iranians have that strong of intelligence to be able to determine that drones are launched from a number of different locations. again, i don't want to minimize this strike. but, when i look at this, the iranians have been doing this for a number of years. only thing unique the missiles were launched from iranian territory. this is really a common occurrence to be under the threat of indirect fire from iraq. so common it didn't use to make much headlines when the iranians would do it true their proxy forces. this seems like a calculated decision on behalf of the iranians to try to save face. they get to tell their public that they struck back against the u.s. government. they don't look weak. they are able to save face but at the same time not do something that is such a strong military retaliation that it even really warrants a military response from the president. i think in the end this will actually calm the situation more in the long run.

ainsley: brett, is there something we can do to retaliate without going to war and without having to fire missiles or cause death? >> well, i mean, the fact is i think what we did with the drone strike is something that -- a tool available -- ainsley: -- what happened yesterday? >> i don't think it warrants a response. i think the president should come out now and open up the window for negotiation for talks. i don't think that this was something that was large enough for us to respond in kind. but, at the same time, you know, i don't know what the president is going to do. he has a lot of very smart military advisors around him but at the same time this is a president who doesn't want to go to war. we know that. there was multiple times he could have responded previously and he didn't he does not want to go to war. i hope in the end this actually eases tensions. at the same time, puts iranians on notice that they can't -- they are not untouchable. that they cannot kill americans with impunity. steve: you know, to your point, that it was symbolic, they had to do something to

show their people, that would explain why, for instance, the revolutionary guard website says they fired 30 missiles and state tv there are stories that a lot of americans were killed, which is not true. meanwhile, in this country, brett, and we are short on time, but, nonetheless, a number of democrats are saying the thing about this president he is trying to get us into world war iii. we just want to know his strategy because it looks to us like he doesn't. does it look like to you that he does not have a strategy? >> absolutely not. and this is not the time for politics. we need to stand behind the president. we need to stand by the troops. and this is not a time for the other side of the aisle to sit here and bash the president's actions. he does have a plan, and we're seeing it carried out. and in my opinion, it's working right now. only time will tell what happens. ainsley: thank you, brett, the defense secretary mark esper did say i don't want to start a war but we are prepared to finish one. he, to your point does want iran to deescalate and he

says they have to come to the table and be able to negotiate with us. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. brian: turns out "the washington post" says the iraqi government was tipped off that missiles are coming into your country, but we are not looking to shoot at you. i don't know how you would take that if i was an iraqi. meanwhile the u.s. wants diplomatic solution with iran. what could a potential military strike look like. retired general will be joining us now on why we may need to call in the air force next. hey, saved you a seat.

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♪ jillian: good morning welcome back. more of that breaking news out of iran in a few moments. first, some of the other stories making headlines this morning. starting here a 93-year-old man shoots a manager at his housing complex over a maintenance issue. las vegas police releasing shocking video. you can see the man forcing the manager in a chair before shooting him. when he falls to the floor, the man shoots him again. moments later, police arrived and arrested the man who was upset about flooring and water damage in his home. he faces several including attempted murder. the manager will survive. the teenager who went viral for this video at a rally in d.c. settled a defamation suit. nicholas sandmann come with undisclosed agreement with cnn after suing for

$250 million. he accused the network and other media outlets being negligent in covering this altercation with an native american man some labeled as racist. now we turn our attention to nbc news, "the washington post" and additional defendants to be named soon. a look at your headlines. brian: thank you. a fox news alert now. president trump is expected to address the nation this morning after iran attacked u.s. forces in iraq last night. ainsley: how will we respond? could there be an air campaign? here to weigh in former u.s. air force vice chief of staff richard newton. good morning to you. >> good morning ainsley and good morning all of you. ainsley: good morning. how should we respond? >> well, first, i think the president has responded very effectively. >> quite frankly but very restrained and measured way. again, i appreciate the fact that he did not address the nation last night.

he waited to address the nation this morning. still waiting battleground assessment. advisors are weighing those assessments. again, i believe the president he should continue to at least contemplate striking back at iran. i don't believe he will, based on battle damage assessment i understand. but targets that would be available to his disposal and u.s. military capability would be the ballistic missile capability. brian, you mentioned earlier this morning, they have 2,000 ballistic missiles, perhaps going after other military infrastructure. maybe even oil production capability. but, again, let's step back. i think there is an opportunity here for strategic pause. we do have exceptional and highly capable u.s. a symmetric forces. u.s. air forces. we just deployed six b-52s. harry s. truman steaming off in the gulf. we just deployed pac 3

patriot missile interceptors. there is plenty of a symmetric u.s. advantage again to continue to deter iranian aggression. steve: dick, are you surprised, you know, they said there would be fierce revenge, yet, out of the 2,000 missiles they shot over 15, although iraq says 22 missiles. and that was it. and they didn't really hit anything. are you surprised at their response? >> well, steve, again, we have toible aize and determine what exactly was their response? was it just to send a message not necessarily perhaps to the united states but to their own population? they had to act and they acted accordingly. again, that's where the president will be measured. i think wha president has done and u.s. national security team has done is restored u.s. effective deterrence in the region. not only in terms of taking out soleimani, who was the architect of iranian terrorism and the operational commander of their lethal terrorism, but

has acted, again, by putting -- restoring u.s. credibility by putting forces in the region, backing them up with decisive u.s. leadership. i think that's what we are going to hear from the president this morning. i think we are going to hear that it will take a measured step. it's up to the iranians. ainsley, you brought up earlier question about what happens next. i think the president is going to want to compel the iranians to get to the negotiating table. we have got other instruments of national power. we have got diplomatic information, economic, economic sanctions have been working by the way. but we have also demonstrated that we are willing to enforce u.s. deterrence. secure u.s. national security objectives. safety and security of other men and women serving over in that region. we are going to do it effectively with u.s. a symmetric forces. by the way that can launch from u.s. as a global strike capability as much as we can in the region. steve: all right. well, iran did say they have concluded their attack. let's see what happens next.

dick newton thank you for joining us today from palm beach. >> my pleasure. brian: it will be interesting, when all is said and done and dust settles huge protests in iran against the iranian government and huge protest in iraq since october against the iranian government. in the end, iran is the problem and they are going to realize that. steve: coming up on the top of the hour, our special live coverage of iran's missile attacks continue. we have pete hegseth. congresswoman liz cheney, mike huckabee and karl rove still ahead. brian: they will not be appearing together. they will be seen separately. ♪ ♪ waking him up. now that dream is a reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn?

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[shouting] ♪ ainsley: overnight iran retaliating against the u.s. launching 15 ballistic missiles into iraq targeting the u.s. military and coalition forces. there were no u.s. casualties, thank goodness, no u.s. service members were injured. brian: all right. the attacks come days after a u.s. airstrike killed iran's top military leader qassem soleimani. president trump will address the nation this morning. steve: this morning we have live team coverage at 7:00 eastern time. kristin fisher is live at the white house with what we can expect to hear from the president, perhaps this morning. and griff jenkins is live in washington with reaction from the lawmakers. brian: so we'll be talking

to both of them very shortly because we want to find out what washington is thinking. we also want to find out what the pentagon is going to do and how surprised they were about this attack. there is word today that the iraqis were tipped off missiles were coming. i'm just wondering with our wide range of intelligence did we know? let alone the satellites picking it up. ainsley: some experts saying it looks like they did target our u.s. military so they could go back to state tv and say we attacked, we retaliated. no casualties. that's not what they are reporting in iran because it is state tv. here we know there were no casualties. they get to be able to check the box and say we look strong amongst our people even though the rest of the world knows that there were no casualties. steve: it was symbolic. nonetheless, you have the country of -- well, iran is saying they fired off 30 mifltion. the country of iraq says and they would know because they are the country the missiles were fired at. they say iran fired 22 missiles their direction. let's go to griff jenkins

who standing by on capitol hill latest reaction show down with iran. griff? griff: good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. very fluid. we are still waiting. the whole world is waiting to hear from the president this morning. timing still unclear. tell us about next stepping. likely have a tough and stern message for iran's leaders as well. meanwhile, the radicalization from lawmakers has been swift, pointed, harsh, and not surprisingly breaking down party lines out on the campaign trail. democrats are blasting the president for his handling of the situation. take a listen. >> this is a reminder why we need to deescalate tension in the middle east. [cheers] the american people do not want a war with iran. [cheers] griff: there was this ominous warning from the only candidate to have

sempsd combat in iraq. >> it would make the iraq war look like a picnic compared to the devastation and the destruction that would be caused by going to war with iran. griff: meanwhile, republicans are rallying behind the president. house minority leader kevin mccarthy had this to say. >> the president sent a very clear message with one missile going through, taking out the individual that has killed more than 600 servicemen and women that are -- serve us over in iraq. griff: we waited to hear from the president. also keep your eye on the house and see what we get perhaps from speaker pelosi today because, remember, we were told we would possibly have a house vote on a war powers resolution today. no update on whether or not that could be happening or whether or not she is still pushing for it, guys? steve: indeed. of course, she would like to limit the president in what he does in the country of iran. but, if we hear from him

this morning, if he is done he is done. brian: i don't think so the senate is going to jump on nancy pelosi's bandwagon. talk about tension and pressure that's where it is. tre, what is the action son is up quite a while from that attack? >> brian, ainsley, steve, good morning. we are getting reaction today from baghdad and iraqi prime minister abdel, who said he was informed ahead of time missiles fired from iranian territory into iraq into that base in western iraq that does house american troops. reports indicate that ten of these missiles were successful in hitting their target. four of them failed. and one of them landed in the city of erbil in northern iraq. there is concern today about another response from the iranians or their prorksies. many iranian backed she a militias do operate here and may target u.s. troops as they have threatened throughout the week. despite confirmation of no casualties in the strikes

last night the iranians are claiming victory. back to you. >> these military actions are not enough. what is important is that the corrupt presence of america in this region comes to an end. >> there are a number of airlines in the region rerouteing flights over iraq, syria, and iran due to concerns that planes could be misidentified as targets. some of those airlines include jordanian and egyptair. they say they are not going to be landing in baghdad the coming days out of those concerns. brian, ainsley, and steve? steve: thank you very much. let's bring in pete hegseth, army vet, "fox & friends weekend" owe co-host. he joins us from the twin cities right now. when you were with us yesterday, we knew something was going to happen because they said they are going to have fierce revenge. okay. we saw what they did, 15 missiles our direction. what do you make of that? >> yeah.

not fierce revenge. also, won't be enough for the iranian regime. listen, they are not as capable as they want the world to believe they are. they want something to sell for internal propaganda. i totally get that none of this though changes the calculation of this regime, which is an evil regime. this is like if isis controlled the state she a version. they have their ow caliphate. they want to export it. death to america, death to israel. so when i hear talk about well now it's time to get back to the table and talk i say they need to come back for talks they need to come back limping and begs not seething. will this be enough to end here? i don't think so. i don't think even close. not because people like me want to escalate. the president has played this perfectly. he has played it being careful and cautious. steve: who takes the next shot then. >> sometimes have you moments, steve. i happen to believe that we

can't kick the can down the road any longer in trying to prevent will irany from getting nuclear bomb. we all know they were scrapping the iran deal. what better time than now to say we are starting the clock. have you got a week. you have x amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities. we take out key infrastructure. we take out your missile sites. we take out nuclear developments. steve: that is not a popular idea. >> take out a quds headquarters while you are at it if you want. i understand that's not a popular idea. i don't want boots on the ground. i don't want occupation. i don't want endless war. iran has been in endless war with us for 40 years. either we put up and shut up now and stop it or we kind of wait, go back to the table and let them dither while they attempt to continue to develop what they said he want to do. we were honest about the nature of this regime or i think we miss a moment. it's been played well so far

but we should keep the initiative on our side as opposed to trying to just tit-for-tat react to something they will continue to keep doing. they always have. ainsley: pete, i know we are prepared to hit 52 targets the president has said. maybe if there were casualties, but because they're not, maybe the mission will change? what do you know about these cultural sites because we are not supposed to be hitting cultural sites? i understand i have been hearing we believe that the iranians are hiding missiles and weapons in some of these cultural sites, churches. >> of course they do. this is what islamists do. they have done in the battlefield against folks like me and my entire generation. human shields using mosques, using, you know, hospitals, schools. this is what our enemies do. now, that doesn't mean we go on and target cultural sites. but what it means we are clear-eyed about how our enemies use the rules we write against us having seen

it if we want to defeat them. we have to think smart about how these rules. how we navigate within these rules without playing a game rigged to help them so we can't win. if we are going to fight iran from getting a nuclear bomb this regime we need to rewrite the rules that are advantageous to us. i don't want to hit cultural sites on purpose. if you are using one to harbor your most dangerous weapons that should be on the list. brian: the president did back off that he did say i'm going to go by the international law joe biden who has a substantial lead over all the other democratic candidates when it comes to foreign policy. he announced this yesterday about what he would do. steve: 1995 when he was a senator. >> he talked about legislation to give the president authorization to strike terrorists. i believe this guy is outlined as a terrorist even by the obama administration. here's march of '95. >> one fundamental weakness

of the war powers resolution is that it fails to acknowledge powers that most scholars agree are inherent presidential powers. my legislation corrects this deficiency. my bill enumerates instances where the president may use force. first, to -- without congressional authority. at the outset. first, to repel attack on u.s. territory or u.s. forces. to forestall or retaliate against specific acts of terrorism. brian: he wanted to give the president that power and i believe this fits the bill for that power and now everybody wants to take it away. >> that seals the deal. joe biden has officially been on every side of every national security issue depending on where the wind is blowing. hills guy is not in the white house right now. therefore, he and others want to take the power away from that guy. brian: bill clinton was. >> of course.

this is partisan resistance politics going into the presidential campaign. joe biden has been wrong on everything. but what we know about the rest of the field is they are lock, stock, and barrel antiwar. they wouldn't there is no peace ever to be found on the other side of war. which is why they wouldn't be serious commander-in-chief. he knows what's right. he just can't say it because of the field that he is in and that will make him weaker. he will be a target for other candidates who will stand on their purity hills and say that he is not capable. he knows right but can't say it. the president has the authority. steve: he was vice president during the iran deal which ultimately sent all of that money back to iran and now they know they used all that money not to build bridges and schools over there. >> bingo. steve: but to build a lot of missiles that they shot at the country of iraq last night. >> to build rockets and to pay for soleimani's quds

force which expanded under their watch. listen, this instant, this moment right now is on barack obama, not donald trump. when barack obama retreated n iraq and created a vacuum he unleashed two radical forces first isis which president trump had to come in and eradicate but also opened the door for iran's influence to totally take over iraq to the point now where the legislature in iraq is effectively controlled by iran. if we couldn't solve the problem in iraq with 150,000 troops and the right strategy, we are not going to do it now with 5,000. whether we leave iraq or not should be done on our terms and based on how we stare down iran and their ability to get a nuclear bomb. that's what it is all about. they are going to export terrorism. they will use missiles. they have those things. whether they get the nuclear technology is ultimately what matters, which leads me to believe could be the time to cripple their ability to do it. steve: not a popular idea. brian: pete hegseth, appreciate it.

brian: general mattis in his book in iraq told vice president biden what would happen if we left iraq at this time. iran would take over. pete: thank you. brian: you are welcome, pete. al maliki would become president. become a disaster for us wipe out the sunni presence in the government. vice president looked at him and said we are leaving anyway. that's general mattis' account what happened. is that the guy you want as president? steve: it is 7:13 now in new york city. time for some news. and jillian has got that. jillian: some news we are following out of iran. get right to a fox news alert. the ukraine government changes its statement about the deadly plane that killed 176 people when it crashed. hours after iran launched missiles into iraq. new video shows fiery debris moments after the ukrainian international airlines plane went down in tehran. ukraine's embassy originally blamed engine failure and not terrorism; however, the country's new statement does not mention a cause. iranian officials say they

will not hand over the plane's black box to boeing. the estranged husband of a missing connecticut mom is charged with murder. dulos and girlfriend michelle and former lawyer will be arraigned on new charges today. jennifer dulos went missing 8 months ago during a bitter child custody battle. her body has never been found but arrest warrants show police found bloodstains in jennifer's home and car and that her d.n.a. was found on plastic zip ties used to incapacitate her. dulos maintains his innocence. two chinese students are under arrest for taking pictures of a florida navy base. the fbi says the pair drove up to an entrance to the base in key west but were turned away. they drove on anyway taking pictures of buildings for about 30 minutes. four chinese nationals have been charged with taking pictures of the naval air station since 2018. a 103-year-old world war ii veteran being honored for his service 75 years ago.

peter fantasia just presented with the bronze star and other medals. massachusetts man had already earned the silver star for valor and combat and saving the life of another soldier. >> he didn't earn these medals by doing anything modern. he earned them by being a true hero. >> he has always put other people first, like to have other people realize how special he is. that's amazing. >> he was a prisoner of war for six months before being freed by russian forces in 1945. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: that is a great story. jillian, thank you. ainsley: so sweet. steve: 7:15 here in the east coast. nancy pelosi speaker of the house pushing iran's rhetoric after they fired missiles targeted at american troops. congresswoman liz cheney, a colleague of the speaker's, is calling pelosi out and she is live next. ♪ ♪ (whistling)

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impunity. i think following on what we saw in the obama administration where the obama administration actually paid the iranians, paid them in u.s. taxpayer dollars, tried to appease them john kerry acting as if he were the chamber of commerce trying to get people to invest in iran. president trump has turned that around and said we are going to have a maximum pressure campaign on the iranians. we will not tolerate the iranian activity the way they have been pursuing it in the past. i think they understand we are serious. the president was absolutely right in taking the action that he took against qassem soleimani. ainsley: i know the gang of eight was briefed last night and today the house is going to be briefed and senate is going to be briefed pompeo, general millie, mr. esper and gina haspel with the cia. is there any information you can tell us and do you have any information -- we were getting word the president was going to speak last night and then we were told he wasn't. he was going to hold off until the morning. >> i think that you have got a situation where clearly the administration was

conducting bomb damage assessments over the courts of the evening last night, looking at what had happened, looking at possible options and i think we will hear much more from the president this morning about that. look, i think it's very important for everybody to recognize what's gone on here what is going on is that the world has lost patience with the iranian mull also a. the world has lost patience. the iranian people have lost patience with the regime. the iranian regime is clearly desperate. they have hundreds of thousands of their citizens in the streets protesting. they are under tremendous economic pressure again because of the sanctions, because of the policies president trump put into place. and if the iranians think that they can lash out in an attempt to somehow get out from under those sanctions that is a grave miscalculation on their part. brian: they are really going to miss this guy because he was a tactical guy. >> absolutely. brian: he militias together. you were tweeting last night and you responded to nancy pelosi's tweet.

she said. this closely monitoring the situation following bombings targeting the u.s. troops in iraq. we must ensure the safety of our service members including ending needless provocations from the administration. and demanding that iran cease its violence. america and the world cannot afford war. you responded. speaker pelosi is embarrassment and unfit for office. >> yes. i mean, look. speaker pelosi has proven herself time and time again to be completely and totally lacking in any seriousness. don't forget the speaker of the house is second in line for the president after the vice president of the united states. this is the person who told us for months and months that it was urgent for our national security that he we impeach president trump so the house democrats impeached him with evidence and now she has been literally sitting on the allergies of impeachment --f impeachment ever since. seems to not be urgent to impeach president trump. now in the wake of missiles raining down on service members in iraq, speaker pelosi is saying that it was needless provocation on our part. she is blaming the united

states of america. she is suggesting a moral equivalence between the united states and iran i think she is an embarrassment. i'm surprised the democratic caucus continue to support her as their leader and speaker of the house. steve: congresswoman liz cheney joining us from our nation's capital. thank you. >> thank you. ainsley: growing tensions with iran could have a major impact on our oil supply. what it means for you before you -- coming up next. most? about being a scientist at 3m. i wanted them to know that innovation is not just about that one 'a-ha' moment. science is a process. it takes time, dedication. it's a journey. we're constantly asking ourselves, 'how can we do things better and better?' what we make has to work. we strive to protect you. at 3m, we're in pursuit of solutions that make people's lives better. at 3m, we're in pursuit of solutions

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>> tensions with iran putting a critical gateway with the world's oil supply back in the spotlight. brian: 20% of the oil passes through the strait of hormuz situated next to iran before it gets to market. which is why the price of oil is going up. steve: here to break down what this means for you former "u.s.s. cole" commander kirk lippold. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: before iran fired missiles off half hour before dawn in iraq initially the price of oil went up 4%. now i think it's gone back down to 1%. nonetheless, while the amount of oil is that is produced by the country of iran has diminished that

particular waterway is really important. what do we do to make sure that the oil keeps going to where it's supposed to go? >> well, the first thing we are going to do is the united states navy along with other navies are going to ensure this transit through the strait of hormuz as an international waterways stays open does not come under threat and that iran does not try to come out, harass shipping or try to do things that train district on or about disrupt the oil supply going. that's one of the key things. united states is more than capable of keeping that waterway open-know we were so exind dent on that air in the middle east for oil. fracking and administration we are the world's biggest oil supplier. what does this mean for us? how big of an effect will it have on america. >> minimal effect. this is what emergency independence gives the united states and american people. it gives us the ability to have flexibility in the middle east it.

gives us the ability that when actions like this happen we are not beholden to someone that is supplying our oil while other countries are still dependent on the middle east because of lack of natural resources the united states in developing this technology and make no mistake, we are going to continue to work as a nation toward being more green we are not going to cut off the oil supplies this is what that fracking that hydraulic drilling. this private investment has given our country national security flexibility to do what we need to do to ensure that the world's economies are not going to be disrupted by these events going on in the middle east. brian: comeart, one thing they have go at us is go after our allies. what responsibility should the u.s. take after this decisive action last week to help our allies get through unencumbered through the strait of hormuz in the gulf.

>> number one thing we need to do while we will have our allies back our allies need to be participating in this. i know very much the europeans want to see the joint comprehensive plan of action or the iran nuclear agreement come back into force. the bottom line is vaughn going to back away from that. they have backed away from it. it's amazing. a few days ago we showed that jcpoa three years away to a bomb. suddenly all the tensions rise up. iran backs off and now seven to nine months. how could this possibly have happened. our allies need to take a forward step with us to make sure that they are, in part, working with us and safeguarding it. not just there in the middle east but worldwide as well to cut iran off as part of the maximum pressure campaign. steve: commander, iran said they have concluded their attacks as their reconvention, their fierce revenge. but the big question is what do we do next? i mean, they were the last ones who shot at us. we are going to hear from the president probably this

morning. what advice would you give him? >> at this point in time, it's going to be two fold. first, this is a prime opportunity for everyone to step back, deescalate and not have a wider conflict going on. we need to be the adult in the room. the iranian regime has proven that they are going to do it. the second thing we need to do now is make sure that iran begins to stop their terrorist activities around the world we need to begin to look at all of those forces and look at how we can begin to have greater influence within iraq we should have at this point iraq's back 100 percent so we can ensure that we bolster the government and give them the confidence and power to stand up against the iranian influence that is literally destroying their country. brian: we walked away and didn't do that in 2010. they have a place holder, popular place holdner place now put there by iran. you are right. get ambassador crocker back out there who knows all the players and let's iraqis

pick their own leaders and get out. >> that's really what it's going to come down. to say this is a prime opportunity for the united states to really assume worldwide leadership role because iranian influence extends throughout the middle east and the world. hezbollah is active even in africa. we need to minimize if not eliminate that threat not only to those countries but to the united states as well. brian: don't forget venezuela and islamic jihad as much. ainsley: maybe taking out their number two guy sends a clear message to stop and hopefully they will. they say they are concluding now. steve: there is a lot of symbolism in what happened yesterday. all eyes on president trump as we await his address to the nation from that building. we are now live on the north lawn. ainsley: won't give the any credit for how handled iran.

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steve: we have a fox news alert for you. president trump is expected to dress iran's missiles attack later today from the white house. ainsley: so far mostly quiet on the strikes that targeted u.s. and coalition troops. brian: kristin fisher joins us live outside the white house. kristin, is there anything stirring? >> so far nothing yet. the entire world is waiting to see how president trump responds to last night's attack. and as you mentioned, so far his only public response was the tweet he put out last night in which he said all is well. missiles launched from iran from two military bases located in iraq. assessment of casualties and damages taking place now. so far so good. we have the most powerful and well-equipped military anywhere in the world by far. so, the question this morning is does president trump threaten to retaliate and escalate or does he say

enough is enough for now? one thing we know he will not do is attack iranian cultural and representing just sites as he threatened to do a few days ago. >> we are, according to various laws, supposed to be very careful with their cultural heritage. i like to obey the law. we have to be gentle with their cultural institutions. but i'm okay with it. it's okay with me. i will say this: if iran does anything that they shouldn't be doing, they are going to be suffering the consequences. >> and iran certainly did something last night. the country's foreign minister says it has concluded its response to soleimani's death. the president of iran tweeted about an hour ago that, quote, our final answer to his assassination will be to kick all u.s. forces out of the region. now, yesterday, president trump told reporters that he

does want to withdrawal u.s. troops from iraq at some point but that right now is not the time. so now we wait and see when president trump decides to address the country and what he will say as of now, brian, ainsley and steve. still no word from the white house about when that might be. brian: hey, kristin, is this going to be like a press conference situation or like an address? >> the word that we have heard from the white house is a statement. some kind of address. probably not a press conference. but you never know. things change very quickly here. and that certainly is a possibility. at the moment we believe this is going to be just a statement, some kind of address. as soon as we hear something, we will let you know. steve: all right. thank you very much. she is right. you just never know. meanwhile, let's bring in mike huckabee, fox news contributor, former governor of arkansas. former republican presidential candidate, he joins us right now from down in florida. governor, we have had a number of military guests on who have said if that -- if that 15 or 20 missiles was

iran's response, president trump wins this round. >> you know, i think people need to look at this sort of in the context of an old fairy tale i grew up with three bears one bowl of poorge too hot, one cold and one just right. the war in iraq was too hot. we wanted to go in, do nation building. build schools, we thought we could create a democracy. so we went all in. we put military, boots on the ground. we thought we were fighting for freedom. it turned out that they didn't want it that badly after all. then the obama administration came. theirs was too cold. it was let's appease everybody. let's be half hearted in what we are doing and let's give iran a bunch of cash and maybe they will be nicer to us if we buy them off. i think this president has taken the right approach. it's measured. it's targeted. it's specific. the media will never give him credit for the fact that he has been very thoughtful and careful but taking out

soleimani was important act of getting rid of a monster. we audited to be proud of what he has done. ainsley: shaking in their boots it's obvious many people are saying they targeted these bases where americans are but didn't hit anyone. there are no casualties. they have the ability to take people out if they want to. we still can't forget who we are with. >> they have threatened us for 40 years. we finally have a president who takes that seriously and doesn't disregard it. let's look at it this way. this is a president who is like the big dog. he knows iran is not worth a war. they are not. they are not that big. they are not that important. the pressure that he has put on them economically is

crumbling them from within. the little dog iran keeps barking and sniffing and tries to harass the big dog. but the truth is the big dog isn't taking the bait. but one day when the little dog gets out of hand, the big dog will bite back and it's going to be over. steve: so far we have had dogs and bears in your appearance. [laughter] brian: let's keep up with that anothing, lawrence o'donnell tweeted this while the mifltsy in the air trump wagged the dog and now the dog is wagging trump. >> got us to the brink of. trump's impulses have brought us to the edge of war. michael moore suddenly a critic of the president always been. trump will use any form of attack to escalate the war he has started. the war is meant to been episode of his unreality show a distraction from the impeachment. >> they will not give him credit no matter what he

did. if they were all given an opportunity to sit in the white house situation room and watch the attack on soleimani live, they would say the video quality was not good enough there is never going to be a time where they acknowledge it. i think a lot of people maybe recognize that president trump truly does not want war. he is exactly who he presented himself to be as a candidate and as a president. he doesn't want war. but he is not going to let americans be killed and him look the other way and look like nothing happened. i think we want a president who fights for america but doesn't get us into somebody else's fight. he has been totally consistent with that. and we ought to be grateful. >> right. we know, too. if we get out. the russians get in. vladimir putin on the ground in syria yesterday, taking a bow. he restored assad to power and brought peace to da mat can you say so we can leave but it doesn't mean other players aren't going in and i'm not sure we are too comfortable with that governor huckabee, thanks so much.

>> thank you guys. ainsley: jillian has more headlines for us. hey, jillian. >> that's right. good morning to you. the fbi is on the case of what is being called a hate crime spree outside of new york city. six sites vandalized over the weekend including a menorah, a theater, and three houses of worship. >> why would you vandalize a church? >> going to get to the bottom of it and those will be brought to justice. >> police released this picture of a car they believe the suspects were driving. a $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to arrest. a man who doused new york city police officers with rawrt will avoid jail time. courtney thompson will serve just 10 days of community service as part of a plea deal. thompson initially faced the slew of charges for pouring buckets of water on two officers in july. at the time, he was on probation for a 2015 robbery. republican lawmakers in wisconsin are reviving a movement to make english the

official language of the state. the proposal would require all state and local documents be written in english with some exceptions. critics call it discrimination. push immigrants to learn the language and more attractive to employers. more than two dozen other states have passed similar measures. and appear in second fox news town hall one week before the iowa caucuses. "fox news sunday" host chris wallace will once again moderate the event january 26th in the hawkeye state. wallace hosted buttigieg last may in new hampshire. a recent cbs news u gov shows buttigieg leading iowa in a three-way tie with former vice president joe biden and vermont senator bernie sanders. send it back to you. steve: getting good. all right. thank you very much. brian: this straight ahead. the pentagon says they are ready to respond to iran's missile attacks. the former navy seal says the regime has. >> morgan: to lose in a major complex than we do.

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leader is telling as they fire missiles in iraq overnight. steve: president trump will give a statement later this morning. brian: rick leventhal has more from jerusalem. >> this appears to be the first time iran has directly attacked u.s. positions and openly admitted doing it. they fired 15 ballistic missiles towards those bases. 10 of them hit the al-assad air base where hundreds of u.s. troops are stationed. none of them were hurt. but iran supreme leader, the ayatollah khamenei saying he slapped america in the face last night. the ayatollah speaking to his nation earlier today also said military action is not enough and the corrupt presence of the u.s. in the region should come to an end. iran's spiritual leader hasan rouhani also defending the strikes as revenge against america for the targeted killing of iran's top general: rouhani

tweeting general soleimani fought heroically against isis, al-nusra and al qaeda. if it were not for his war on terror, european capitals would be in great danger now. our final answer is to his assassination will be to kick all u.s. forces out of the region. down with the u.s. and down with israel, which could be among the next targets of iran if the u.s. retaliates. but the israeli prime minister says he stands with america and supports out that iranian general. >> president trump should be congratulated for acting swiftly boldly and resolutely. [applause] >> against this terrorist so. >> israel remains on alert and the world watches to see what, if any, response the u.s. will have to this latest volleying of rockets. guys. steve: exactly right. they were expecting they could have incoming in jerusalem yesterday. rick, thank you very much. meanwhile, as we await the

president's statement on iran this morning. our next guest warns the regime has far more to lose than we do if there were more shooting. brian: here to explain former navy seal g.o.p. virginia congressman candidate scott taylor. scott, in particular, you must have fresh in your mind the fact that the iranians played such a role during the insurgency and during the worst days in iraq. without iran, the insurgency would not -- wouldn't have been close to as effective. is that back of your mind as you are watching what's happening right now? >> certainly is. good morning. it's good to be with you guys and of course your viewers absolutely. strikible soleimani is certainly fresh in my mind and this is a guy who of course contributed to many deaths and casualties on our people with ieds in iraq. something i know when my boots were on the ground stepping off to a mission. that's what you thoug about were roadside bombs, obviously. but, you know, i have to say i think i want to say that

president trump has been very calculated and i don't think he is going to overreact. i think the iranians also haven't overreacted. i think it's a miscalculation for them in the first place when they thought that they could get away with attacking our embassy. killing americans and this president wouldn't respond after he was patient over many months, quite frankly, when they were shooting shots down our drones, attacked our ships, killed americans and attacked our embassy. i thought the president's response was appropriate and bold. ainsley: scott, last night the president was going to make a comment and decided to wait until the morning which probably was a good move so he could think about the strategy. as out show has progressed we have been on the last three hours. all the experts think we don't need to respond now because it looks like they are shaking in their boots. they are terrified of us. they are striking just to say they can strike without any casualties. the defense secretary mark esper says they don't want to start a war. we don't want to start a war but we are prepared to finish one. is there a war to finish? is there something we need to do in response?

>> you know, governor huckabee was on with you guys using a dog. arabic proverb the dog barks but the caravan moves on. the president understands iran is very fragile. i mean, economic sanctions have really worked. and you see, you know, with the spiritual leader what he has done now is offered domestic consumption. in the middle east people fear or respect strength. if you don't have strength. you don't get either one. i think this was clear this was a responds so he could say they did something so they could brag but didn't really do anything quite frankly. steve: scott, a couple days ago, the iraqi parliament voted to kick us out. but last night it was iran who fired a couple dozen missiles into the country of iraq. it will be interesting to see what iraq does now and how they respond. >> i want to see the iraqi leaders come out. i want to hear what they have to say. because, of course, u.s. forces are there legally under congressional authorization as well via

the permission of the iraqi government. the resolution that you talked about was nonbinding we are also hearing that they were saying hey, no we really don't want the americans to leave. the iranians, of course, invaded their sovereign airspace. it will be interesting to see what the iraqis have to say. >> steve: absolutely. brian: scott taylor. ainsley: thank you. steve: straight ahead as we follow the breaking news out of the middle east. on tap final hour today. newt gingrich, karl rove and joey jones and you. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ m is completely different. unlike most other cold medicines, zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. i am a zifan for zicam! oral or nasal. ...

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move past the pain of psoriasis. >> overnight iran retaliate against the u.s. , over there about 7:00 here eastern time, and pushing 15 ballistic missile s into iraq targeting the u.s. military and coalition forces at two separate bases. no u.s. casualties to report or no u.s. service members were hurt. ainsley: the attacks come days after the u.s. air strike killed iran's top military leader, general soleimani and president trump is going to address the nation at some point this morning. >> steve: we have live team coverage as you can see on the big screen, we've got kristin fisher live at the white house with what we expect to hear from the president later today, griff jenkins is live on capitol hill, with reaction from lawmakers, but first we start with trey yin

gst live from baghdad with the latest on the attacks because it was the country of iraq that iran fired on. trey? reporter: brian, ainsley steve, good morning. that's right overnight 15 ballistic missiles were fired from iranian territory towards a military base in western iraq that does house american forces. according to u.s. officials, ten of those missiles hit their target, four failed and one land ed in the northern iraqi city of erbil. reports do indicate iran verbal ly informed the iraqis ahead of the strikes and we are getting reaction today in baghdad where the iraqi government called this a violation of their countries sovereignty. they also notified finland, who likely notified u.s. forces. here in baghdad overnight we saw extensive helicopter and fighter jet activity, a lot of military movement, but no strikes near the bases around baghdad. there is concern today that the response isn't over, many iranian-backed iraqi she a malitia do operate and may

target u.s. troops. iran foreign mist inner tweeted the reason this base was target ed was because that is where the drone strike took off from that ultimately killed iran 's top military general qassem soleimani, and i do want you to take a listen to a sound bite from iran's supreme leader, because despite the confirmation of no casualties last night the iranians are not unexpectedly claiming victory. >> well last night, these military actions are not enough. what is important is that the corrupt presence of america in this region comes to an end. reporter: there is concern that the iranian response is not over , or it could be conducted further by those i iranian- backed iraqi she a malitia groups and this made a number of airlines normally that flies to baghdad cancel their flights this includes major airlines so there are no flights

for major iron lines to get in or out of baghdad, additionally, the federal aviation administration has blocked off a lot of the air space over iran and iraq out of concern that civilian planes could be mistaken for military aircraft and shot out of the sky. brian, ainsley? >> brian: trey, is it your assessment that that's the iranian official response to us, but this hezbollah faction and these other terror groups, would they act without a go sign from iran, because they had their leaders hit too. reporter: well i think what you're going to see in the days to come are actions by these iranian-backed iraqi she a a malitia groups and it allows the iranians to say it wasn't directly us and oftentimes there will be an attack on an iraqi military base that houses u.s. troops like the one that we saw that left one american contractor dead and four service members injured. the iranians aren't taking

response about for those but we do know they are funding and organizing these malitia not only here in iraq but across the region in places like gaza, lebanon and syria so the concern for american personnel is that we could see these types of one- off rocket attacks, or other sorts of targeting in the region , and iran might try to say that it wasn't them in an effort to continue this information battle, and as for now though the iranian response from tehran does appear to be over, but let's underscore this here. what we saw overnight was a severe escalation to what the iranians have been doing in the region firing ballistic missiles from their own country into iraqi territory towards that american-linked military base in western iraq. and a much larger attack than we have seen in the region over the past year amid heightened iranian provocative action. thank you. kristin fisher joins us now live outside of the white house. kristin any word on when the president is going to speak this morning? reporter: nothing yet we're still waiting to find out exactly when president trump is going to address the nation, later this morning, and what

exactly he's going to say. is he going to choose to escalate the situation even further with talk of even more retaliation, or will he choose to deescalate and perhaps offer iran some sort of diplomatic off ramp from the hostilities here. so far the only public statement that president trump has made since the attack started last night was a tweet which he put out, after it was over. he said, "alls well, missiled lawned from iran, at two military bases, assessment of casualties and damages taking place, so far so good we have the most powerful and well- equipped military anywhere in the world by far. shortly after iran fired 15 missiles at two bases in iraq housing u.s. troops president trump huddled at the white house with the secretary of state, and secretary of defense, and earlier in the day, both of them held press conferences, warning iran about the u.s.' commitment and capabilities. >> the united states is not seeking a war with iran but we

are prepared to finish one. we are seeking a diplomatic solution, but first this will require iran to deescalate, we're prepared for any contingency and respond appropriately to whatever they do. reporter: now iran did not kill or injure any u.s. troops in the attack last night but remember just a few days ago president trump said that the u.s. will likely retaliate, even if i ran only targets american assets in the region, and last night's attacks certainly qualifies as that. brian, ainsley and steve? >> steve: we'll see what the president says. now let's take newt gingrich live. your reaction to what we saw happen as iran fired off missile s toward iraq, a half an hour before dawn there in that region? >> well i think it was almost a public relations gesture.

i think they believe they have to look tough. they just lost their most important and most powerful general. they had to do something. what they did was very carefully calculated, i assume that they deliberately avoided killing americans, and basically had a show of a demonstration of force without any immediate human consequence. so they left it up to the president. he can play it either way and say look, no americans were killed, therefore i don't need to retaliate, or he can say, you know, you fire these missiles and i said if you did that i'm going to retaliate but i don't think they moved in a way which forces us to retaliate, but i want to make a deeper point. the iranian dictatorship has been a war with the united states at least since november of 1979. they have engaged in action after action after action. there have been 52 different court decisions in the u.s..

they found them guilty of terrorism killing americans. they have a long record of trying to kill us. their most recent statements today they want to drive us out of the region. we have to have a long term strategy that recognizes this is a regime which is dedicated to creating an anti-american movement and which is dedicated to driving us out of the middle east. they just said so again this morning. they did. >> so whatever happens on the daily news isn't the big deal. what happens is do we design a strategy that actually changes the regime, or do we play games this week and then three months from now, they do something horrible and we play games for two weeks and then they do something horrible. that's what the record has been. they get away with an amazing number of things including court findings and 9/11 commission findings that they directly help ed the people who attacked us on 9/11 and killed 3,000

people. brian: listen they have no friends and here is the other question to consider. do we say iran is iran. we won't do regime change the country is too big and it's too diverse. it's not going to happen but do we say okay, should we just allow iran to have this iron grip on i rank, or do we say with a place holder of a prime minister, allow iraqis to cover to have a fair election, like they had after the surge? well i think first of all, i think we want the fair election in iraq and want to help the iraqi people continue to move towards self-government and the demonstrations have been going on in iraq have been demonstrations in favor of an honest government and in favor of honest elections, but i don't think he should assume that iran is too big to have regime change , when the soviet union was pretty darn big, and the soviet union collapsed. the iranian dictatorship is not popular. they can't deliver better food.

they can't deliver better gasoline. they can't deliver better housing. they can't deliver better jobs, and i think the average iranian is a little tired of watching all their money go for overseas terrorism just to make them happy, so i wouldn't assume automatically that this is a stable dictatorship and that we have to passively assume that for the next 20 or 30 years, they get to hit us three or four times a year, we get to retaliate, but the game is just going to go on as a game. i don't think that's acceptable to the american people, and i don't think that it's in the long run is very good for the middle east. >> steve: newt, after the united states took out the general last week, the president simply tweeted the american flag just an hour or two ago apparently a high-ranking official in iran responded to the hit last night, by simply posting the iranian flag. so, it looks as if they are trying to equate themselves with what the president did.

>> well they would like to but i'd just remind you that back in 1988 when the iranians took on reagan in one swift action, we took out half the iranian navy to send them a signal so we have a lot of assets. president trump is exactly right we have the assets to do a lot of different things to them if we want to, and if they force us to, but i don't think we should think about it as a tit-for-tat kind of game. i think we should think seriously about how long they have been at war with us, listen to what they say, as recently as today, when they say their goal is to drive us out of the region , and recognize that we had better develop a strategy that ultimately defeats the iranian dictatorship and allows them to stay in power if they accept american terms or ultimately over time replaces them. ainsley: do you think that'll happen? they yell "death to america" and want to wipe israel off the face of the earth and nancy pelosi, i want you to respond, she says we're closely monitoring the

situation following bombings targeting u.s. troops in iraq. we must ensure the safety of our service members including ending need less provocations, from the administration and demanding that iran cease violence. america and world cannot afford war. your reaction? >> well first of all the iranians are at war with us. they have been at war with us for 40 years, and for everybody who worries about soleimani, i wish they had worried about the 700 machines that were killed, the thousands that were maimed, the tens of thousands of syrians and others that were killed because of soleimani. i mean, somehow it's only when we kill one of them that we're supposed to worry about all of this. i think that maybe we should have a balanced view of this. this was a bad man doing bad things, killing a lot of people, and enjoying it, becoming famous as a charasmatic leader back home because he killed so many people. now, nancy pelosi didn't seem to notice that, apparently view

president biden didn't seem to notice that, certainly president obama didn't notice it, and john kerry didn't notice it, and there is this blindness, they get to kill us and we don't do much, we kill one of them, we start ringing our hands and if you're a liberal democrat you worry about us. if we take out a bad guy, you don't seem to worry about the bad guy if he's killing americans. >> good point. >> brian: newt gingrich thank you so much. gillian is here to tell us what else is happening. >> good morning let's begin with a fox news alert because ukraine's government changes its statement about the deadly plane crash that killed 176 people just hours after iran launched missiles into iraq. take a look at this new video showing fiery debris moments after the ukraine yankees international airlines plane went down in tehran. ukraine's embassy originally blamed engine failure and not terrorism; however, the country 's new statement does not mention a cause. iran officials say they will not

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a foreign military advisor to the house armed services committee joining us from d.c. rebecca good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: so the president of the united states ordered hit on general soleimani, took him out and last night in response, all we got from the iranians you say was a fireworks show. reporter: well yeah, so first of all there's two things to keep in mind about the killing of soleimani and president trump's decision to do so. one, it's a tactical victory for us because soleimani was the one who was orchestrating all of these malitia attacks at the head of the iranian government but two it had a larger strategic effect. for decades the united states government, this is republican and democratic administrations pretended as though we didn't recognize it was the iranian government behind all of these malitias and we sort of had this agreement that we would let them continue these a symmetric attacks against the united states and not hold the regime accountable. president trump blew the top off that, by taking out soleimani, which puts the united states in a much better position to try to

get iran checked again and stop a lot of this violence that has continued. and as a result, there was risk to it. house is the iranian regime going to respond, and they responded by intentionally missing americans to kill americans -- >> steve: they did that on purpose, you're saying? reporter: i believe that they have. i think that it is a mistake to look at what happened and believe that the iranians missile force is incapable of hitting its intended target or taking out lives. if you remember back in september, the iranians were the ones that were responsible for attacking the saudi oil fields and they used cruise missiles and drones, and they conducted a highly sophisticated hybrid attack against the facilities, so i think that what we should learn from this and remember, the reason that they have invested so much in the largest and most diverse missile force in the middle east is because their air force can't compete with ours, and so they've done that to hold us at risk so i think that it's wrong

to mock the iranians at this point to say their missile force is incapable. i think it's highly capable but i think they just went right up to the line and weren't willing to take out any facilities or to harm americans in this particular retaliatory response. >> brian: what would you look to be the response today from us where would you hope our response would be and what do you think their response would be? >> well i think clearly i think that president's decision to take out soleimani is a victory. i think it has large consequences for how the united states proceeds in the middle east. i think we should take that victory. i think it's clear the iranians are unwilling to escalate this further. they don't want american military response on iranian soil, and so we should have let things be as they lied. don't escalate it and the other thing i'd say is i would hope president trump doesn't make that mistake that president obama made called them the jv team. this is not a time to mock the iranian regime. they are claiming all kinds of

propaganda, telling people that they killed americans in this particular instance. they are going to try to claim all these victories internally. i would not use this as an opportunity to mock. i would just warn the iranians again, don't kill americans, don't harm our interests in the region, and look for an opportunity to act like and behave like a normal country rather than creating all of this havoc and harm throughout the middle east. ainsley: rebecca thank you for joining us. >> brian: interesting. 23 minutes after the hour. what happens if i ran strikes in the united states? are they capable. a former cia officer says they with launch an assault unlike any other. he will join us next. david: "life is complicated.

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bombings last night. stock futures by the way are mixed hours after iran targeted u.s. troops in iraq with missile s and oil is pretty stable. ainsley: oil prices now stabilizing like brian just said after fears of a major conflict in the middle east. >> steve: jeff flock from fox business is live at the chicago merchantile exchange to preview the trading day. jeff, right after the hit, the price of oil went up about 4-5%. its gone down but the big question now is will the shifts bring the oil to the world essentially be safe traveling the straight of hormuz. >> well i don't know the answer to that, steve but i'll tell you what the markets think they know the answer to and that is that they will be safe. not only has oil stabilized i'm looking at the latest number, oil is now down almost $1 from where it was yesterday, and after that huge spike. we got over $65 a barrel yesterday, we're now at 61.82

and this is unthinkable five years ago when we were not such a huge oil producer, and now we are in some ways insulated more so than we were in the past from shocks from the middle east, but i've got to tell you, not only oil, we know gold is down as well, this is the market speaking loud and clear that they think the markets think we're done here and it's going to be deescalation from here on in those ships that transport oil will be safe, the separates won't be bombed or closed. markets speaking loud and clear and whether that's true or not i don't know these guys have a lot of money riding on the line and that's what they think. >> steve: jeff a lot of people thought the spot market with oil would be worse. it's kind of a head scratcher isn't it? >> well it is and some of it is the fact now that we are such a huge oil producer that we are

insulated. i mean, if this had happened five years ago we would have been over $100 a barrel and see a huge increases at the gas pump that's just not the case but i do think the market is thinking that we are past the crisis point for the moment. ainsley: thank you, jeff. >> brian: ten years ago the market was crashing too so it would have been a real disaster. ainsley: it's 8:30 on the east coast. we're expecting the president to be speaking this morning. iran's foreign minister says the attack was self-defense and the country does not want a war. >> brian: our next guest warns it better be the case vowing they will be blown if they come close to striking the u.s.. former cia officer brian dean wr ight joins us so brian you believe there's some degree of sleeper cells here and they could choose to rise up because the iranians say they have 100 different targets. could we actually be one of them here? >> the short answer, brother, is yes, right? so we have both good and bad news on this so let's start with

the bad news. there are unquestionably sleeper cells in the united states operated, directed by iran. we know they usually operate in one to two or three individuals, normally men, almost exclusively lebanese or iranian descent. the cia and the fbi have long- had a pulse on this threat. we have monitored it, investigated it, on occasion, arrested individuals, perhaps doubled a few of these folks back at iran so we know that the risk is there so that's the bad news that's real. the other deep concern is that we have to be right 100% of the time to mitigate these individuals, find this threat and unfortunately we're not going to be able to do that so the threat is real. we are going to unfortunately probably miss a handful of these folks who come in so that's the bad news. the good news is that because we have been investigating this threat for so long, we know most of them and most importantly, we know and we have indeed told the

iranian government that we know what they are up to and that we will strike back and if in fact they ever think about it, it will be a new 9/11, irrespective of the amount of damage that happens in this country, we will respond and leave that patient and if there's a single leader left walking around iran we will hunt them down ourselves and the other piece and i think this is so important for american people to understand. president trump what he did by killing soleimani, the fancy folks of washington will talk about the new found we've deterred them and he punched the iranians so hard in the mouth, knocked them out and put teeth down into their throat so what's important now is the iranians want to strike back they know we will take a disproportionate attack against them so they harm the head of us somewhere, we are going to respond more than they have ever thought the united states would before. that is powerful. that is important, and the american people should sleep much much easier knowing that we have somebody in the white house who is willing to take that kind of a step.

>> steve: coming from you a former cia guy that means a lot but when you are talking about sleeper cells who could be in this country, brian dean, it would be one thing after essentially the fireworks show as it was described earlier in this hour happened last night, where they didn't kill any americans, would be one thing if i ran activated the sleeper cell s but it's the sleeper cells who are here who are going, do you know what? on my own, i'm going to do this, and that would be a disaster for iran. >> and then some. look i think the supreme leader and the new force leader are both reflecting very deeply on what kind of thing they have setup for themselves so if they have a rogue individual who just decides on their own to enact on the horrific attacks irrespective of damage they are all gone and so the iranian regime is thinking real long and hard about what they've setup and they start taking the folks back into the region if they haven't fully vetted these

individuals, right? so they are nervous this morning , guarantee it. >> brian: we'll see where this leads us brian dean wright, thank you so much. ainsley: thank you. >> brian: coming up in the next 27 minutes democrats want to limit president trump's war powers, yeah that's a good idea, but joe biden had a different plan 25 years ago. someone hit play. >> my bill enumerates instances where the president may use force. first, to repent without congressional authority. ainsley: karl rove is going to sound off on the democrat hipocracy, coming up next. >> man: what's my safelite story? my truck...is my livelihood. so when my windshield cracked... the experts at safelite autoglass came right to me. >> tech: hi, i'm adrian. >> man: thanks for coming. ...with service i could trust. right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ what's the time? device: a dime is ten cents. severe cold or flu?

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as american troops and coalition forces they promised reaction within three days and they did. ainsley: democrats are already slamming the president claiming the world cannot afford war. >> steve: with all things happening in our nations capitol griff jenkins joins us live from the bureau. griff: any moment now we could hear from the president expect ing him to give us an update perhaps next steps and likely have a stern message for iran's leaders meanwhile reaction from lawmakers is pouring in not surprisingly breaking down partisan lines out on the campaign trail democrats are blasting the president. >> mr. president, you have to explain your decision and your strategy to the american people. that's your job as president, mr. president. not leader, not supreme leader. democracy runs on accountability nowhere is it more important than the power to make war and bring peace. >> steve: there was a warning from the only candidate whose

seen combat in iraq. >> it would make the iraq war look like a picnic compared to the devastation and destruction that would be caused by going to war with iran. griff: meanwhile republicans are rallying behind the president, congresswoman liz cheney had this to say earlier this morning on fox & friends. >> qassem soleimani clearly was someone who had the blood of hundreds if not thousands of american service members on his hands and i think that the president was absolutely right, in taking the action that he took against qassem soleimani. griff: so we wait to hear from the president and possibly from speaker pelosi as well because it's unclear if she still plans to vote on a war powers resolution today, which could have trouble getting support if it's seen as purely partisan in the midst of hostilities. guys? >> well there's nothing political going on in d.c. griff thank you very much for joining us live let's bring in karl rove, you know him, worked in the gwb administration joining us from austin.

carl you've seen what happened what do you think? >> well i was interested in each of the individual responses biden was sort of of course state the obvious, the president has responsibility to describe what he's donald why he's doing it that's why the president addressed the country the other day and why he addresses him today. i don't know why but when he said democracy runs on accountability, i kept thinking, america runs on dunkin'. >> [laughter] >> i don't know why i said that but think about the other reactions. bernie sanders equated the drone strike on soleimani with vladimir putin taking dissonance in russia and around the world. so soleimani is a freedom fighter. he is somebody who is standing up for the fundamental rights of liberty and freedom that they have been doing in russia so really bernie are you that out of touch? elizabeth warren was similarly weak. she said why now? why did it happen now?

in other words, the president's being impeached and he probably did this to draw attention away from it and then mayor pete, his was i'm concerned, "i'm concerned about the process. well thank you, mayor pete, we really appreciated you being process-oriented. once again, the democrats have succeeded in a moment where they would look bigger by saying this was a bad guy, but we can disagree as to whether or not it was a prudent or wise action but the president did what he thought was necessary, to protect our country. no they've got to turn this into a complete political tribal moment and respond negatively and make the entire democratic party look weak. one of the strengths the president had was i'm going to be strong, i'm going to have a strong military, we're going to be respected, our allies are going to respect us and know we're reliable and our adversaries are going to fear us and the democrats are like san francisco democrats all over again in the mid 1980s, we're weak, we're ringing our hands, oh, terrible woes me, the president is taking actions that

could put us at risk. we were at risk, because soleimani was determined to expel us from the region. ainsley: so joe biden, he's been saying that to the president, you have to explain your strategy to the american people. that is your job as president, but back in 1995, listen to what he said. >> one fundamental weakness of the war powers resolution is that it fails to acknowledge powers that most scholars agree are inherent presidential powers my legislation corrects this deficiency. my bill enumerates instances where the president may use force. first, to repent without congressional authority at the outset. first, to repel attack on u.s. territory or u.s. forces, to retaliate against specific acts of terrorism. ainsley: what do you make of that? this hipocracy? >> well look, fond on the

democratic side has made the argument. i'd like them to make it, that this was an ill-legitimate illegal act. it's not. the president had the authority under longstanding precedent and under law to take an action to keep attacks from being made on americans and the administration has argued and they briefed congress on this that there were imminent attacks being mounted, and look in the last couple of weeks what is it now a dozen attacks on americans in iraq, including an attempt to storm the u.s. embassy? clearly being orchestrated by soleimani, there was, he was not stopping, he was not traveling and out of syria, and iraq and outside of iran. he has since 2007 been under a u.n. travel ban and yet he was so full of himself that he thought he had violated that for 12 years, he could continue to violate it and clearly, he was

active in plotting the assault on the u.s. embassy and the administration apparently had further information about additional attacks he was planning. >> everyone has a right to their opinion but when people actually made decisions for eight years that led us to this point, that allowed the russians back into the middle east, it didn't reinforce a red line, the pull whole hog out of a country and left it to iran, those are the last people that should be saying what did you do? we gave you a peaceful middle east. >> yeah, look joe biden was one of the prime supporters of the iranian nuclear deal which delivered $150 billion, much of it ended up in the hands of the kuds force at the direction of soleimani that money was spent to keep together a vast network, of proxy fighters in the middle east to attack israel, to attack america's friends and americans who expel us all in the name of a radical islamic ideology. and yet, we're supposed to sort of say oh, my god, let's ring our hands, soleimani, well this is a bad, you know, this is a

bad move on the united states part because people might be upset about it. well that guy killed people. lots of people, and many of them were americans, many of them is co-religion and many neighbors and many iranians. he was not a very, you know, we have these big demonstrations around his marterdom in iran but remember that's the revolutionary guard. contrast that with the pictures of the dissonance and the protesters in weeks past, who are protesting against the regime where he was the number two guy and they didn't have the financial resources of the revolutionary guard in the state -run media. those were ordinary iranians, who step forward to protest the conditions in their country, and he was the head of the revolutionary guard that killed 1,500 of them. >> shot them in cold blood and made sure they didn't show up for their family's funerals, unbelievable. karl rove thank you very much for joining us today with your analysis from austin. thank you, sir. >> and remember, america runs on dunkin'.

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latest on these attacks. reporter: good morning again this missile attack was not a surprise to u.s. authorities they fully expected bases to be targeted and took defensive actions in advance which is likely one reason why there are no u.s. casualty, but as you mentioned, iran's supreme leader still talking tough saying he slapped america in the face, and now the focus shifts back to the white house. 15 ballistic missiles fired by iran overnight, at two military bases used by u.s. forces, one hit a base in erbil in northern iraq, four missiles failed in flight and the other 10 struck a l-assad, a huge facility visit ed by the president last christmas, a base from which drone attacks are launched. military action is not enough, and the corrupt presence of the u.s. in the region should come to an end. iran's leaders say the missiles were retaliation for the target ed killing of iran's top general and warned that israel could be next if the u.s. retaliates. iranians celebrated in the streets after the attack, waving

flag, chanting "down with the usa and down with israel." israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu though says he stands with america. he supports the decision to take out the iranian general. >> president trump should be congratulated for acting swiftly , boldly, and against this -- >> [applause] >> terrorist. reporter: so israel braces and waits and the world watches to see what president trump will do next, guys. >> steve: rick leventhal joining us from a rainy jerusalem thank you very much. >> brian: one of the stations hit, the al-assad air base is home to 1,500 americans. >> steve: our next guest knows its significance, retired marine joey jones was stationed there and joins us right now. joey can you do us a favor could you just describe it, because we know that the iranians fired 10 missiles there, and didn't hit

anything apparently. it must be really big. >> al-assad is very big probably one of the largest in iraq, it's old its been there from before our invasion in 200e entire war. it was the biggest and leaved to be the safest place as matter of fact at one-time we called it camp cupcake because it was so big that it had coffee shops and gyms and even i think the air force had a dance hall there, and so it was a big installation most troops in northern iraq came into al-assad and moved out from it and i spent months in my deployment in 2007-2008. >> johnny is it possible or how would you say it could be are there places to go for cover in that air base, should you get a heads up that they are incoming? >> yeah, absolutely. so there are facilities there that we built, and facilities we inherited and then there are plans, there are strategic plans to kind of go operating

procedures if we're under alert for mortars or rockets, just a few months before i got there in 2007 it was rocketed. we found they had a plan to mortar it while i was there. there's an air base there, and so a flight line, a big area of land with a fence on the other side, so really, the one thing that i thought of this is that it's also one of the bases that it would be easier for iran to get information on, to kind of know where people are stationed and positioned because we've been there for so long and we can't just change where we are because we're afraid to get mortared and so rocketing there, i don't know if the narrative that iran purposely missed is true at all, but i would say that they would have the best chance of knowing where they're their target is on al-assad simply because its been around so long and so many people have been on and off to include local nation alls. answer were our thoughts and prayers are with our servicemen, just deployed to that area i know there has to be fear.

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fox news channel later today. >> likely live, we are being told. but we don't know what time. >> i do know this, you can watch bill hemmer and sandra smith or run over to the radio, or don't forget about fox nation after the show. >> bill: thank you, good morning. fox news alert now. as we mentioned, waiting to hear from the president. will he say the morning after iran strikes back? here was the scene at one of the two bases hit overnight. so, tehran firing more than a dozen missiles that two iraqi military bases, which house american troops. now the commander in chief is set to address the nation for the first time publicly. good morning, everybody. we said it was an important day yesterday. it's even more so today. hello, i'm bill hemmer live here in new york city. centerd