something back. that used to be my out for new year's resolution. >> dana: also everybody here call me out. my posture. i talk about it but i always need to work on it, too. thanks, everyone. have a good weekend. here is harris. >> harris: pressure to impeach new york governor andrew cuomo is now officially on. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". republicans in the new york state assembly are calling for an impeachment commission to gather facts and evidence on governor cuomo's handling of subsequent cover-up of the covid-19 crisis in nursing homes. but even some state democrats have pushed to roll back his emergency powers during the pandemic and republican new york congressman tom reid says his nursing home covid death

scandal is just the beginning. >> you have obstruction of justice, perjury charges. so many different levels of federal corruption here that need to be brought against the governor as well as his second in command and others. this is just the tip of the iceberg. >> harris: also in focus this hour a water and now food crisis in texas. the state's agricultural commissioner joins me on the challenges in recovering from this week's massive storm. plus 30,000 asylum seekers are being allowed back into the united states after the biden administration rolled back another trump immigration policy. we're live at the border. and i'll talk with big tech censorship with the interim ceo of parler. it is back online. first let's get to our top story. new york state assembly republican leader barkley called the cuomo controversy one of the most alarming scandals we've seen in state government.

he joins me now. assemblyman, you know, i'm so curious about what the next steps are. how close are we to seeing an actual impeachment of the governor of new york? >> well, that's a good question. i don't know how close we are to impeachment. we're calling for an impeachment commission to be a bipartisan commission made up of eight members, four republicans, four democrats to investigate if there were any crimes committed by the governor with his cover-up of the nursing home deaths in new york state. they would have 60 days to investigate and give the report to the state legislature and if there is something there, the assembly can move for articles of impeachment. you need a majority vote to do that and it would go to the senate for a trial where they need 2/3 vote. i think there is enough evidence to begin this process. you have the eastern district of new york attorney looking into it and the f.b.i. and no

reason the state legislature can't begin to look into this. >> harris: you say you have enough evidence. do you have enough democrats to join you? i imagine you would need them. >> well, that's always a challenge that we have in new york. as republicans. we don't see this as a partisan issue. in new york we had 15,000 deaths in nursing homes. that's more deaths than 40 other states had in totality because of covid. these families are demanding answers. these aren't constituents of just republicans but also democrats. i do see there are some cracks in the wall and i do hope that we can have democrats join us on it. we really should be a bipartisan effort. >> harris: it's interesting because you are seeing some things burst on that side of the aisle. i know that's not part of the facts of the case necessarily but i'm wondering who kind of food does it put on the table for an impeachment push to hear democrat like ron kim say he was bullied by this governor to

change his story about what was happening? >> don't you think it's really a loss of trust between the executive branch and the legislature? especially when a democratic member gets bullied like he apparently or allegedly did. it should turn off all legislators, not just republicans. certainly my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the democrats. i would be outraged like i am. people expect me to. if i was a democrat and had the governor talk to one of my colleagues that way i would be outraged, too. it is not directly tied to this impeachment committee but it illustrates the lack of trust and the issues that the governor is now having with the legislature. >> harris: i want to get to this. "new york post" op-ed said you have heard the expression the cover-up is worse than the crime. in the case of governor cuomo the opposite might be true. imagine if former trump had done what cuomo did. we would have a third impeachment on our hands.

cuomo's actions merit his removal from office not just for the cover-up but for the actions he took that impeded our national response to the worst pandemic in american history. what is your response to that? >> well, it's a little of both of course. i think when we start off with the pandemic no one knew what to expect. people make mistakes because we've never been through this before. but this seems like a pretty big mistake. by letting covid-infected patients back into nursing homes logically you would think it would spread infections within the nursing homes. and obviously numbers seem to be bearing that out. so yes, that is a real bad policy decision apparently. i think people ought to be held accountable. but along the same rails in the duel rails certainly the cover-up is problematic. if there is a cover-up it could be criminal. i think it needs to be investigated and the families really demand answers. they want answers. i think the legislature should get answers if there is a cover-up and whether crimes

have been committed and whether it reaches the level of impeachment. >> harris: will you be pressing to look at anything other than the nursing homes at this point? you have federal government officials investigating the governor and what happened under his watch with the nursing home situation. but will you have broad enough powers for lack of a better word, scope, to look at other things to make sure that really and truly everything that could have been done during the pandemic was done? you mentioned mistakes get made but you have an opportunity now to really take a look at what happened. >> so i think maybe that would be handled outside of this impeachment commission we're proposing. this is really focused, i think, on the actual cover-up by the governor. i do think an analysis how we reacted to pandemic is necessary. new york state, besides what the governor is saying how great leadership he provided during this pandemic we have the second highest fatalities than any other state in the

country. per capita we're right up there. i any new jersey is ahead of us. 243 deaths for every 100,000 cases. it puts us so far ahead of other states. i think we need to go back and see what new york did wrong. clearly we've done something wrong during this pandemic to have such high numbers. >> harris: new york state assembly republican leader will barkley. wonderful to have you on the program as we navigate our way through a disaster for some in new york. good to see you today. >> thanks for having me on. >> harris: the biden administration's roll back of the trump remain in mexico policy begins today. some 30,000 asylum seekers will now be allowed to enter the united states until their claims are heard. the administration says this is, quote, a crucial first step to communicate our respect for human rights and human dignity, end quote. but former acting cbp commissioner mark morgan sees it this way.

>> not only have they drastically reduced ice's enforcement authorities but given those in this country illegally a roadmap. this memo created new law but tom homan said these memos have essentially created a sanctuary country. >> harris: william la jeunesse on the story for us all week in arizona, a port of entry at the u.s./mexico border, william. >> this is new mexico over there. 200 to 400 asylum speakers waiting for permission to be allowed in. administration is hoping to admit 300 migrants per day all across the entire border. you see the fence here and wonder why is there so much barbed wire? we're told migrants will use a ladder, shimmy up that and then push away the single strand of barbed wire with a 2 by 4 or

stick. this week three migrants injured themselves falling off the fence and they were angry at the border patrol because they didn't take them to the hospital and send them back to mexico. that is because the border is closed because of covid, right? because of the pandemic. in fact, this is the port of entry. normally on any given day this place would be really busy and teaming with people coming over to go shopping and so forth. this would be really busy. i will show you main street in nogales. nobody here, businesses are closed because of the pandemic, many are wondering why you are admitting people right now from a country that our own government says don't go visit there because the covid situation is so bad? people are desperate, however. want to show you some pictures from saturday. a woman was in rio grande valley. she came over and gave birth to

a child right on the banks of the ryo grand river in freezing temperatures. also at the checkpoint in texas, nine individuals were found hidden in a tractor trailer. you can see the x-ray there. finally, rescues are up almost twice as much as last year. again people are going to more remote areas, going into the mountains and getting injured and having to be rescued. senator lindsey graham is here right now and he is getting a briefing by border officials about the lifting of all these trump restrictions and he worries that there will be a run on the border and there is no replacing border security that trump had and it could backfire on president biden as he tries to put through this new immigration bill. >> if you don't change the magnets to immigration it will never stop. if you put one foot in the united states your court date is five years from now and you don't show up, people will keep coming by the thousands, the

hundreds of thousands. >> of course this issue won't go away any time soon, harris. people here in nogales and the border towns would like to get back to normal. >> harris: quickly i'm thinking about texas right now and what they are going through because, you know, nogales, all these areas where people can get in and now they won't have the worry about the barbed wire but they're facing a crisis in texas now. it starts today as you said. great reporting. william la jeunesse, thank you. >> you bet. >> harris: the media are shredding texas senator ted cruz for traveling to mexico in the middle of a crisis. has the coverage been fair? ari fleischer will join me. plus this. >> everybody has been sitting in the car trying to stay warm, charging up their phones.

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>> harris: the lights are starting to come back on in the state of texas for so many. the situation remains terribly dire. nearly half the state's population is under a boil

water order advisory because of frozen or busted pipes and there are urgent concerns about the supply of food with many grocery stores unable to restock. ceo of the agency that manages the power grid says texas just barely avoided a catastrophic blackout. >> one that needed to be addressed immediately and that's what the operators did. so i think if we hadn't taken action it wouldn't have been we would have waited a few days and saw what happened. it was seconds and minutes given the amount of generation that was coming off the system. >> harris: casey stiegel is live for us in dallas. casey. >> harris, more than 14 million people is what that translates to currently under mandatory boil water advisories. we're talking about the cities of houston, austin, san antonio. houston's will last through at least monday according to the mayor as frozen pipes and

equipment thaw out. people have been lining up for water, distribution sites like this one are set up and people are flocking to get bottled water. the water woes impacting we should tell you major texas hospitals. one in austin, for example, uses water to make heat. when the pipes froze they had to transport patients to nearby facilities. many have postponed non-critical surgeries as the number of people streaming into emergency rooms has gone up. >> we're starting to see some more and more hip fractures, broken bones and hard to discharge people from the hospital. >> the massive winter storm that smacked texas doing the same to parts of the central u.s., the east, northeast. snow blanketed the city of baltimore and they are expecting more today along with freezing rain and difficult travel conditions around cape cod, new hampshire, connecticut, nearly all of new

england as this wintry blast continues for that part of the country. the bit of good news in texas, the temperatures are expected to finally start getting above freezing today and tomorrow. you can see the sun is out today. the first we've seen really in a couple of days. but harris, the food situation just dire on the ground here. people lining up at food pantrys, store shelves many are barren adding to the suffering and misery here. >> harris: i really want to get into that and i will now. thank you, casey stiegel. 14 million people under a boil order. that's one half of the story. the other is the food. texas agricultural commissioner sid miller joins me now. he is joining by phone and we're fortunate to have him at all with the situation of communications in texas right now. commissioner, let me start with you have issued a red alert on the food supply chain. what is that and why did you

feel it was necessary? >> well, i issued that several days ago because all of our ag processors can't process their product. we're dumping $8 million of milk every day in texas because the power is off at the milk processing plant. there is no natural gas. they aren't going to get any until next tuesday. it will be a long time before we're out of the woods on this. they need gas to pasteurize the milk and same thing in the poultry industry. baby chicks, they freeze to death. the eggs won't hatch and running out of feed for our livestock. an animal issue. we have dairies running out of feed, poultry houses, feed lots, equine people no feed because i asked early on sent a letter to the governor to move the agriculture processors up

on the priority list so we could get food and get it into the grocery stores. crickets. i haven't heard one word back from the governor. we have empty store shelves that happened just like i predicted. we have -- this is covid all over again. so, you know, we need to get rolling here and just because it will thaw out today but it will be a while before we can get the stores restocked. >> harris: commissioner miller you have given us a lot of information there and i do know that governor abbott was on the phone just yesterday with the president of the united states and they were getting some fema on the ground and that sort of thing. i grew up military. this seems like a situation where they need to do some drops from the sky and i know the roads have been bad. the ice will thaw and need to get refrigerator trucks in there. there is a way to do this. what is the conversation like to get you to tuesday? >> well, we're doing all of that.

i have my agriculture inspectors now trying to make deliveries to area food banks. food banks, to food pantries. we're delivering firewood, diesel, propane to rural hospitals. we're doing everything we possibly can. we aren't sitting around waiting for someone to come bail us out. we're working hard on that. we've got a major problem here. us republicans run the state and we dropped the ball on this one. starts with the governor. the buck stops there. he appoints the pec, they appoint the ercot. the energy reliable council of texas. they all should be fired. they didn't contract for any extra power knowing we had the tremendous cold spell coming and okayed raising the price of energy on our consumers. farmers, everything is backed up in the supply chain and receive record low prices again and consumers will pay record

high prices when they can least afford it during the pandemic during this record freeze. i'm a little frustrated if you can't see me, but somebody's heads need to roll on this one. >> harris: i hear you, commissioner miller. these are things that were talked about. this didn't just happen. the food insecurity you're facing right now. those people who didn't have any food to go bad in their refrigerators when the lights went out. you're up against that, too. we don't talk about this much. maybe a little in the pandemic. i don't think we talk about it enough how close to the brink people are financially and personally. something like this doesn't just -- it is not just a food shortage, it is no food for them because they may be in an area where they can't get to even a store line to stand in. we showed videos of the lines. it is cold outside and hard to stand outside in a line that long for food that might not

even be heatable. you have given us new information and where the systems broke down. what is the plan after tuesday? are you going to -- will they hold hearings? seriously want to know how you don't get back to this spot. >> well, of course we have to make some wholesale changes. the legislature is going to -- they're in session and they will meet and hold hearings. out here in the country we have a saying for that. you are a day late and a dollar short, buddy. doesn't do us any good now. we should have done this ahead of time. not in hindsight. we've got to do a better job in texas. we've been through this before back in the 80s. i remember when we had one lasted three weeks. about a week into this one. we didn't have any problem. we had plenty of gas power, the power plant, coal powered plants, nuclear. we didn't have any wind turbines and solar either. we need to look at how we supply our grid.

this is a mess that should have been avoided. >> harris: commissioner, sid miller, you are on the screen by picture only but your voice is loud and clear and we'll have you back to check in on the situation across your great state. thank you so very much for being with me today. >> thank you, harris. god bless. we'll get through this. we're tough down here. >> harris: i know you are. wow. that was a lot of truth. that was a lot of information. my team has some calls to make and we're on it. the media is being accused of giving new york governor andrew cuomo a pass on his recent scandal. has the press gone easy on him? and are new yorkers paying the price? and there is this. >> as i was heading down there, you know, i started to have second thoughts almost immediately because the crisis here in texas, you need to be here on the ground.

>> harris: senator ted cruz taking a lot of heat for his trip to mexico while millions of texans were cold and in the dark. has there been too much focus on what he did and not enough on the people in a state who really need help like the story we heard from the commissioner of texas about food shortages? how about putting some light on that? former press secretary ari fleischer is next.

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>> we lost power for two days. our house was dark and we had no heat. our daughters asked can we take a trip and go somewhere warm? we said sure. i had thought to stay through the weekend and work remotely but heading down i had second thoughts almost immediately. the crisis here in texas, you need to be here on the ground.

>> harris: that's texas senator ted cruz expressing regret after taking his family to cancun, mexico during the state's energy christs happening now. many in the media are treating this as their top stories. far more than on the tragic new york nursing home covid death scandal with so many in texas suffering should the focus really be on those texans still without power and safe drinking water? as you learned moments ago food shortages of epic proportions. ari fleischer joins me now. former white house press secretary and fox news contributor. let's hit the media coverage aspect of this and get your top line thoughts. >> it is a legitimate story. i don't think it is this newsworthy. i think it should be noted but the way they're dwelling on it strikes me if it wasn't senator ted cruz or republican

particularly they would put much less attention if it was a democrat and officials who doesn't have responsibilities for running a state and getting a state back up. >> harris: that's interesting. critics like sean hannity called out the president joe biden for his apparent lack of leadership. i'll watch and get your reaction. >> by the way, where is our commander-in-chief, the new guy? that's right. the morning he decided to take a snow day. the guy ultimately in charge of fema and all the country's emergency resources and federal agencies, yeah, he took a day off in the middle of this natural disaster. where is the feign, phony, selective liberal outrage on this? >> harris: i'll get your reaction and i want the back up some folks. >> sean has a point there.

typically the agencies kick in and do it on their own they don't need the president's involvement other than to sign a declaration of emergency relief. so this is how criticism works. the rules for politicians are totally different than the rules for normal parents. parents can do what they want. politicians can't. that's just the way it is. >> harris: wow. we do want to consider the fact that 3 1/2 million texans are still without power coming out of the weekend. the biden administration did approve a federal emergency declaration in texas. that was on sunday. the situation is much more dire now, though. i want to turn to this. the top republican on the new york state assembly joined me just moments ago. i'm sure you saw it. it was on his push to impeach governor cuomo. here is part of what he say, ari. >> that is a real bad policy decision apparently. i think people ought to be held accountable but along the same rails, you know, in the dual

rails the cover-up is problematic. if there is a cover-up it could be criminal and needs to be investigated and the families demand and want answers. >> harris: let me get to this, too. op-ed in the "new york post" is contrasting media coverage between president trump and the governor and how it all relates to it. here it is the quote. cuomo's darker qualities, the kind so often attributed to president trump may have escaped ordinary new yorker's notice because the press closes it eyes to them. cuomo's top aide admitted his staff withheld information for fear it might be used against them in a federal probe. it has critics calling for cuomo's impeachment. trump has already been impeached twice. ari. >> first i'm always reluctant to accuse somebody of criminal behavior unless you have the goods. i don't know if it's criminal or not. the more important statement is the families deserve answers. that's a fact.

i'm a new yorker, he is my governor. when you say families deserve answers. all those families who had or have relatives in nursing homes they want to know was a mistake made when the governor said put people with covid back in the nursing homes. the attorney general accused him of it distorted the statistics. he is getting coverage of it. not near the proportion he would have if he was a republican governor. it is starting to break through in other media. >> harris: ari fleischer great to have you on the program. thank you very much. security measures around capitol hill including the national guard could be in place for much of the year. some estimates even beyond that. but is there a credible threat to justify taxpayers paying for all of this? and growing outrage over what

you are about to see. >> you are going to call me out i'll -- you up. that's just me. >> they want their babysitters back. >> harris: those are members of a california school board appearing to go after parents when they thought nobody was listening. how parents are reacting as frustration is building over schools shut down. stay with us.

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>> we have the meeting open to the public right now. >> that's what lori just said. >> great. >> harris: oh, really? you didn't know it was on? listen to what one parent told our laura ingraham. >> we thought they had our back. we thought they were advocates as much as we were for our children. and after yesterday's comment and jokes and laughing and just genuine insincerity it really makes me question what their true motives are. i don't know. i don't know. >> harris: power panel now. mercedes schlapp and former white house advisor for strategic communications, chris hahn for the progressive bod cast and former aide to chuck schumer. you have five kids, mercedes. >> i have to tell you, as all

of us as parents have dealt with the frustration of the school systems and what has happened in terms of so many of our kids having to deal with virtual learning and then on top of that you have these parents who feel betrayed. betrayed by this board of trustee member and president who made these horrific comments and quite frankly they should resign. >> wow, chris, i don't want my children near anybody dumb enough not to know you can output on webex and zoom or whatever and make a mistake like that. so many people have been fired from their jobs. how could you not know it's on? >> yeah, it is unfortunate and i agree with mercedes they shouldn't be on a school board talking like that during a public meeting or talk about constituents like that, frankly. i think it should be the job of every school board member and every person involved in education to get our kids back

in school. i'm fortunate to have my child attending school full-time since september. our school board here worked it out with the teachers and figured out a way to get them there and that should be the goal of every american and every school should be doing that. >> harris: can i double down with you, chris? it has been interesting to watch the current president do a dance to get schools reopened. again today, you know, is the notion that the push is on but the evidence isn't there to give teachers vaccinations. what is the dance they're doing with the teachers unions? >> i don't think this president is doing a dance with the teachers union. i believe it is his goal to get schools open. he is using science and facts. the former guy just told people to open schools and had no plan for it either. the biden administration is working with the cdc and others to try to -- >> harris: i hear you but we're seeing this in motion.

>> you keep saying that, chris. that's not accurate. the president was working closely with the governors to figure out a way to work with the department of education to put guidelines in place to insure we can open our schools safely and responsibly as we know it is usually that bottom up approach where you have the local school districts working to try to figure it out. what they need to do. the problem here is the fact that biden is beholding to the teachers unions. that's who he has been listening to. those are the unions who have given money to the biden administration. this is about politics, not science and when you have seen biden move the goalpost several times. you had his press secretary say in 100 days they will achieve only 50% of the schools open. >> i know how -- >> biden changed that narrative. then she said no we won't open

the schools during the summer. all of a sudden the president said yes, actually me might extend and have to open schools in the summer. what is hurtful for biden is his attachment to the teachers union and the fact is our kids need to go back to school in person because we have seen the horrific mental health impact on our children and that needs to stop. >> and i agree kids need to go back to school asap. i know how attractive it is to people on the right to find a new bogey man to try to place the blame on. they think it's the teachers union. it is the virus and the fact the former guy couldn't get the virus under control and the current president has a plan to do that and vaccinating two million americans a day working with the states and coming up with real guidelines to get things going here. that's what will change america.

that's what get schools opening. >> harris: i will toss in a couple of facts, okay? we had almost a million shots in arms with the former president so we clearly had a vaccine. we weren't starting from scratch. the teachers, science does not show the teachers need to get the vaccinations before they get back into the classroom. the current president and his administration have been at odds on that issue. don't take my word for it. read about it. it is all over the place. as mercedes outlined for you, it is the contention with the teachers unions at the heart of it. not the teachers themselves but the unions. we love teachers. but going back to that tape i don't know if there is mutual as they try to get things going if there is mutual love and respect. we have to run. >> we have a real strong union in new york. >> harris: we know. fox news is celebrating black history month. we'll look at the career of

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>> harris: fox news media celebrating black history month. today we profile nicholas

irving. charles watson has more. he made history in afghanistan. >> he says he didn't have a lot of options coming out of high school, joining the u.s. military was all he had and being the son of two cold war veterans it turned out to be a natural fit at 17 he enlisted and by the age of 23 he was the first african-american special operations sniper to deploy with a third ranger battalion in 2009 he was one of the most deadliest. he racked up 33 kills during his six deployments in afghanistan earning the nickname reaper. his color blindness almost derailed that. >> the first sign of destiny. not supposed to be there. you can't be in the infantry let alone a sniper being color blind. i passed the test and completed the prerequisites.

>> during one of his final missions irving along with reconnaissance team and marines found themselves at the wrong end of the barrel. he and fellow troops were pinned down as taliban fighters carried out an armed ambush. >> i blacked out and really wanted to cry looking at the p.o. with a hole in his chest. it was terrifying. we had this decision we'll pull the pin on a grenade, jump on it and kill ourselves because we didn't want to get captured. >> it would take irving more than 12 hours to escape the ambush. no one is the same after that. today in speaking to nick he says he is just happy he is able to be nick and a loving father and husband and living a natural life back in texas. back to you, harris. >> harris: wow. those pictures of his family were so beautiful. charles watson, great reporting. thank you. no likes for facebook after it

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♪ ♪ >> harris: "delete facebook" is trending on other social media after the social media giant campaigns to block a bill in australia's parliament that would force tech companies to pay for content. facebook block to news and critical government information services from the country. democratic congressman of rhode island tweeted this. "if it is not already clear, facebook is not compatible with democracy. threatening to bring an entire country to its knees as the ultimate admission of monopoly power. interim ceo of social media

platform parler is with me now. first i will get your reaction to that and then i want to talk parler. >> for a long time, facebook and twitter and other social media giants push governments around, a lot of times they cooperated with governments. i think it is time for a fresh look and a new perspective. >> harris: tell me about parler back online, what are you doing to keep it from getting canceled again? >> we are very excited to be back online, the greatest vulnerability was that we were on aws, amazon web services, that's why the site was hosted. that's who dumped us unceremoniously, i might add, in breach of contract and there is litigation around that. we are back online, we've set up an alternative technology, those technologies are redundant, we believe we are secure and have the right partners. and we are here to stay. >> harris: mark, how important is it to have a platform where people with views of all kinds can go and gather?

that's how i thought they were all supposed to work, by the way today and we all did. >> it really is how they were all supposed to work and it seems that the main free-speech platform, the public square so to speak is parler. we believe if you legally can say it in the public square, you can say it on parler. we are not going to be censoring people other than we do not illegal activity. a lot of times they are in collusion with government agencies and politicians and i think it's time for a free-speech platform, that is parler, we are the premier free speech platform, we are here to say, our users are coming back, technology is stable and secure and we expect this to be here in the long haul and we are going to be dominant in the market. >> harris: quickly, former president trumps, number 45, have you seen an interest in him joining the platform? >> i haven't had any conversations with him or his people but we will be more than thrilled to have them on the platform. we would also love to have the

current president on our platform. it is there a free-speech platform for everyone. >> harris: interim ceo of parler. they are back, thank you for joining me today and thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." it's high noon in the east, let's get to "outnumbered." we begin with a fox news alert, the biden administration facing heavy criticism after announcing it is taking the first steps towards reviving the iran nuclear deal, saying it would be willing to attend a meeting with iran and other world powers that signed the 2015 accord just after days of iranian proxies blaming, or blame to come up for a weapon attack at a u.s.-led military base in northern iraq. a civilian contractor was killed there, at least five other people were wounded including a u.s. service member. president biden spoke about iran just moments ago, watch. >>