first up let's go right to fox news peter doocy live at the white house with all the latest on the illegalmmigration catastrophe at the southern border. peter, what can you tell us? >> reporter: we can tell you governor greg abbott down in texas thinks he has a the constitution on his side. he wrote a long letter to lawmakers here. the constitution requires to protect the states on other side of u.s. border and people on the other side of u.s. border an abbott says president biden is not doing that. >> it is hard for me to tell what's going on. what is clear is that job jeep has, from the time he took office, actually during the time he was campaigning he had no intent to secure the border. he talked about open border policies during the campaign and he has allowed open border, with most americans not even knowing what that meant. >> reporter: in this letter abbott writes, the failure of the biden administration to impose the duty of article iv, section 1 as triggered article i, second 10, which reserves the to the state the self-defense. white house is uncertain on democratic calls for th

but first, to fox news peter doocy live at white house with latest on the illegal immigration catastrophe. what can you tell us. reporter: we can tell you governor greg abbott in texas thinks he has the constitution on his side here, wrote a long letter to officials, requiring president biden protect individual states and stuff on the other side of the u.s. border, people on the other side of the u.s. border and abbott said that president biden is not doing that. >> hard for me to tell what is go on. what is clear is that joe biden has from the time he took office, he -- during the time he was campaigning, he had no intents to secures border, he talked about open border policy during the campaign and now allowing it with. reporter: in in letter, abbott writes failure of biden administration to fulfill duties imposed has triggered article one extent, reserves to this state, right of civil defense. and now, white house is undecided on democratic calls for president biden to seize patr control of texas national guard. >> administration -- considering federalizing the texas national guard. >>

peter doocy is live at the white house. >> peter: these guys are protesting for peace but secret servicewhite house standing in positions like this one were not in good position. had to be moved. we are on other side of fortified fence protected on the inside and outside. some signs were complaining about and i'm going to fix my microphone. president biden strikes against houthi, mostly anti-israel. demonstrators tried to topple a temporary fence, it was a tug of war, uniformed officers on one side and anti-israel protesters on the other side. next big demonstrator could be more impactful, they are hoping to organize federal workers to walk off the job tomorrow to protest the president's support of israel. speaker johnson says any worker who walks off is ignoring their responsibility and abuzing trust of taxpayer and deserve to be fired. president biden did not hear any of it, he wakes up at camp david and going to head to philadelphia for a service event before returning in the afternoon. it would be great to get his thoughts we have not heard from him since saturday. >> brian: when you

for the great white house correspondent peter doocy. what is the latest, peter.ow is austin surviving. >> reporter: there are a couple more important details. officials will never tell us whether or not secretary austin lost consciousness as he was rushed from his house to walter reed in an ambulance on january 1st. that is week after he had what is being described as an elective surgical procedure. >> it is just that it is not something that we can speak to right. there is his own medical, it is a private thing. >> reporter: but here's the thing, the pentagon carried out an airstrike in iraq while austin was in. icu. we're told it was authorized before he went in. the centcom commander ran point january 4th. republican senator tom cotton said the secretary of defense is the key thing in the chain of command between the president and the uniformed military, including the nuclear chair command when the weight at thissest decision is needs to be made in minutes. we're called austin participated in a secure call with the president on january 1st. the day he went bac

let's go to peter doocy and listen to that question. >> peter, there's a lot to your question.ant you to bear with me for a second. first of all, at no time was the ability for the united states military to defend our national security interests compromised. no time was the commander-in-chief not always in command and control of our military forces around the world. over the course of those days, we did take military action. action that he approved. taking out a senior malitia commander in iraq with what we call a dynamic strike. we did shoot down drones and missiles because he made sure that they had the existing authorities and the capabilities and the training to do that. so he has been on top of these issues throughout. what your question gets to, i've seen the sniping out there that how effective can the process be. what you have, the national security decision making process does not require cabinet level officialings being the sole people in the room making decisions on any given day. you staff these things from the middle up and the cabinet officials, whether it's secre

bret. >> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. thanks. >> dana: former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove here to react to polls. biden versus trump voters enthusiasm. you look at that. enthusiasm for biden 18%. trump 44%. quite a disparity. biden's support among black voters was 63% today. in 2020 it was 87%. you have a similar changes for hispanic voters. biden today at 34%, trump 39%. it was 65% for biden in 2020 and trump at 32% then. it leads us to believe that you could see the new swing voters not in the suburbs necessarily but perhaps hispanics and african-americans? >> yeah, i would add to that list young voters as well. evidence they are declining. as peter doocy pointed out. 21% of them say they might vote for a third party candidate. georgia, joe biden won it by 11,799 votes. 29% of the electorate is black. if there is a 0.9 -- less than 1% decline in support among blacks in georgia joe biden loses georgia. arizona 19% of electorate is hispanic, biden won it by 1,417 votes. a 2.7% decline. today it's at 20% de

for great white house correspondent peter doocy what is the latest, how is austin surviving? reporter: there are important details they are not telling us, officials will not disclose whether or not secretary austin ever lost cop consciousness as he was rushed from his house to walter reed in an am an ambulance, on january 1st. >> it is not something that we can speak to right, this is his own medical -- it have a private thing. reporter: here is the thing pentagon carried out a airstrike in iraq while austin was in the icu, we told it was authorized before he went in. and republican senator tomctom cotton said that secretary of defense is key link in chain of commanding between the president and uniformed military. there must be consequences for this shocking break town it true. we're told austin did participate in a secure call with the president on january 1st, the day high went to the hospital for post surgical issues, but white house situation room, which needs to know where people on these calls are located, did not' exactly where he was. >> it is generic, peter, what t

larry: peter doocy challenge to credibility, we have to remember that line.ranking member of armed service committee. senator wicker thank you, sir. you probably heard that report from peter doocy, challenge to credibility? i don't get it. i worked in white house years ago. you tell me, you are the guy in senate armed services committee, what is going on here? >> well, listen, larry, it was not that long ago you worked in white house, we want you back. i'm looking forward to, that but now you are a member of -- remember this does strain cre-- we were told this was an elective procedure. i would not view prostate cancer surgery as a simple elective procedure, and when ambulance comes to get you, and this case, on the first of january, and takes you to the hospital, there are tubes running down into the abdomen, the secretary is incapacitated and public should know and stawt out shostatute should be followed. secretary of defense is a big job. >> he is also part of th chain of command. larry: i don't know how he could not exercise what i call common sense, let

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. ♪ larry: welcome back folks, we're going to washington, d.c., for the great peter doocy. y help is out, please? >> reporter: larry it is extraordinary. we're told in the white house briefing room president biden found out today the same day as the general public that his defense secretary has been getting treatment for prostate cancer. >> what happened here is the secretary of defense for whatever reason, i can't answer the question why, that information wasn't shared, wasn't shared widely in the department and certainly wasn't in the department. >> didn't know. >> it is not good. certainly not good. we want to learn from this. we want to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: and the big issue here is with transparency. the white house seems willing to accept austin's, not apology but his offer, his contrition where he is coming forward to say he should have done more to be transparent but they don't know why he waited so long to tell his boss, to tell others in the chain of command. we asked about that. why should we believe anything that this administration tel

[laughter] >> peter doocy live from the capitol of south carolina. columbia -- >> nice. look that up? >> no. i do know that one peter, thank you very much. so there's biden on the campaign trail you don't see that very often. clearly biden no, no, bidenomict worked and life is better because of things we have did and haven't explained it and that's the pivot they're trying to make. we'll see if it works. will: bring in shannon bream anchor of fox news sunday also chief legal correspondent. shannon, good morning to you. >> good morning guys by the way my hometown is a state capitol tallahassee, florida. pete: i could have gotten that one. will: we want to ask use about border -- it is border bill that somewhat bipartisan at least at this poijt there's a pushback on senator lankford from oklahoma within his own state gop. what do you think -- is driving there's a change in red rhetoric in their words to doing something about the border biden administration, why? election year? >> absolutely. polling is terrible for them and when you have your party publicly kalg you the may

>> john: jump back to the white house briefing where peter doocy is asking karine jean-pierre an immigration question. let's listen in. >> this is why the president is having negotiations with the senate, senators, republicans and democrats, right, for the past couple weeks to deal with what's going on at the border security, right, as it relates to border security. this is why the president on day one put forward a comprehensive immigration plan that more than three years now congress didn't do anything about. but he's appreciative that we are having these conversations in the senate. we have deployed additional troops and federal agents to the border who have, by the way, returned more than -- the president has diplomatic conversations with mexico, actually taken actions to deal with the situation. there's more work to do. there is more work to do. we understand that. we have said that. you've heard that from the president on friday. we understand that there's more work to do. we need more resources, need more funding, why we are having these negotiations on the hill. but republicans in th

peter doocy is live at 1600 pennsylvania with the latest. do we know why it took president biden so long to reach out and smack the houthis? >> peter: we are told president biden wanted to make sure first u.s. allies were on board with the strikes. >> this wasn't a decision we made lightly or quickly. in fact, if you go back to november, and walk your way through up until just last night, i mean, everything we have done, diplomatically and militarily, has been designed to keep the tensions down and to convince the houthis not to continue these deadly attacks. >> progressives, though, in the president's own party are steamed. ro khanna tweeting the president needs to come to congress before launching a strike against the houthis in yemen and involving us in another middle east conflict. article 1 of the constitution. also told defense secretary monitored all this in realtime from his suite at walter reed hospital and austin did put out a statement, part says the united states maintains its right to self-defense and if necessary follow-up acti

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>> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. we have a question though here. are seeing more pressure on defense secretary austin to resign. >> peter: yeah, there is some new cracks in the democratic support for the formerly missing in action lloyd austin. congressman chris da luzio, a democrat freshman from must-win pennsylvania says that he has a duty as a member on the house armed services committee to conduct oversight of the defense department and he says he thinks that duty means he should call on austin to resign. that is what he is doing. austin remains in a hospital tonight. bret? >> bret: all right. peter. thank you. former president donald trump will not make his own closing argument in his new york civil business fraud trial. comes after his lawyers objected to the judge's insistence that he stick to what the judge termed relevant matters. judge arthur incorporate i don't end deron rescindedin the trial. the trial could cost the former president hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and strip him of his ability to do business in new york sto

lieutenant general keith kellogg to assess the growing threat, alex hogan on the ground in israel, but peter doocy at the white house, as austin resumes his duties from the hospital. the white house has come clean why he was hospitalized? >> peter: they have not come clean, maybe because white house officials don't know what was going on. they were brought into this so late. >> it's just that it is not something that we can speak to right, this is his own medical -- it is a private thing. >> peter: we are told president biden would not accept secretary austin's resignation if one was offered, and this morning when i asked white house official whether or not president biden still has confidence in austin's ability to do his job told the following. yes, absolutely, the president has full trust and confidence insect austin, looking forward to him being back at the pentagon. elise stefanik wants austin to resign, she says in the chain of command, the secretary of defense serves as the connection which the president controls armed forces. our closest partner in ally is at war with terrorists, critical

peter doocy has the latest. >> peter: president biden got bailed out by mother nature today. group called feds united for peace, workers were threatening to walk out protesting president biden's continued support of israel. the federal government closed. you can't walk out of a job that is not open today. if it is rescheduled alcu s they can do that without fear of retribution. if a federal worker organizing protest, it is important to make clear per tis pants do so in their own time. there is opposing view that walking out of a federal job is illegal. >> the federal law is clear, if you are federal employee, you can't strike. brian, someone who worked in the government for more years than i care to say, no one works in the government and doesn't have any number of policies they disagree with. striking is not an option, under federal law it is a crime. >> peter: snow day in d.c. messed up people's plans. white house briefing in person was cancelled, moved to conference call and the operator from a third party vendor got the name of the star of the show called. he introduced k

. >> brian: never seen a reporter more prepared than peter doocy. peter, it is finally going to happen. >> peter: we were told by biden officials this president does not consult polls or what is popular when making policy decisionings. it is touch to understand what could be motivating this trip after a year of ignorie residen requests to come by. >> government needs to send in professionals that can teach us and let us know what we're going to deal with and plan for our future. >> their definitely is frustration and i would say rightfully so. he should be handcuffed, he's done nothing here. what would it take to visit ohio? >> peter: a decision was made after the train derailment to burn the contents of fire cars filled with toxic material. the residents returned and epa, told them it was safe. we've been told that a trip by the president to ohio was too much. >> the president said over the long weekend, he hasn't had the opportunity to go to east palestine. >> the president will go to east palestine. >> peter: he was not on a break in lake tahoe. >

let's go live to peter doocy at the white house with details. peter. >> peter: president biden says we will respond, that is from lloyd austin. he returned today. >> let me start with my outrage and sorrow for three u.s. troops in jordan and for the other troops wounded. president and i will not tolerate attack on forces and will defend u.s. and our troops. >> peter: mitcrashing h mcconnell says our enemies are embolden. they will take action on iranian sponsors. john johncornyn posts, target tehran. they are well aware they are becoming more dangerous. >> i certainly can't deny the fact there have been attacks lethal over weeks and months, which is why the president is reviewing what the appropriate response is going forward. >> peter: this is happening january 29th, and iran is ignoring the president's warnings and iran acted up over the president's first term he said united states will defend its interest and has also said the united states does not want conflict with iran. kayleigh. >> kayleigh: thank you. let's talk about president biden's r

back with me now from the white house, fox news white house correspondent peter doocy. r, i know we finally heard from the commander-in-chief. what's biden saying tonight via statement. >> peter: he is saying a lot, laura. all this information is brand new. it was president biden's order. he is telling us that the aircraft used were from the u.s. and the u.k. but that the coalition also had help from partners in australia, bahrain, canada, and the netherlands. the president is also telling us that something that happened two days ago is what ultimately was the red line is the thing that went from these attacks are a nuisance that are affecting trade to it is time to launch this huge widespread airstrike in yemen. he is saying on january 9th. houthis launched largest attack to date directly targeting american ships. i will quote the president here. he says today's defensive action follows this extensive diplomatic campaign and houthi rebels escalating attacks against commercial vessels. these targeted strikes are a clear message that the united states and our partners wil

white house correspondent peter doocy has the latest to make. od evening, peter perking president biden spoke for 24 minutes this afternoon, never mentioned immigration policy because his teams seems eager too at least try to overshadow that bad border news with good economic news. to get things are finally beginning to sink in. >> the gdp real, higher than th zero-point to protection. >> they're are some forecasters who thought possession was inevitable, president biden and i did not perking you president biden suddenly a fan of the coverage. >> my favorite is the wall street journal. >> in a statement about the biden trip to wisconsin, the rn rights according to the joint economic committee inflation ha cost the average wisconsin family $18,500 since biden took office. >> they're are certainly some indicators also in the report today that there are parts of the economy that are slowing a little bit of. >> as he read test, trump a taxpayer. >> my predecessor said he was hoping for the economy to crash. hoping for the economy to crash. can you be

i don't know if you heard of him, fox news peter doocy is live at white house with more. er. reporter: larry, joe biden is not on the ballot, he did not want to be on ballot in new hampshire, he is not. he is the president. there has not been a write in campaign like his since llisa murkowski in alaska, but biden is not even doing anything. >> write in campaigns are g difficult, what is important grassroots effort on the ground, engagement. dnc made a terrible decision to not have new hampshire go first. reporter: democrats in new hampshire that president biden is counting on to hut him first, today are mad at him. >> democrat national committee said that by mary primary is not real, that is nonsense. >> i don't care about the dnv, they will not affect what we do in future. >> some people say why should we write his name in, but he is our president. and alternative is frightening, i'm doing all that i can. jim: >> party leaders believe president biden will be busted by a big turn out. -- boosted by a big turn out. >> the secretary of state, been working closely with local

peter doocy live from columbia, south carolina, the president is traveling to rally support. >> peteruth carolina saved president biden in 2020, he was as low as primary candidates get and limped in one and hoping to use this state as a springboard for a second tomorrow. >> president biden: if i were smart, i would say thank you and leave. >> peter: he stayed with l thanks to black democratic voters. >> president biden: a promise made and promise kept. >> peter: it is believed gop nominee will be donald trump. >> i'm looking at the math and path going forward and i don't see it for nikki haley. >> haley not happy. rnc resolution was floatd and pulled this week to declare trump the party's presumptive nominee. now trump is taking incoming from haley and biden for the same thing. nikki haley was in charge of security january 6. confused these days. >> i think he was a bit confused. >> president biden: he can't telling it is difference in nancy pelosi and nikki haley. >> i feel sharper than i did 20 years ago. >> peter: trump rein mas democrat's top tarringel. preese >> president biden:

>> bret: peter doocy, live on the north lawn. ter, thanks. >> bret: iran is flush with oil money since president biden took office. islamic republic is skirting u.s. sanctions and shipping large amounts of crude to china. senior correspondent mike tobin takes a look tonight. >> when iran's navy on thursday seized the oil tanker saint nick also a in the gulf of oman it was retaliation for the u.s. seizing the very same ship months ago and offloading what was identified as smuggled iranian oil under sanction. >> provocative actions like this are a menace to the global economy and it must cease. >> the ship is one of hundreds ignoring u.s. sanctions smuggling crude and funding iran in what experts call the dark fleet or ghost armada. anywhere from 300 to 560 tankers usually old and ownership is hard to determine. they turnover transponders and lied on the open sea. they shop around for poor countries that will permit them to fly their flag for a fee. >> outside western jurisdiction and shipping sanctioned oil. >> around half of them

harris. >> harris: peter doocy, that almost goes without saying. thank you. a new op-ed torching the president on this issue. it argues biden's dereliction of his sworn duties is forcing governor abbott to take drastic measures and create a national crisis. that's what biden has done. he has divided the country. it is a crisis now in the country. in "focus" two of the 25 governors standing with texas in the fight. brian kemp of georgia and greg gee gioforte from monday monday. one after one all these governors together. did you call each other? >> i don't think we had to call each other on this one. thank you for having us on. this is a no-brainer. every state now is a border state. when you have joe biden's democratic point saying this is outrageous and out of control of the border. democratic mayors across the country saying this is outrageous and something has to be done and the republican governors, we have been standing in solidarity for well over a year, a couple years now on the disaster at the border. i've been down there four times myself. the white

>> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. ter, thanks. ♪ well, it is now on to south carolina, on the republican side as well for former president donald trump and his sole remaining serious challenger former governor nikki haley. she is vowing to stay in the race, despite a double dignity loss in the new hampshire primary last night. correspondent alexis mcadams is in manchester tonight. >> you know, we won new hampshire lee times now. three. >> it's another victory for donald trump in the first in the nation primary state. the former president. [cheers] >> beating out nikki haley who is already looking forward to south carolina, dropping two new ads just today. >> biden too old. trump, too much chaos. a rematch no one wants. >> haley's team says she has the momentum and the money to win the palmetto state telling voters trump is just too old for office. challenging him to prove his mental competency. >> he should have no problem standing on a debate stage with me. [cheers] >> and according to our fox news voter analysis, nea

white house correspondent peter doocy has the latest live from the north lawn, good evening, peter. >ite house officials will give us an exact amount of u.s. dollars that have gone to the group, but we know over the last several years, it has been hundreds of millions of dollars. >> we have suspended in the outlying or yet to be allocated funds. >> held up as the main way to get usaid into god's appearance because the work the u.s. is performing in gaza is quite literally life-saving. >> white house officials assured taxpayers that they would not be diverted to hamas by own rough. >> you can't hold them accountable for the depredations of hamas. >> as many as a dozen employees investigated for alleged involvement and they october 7th terrorist attack. the state department said the united states is troubled by the allegation that the house foreign affairs chairman not as surprised and mike mccaul there has been extensive evidence that is not a neutral arbiter but anti-israel bias is widespread and systemic beer that is why the trump administration suspended funding to unwra. the biden

peter doocy at the white house. peter? how does trump say he would deal with the situation? attention immigration-wise on trying to blow up this senate border deal, which is interesting because it is having an impact on the likelihood that this border deal becomes anything viable of passing in the senate or the house, and you hear president biden this weekend talking about this deal, that we understand has little-to-no chance of ever passing anywhere as the key to his border plan. >> if that bill in the law today i'd shutdown the border right now and fix it quickly. the bipartisan bill be good for america and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here reporter: over the weekend, texas wrote to let the administration know they are going to continue to find federal orders to stop laying razor wire across the southern border. texas attorney general ken paxton writes this office will continue to defend texas' efforts to protect its southern border against every effort by the biden administration to undermine the state's consti

us why the fed should not be juicing the economy, but first fox news white house correspondent peter doocy. reporter: well, larry, the democrats who work here at biden white house are under the same impression that democrats who work for chuck schumer capitol hill, there say spending bill with republican house speaker mike johnson, but as conservatives start to threaten to bail on johnson, that would tank that deal in the house, officials here are growing leary about the possibility of a government shut down. >> republicans need to keep their word and stop playing or any games here we cannot have a shut down, american people do not disefe deserve a shut down. >> probe president biden and speaker johnson had a found call yesterday, but president biden has not been seen doing anything since monday night, we asked karine jean-pierre. >> who decided that the american people are best served by seeing less of the president. >> i would disagree, i would say they saw less, he was out there again, a couple states in three days, i think that special to note as well. reporter: president biden is sche

peter doocy, we'll monitor all of it and you'll let us know when it starts.re on this sirius radio host and -- let's start with what we think will be a victory lap for the white house after new hampshire but they have some problems. mark penn. >> well, it is a victory lap. i think that he did very well on the last minute write in and defrock new hampshire in the end they shouldn't have done that at all and should have just -- but no question that immigration has surged as an issue. i was stunned in our national poll that we just got back a couple of days ago it was the number one issue in the country. that's not good. >> harris: i would taught us that, didn't they? that's how it was in iowa. the states are actually inside the united states so we will see some commonality there. >> look, i think the most troubling thing for democrats and joe biden has to be the fact that most democratic voters in new hampshire don't want joe biden to run again. most of them believe he is too old. they are not excited about him. not enthusiastic about him. it is as if you are s

first up we go to fox news white house correspondent peter doocy with all the latest down there. ter what can you tell us? >> reporter: larry i can tell you democrats up here at the biden white house are generally under the same impression that democrats who work for chuck schumer at capitol hill are. there is a spending bill with the republican house speaker mike johnson son but as conservatives start to threaten to bail on johnson which would tank that deal in the house, officials here are growing leery about the possibility of a government shutdown. >> republicans need to keep their word and stop playing or any games here. we cannot have a shutdown. the american people do not deserve a shutdown. that is their basic duty to keep the government open. >> reporter: president biden, speaker johnson had a phone call yesterday but president biden has not been seen doing anything since monday night when i got back from stops in south carolina and dallas. we asked karine jean-pierre about the unusually long absence? who decided that the american people are best served by seeing less of

watch our own peter doocy. take a look. >> what kind of comm commander n chief is president biden that at a time when american forces are under fire in the middle east he can go days without knowing that his defense secretary is in a hospital bed? >> peter, there's a lot to your question. so i want you to bear with me for just a second. first of all, at no time was the ability for the united states military to defend our national security interests compromised. >> sean: naturally no one has been held accountable. no one is held accountable in the biden white house. there's a crisis, especially one created by this administration. they ignore the problem. they lie repeatedly about the problem. then they stay the course, no matter what, which brings us to yet another important question from peter doocy. let's take a look at this one. >> why should we believe anything, that this administration tells us, about anything ever again? >> i think we all recognize -- and i think the pentagon has been very, very honest wit

first peter doocy live outside the white house. peter, i understand that john kirby was just speaking on air force one traveling with the president today. what have we learned from john kirby? >> so harris, it builds on what i was told first thing this morning when i asked does president biden have confidence in secretary austin? he and looking forward to him being back at the pentagon. kirby elaborated on that in the air. >> i want to make sure i put a fork in my answer to you. there is no plans for anything other than for secretary austin to stay in the job and continue in the leadership that he has been demonstrating. >> republicans want austin out. stefanik says at a dangerous time when american service members our closest partner and ally israel at war with hamas terrorists and the threat from communist china is on the rise. austin himself said he is okay and that i also understand the media concerns about transparency and i recognize i could have done a better job insuring the public was appropriately informed. i commit to doi

backt pe from the red elf fox ns correspondent peter doocy. peter, i know we heard from the commander-in-chief what is biden saying be a statement?ne >> he is saying a lot and all ou this information is brand-new. it was president biden's order. he says the aircraft used fromut the u.s. and the u.k., the coalition also had help fromther partners in australia, bahrain, canada, the netherlands. the president is also telling us something that happened two days ago is what ultimately was the red line. the thing that went from these attacks and a nuisance affectint trade to it is time to launch this huge widespread air attack in yemen. he is saying if i can go to the statement, january 9th, houthis with the largest attack to datei directly at targeting americandt ships. i will quote the president heree he says, "today's defense action poll ilss extensive diplomatic campaigns and houthi rebelsr against commercial vessels. these targeted strikes are a clear message the united states and our partners will notrs tolerate attacks on personnel o allow hos

peter doocy for us. thank you, peter.andra. >> sandra: bring in our panel, jason chaffetz, and mark penn, i want to get this in here, ron desantis just said this, he's in south carolina, he's clearly trying to hit haley as not conservative in her home state. listen to this, i'll get your reaction. >> i just find it crazy that i seem to be the only republican presidential candidate that can give a straightforward answer to the question of can a man become a woman. and the answer to that question is no. donald trump has hemmed and hawed bit. nikki haley gave a ridiculous word salad yesterday or two days ago when she was asked about that. >> sandra: the team says that's getting a lot of attention online. what was your response to that tactic. >> look, i don't think desantis running as a cultural conservative has helped him so far. and i continue to be surprised that nikki haley and desantis are fighting each other instead of donald trump and consequently the biggest surprise out of iowa was that there were no surprises. and

first let's go to peter doocy with the latest on how the white house sees this as this heats up potentially for tomorrow. high, peter. >> you said it. there's a confrontation. governor abbott says he thinks he's got the constitution on his side arguing that president biden is required by law to protect states from stuff and from people on the other side of the border and that president biden isn't doing it. >> it's hard for me to tell what is going on. what is clear is that joe biden has from the time he took office, during the time that he was campaigning, he had no intent to secure the border. he talked about open border policies during the campaign. now he's allowed open border policies with most americans, not even knowing what that meant. >> so in abbott's long letter, he writes the failure of the biden's administration to abide by the laws has triggered article 1, which reserves to the state the right of self-defense. now the white house is apparently undecided on democratic lawmakers calls for president biden to seize control of the texas national guard presently led by governor abbo

peter doocy, thank you. mary katherine, columnist for "outkick" and first start with donald trump going to the supreme court to appeal the decision in colorado to kick him off of the ballot. hoping to get a favorable ruling from the court on that and by virtue of it, a favorable ruling on maine as well. how do you think this is going to play out and will all of this have more support and not sympathy for the former president. >> i think it has repeatedly every time there is extra judicial attempt to take him out. you can't unpresident, you can impeach him, and convict him or you can beat him. and biden ended up beating him. yet another attempt to uncandidate him, you really can't do and one thing he has not been charged with is insurrection, what they are using as the basis to take him off the ballot like in colorado, at least there was a court proceeding in colorado. in maine, just one public official which seems like a very bad practice if you are trying to save democracy. >> sandra: great to have you on t

north lawn and peter doocy to bring us up to speed now. good morning. >> good morning. just because president biden has made a decision about how to hit back at these militants bankrolled by tehran, doesn't mean he is confident in it. >> what will be different this time? >> president biden: we'll see. [shouted questions] >> president biden: we'll see. >> three times there we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. republicans don't believe we'll see any successes protecting future attacks against american interests in the middle east unless the president starts targeting tehran's inner circle. >> what we need to hit iranians assets themselves. that doesn't mean send the marines into tehran or doesn't have to be inside of iran. that can be iranian operatives all over the middle east. >> president biden is insisting he doesn't want a war with iran and doesn't think iran wants a war with the u.s. progressives in congress wish he would come to them for permission to use military force abroad. something president biden himself stressed is very important as a candidate in this clip fou

peter doocy is live in columbia, south carolina with the latest on the campaign trail. >> the latesthe congressman is onstage right now but we expect president biden within the next 20 or 30 minutes. the present is here in south carolina f first 2024 primary debut. we are told he is going to really be talking about and emphasizing what he sees as a promises he has kept for black voters in thi in the state where democratic primary voters saved his campaign when it was in a really tough place in 2020. >> four years ago you gave us wings. and joe and i will never forget it. without south carolina there is no president biden. looks very interesting. south carolina sniffing around senator joe manchin he is trying to gauge interest here for an independent run. it is unclear how worried they should be in wilmington at biden hq. >> i will never be a spoiler. i'll never be spoiled for anyone. a favorite salad i would tilt it one way or the other want to make sure they understand they are not speaking for the majority of americans for they are speaking that's where they're speaking for. it's n

you fund your own problems so peter doocy is asking what's the vetting process between white house andes this white house vet because we know that people coming across the southern border are not vetted. now we know that people that are getting hundreds of millions of dollars of u.s. money are not being vetted. so who do you guys check out? >> this idea there's no vetting and it does not comport with reality. there's a lot of work needs to be done to get better at that but put that aside because that has nothing to do and you know it has nothing to do with unrwa and gaza. >> up until today u.s. policy then has been we don't negotiate with terrorists. but we will give them hundreds of millions of dollars. >> come on now that's conflating here. that is like saying wholend are a is a terrorist organization. you know who is a terrorist organization, hamas. not unrwa. we've suspended any additional allocations to unrwa we'll certainly consider additional, you know, what depending on the investigation whether that requires any additional changes in the way we support unrwa going forward. >>

peter doocy at the white house. thank you so much.we will have more on the airstrikes coming up later. >>> sore loser chris christie finally dropping out of the race immediately caught on a hot mic pretty much bashing everyone in the republican party except himself. he's the only one in the republican party that has any courage. he's the only one and people don't want to hear him. >>> more allegations of serious misconduct and collusion leveled against new york's attorney general and bolton county da fani willis as they attempt to persecute donald trump further. we will bring in the former president's closing statement out of new york happening tonight. today hunter biden pleaded not guilty in federal court to federal charges of tax evasion. the president's 53-year-old son is accused of stiffing the government of more than a million dollars in taxes. apparently hunter feels no guilt or remorse for not paying his fair share. he also seemingly has no regrets about defying the congressional subpoena and two former trump advisors. they ar

fox news white house correspondent peter doocy grilling the biden administration on this yesterday. want to locate these folks who have disappeared into this country to parts unknown? >> the president, one of the reasons that the president is having these negotiation procedures or process with the senate, with both republicans and democrats, as i've said many times before is because we want to deal with what's going on at the border. he's taken this very seriously. so we're doing what we can at the border. jackie: well, the president has acknowledged there's an issue but he's also asking for tons of money to fix it. meanwhile, you've got the state of texas continuing to install razor wire at a shelby park in eagle pass despite the supreme court ruling that border patrol agents can cut or clear the wire out. nicole, it is a mess at the southern border. americans are very well aware of that as we head into the polls in november. >> right. it's not just a mess, it's actually a crisis, a border security equals national security and when there's no border your national security is highly

fox news's peter doocy live at the white house with more on this. >> reporter: larry, joe biden is not on the ballot. he didn't want to be on the ballot in new hampshire. that is what he wants. he will not compete until new hampshire at the end of the month. there has not been a write-in campaign like his since lisa murkowski in alaska a couple years ago. she was out there telling people to write her name in, how to spell murkowski. biden isn't doing any of that. >> look, write-campaigns are notoriously difficult, right? so what's important here is just what the grassrootsest your seeing on the ground. the dnc made a terrible decision not to have new hampshire go first. >> reporter: democrats in new hampshire, president biden is counting on to put him first today are mad at him. >> the democratic national committee has said that the primary, the democratic primary here is not relevant or real and i think that is just nonsense. >> i don't care about the dnc at all. they, they will not affect what we do in the future. >> some people said why should he

as violent anti-israel protesters swarmed the white house some broke through the security fence, peter doocythe white house, what are they saying about this. >> if you look at the president he is saying the people that are funding hamas and houthis are being handled. [inaudible] >> the people mad at the president are really mad. demonstrators held signs about yemen and gaza trying to topple a security fence saturday night, the secret service size of the crowd and tells us as a precaution some members in the media and staff in proximity and pennsylvania avenue were temporarily relocated while the issue is being addressed, the secret service may no arrest associated with the march and there was no property damage the white house or adjacent buildings, white house officials are not reversing support for israel, however, they do back settled changes urging israel publicly to wind down their campaign in gaza. >> the next logical phase as they put pressure on hamas leadership is to get a lower intensity operation were targeted and precise rate less airstrikes we believe it's time to make the trans

peter doocy asked the white house about this moments ago. >> the last time he was on the hill he said the president was certainly familiar with what his son was going to say. >> i did say that, and what i'm saying today. >> president biden does not help him with his business deals but does help him skirt congressional subpoenas. >> that is not even true. that is a jump tha incredibly-- >> john: "this hour has seven days," and that's an old canadian television show, and that's the way it feels this afternoon. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york, "america reports" hour two. any moment now the house oversight hearing, wow, did it have some fireworks. it is expected to resume as the committee considers a resolution on whether to move forward with contempt proceedings for hunter, adding another headache for the president's son as he is expected to appear in a los angeles courtroom on tax charges tomorrow. >> john: let's go live across the street to capitol hill where our hillary vaughan caught hunter biden while he was storming out of the hearing earlier today. hillary, intrepidity showing

let's go to peter doocy at the white house. no indication that that is what is going on here. she pours very well against president biden leading in one poll by as much as 17 points. it is too early to tell. peter doocy at the white house with more. >> reporter: we have been watching as this president carries out his most important duty which is as the commander-in-chief. we had a whole briefing today. a lot of it was consumed with these attacks in the middle e east, in the red sea that have been launched by iran proxies and we are told that because u.s. military and commercial vessels are in the area, there is concern in the west wing about a potential loss of innocent american lives. so president biden is ordering strikes in retaliation as he sees fit. and john kirby elaborated a little bit before. >> the united states does not seek conflict. we do however seek the safe and secure passage of the international commerce at the red sea. >> reporter: the secretary of state remains talking to allies about all of this is the person

but first, peter doocy, live at the white house where this all went down this weekend.llout from those violent protests? >> there is no fallout, sandra, even though the secret service sized up these protestors on saturday night and determined that they could be a danger to folks on this side of the fence. that is why the secret service said as a precaution some members of the media and staff in proximity to pennsylvania avenue were temporarily relocated while the issue was being addressed. secret service made no arrest associated with the march and no property damage to the white house or adjacent buildings. police won a tug-of-war over a fence that these anti-israel protestors tried to topple. next up, a possible walkout of administration officials and federal workers unhappy with president biden's continued support of israel. and this white house has recently been very eager to accommodate staffers who are unhappy with the president's policies. >> we understand that these are times where, you know, people have -- it's an emotional time and we understand that. >> peter

but first, here with the very latest from the white house tonight, our very own peter doocy. >> peter, what's the latest? john, the latest is we were just on a call with the white house national security council and they say that the white house does hold iran responsible for their role in funding these attacks. and they say despite everything that happened over the last couple of hours, they have not seen any signs yet of the houthis retaliating. we're also learning now that the red line for president wound up being when the houthis used anti-ship ballistic missiles for the first time in history. and these hoped the attacks in the red sea on shipping channels have been going for several weeks. but president biden wound up kind of sticking to his foreign policy m.o., right. he took time to deliberate. he took time to get allies on board. and he picked the option from pentagon planners that do require putting american troops on the ground in yemen to carry out these attacks. there was a statement that the white house gave us from the and part of it says this today's defensive action fo