2023. we start at 6:00 a.m. eastern time with a fox news alert. as you can see, a potentially perilous day for the biden family. house republicans threatening to hold hunter biden, the son of the president in contempt of congress if he skips a closed door deposition set to begin at 9:30 this morning. brian: that is scary music you requested, steve. also today the house g.o.p. is set to hold a vote on whether to launch an impeachment inquiry against the president. house judiciary committee chairperson jim jordan joins us later to discuss that and more. that s the head shot he gave us. ainsley: plus, nikki haley picking up a major endorsement ahead of next month s primary in the imran nit state. finally endorse nikki haley for president. you better your [bleep] i am. lawrence: don t go anywhere haley and new hampshire governor chris sununu will join us live on fox & friends for exclusive. let s go it lucas tomlinson with the high stakes proceeding on capitol hill. g
red sea watch they struck multiple commercial vessels earlier today. this comes as yemen s iran-backed houthis had a series of attacks in the weeks. welcome to fox news live. before being shot down. lucas tomlin son is live from the white house with the latest. hello, lucas. mike, pentagon officials say this was a complex attack that lasted over eight hours today in the red sea north of the bobble mendeb straight and links the red sea to the gulf of aid and it s in the middle of yemen and somali and we learn that had multiple commercial vessels were struck and we don t know the fag or if anyone was hurt or crew members killed on board. if you ll rale, uss kearney was active in the red sea in the past month and shot down multiple cruise missiles and drones in israel and houthi rebels, iranian-backed group in yemen claimed credit for the attack. last night at reagan national defense form in simi valley, california, our own bill hemmer asked president obama s former ci directo
government can never happen again. the committee rescheduled its deposition set for today with conservative talk show host alex jones. also new toes, russia demanding halt all military activity. friday russia released its sphere of influence doctrine calling on nato to deny membership to ukraine and submit written guarantees it would not move further. nato rejected that request. joining me, former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul good to have you on the broadcast. list of demands, sir, comes as moscow continues to amass troops on border of ukraine. bottom line, is russia not taking the u.s. warning seriously? well, i don t know the answer to that question. i want to be clear and i don t know anybody who really does know the answer to that question. that s the point.
case. demanded a quarter million not to release that he called true and damning. he said he would go public with the information about her using the n word at her restaurant. this came about five days after a leaked deposition set off the collapse of deen s empire. we followed that step by step. the saga won t end for paula deen. new this morning, evacuations underway after a train detrailment sparked a huge explosion and fire. the flames, unbelievable video. posted online. 80 cars on the train, bound for maine. they were carrying crude oil. some may have spilled into a nearby river. local firefighters asked for reinforcements from nearby towns. flames can be seen from miles away. no information at this time about casualties. let s turn to florida now.