Tonight A Widening War News Today

begin with a fox news alert. we have just been notified within the last few minutes that the united states, along with our allies in the u.k. have begun striking the iran-backed houthi group inside of yemen. now, we do not know the extent of these strikes but they come after the houthis have been launching missiles and one way drones on u.s. positions and commercial vessels in the middle east now for a number of months. picking up in recent days in fact this action by the administratio...

Is happening there is affecting us here. and this is why president trump long ago pivoted to general election strategy their two presidents, sure, economy, energy, border, but this particularly, as you said first president in 72 years to not start a new war. we called terrorists terrorists. we brought hostages home. look at iran fund so much of what we are talking about. so stearving to make deals by the time we left our administration. now they basically 3 million barrels a day. they stockpiled...

Escalating another strike somewhere else and you see its real easy to take on a life of its own. we cant get into a war over something that was supposed to be a problem in the red sea. which was a problem and needed to be dealt with, but there were 1000 ways better to do it than what we are doing right now. >> laura: nathan, your response to that concern about now a widening conflict and the start of what is going to be a tight and obviously very dramatic very dramatic election year choosing a c...

American soldiers, they are attacking commercial shipping. they are putting american lives at risk. and our response has been to fight not with just one hand behind our back but both hands behind our back. we have been colding them and saying pretty please and guess what? they dont respond to pretty please. they respond to shows of force. what we need to do is establish deterrence. we need to sandy clear message, not by words but by deeds that we control the escalation ladder. that any attempt b...

Have been seeing the failure of all these strikes to eliminate to deter the iran-backed groups against our troops in iraq and syria and elsewhere. and we have already taken out their boats. thats not going to do it. this has every chance to escalate to a higher level because the houthis have expressly said if we attack them on their territory, they are going to start attacking americans and american interest in the region. what is our plan for that? this is potential strike to draw us into the w...

And united states, under this administration, has simply not grappled with the fact that iran is our adversary. because, if we took that seriously, we wouldnt be enriching them with oil sales. we would be squeezing them with maximum pressure, driving them to the negotiating table from a position of strength. unfortunately, thats not the administration we have right now. >> laura: panel, stay with me. joining us now live from tel aviv to reset what just transpired fox news foreign correspondent t...

How would you advise that we avoid the prospect of what even the "new york times" is warning about tonight a widening war in a presidential election widely tomorrow too old, too frail and not up to the job? what a devastating outcome that could be for the world. >> i was actually cheering over here when mollie was talking just a second ago. talking about how the president needed to, number one, get authorization because of the constitution doesnt authorize him to attack into another country with...

Hear quickly what next? what happens if the houthis make good on this threat and they do hit some of our interest, they do hit some of our people somewhere else? they do strike somewhere on the border? now what are you going to do? now we have to escalate up even higher. now we are taking what is a problem in the red sea and could be drawing us into a war which god only knows where that could go. we do not need a new war. >> laura: nathan, right on queue, giving the last question, politico just ...