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now. ainsley: it is the #:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends on the east coast. it is friday, january 12th. steve: thank you very much for joining us. we have breaking news on this friday. joint strikes by the united states and united kingdom hit dozens of houthi targets in yemen after a number of attacks are in the red sea. the iranian back the group says we are not backing down. brings it on. this able unraveling as defense secretary lloyd austin still in the hospital calling the shots from his bed. lawrence: plus, nikki haley pulls ahead in the latest polling in iowa with the caucuses on monday. for us it s always been slow and steady wins the race. it s the people that decides. while everybody else wants to discount us, i will tell you we keep moving and we are moving for a reason to believe. brian: california police department offering $75,000 bonuses to recruit officers. and guess what? still not enough. fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, your ....
Fighting government two decades. of the country controls not the country, the houthis do. the northwest part of the country and its capital. their ideology is to oppose israel and the united states. they said after that attack on israel on october 7th. the houthis declared support for hamas and said they would target any trip traveling to or from israel. they will stand in solidarity with the israel. they are essentially the detaco government of yemen just to be clear with slogan this is slogan, god is great. death to the u.s., death to israel. curse the jews. and victory for islam. that s who we are fighting. brian: that s a bumper sticker for you. steve: quite a slogan. a lot on this all day long. in the meantime we have got to talk about what the people in the central plain states are feeling right now. a blizzard warning for parts of iowa as we head into the caucuses on monday. this as nikki haley pulls ahead ....
General, thank you very much for joining us on this friday. ainsley: thank you for your service. thank you. steve: you know, ainsley, given your point about lloyd austin directing this from his hospital bed, the reporting is that on october rather, on january 1st, after an attack by the houthis on a ship from denmark, the president told the pentagon officials to go ahead and accelerator building a military coalition. also draw up a list of targets. and then two days later the two nations signed on with a statement saying hey, houthis, stop it. the president did not know that lloyd austin was in the hospital. he did not know he had cancer. nobody was essentially running the pentagon if you are joe biden. who are you talking about. a chief of staff or something like that. we are going to start bombing over in yemen, can you make sure this doesn t blow up in our ....
Where they re keeping drones. do have we hit all the stuff or do they have more stuff to go. if you go all the way back to the iraq war you remember the hunt for scuds. it s very, very hard to find these things distributed around the territory of yemen. you know, so, yes, we hit some things but, ultimately, going to be very hard to stop these attacks. do you know who is not getting attacked though? the chinese. why are the chinese not getting attacked because they re supporting the iranians, and houthis this is obvious what is going on here. unfortunately we are just not thinking straight. if we had changed our policies with regard to who we supported, saudis in israel instead of iran. we wouldn t have this problem. the saudis getting rocketed regularly when they went to take action. they were using our equipment and material. we would supply them and then all of a sudden they said after this administration comes in they say the saudi arabia you are a pariah nation. houthi rebels i ....
Now. ainsley: it is the #:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends on the east coast. it is friday, january 12th. steve: thank you very much for joining us. we have breaking news on this friday. joint strikes by the united states and united kingdom hit dozens of houthi targets in yemen after a number of attacks are in the red sea. the iranian back the group says we are not backing down. brings it on. this able unraveling as defense secretary lloyd austin still in the hospital calling the shots from his bed. lawrence: plus, nikki haley pulls ahead in the latest polling in iowa with the caucuses on monday. for us it s always been slow and steady wins the race. it s the people that decides. while everybody else wants to discount us, i will tell you we keep moving and we are moving for a reason to believe. brian: california police department offering $75,000 bonuses to recruit officers. and guess what? ....