BREAKING: Iran STRIKES US forces in Jordan after American strikes on missile launchers: Source

♪♪. >> WELCOME BACK TONIGHT. THIS IS BREAKING AS THE "FOX. NEWS" ALERT. IRAN HAS BEEN ATTACKING U.S. FORCES DENIED IN JORDAN. WELCOME TO THE FINAL HOUR OF. "THE BIG WEEKEND SHOW" "THE BIG. WEEKEND SHOW.". ITS U.S. SOURCE TELLS "FOX NEWS". THERE HAD BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT --. SO FAR IN ALL THE INCOMING. MISSILES WERE INTERCEPTED. THIS COMES AFTER U.S. FORCES. STRUCK IRANIAN MISSILE LAUNCHERS. EARLIER TODAY. JOINING US NOW "FOX NEWS" CHIEF.

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT TREY. YINGST. WE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ANYTHING. YOU CAN TELL US ABOUT THIS. >> JOY GOOD EVENING. WE ARE TRACKING THE DEVELOPMENTS. RIGHT NOW IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND. AS WE SPEAK U.S. FORCES IN. JORDAN ARE UNDER MISSILE ATTACK. THE IRANIANS ARE LAUNCHING A. VARIETY OF DIFFERENT MISSILES AT. U.S. BASES THERE IN RESPONSE TO. THE U.S. STRIKES EARLIER TODAY. THAT TARGETED IRAN'S ISLAND.

THE ISLAND IS SIGNIFICANT. BECAUSE THE LOCATION AND THE. STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND ACCORDING. TO U.S. OFFICIALS THE. INTELLIGENCE PICKED UP THE. IRANIANS ARE PLANNING TO LAUNCH. ROCKETS TO BASICALLY REDEPLOY. THE MINES IN THE STRAIT OF. HORMUZ AFTER U.S. FORCES WERE. ABLE TO BE MINED THE AREA. A LOT OF THEM WITH DIFFERENT. PARTS OF THE LATEST INFORMATION. WE CAN CONFIRM U.S. FORCES AT. THIS MOMENT ARE UNDER ATTACK IN. JORDAN AND THERE ARE EFFORTS. UNDERWAY TO SHOOT DOWN THIS.

INCOMING FIRE. >> TREY YOU SAID MISSILE ATTACK. AND THERE'S NO INFORMATION OF. WHETHER THERE ARE DRONES. INVOLVES? >> THERE MAY BE DRONES AND. OFTENTIMES WE AND OFTENTIMES DO. WE USE DRONES AND MISSILES AT. THE SAME TIME TO GET AROUND AIR. DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND AT THIS. MOMENT WHAT WE CAN CONFIRM OUR. BALLISTIC MISSILE TARGETING U.S. FORCES. >> TREY TO GO OFF HOW WE ENTERED. THE SEGMENT MOST OF IT. INTERCEPTED AND MOST OF NOT ALL.

INTERCEPTED THUS FAR. WHAT IS THE POSTURE OF THE. UNITED STATES IS TAKING WITH. THIS MAY BE SOMEWHAT EXPECTED OR. DID THIS CATCH THEM OFF GUARD? >> WE DO KNOW THE U.S. FORCES. STATIONED IN JORDAN HAVE ALREADY. DEFENSE SYSTEMS THAT HELP THEM. TO SHOOT DOWN THIS INCOMING. FIRE. YOU HAVE PATRIOT MISSILE DEFENSE. SYSTEMS DEPLOYED IN THIS AREA. HANDED IN SPEAK WITH THE U.S. SOURCE FAMILIAR EARLIER THIS. EVENING WHO INDICATED AT THIS. POINT THERE ARE NO SIGNIFICANT.

IMPACTS AND INCOMING MISSILES. HAVE BEEN INTERCEPTED. EARLIER THIS SUMMER THERE WERE. SIMILAR ATTACKS AGAINST THE. BASES IN JORDAN AND U.S. FORCES. WERE KILLED. THESE ARE SERIOUS ATTACKS AND. THEY ARE NOT TAKEN LIGHTLY AT. ALL BY U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AND. WORKING TO SHOOT DOWN THIS. INCOMING FIRE. PREVIOUSLY I SPOKE WITH. PRESIDENT TRUMP ABOUT THIS AND. HE SAID HE WAS AMAZING TO WATCH. IN REAL-TIME HOW QUICKLY THESE. AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE RESPONDING. IN HOW SUCCESSFUL THEY CAN BE A.

AT SHOOTING DOWN THIS INCOMING. FIRE. A LOT OF THE RESPONSIBILITY IS. SHIFTED BACK TO U.S. FORCES AND. NOT RELYING ON ALLIES IN THE. REGION WHEN POSSIBLE BECAUSE. THEY TRUST THE SOLDIERS ON THE. GROUND WHO ARE MANNING THE AIR. DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND THEIR. ABILITY TO SHOOT DOWN INCOMING. MISSILES. >> TREY IT'S DAVID. JUST FOR CLARITY THE MAJORITY OF. THESE INTERCEPTS, DID THEY. HAPPEN OVER IRAQI SKIES AS THEY. GET CLOSER TO JORDAN JUST TO GET.

AN IDEA? TO GET TO JORDAN TO HAVE TO GO. OVER IRAQI AIRSPACE. >> IN THE PAST TO TRY TO SHOOT. DOWN INCOMING FIRE EARLIER WHEN. POSSIBLE. TONIGHT IT APPEARS MANY THE. MISSILES ARE BEING SHOT DOWN. OVER JORDANIAN AIR SPACE. IT'S AN INDICATION THE IRANIANS. STILL HAVE MISSILES IN THEIR. ARSENAL BETTER MEDIUM TO LONG. RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES. AGAIN THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME. THESE U.S. FORCES HAVE COME. UNDER FIRE SO THE QUESTION OF. PREPAREDNESS, THEY WERE. CERTAINLY READY FOR THIS. POSSIBILITY ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE.

FACT INTERNALLY IT WAS KNOWN FOR. HOURS THAT THERE COULD BE SOME. SORT OF IRANIAN RESPONSE. FOLLOWING THE U.S. STRIKES. AGAINST THE ISLAND TODAY. >> TREY MOLLY HERE I THINK YOU. TOUCHED ON THE QUESTION I WAS. GOING TO ASK IN THE RECENT. SUCCESS OF DE-MINING THE STRAIT. AND THE CONTINUED STRIKES IN THE. U.S.. THEY HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE. MILITARY CAPABILITY SO MUCH SO. THAT THEY HAVE SHIFTED A LITTLE. BIT IN HER PUBLIC POSTURE OF THE. UNITED STATES TALKING A GREAT. DEAL ABOUT SANCTIONS.

YOU THINK WE WILL SEE. SIGNIFICANT RESPONSE FROM THE. UNITED STATES AFTER THIS ONGOING. ATTACK IN JORDAN? >> IT'S CERTAINLY POSSIBLE. BECAUSE IN THE PAST THAT. PRESIDENT HAS SENT THE COUNTER. MESSAGE OF DETERRENCE TO THE. IRANIANS WHEN THEY LAUNCHED YOU. AS MISSILES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. ANYWHERE AND AS WE SPEAK THEIR. 50,000 SOLDIERS DEPLOYED ACROSS. THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER JUST ARRIVED AT. THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON AND. THE STORIES AND FIGHTER JETS ALL. OVER THE REGION PREPARED FOR THE.

MILITARY POSSIBILITY BUT AT THIS. MOMENT THE FOCUS FOR THE TRUMP. ADMINISTRATION REMAINS ON. PUTTING AS MUCH ECONOMIC. PRESSURE ON THE IRANIAN REGIME. IS POSSIBLE. INTERESTINGLY THIS WEEKEND WE. HEARD FROM THE FIRST TIME FROM. IRANIAN PRESIDENT PEZESHKIAN AND. THE SUPREME LEADER COMING OUT. AND TALKING ABOUT THIS ECONOMIC. PRESSURE. EVEN THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT. SAID HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. TO PEOPLE WHO CLAIM SANCTIONS.

HAVE NO EFFECT. THOSE WERE THE WORDS FROM. IRANIAN PRESIDENT PEZESHKIAN AND. IT'S AN INDICATION THE IRANIANS. ARE STARTING TO FEEL THIS. ECONOMIC PRESSURE IN THE NEW. SANCTIONS ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK BY. THE U.S. TREASURY. >> TREY I KNOW WE HAVE AN ORDER. WHEN IT COMES TO TARGETS. DEPENDING YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT. SHARING THAT YOU TALK TO FOLKS. DO WE VIEW THIS AS AN ESCALATION. A TIT-FOR-TAT AND MADE IT HARD. TO TELL BUT WE INTRODUCE THIS.

TOPIC AS WE HIT LARAQ ISLAND AND. NOW SENDING MISSILES TO JORDAN. COULD WHAT IS YOUR INSTINCT TELL. YOU THE NEXT STEP IS OR CAN WE. EVEN SURMISE THAT RIGHT NOW? >> AT THIS MOMENT THIS WILL. LIKELY BE CONTAINED TO A BACK. AND FORTH FOR A DAY OR TWO BUT. IT MAY NOT BE THE LAST TIME IT. WILL HAPPEN. THEY TALKED ABOUT WHAT'S TAKING. PLACE IN THE REGION RIGHT NOW. AND WARNED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY. IRAN MAY TRY TO ESCALATE. WHAT THEY SAY OFTEN IN STATE. MEDIA AND THE REALITY ON THE.

GROUND DON'T MATCH AND THAT'S. PART OF THE PRESSURE THAT THEY. ARE FACING DOMESTICALLY. THEY HAVE A DOMESTIC AUDIENCE. THEY CONTINUE TO SAY TO THE. STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS CLOSE. IN THE UNITED STATES THEY ARE. CARRYING OUT THE OPERATIONS TO. THE SOUTHERN PASSAGE IN GETTING. MILLIONS OF BARRELS OF OIL FROM. THE GULF EXPORTED EACH DAY. IT UNDERCUTS IRANIAN EFFORTS AND. THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS THEY ARE. MAKING. THAT COUPLED WITH THE ECONOMIC. PRESSURE AND THE SANCTIONS THE. ONGOING U.S. NAVAL BLOCKADE. THAT'S BLOCKING IRANIAN PORTS.

FROM THE PERSIAN GULF AND THE. ABILITY TO EXPORT OIL AT ALL. ADDS UP TO A BROADER PICTURE OF. THE PRESSURE BEING PUT ON THE. IRANIAN REGIME RIGHT NOW. THIS LIKELY WILL NOT BE THE LAST. TIME WE SEE EVOCATIVE ACTION BY. THE IRANIAN'S. IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER. ACCORDING TO U.S. OFFICIALS. SPEAKING TO "FOX NEWS" THIS. BEGAN WHEN THE IRANIANS WERE. PREPARING TO LAUNCH ROCKETS THAT. WOULD BE USED TO REMIND THE. STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND AREA. CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL WATERWAYS.

THE MIND BY U.S. FORCES OVER THE. LAST SEVERAL WEEKS. >> JUST KNOWING THAT WAS THEIR. STRATEGY TELLS YOU THEY DON'T. HAVE THE ASSETS AND THE. CAPABILITIES THEY HAD AT THE. BEGINNING OF THIS WAR IF THAT'S. HOW THEY DO IT. TREY THANKS FOR JOINING US AND. YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO SHARE ON. THIS. I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHERE YOU ARE. RIGHT NOW BUT I HOPE YOU A.