FIGHTING BACK ON: Middle East conflict reignites after overnight strikes

Good evening. I'm Bill Melugin and this. is your Fox News report. Dr. Anthony. Fauci pleads the fifth 111 times. >> What color tie you wearing? >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully. decline to answer based upon my rights. under the Fifth Amendment to the. Constitution. >> Fauci was grilled by a Republican-led. Senate committee over his handling of. the COVID-19 pandemic. Some Democrats. calling the hearing politically. motivated. After a heated exchange,

committee chairman Rand Paul kicked out. one of Fauci's attorneys for disrupting. the proceedings. Fighting is back on in. the Middle East after Iran targeted. American troops in Jordan. The US teamed. up with Saudi Arabia to strike. Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. overnight, killing at least 20 people. including six regime advisors. The. American Red Cross declares a national. blood supply crisis with less than a. day's worth of the most commonly. transfused blood type left. The. organization is urging for immediate. donations. This is only the second. national blood supply crisis in American.

Red Cross history. The Federal Reserve. is keeping interest rates the same at. 3.5 to 3.75%. as expected. This is the fifth pause on. interest rates this year. And South. Carolina gives Lindsey Graham a final. goodbye. Constituents gathering to. remember the late senator in the city of. Columbia. A Charleston Air Force Base. will be renamed in honor of Graham. In. New York, I'm Bill Melugin. Have a great. night.