OVERNIGHT: Iran UNLEASHES missile, drone attacks on Kuwait

IMPRACTICAL JOKERS, THEY HAVE AN. INTERESTING PUNISHMENT, MAYBE. THEY'LL USE THAT. >> Lawrence: MEANWHILE PRESIDENT. TRUMP SAYS THAT THE UNITED. STATES IS PREPARED FOR MORE HITS. ON IRAN AT ANY TIME AFTER. CALLING THE RETALIATORY STRIKES. A LOVE TAP. >> Brian: TREY YINGST JOINS US. NOW FROM ISRAEL, IN TEL AVIV. HEY, TREY, WHAT'S HAPPENING? >> Reporter: YEAH, HEY GUYS, GOOD MORNING. OVERNIGHT IRAN LAUNCHED ANOTHER. ATTACK IN THE GULF TARGETING. KUWAIT WITH MISSILES AND DRONES, SIRENS SOUNDED THERE FORCING. PEOPLE TO TAKE SHELTER. WE KNOW THE KUWAITI FOREIGN.

MINISTER CALLED THIS A VIOLATION. OF THE COUNTRY'S SOVEREIGNTY, THE EVENT CAME AFTER PRESIDENT. TRUMP INDICATED ON WEDNESDAY THE. UNITED STATES IS PREPARED TO. STRIKE IRAN AGAIN WHEN NEEDED. >> WE TOOK OUT ALL OF THE NEW. EQUIPMENT THAT THEY TRIED TO. BUILD ALONG THE STRAIT OF. HORMUZ. SOME DEFENSIVE, SOME OFFENSIVE, TAKEN A LOT OF SHIPS. THEY CAN'T SEE IT BECAUSE THEY. HAVE NO RADAR BECAUSE WE BLEW IT. UP AND WE BLEW UP MUCH MORE THAN. THEIR RADAR LAST NIGHT. IT WAS A VERY HEAVY ATTACK LAST.

NIGHT. AND WE'RE PREPARED TO DO ANOTHER. ONE ANY TIME WE WANT. >> Reporter: REPORTS INDICATE. THE UNITED STATES IS RAMPING UP. EFFORTS TO SPORT OIL THROUGH THE. STRAIT OF HORMUZ GETTING 18. MILLION BARRELS OUT OF THE. PERSIAN GULF WHILE ESCORTING 40. COMMERCIAL VESSELS ON TUESDAY. WHILE THE CRITICAL WATERWAY. REMAINS A SOURCE OF REGIONAL. TENSION, OFFICIALS BELIEVE THE. RECENT U.S. STRIKE FURTHER. DEGRADED IRAN'S ABILITY TO. THREATEN THE STRAIT. INSIDE OF IRAN, ECONOMIC. PRESSURE IS MOUNTING. U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT. BESSENT TOLD FOX NEWS, WE ARE.

TELLING FRIENDS AND FOES DO NOT. DEAL WITH THIS EVIL REGIME. THE IRANIAN RIAL CONTINUES TO. DETERIORATE IN VALUE AS THE. IRANIAN PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO. FEEL THE STRAIN. >> LOOK, I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF. SANCTIONS BUT I'M NOT IN FAIR OF. WAR EITHER BECAUSE BOTH HAVE A. NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR LIVES AND. DRIVE INFLATION HIGHER. THE ONLY WAY THE SITUATION CAN. IMPROVE IS THROUGH NEGOTIATIONS. BUT THEY DON'T SEEM TO SUPPORT. NEGOTIATIONS EITHER. >> Reporter: HERE IN ISRAEL. OFFICIALS ARE WARNING ABOUT THE. POSSIBILITY OF IRAN ATTACKING.

THE COUNTRY DURING THE JEWISH. HIGH HOLIDAYS. GUYS. >> Brian: SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT. WHAT'S GETTING THROUGH THE. STRAIT, TERRESTRIC I KNOW FROM. SUNDAY AND MONDAY, WE HAD SOME. NUMBERS, NOW THEY'RE DOING IT IN. TERMS OF HOW MANY BARRELS ARE. GETTING THROUGH THE STRAIT. SO ROUGHLY DO WE KNOW? HAS IT GOTTEN PAST 27 SHIPS? I KNOW THE GOAL WOULD BE 100 TO. 115, PRE WAR LEVELS. WHERE ARE WE AT, DO YOU THINK? >> Reporter: SO REPORTS INDICATE. ON TUESDAY THAT 40 COMMERCIAL. VESSELS WERE ESCORTED BY THE. U.S. NAVY THROUGH THIS SOUTHERN. ROUTE.

AND IT'S VERY SIGNIFICANT. IT'S GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER. TO ABOUT HALF OF THE PRE-WAR. LEVELS. BUT THE NUMBER OF BARRELS OF OIL. IS REALLY THE MOST SIGNIFICANT. NUMBER HERE. BEFORE THE WAR STARTED, WE WERE. TALKING ABOUT 20 MILLION BARRELS. OF CRUDE OIL SUPPORTED EACH DAY, 18 MILLION BARRELS IS A NEW. RECORD FOR THESE ESCORTS THAT. ARE TAKING PLACE AND IT. UNDERMINES THE IRANIAN ABILITY. TO THREATEN THE STRAIT OF. HORMUZ. AND THINKS EXACTLY WHAT THE U.S. NAVY WANTS. THEY HAVE THE BLOCKADE IN PLACE, IT'S BEING SUPPORTED BY TWO.

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, 12. DESTROYERS, AND THAT NEW. AIRCRAFT CARRIER THAT ARRIVED IN. THEATER, THE U SS GEORGE. WASHINGTON PARTICIPATING IN THE. STRIKES AGAINST IRAN. SO THERE'S A LOT OF PERSONNEL IN. THE AREA AND STILL 50,000 U.S. FORCES DEPLOYED ACROSS THE. REGION TO PUT THAT PARALLEL. MILITARY PRESSURE ON IRAN WITH. THESE NEW ECONOMIC SANCTIONS IN. PLACE. >> Lawrence: SO, TREY, WE HAD. HEARD THE LAST TIME ABOUT A. MONTH AGO THAT THE. ADMINISTRATION WAS USING. DIFFERENT ROUTES. BECAUSE WE KEPT LOOKING AT THE. PRICE OF OIL AND IT WAS GOING.

DOWN, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WE. HADN'T REACHED UP TO, YOU KNOW, 70% OF THOSE SHIPS GOING. THROUGH. AND THE ADMINISTRATION WAS. SAYING THAT THE PUBLIC DATA IS. DIFFERENT FROM THEIR INTERNALS. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT AND. THE DIFFERENT ROUTES THEY'RE. USING TO GET THOSE SHIPS? >> Reporter:. >> Reporter: EXACTLY. THEY'RE USING THIS SOUTHERN. ROUTE THAT IS FURTHER FROM. IRANIAN TERRITORY AND IT DOESN'T. MEAN THAT IT'S NOT THREATENED BY. THE IRANIANS, THEY ARE STILL. TRYING TO TARGET VESSELS IN THIS. AREA. BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE. OVERWATCH OF THE U.S. NAVY. THERE, THAT IS CURRENTLY.

STATIONED IN THE GULF OF OMAN, THEY'RE ABLE TO ENSURE THAT ANY. SORTS OF THREATS THAT ARE. TARGETING THESE VESSELS ARE. DEALT WITH. AND IT'S NOT A PERFECT SYSTEM. THERE HAVE STILL BEEN REPORTS OF. OIL TANKERS BEING HIT IN THE. STRAIT OF HORMUZ, BUT THE BOTTOM. LINE HERE IS THAT THEY'RE ABLE. TO EXPORT CRUDE OIL AND IT'S NOT. COMING FROM IRAN IT'S COMING. FROM GULF ALLIES AND THESE. COUNTRIES ARE GOING TO CONTINUE. USING THIS SOUTHERN ROUTE WITH. THE HELP OF THE U.S. NAVY AND. AGAIN IT UNDERCUTS THE IRANIAN. EFFORTS TO TRY TO CLOSE THIS. CRITICAL WATERWAY. THE PRESIDENT FLOATED THE IDEA. OF CHANGING THE NAME OF THE.

STRAIT OF HORMUZ EARLIER THIS. WEEK AND IT REMAINS THIS AREA OF. FOCUS, BECAUSE AT THIS MOMENT, THERE ARE NO TALKS TAKING PLACE. BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND. IRAN AND MORE THAN SIX MONTHS. INTO THIS CONFLICT, THE. ADMINISTRATION HAS SHIFTED THE. FOCUS TO WHAT WILL BE THIS TIT. FOR TAT, THIS EXCHANGE OF FIRE. THAT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE. IN THE FUTURE, BUT ALSO THE. ECONOMIC PRESSURE ON THE IRANIAN. REGIME. AND AGAIN IT SHOWS THAT THEY CAN. ENFORCE THE NAVAL BLOCKADE AND. ALLOW FOR GULF EXPORTS OF CRUDE. OIL NOT COMING FROM IRAN. AND THAT PUTS NEW PRESSURE ON. REGIME OFFICIALS IN TEHRAN.

BECAUSE THEY RELY ON THEIR CRUDE. OIL EXPORTS TO SUPPORT THE. ECONOMY. >> Ainsley: ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU TREY. >> Lawrence: THANKS TREY. >> Brian: SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING, THE SLOW STRANGULATION OF THEIR. ECONOMY LIKE THEY'VE NEVER SEEN. BEFORE. YES THERE HAVE BEEN SANCTIONS. BEFORE BUT NOT SURROUNDED BY. MILITARY ENFORCEMENT. >> Lawrence: AND THE PEOPLES. CONNECTED TO IRAN. >> Ainsley: AND HOW MUCH LONGER. WILL THE PEOPLE LIVE THROUGH. THIS WITHOUT, YOU KNOW, AN. UPROAR. BECAUSE IF THAT WERE HAPPENING. IN AMERICA, IF WE WERE GETTING. SQUEEZED AND WE HAD TO WAIT IN.

LINES FOR GAS FOR HOUSE AT 3:00. IN THE MORNING CAN YOU IMAGINE? >> Brian: YEAH, BUT THEY HAVE NO. GUNS AND THEY HANG PEOPLE. THEY HUNG A WOMAN OVER THE. WEEKEND WHO TOOK A PICTURE OF. SOMEBODY PROTESTING THE. THEY FOUND OUT WHO TOOK THE. PICTURE AND THEY HUNG HER. THAT'S WHAT'S KEEPING EVERYONE. AT BAY. YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS ARM THE. PEOPLE AND IT COULD BE HAPPENING. OR UNLEASH NOW SAWED, THEY'VE. PROVEN THEY CAN TAKE OUT. SCIENTISTS LOOK WHAT THEY DID. EARLY IN THE WAR. BUT IF YOU WANT TO MOVE THINGS.

ALONG, SCOTTS ABOUT PRESIDENT'S. DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB, BUT HOW. ABOUT UNLEASHING THE MOSSAD TO. GO DO THEIR THING INSIDE THAT. COUNTRY AND IT.