Morgan Phillips

Q: "Do you still consider [President Trump] 'daddy' after yesterday?" @SecGenNATO Mark Rutte: "I was not calling him my daddy, but saying—but of course, 'daddy' has also a special connotation, and I have to stay with this for the rest of my life."

White House denies Trump told NATO SG Rutte he expects concrete commitments from Europe on Hormuz “He has 0 expectations for NATO at this point and did not ask them for anything, even though it's a fact that they benefit from the Strait of Hormuz far more,” a WH official told me

SCOOP: Pam Bondi is OUT as Attorney General. Sourcing confirms to me and @EmmColt that the AG met with Trump at the White House before his Iran speech Wednesday night. They say Bondi already flew back to her home in Florida.

US moves airborne troops, Marines as Iran rejects ceasefire, raising ground war potential foxnews.com/politics/us-mo…

Airstrikes can damage centrifuge and missile sites. But physically securing Iran’s 60% enriched uranium likely requires boots on the ground, experts say foxnews.com/politics/after…

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"We have heard that they never had a plan for that nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium," Rep Bill Foster said after Tuesday's Iran briefing "Until that happens, Iran will be very, very close to making ... a handful of Hiroshima-style nuclear devices" foxnews.com/politics/lawma…

What a badass. Look at the female pilot who was just shot down by friendly fire, ejected, and is still smiling and unshaken.

China expands space footprint in Latin America, raising military alarms in America’s backyard foxnews.com/politics/china… #FoxNews @_PhillipsMorgan

Hegseth/Amodei showdown continues after mtg today Pentagon: "there’s always a human involved" & we follow the law. Anthropic: Restrictions would not interfere with lawful operations Sounding aligned, but Friday ultimatum looms foxnews.com/politics/penta…

New: State Dept will launch Freedom.gov in the coming weeks - officials say it will allow users abroad to access online content available in the US without logging identifying data Reuters first reported the initiative was being developed foxnews.com/politics/us-un…

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that 15,000 to 20,000 people, including Islamic State affiliates are now at large in Syria, after an exodus from a camp that held jihadists’ families, U.S. officials familiar with the estimate said wsj.com/world/middle-e… @jmalsin @dnvolz

37 US lawmakers pressed Taiwan in a new letter over its stalled $40B defense budget, warning it must “send a clear signal” of its will to defend itself. foxnews.com/politics/us-la…

"The intervention of the US was quite a welcome development" Nigeria First Lady Tinubu told me of the Christmas strike on Islamist militants She's in DC this week to signal Nigeria's willingness to collaborate w the US on security issues foxnews.com/politics/niger…

"The U.S.-sanctioned Ilyushin Il-76, operated by Russian state-linked airline Aviacon ZitoTrans, was tracked landing at San Antonio de los Baños Airfield, a Cuban military installation roughly 30 miles south of Havana, according to public flight data." foxnews.com/politics/sanct…

They promised her husband a job in Russia, then forced him to join the military and sent him to the frontlines to be killed. Even after was dead, the agency tried to extract money from the family when they begged for information about his whereabouts. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/…

First on Fox: 3 of 14 Iranians deported on Sunday were former members of the IRGC, according to DHS foxnews.com/politics/us-de…

Official source: USS Lincoln carrier strike group NOT yet in CENTCOM AOR, and has not crossed the line of demarcation from INDOPACOM to CENTCOM in the Indian Ocean. This means that the USS Lincoln is NOT yet in the Gulf of Oman within striking distance of Iran. It will be days, if not a week, before the aircraft carrier strike group will be on station, based on distances involved and speed of strike group from open source information.

One Royal Marine veteran's reaction to how President Trump has characterized the Afghanistan deployments of NATO allies. It's absolutely true that some U.S. troops joked that ISAF stood for "I see Americans fighting," and that some allies had restrictions on what they could do. Also true that many others fought bravely on hair-raising battlefields, including in Sangin and Kajaki.