Fox & Friends is fighting over Trump's aborted attack on Iran

Fox & Friends is President Trump's favorite morning program, judging by his Twitter feed, and on Friday morning its hosts reflected the broader split at the network over what to do about the growing tensions with Iran. Like Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade said Trump should have followed through on attacks he was widely reported to have authorized against targets inside Iran. Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt don't appear to be as anti-Iran war as Tucker Carlson, but they were certainly willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.

Later in the show, Earhardt assured viewers that based on her knowledge of Trump, "something's happening behind the scenes, there's a reason he hunkered down," and Doocy noted Trump said Thursday that someone in Iran "made a mistake." But Kilmeade was having none of it and said so.

Doocy ended the segment in the only rational way, along the lines Trump laid out to reporters on Thursday afternoon, before he reportedly authorized the strikes on Iran. "So anyway," Doocy said, "we'll see what develops throughout the day."

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