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in new york to do these kinds of bonds but wanted to do trump a faber. the guy's name is hankie, which is funny because we're talking about hankie painky. >> oh, lord, dave. it's not even 6:00 a.m. >> sorry, ali. there's a former judge, retired judge barbara jones. he gave her extra jurisdiction, oversight to look at who's paying the pond and where's the money coming from. the public should get more information about mr. hankie and this bond, who gets paid by donald trump, who actually works for the people. >> there's that case. i want to turn to the other case we're seeing movement in and have been watching closely, trump's hush money criminal

i'm ali vitali in forthan lemaire. jury selection wrapped up more quickly than we thought it would on friday. it's made up of seven men and five women along with six alternates. according to "the new york times," the prosecution plans to frame trump's actions quiet about an alleged affair. that's going to be election interference. the defense, meanwhile, will seize on three apparent weak points, witness credibility, the president's culpability, and the case's legal complexity. one of the potential first witnesses expected to testify is david pecker who bought and buried damaging stories about trump. he's alleged to have worked with trump and his former attorney michael cohen to bury the stormy daniels story. other witnesses expected to testify include a who's who in

air defenses were fired close to isfahan international airport in central iran at around 4:00 a.m. local time in iran. they say that drones were intercepted, and there were no explosions on the ground. we haven't been able to verify those claims, but iran is down-playing the attack and saying they have no plans for immediate retaliation. well, this video is from the iranian revolutionary guard corp telegram channel. it reportedly shows the explosions in the sky near isfahan. the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog has confirmed there's no damage to iran's nuclear site. ali, we've been following all these developments all week. the war cabinet said they had to respond, they had no choice but to respond. we saw that response in the early hours of the morning. it seems now everyone's trying to de-escalate. >> yeah, it seems that way. the -- the reaction to it is almost entirely coming out of iran. and as you say it's a mix

in a nuclear research facility as well, if we're pushed to do so. clearly there's messaging there as well. and it's a warning. i'm sure that over the last five days there would have been a lot of debate about whether israel should go further, whether they should attack the nuclear facilities. it was quite interesting yesterday. iran have always said they want nuclear capability for civilian energy purposes, that's it. they've always denied wanting a nuclear weapon. frankly, very few people believe them. but yesterday a senior general did say if israel attacks us we might be forced to change our doctrine, ichlte we might get a nuclear weapon anyways and accelerate the process. that was a clear threat. the use of nuclear language has been threatened by both sides. >> indeed. ali, we'll keep talking with you

have to ask as well and it's right and suspended from his position whilst the investigations into those continue. and he's no longer a conservative mp as i said. with regard to work coaches, they do a fantastic job, actually. and they deserve an enormous amount of praise for what they do because they're doing something actually incredible. i mean they are transforming peoples lives. moving someone off welfare into work is an incredibly special moment. and any of us who have worked with them or heard about their stories and talked with constituents, colleagues. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this friday, april 19th. i'm ali vitali in for jonathan

move comes less than a week after iran launched 300 missiles and drones towards israel. that was done in retaliation for a deadly strike earlier this month and iran's attack, however, was mostly thwarted with help from u.s. and several arab and western allies. yesterday before israel's attack iran's foreign affairs minister reiterated her warning. it's not clear what the country will do, but the u.s. embassy in jerusalem has issued a security alert asking their employees and families to restrict their travel out of an abundance of caution. joining us live from tel aviv is nbc news correspondent raf sanchez. what more can you tell us, and are you hearing anything from israeli officials on this? >> well, ali, for nearly a week now the world has been waiting to see how israel would respond to that massive barrage of

israeli drones and missiles. israel carried out a limited strike near the city of isfahan, that's south of tehran. they're saying at this point israel is assessing the effectiveness and damage of this strike. israel is not officially claiming responsibility. it is a no comment at this point from the israeli defense forces. and it is not clear right now whether israel carried out this strike using jet aircraft, using long-range missiles, or as "the new york times" was possibly reporting, drones potentially launched from inside of iran itself that may become clearer as the hours unfold. u.s. officials saying the united states was not involved in this strike. there appears to have been some kind of general heads up that israel's response was coming, and that is really important, ali, because it gave american forces across the middle east time to make sure that their own

as soon as that happens, we will be bringing that to you. but i'm going to bring in our ali who was listening to that interview and has been analyzing the events of the last few days. i mean we have heard iranian state media, iranian officials down-playing what happened. the professor saying nothing happened actually. i've called friends in isfahan, i'm here in tehran, absolutely nothing has happened. what exactly did they do? >> i think it's clear something happened. the united states were given full warning of it, and they have confirmed, u.s. officials confirmed to many outlets. they were always determined to carry one out. they targeted isfahan. we know that. if nothing did happen whatsoever, why are you there for so many state-related social media channels and media