put together a nuclear weapon peer kit can do so. it only takes a matter of days or weeks for them to cross that threshold. what will the impact of tonight's strikes be on iranians supreme leader. will it elicit a different kind of response from the world and the united states. i think we have to really be clear what this is. the hope from u.s. military officials that i've been speaking about since -- speaking to since saturday night is that this is not the beginning of award. the u.s. has been working, u.s. central command has been working very hard since october 7th and since iran's proxies have been firing on hundreds of times at u.s. military installations and now in the red sea with the houthi's to keep this from spreading. the question now is how will around respond? this was a limited strike by
how paying close attention to how iran responds and bear in mind that if iran does wish, in fact, to de—escalate or sort of have a less flamboyant response, they may still respond quietly, covertly or in the ways they might have in the past, you know, through proxies for example. and that would be just as concerning to the us in terms of the risk us interests, allied interests in the region and they would need to be aware of that response potentially as well. �* , , ., ., ., well. there's been a lot of talk recently _ well. there's been a lot of talk recently since, - well. there's been a lot ofj talk recently since, really, the beginning of the month for the beginning of the month for the potential of miscalculation on either side here, either israel or iran. there were reports from officials that seemed to indicate that israel may have miscalculated its strike which really started this whole string of events on a diplomatic compound in syria. israel did not see that is something that would be escalatory. clearly, iran saw
strategy from the beginning. i mean he hasn't had to go to all these court proceedings in the four cases against him, but he goes and protests that that he's being railroaded, that that's a that this is an unfair all unfair the prosecution's this is how he's running for president. he's using this case as well. i think he's doing pretty well on the polls. that's about his presidential campaign. that's not really about this jury selection gender for the the foreign prison posted on social media site yesterday about a foxhole saying they're catching undercover liberal activists, line hi to the judge in order to get on the trump jury, geoff and made the argument that last night that it's one thing to trash michael cohen or a public figure, but to go after juror like this, does it matter that trump is quoting someone else? i mean, in in terms of a potential effect on the gag order? >> no. no, he's not supposed to repost things either that do what he's prohibited from doing, which includes
that caused the explosions that have been reported by iranian press and we also need to clarify that these explosions occurred in the province where the nuclear facility is but we have no confirmation that the facility itself was struck and there is no sense from the well-placed sources that i'm speaking to that who do have the latest information on what just occurred that this is the beginning of something larger from the israeli side, this looks like a limited strike explosions in the province obviously symbolic because that is the heart and home of the iran nuclear program but no indication right now about what those targets were we are basing our knowledge of those explosions on what the iranian press is saying at this moment but a well-placed u.s. military source says this is likely a
in terms of this particular confrontation at this moment and we have to caveat that this could be a sort of put a hold on this for tat at the moment. >> signs of cooler heads, perhaps nic robertson. thank you so much there in jerusalem are paula hancocks in beirut as nick was just sort of saying, i have fairly limited strike israel significant of course, in terms of striking a rainy and sold directly, but not in terms of how big it was by the look of it the thing is it's a cycle of retaliation walk us through how we got here well, michael, i think it's important ready to go back to the beginning of this month when we're looking at this current uptick in the in the for tat between israel and iran and spina shallow war between the two years. >> but april 1, israel did carry out was a suspected of
they if a juror gets revealed and they're upset, is there anything they can do about it? >> all all you can do is replace them with an alternative, but you can't come up with more alternates in it's over. yeah, it's a mistrial what could be a mistrial well okay jennifer rodgers. thank you so much of tubingen's well, jill jill hunt, like taylor. thank you. appreciate it. >> more. now on how the trial judge is conducting proceedings so far in the tempo, he seems to be setting for it all for that we're joined by johnny jones, the third former chief judge for the us middle district of pennsylvania. judge jones, how do you think judge merchan is handling? the trial? so far and the fact that the jury, aside from seven more alternates, has already several more alternatives that have already been seated i think he's doing a good job. >> anderson these are hard cases at the beginning because the lawyers tend to spar and there's a lot of kind of combat at the beginning and laurie here's tend to be two clinical at times in what they do and jury selection. and then after a while it's sort of collapses of its own weight.
the first time that iran had attacked israel from iranian soil. so, that some of the background for what we might be seeing tonight. michael, just going back to the us here, politically, the president biden and for the white house and for the administration, how much appetite do you think there is for a broader conflict orfor israel opening up new fronts in this war? we know, we have been hearing from president biden time and time again, telling the israeli government make sure you show some restraint here. there seems to be very little appetite for much escalation. i would say zero appetite, actually. i think one of the us goals since the beginning of the gaza conflict has really been to prevent this very scenario, prevent the widening all the sort of regional escalation of the conflict because president biden doesn't want to see the us dragged into
together in the situation room by secure videoconference to the pentagon. number one, you are trying to ascertain what happened. what were their targets? was there success in hitting those targets? number two, you are taking extra precautions to secure u.s. personnel and military facilities across the region and diplomatic facilities, by the way. we have vulnerable facilities to potential iranian and places like iraq. so job number one of any administration is to make sure we check on the defenses of our personnel in the region. then i think you are undertaking a diplomatic strategy, reaching out to israel because if you did do this, is this it, or is this the beginning of further escalation? reaching out to other countries in the region, the arab states. what are they hearing? trying to send messages to the iranians. de-escalate, avoid this becoming a regional war. those are your main priorities. understanding what is
country. >> michael, great to talk to you as always. >> thank you so much for being here. joining us now, rabbi hymens from the of bel air in los angeles. rabbi, i want to put to you a point that i was talking to trey about that everything changed, obviously, on october the seventh with those absolutely abominable terrorist attacks. >> and then we have this unprecedented attack by iran. how difficult a time these unprecedented times, how difficult it is this for anybody who jewish anybody living in israel. >> like what? how do people say to you they are coping with these extraordinary times? >> and that's exactly what they're doing. they're. and why are they coping? because they have no choice. you see, israel, since its beginning, has always been at war. every single child, when they reach 18, becomes a soldier, they become leaders.
limited, low-level war. this could be the flashpoint. >> thank you for that analysis . it as we reported, this is a developing story. we woke up in the early hours of the morning to learn israel launched an attack on iran. israel said from the beginning of this week that they would respond. the war cabinet has been leading virtually every single day and we've been hearing from them, strong language that they have no choice but to respond. in many ways, the united states, britain, western allies , new on some levels that this is coming. we've been hearing from american officials and sources who say that they had been informed, they were not surprised, something that they would feel comfortable with, the fact that they have