Overnight, a us official told cnn, israel carried out a Military Strike deep inside iran good, this escalate the already tense situation in the middle east Jury Selection in Donald TrumpsHush Money Trial could wrap up today. Opening statements in this store, a case are on track to begin monday, plus on the house floor, a critical test for a longstalled foreign aid bill for israel and ukraine hello, im wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening now a decadeslong shadow war between israel and iran spills out in the open. Us officials dow say israel launched and overnight strike on iran, appearing to target a Military Facility some 200 miles from the Capital Tehran in the hours since the attack, there has been a nearly unified Global Response arounds allies like china and russia echoing calls from israels western supporters to show restraint. And avoid a wider regional conflict. Cnn is covering the story from around the globe our chief International Security correspondent, Nick Paton Walsh, is Tracking Developments from london our National Security correspondent, natasha bertrand, theres over at the pentagon and then tasha, let me start with you. Whats the Biden Administration saying about the strike inside iran . Well, if theyre being very tight lift so far this morning about this strikes Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken would not even acknowledge that it was, in fact, and israeli strike inside iran saying only that the us had nothing to do with this offensive operation, but reiterating that the us does not want to see the conflict in the region escalate it and essentially calling for peace and for calm as we move forward with this, but luck the administration was warned by these rayleighs up prior to them carrying out the strike according to us official, it may may not have been days beforehand. It was a fairly soon before these rallies conducted the strike, but still the heated the us calls to give them a heads up before they moved forward. With this strike. And the us made very clear to them as well that they did not endorse this attack. Again, they have jim trying to deescalate tensions in the region. And while theyre not outright condemning it, they are still reiterating here that a fullon war between israel and iran is obviously not something that anyone wants to see at this point. Now, us officials warn conversations repeatedly this week with their israeli counterparts, including here at the pentagon, secretary of defense, lloyd austin. He spoke to Israeli Defense minister yoav gone just yesterday and they discussed or rons regional escalation. Its unclear if god previewed the Israeli Military action two secretary austin, but the message has been consistent here. They dont want to see this escalate any further and they importantly do not want iran or anyone else in the international community, of course, to think that the us had any thing to do with this wolf all right. Attached her step by. I want to bring in Nick Paton Walsh right now. Nick, youre monitoring the reaction from iran. What are you hearing . Yeah. Look, its been comparatively muted this morning from iranian officials or lack of transparency, frankly on the damage done. Some Military Official suggesting were talking about three drones potentially intercepted another suggesting that the noise is heard over is for a city that has some key military and Nuclear Facilities are rounded, but that was essentially related to air defenses are targeting a suspicious objects. So we dont really know exactly whether the iranians are going to admit what was hit here. And that may play very well into their hands what are the key advantages of being an autocracy is you get to control the information within your own society. And so iran looks like for now it is essentially trying to say that israel didnt really manage to hit anything and what happened in the skies over Iswaran Last Night was a bit of a nothing burger, but still, that is a marked difference from just hours before this strike what we heard from their Foreign Minister in terms of the ferocity of irans response, where it attacked in case that doesnt the israeli regime, for behind embarks on adventurism. Again and takes action against the interests of iran for the next response from us will be immediate and at a maximum level now, obviously from israel so far, weve heard very little, no official comment. And i think that perhaps reverting to type pair during what you refer to as the shadow war, where they would do things inside iran that were clearly israel, but not publicly admit it. Im referring to the assassination of Nuclear Scientists and various targeted covert ops that weve seen over the past decade. So we have here clearly a calibrated israeli response designs to perhaps show iran that they can atwill penetrate their air defenses nothing so severe that iran honest, perhaps forced to publicly declare their rage and make good on those threats and retaliation. You saw there. And so we may be entering acquire two chapter here, but no mistake here. Wolf taboo of these two countries directly attacking each other as now broken. Its been a proxy war for many, many, many years, but also think its fair to say right now, israel with gaza are ongoing, doesnt need a massive confrontation with an iranian proxy to its north, hezbollah in lebanon. Patel initially iran has seen its Military Prowess begins to ebb and so may not want that direct confrontation either. And above all, the United States, key israeli ally does not need to be dragged into the middle east in yet another war as election season for President Joe Biden gets closer and closer. Are Nick Paton Walsh are reporting for his dick. Thank you very much. I want to go to Jeremy Diamond. Hes joining us live from tel aviv right now. Jeremy, give us a little bit more on the reaction from israel well, well, it has been absolute silence both from the Israeli Government and its military. No word from the mossad either, which we know in the past has conducted some some similar Clandestine Operations inside of iran before and that is all very intentional. The Israeli Government and choosing to carry out this limited response, also wanted to do so in a way that did it with very limited public fanfic here, in a way that sent a message to iran directly that the attack that iran carried out on israel over the weekend would not go unanswered, but while also allowing iran effectively to save face and what nick was just reporting on in terms of the iranian reaction and the way in which they are kind of spinning this to avoid having to retaliate further is exactly the reason why we are seeing the kind of silence that we are hearing from Israeli Government officials its also important to keep in mind, of course, that this response came after days of pressure from the United States and other israeli allies to carry out a limited response. Lets the carry out a response that would thread that needle of both sending the message but also avoiding a spiraling this conflict further into an allout war between iran and israel. And for now at least it appears that that kind of delicate balance has indeed been achieved. And i also think its important to note that the israeli public over the course of this week and public polling has made clear that they didnt want to see Military Reaction in iran that would risk undermining the Israeli Alliance with United States and with the other partners who helped carry out that very Successful Air defense operation. Over the weekend. And so clearly that is ultimately the direction that the Israeli Government chose here, well, sorry, Jeremy Diamond in tel aviv for us, jeremy, thank you very much. Well continue to monitor whats going on and get back to you. Theres Breaking News here in washington unfolding right now. The House Of Representatives has just voted to advance foreign aid bills that had just been passed prado roger was up on capitol hill. I take this rule vote, this procedural vote manoa past. Can you describe your level of frustration what do you make . Okay. I havent here. We threw off. Were trying to get a question to Marjorie Taylor greene here because she of course, is a key player at this moment, because she has threatened to actually try to move forward on a motion to oust the sitting House Speaker, and that can happen at any moment. And she could call for a vote that could happen to them too. Just let of days. And the question will be how democrats will vote because at the moment theyre at least two republicans who plan to vote to essentially push him out from the speakership because of his handling of this major aid package, 95 billion that includes aid to ukraine, in particular, which has caused this rowboat on the right flank and maj. Marjorie taylor greene, i just tried to ask her, is today the day is today. Today. Shes going to actually move forward and push ahead with a vote. She would not ask you that. Im not going to answer any questions. Lets actually kind of unusual wolf, she has been answering lots of questions all along. But this time she didnt want to do and i asked her why shes on has any questions. She would not say so. Well see what that actually means here. But what if this key procedural vote just passed . As in the house, im pulling up the vote right now. It looks like it was 300 and to 94. That was the vote to actually move ahead on this this aid package. Now, this is why this is such a significant and interesting breakdown. This is a bipartisan vote. Typically these procedural votes are done along straight It Party Lines that Majority Party votes for the Minority Party votes against it. Thats the way its been done in the house for years and years and years. This time is different because a deep republican divisions over this foreign aid package. Remember, never, never republicans simply dont want this to come forward and in this vote, there were republicans who voted against that. They were 55 republicans who voted against it. That is a significant number of republicans. There were 100 republicans who voted for it, but democrats because of their desire to move ahead on this aid package for ukraine. In particular, 165 of them ultimately supported this rule to Going Forward, meaning that this bill to overall aipac okay. Well get a vote on the house for tomorrow and it can be approved along by a Majority Vote in the United States houses, which is what we expect. So a lot of moving parts here war, but the two main things were watching here, what ultimately happens in a final vote on this bill, which is expected to pass the house tomorrow. They dont have to go over to the senate. The senate have to give final approval back to the center of the president to sign into law after months and months and months battling to get this across the finish line. And then what happens to the future of the speaker of the house . Kenny ward off this revolt on the far right and will democrats come to his defense . All key questions here. But as you saw right now, as Marjorie Taylor greene was leaving this vote, she did not want to comment about whether today was a de she would have to call for that vote or what our thinking was in trying to kick out the speaker and i just wanted to clarify, amanda, will the vote tomorrow when the floor of the House Of Representatives combine all of the foreign aid for israel, ukraine, taiwan, and other programs into one vote or will they be separate votes on these individual packages so its actually going be separate votes initially. So this is just how its going to happen. Each those votes are we for bills, those are the three countries that you mentioned. Theres a fourth bill as well that includes some other measures including food to try to force the sale of tiktok from the Chinese Company bytedance danns, if not running to ban it in app stores in the United States, all thats going be after its voted on individually in the house it will be all wrapped together in one package and then sent over to the senate, which will give final approval and said to the president s desk in that process also is whats causing that revolt on the right, that a lot of republicans who did not want to spend any more money for ukraine and said that they absolutely should not be tied to aid to israel in particular. But the speaker of the house, recognizing he had to get the votes and also the speaker changing his own view on ukraine aid after getting brave, and sensitive classified briefings about the nature of that war within against russia has been concerned, become a staunch advocate of getting more money to ukraine and recognizing the vote simply were not there to separate these and send individual pieces of these larger package over the senate. So you need democratic votes. So we decided to use this process to tie them all together. Now because of those moves, this bill is on his way to become law and the speaker of the house potentially could stay as speaker the house with the support of democrats if they decide to do that, jim, it looks like here it will pass the senate to be sure. Manu raju, up on capitol hill. Thanks very much right now. I want to bring in mark esper, who served as Defense Secretary during the trump administration. Shes also now a cnn Global Affairs analyst. Mr. Secretary, thanks so much for joining us. So whats your reaction to what about erasure is just reporting that the house will now vote on these aid packages and then eventually lump them all together as it sends the package to the senate for approval. Well, good morning. Now. Look, i think its very good news. Its the right decision. And frankly, its a Courageous Decision by Speaker Johnson. He obviously is taking on a number of members of his coalition, the far right, the Freedom Caucus numbers yeah, two dozen, three dozen or so. And the boat shows that, but im encouraged by it. I was also encouraged to hear if i heard a menn numbers correctly, that threequarters of republicans voted for this package. So it tells you that an easy majority of republicans still believe that americas leadership in the world matters and that we need to help ukraine. And of course, israel and support taiwan as well. So i think this is a very good day. Hopefully, hes right in terms of the timeline things moving quickly tomorrow through the senate and then on the president s desk. And this will be very good news for ukraine. And im sure Vladimir Putin is not happy sitting in moscow right now. Yeah, the crania is desperately de, this us military assistance. And now it looks like its gonna be Going Forward relatively quickly. Secretary esper, i also want to get your thoughts on that. This is airstrike deepen sayyed around right now satellite images, weve just obtained show no extensive damage to that iranian isfahan airbase. What do you make of that . Yeah. Look, i think it was a very restrained action which probably accomplish what they wanted to achieve. This wasnt about destroying iranian infrastructure or killing iranians. It was really about sending a message. And the message being that we can touch you, we can reach deepen de iran, and we can hit very sensitive sites because its for khan is your reporters noted . The earlier is where theres a significant part of Irans Nuclear complex. Theres an airbase there that contains both the jet fighters and air defense batteries. And of course theres a Missile Production Factor there as well. So theyve pretty much told the iranians, look, we can reach out and touch you and, you know, this has been a good week from from israels perspective at this point now because last saturday, theyd beat back a 350 or so missile drone attack against them, which showed a how extraordinary iran, israels defenses were. But defense is not deterrence. And what they need to do is reset deterrence. And you do that through two things. One demonstrating will and capability and by attacks ron, despite iran warnings up to the last minute, and then being able to reach deepened iran, theyve demonstrated that capability. Now the key thing will be as is deterrence, restore, restore and did we block, did they block iran from establishing a new normal whereby anytime something happens against is irans interests, they strike israel with Ballistic Missiles. Only time will tell the israe