Im again, go under hash. Think people are allowed to speak about me and i havent again, going with the judge, the judge as a conflict with the worst ive ever seen and it has to end with the judge the gag order has to come off. I shouldnt be allowed to speak every time i come out to speak to you, i want to be open because we did they nothing wrong. I showed you yesterday 30 stores, 32 stories of experts, legal experts, and i dont know how one the other way. Very juicers but legal experts say very strongly is no case dislocation. Who brought trump did nothing wrong. And they say its showing trump did nothing wrong they already get rid of the conflict with the judge because thats something that he cannot do anything about. Its wrong. Its wrong. And the second thing is after we released them again or theyve taken away my Constitutional Rights to speak and added to it speaking to you. I have a lot to say. They can continue to make up lies and Everything Else they live there but im not allowed this pain. And i want to be able to speak to the friend that depressed and everybody else so why am i about telling the truth only tally been true then down donald trump, right . Theyre headed into court today for Jury Selection. He made a statement before entering complaining about the gag order that is in place over him. Not very gag. Right there. I will say he very much spoke his mind and he i think was misleading people about what this gag order is. Its about some very specific things, correct . He says i shouldnt be allowed to speak. He is allowed to speak. There are three categories of speech that forbid trump to speak route speaking publicly are directly about known are reasonably foreseeable witnesses in the case that hes not allowed to speak specifically concerning their potential participation in the case. The another one is speaking publicly are directly about prosecutors prosecutors other than bragg and the case about Staff Members of Braggs Office in the core and about Family Members of prosecutors staffers, or the court, and talking directly about the jurors and prospective jurors in the case, he can attack bragg only one so you can defend himself. All he wants. You can say that he thinks the case is unfair. All he wants, you can talk about what he calls a conflict a judge, though we can fact check that all he wants. These are the three categories that are part of our the gag order. And hes got a lot of leeway outside of it. Jury witnesses family, members of people involved in just one other quick thing. He continues to say, this is they prosecution from the white house that is not true at all. This is a New York State case will stop. The thing is hes not gagged. He has been talking and talking and talking head. Hes been going out for the judge, going after just the prosecutor. But there is this other big issue because there could be a stronger or a fine or something that comes forward because of something donald trump did say about the jury on truth, social. Lets get to gen brynn jin grass, who is outside of the court has been following all of these details. Brynn, what can you tell us after hearing those statements . And probably the longest statements weve heard actually from him in the last day or two yeah. I mean, i have to be honest to there. I didnt fully here exactly what he was saying. I cant hear it in my ear, but essentially im sure this is something the thing that could likely be brought up when courts starts up at 9 30 this morning. Remember, prosecutors have already said they believe trump has violated a gag order seven more times. That was after the initial so time they brought up before the judge saying that they wanted to find trump were three different. So Social Media Posts and they wanted to find him 1,000 each for those posts. And the the judge rather said that he would take that up, but a hearing on tuesday, so lets see what they bring up on tuesday. Lets see what they bring up in court when it gets started at 9 30 this morning. Anything he did just say outside of that court room certainly the gag order is a major issue for these prosecutors. We know that at the end of chord yesterday, trumps defense team essentially said, hey, listen we want to know the order of the witnesses that youre going to start with once this trial gets going, and the prosecution said no because they dont believe th trump will Nogo On Social Dia and talk about these witnesses. So its very possible that e public doesnt know trumps defense team doesnt know the order of these witnesses of course, they know the witness list, just not the order. And the judge agreed with the prosecution with this with this request that the prosecution essentially made so the gag order is a major issue. Shibat again, well see if it comes up when urt gets started in, notoo long from now, 25 mites. Okay. Brynn. Thank you so much. I think when you when you look at this case its in particular, can you just give us a sense of where we are right now because we do have the 12 jurors, what is left before we believe there may be Opening Statements on monday yeah. So theres a couple of things labs essentially, they need to find more alternate. There is one alternate its unclear how much the judge wants initially, he said six, but its possible they dont need that many, but that is the objective for today, at least for this morning, is to find those alternate jurors. We know that there are 20 he two jurors that are going to come forward and essentially go through that 42 questionnaire as they arch for these extra alternes. Defense and the prosecution had ten strikes when it came to the jurors, what were understanding is when it comes to the alternates, both sides actually have two strikes for each alternate for each person. Their questioning for these positions so it is expected to not take too too long. They do think that they will wrap this up before the lunch break and then into the afternoon. Its possible the judge so theyll get into what is called a sandoval hearing. And essentially what that is is figuring out exactly what of trumps legal history can be addressed if donald trump takes the witness stand, we kn from previo filing, the osecution has said that ey would like to get inhe verdicts from his cil case. Also the Defamation Case with e. Jean carroll and some other cases. So this will also be discussed possibly today according to the judge. And then if that is all done, then possibly we will be seeing Opening Statements on monday, guys. All right. Lets see what happens first and foremost right now as theyre heading into court, Brynn Is Standing by for a sprint. Thank you so much as bringing cnn legal analyst elie honig on this. So donald trump speaks, donald trump. As you heard, la, he went off about the gag order saying that gag order has to be lifted. Hes facing a lot of questions and is going to face a hearing about did he crossed the line and how much next week. What do you think of this extra element that weve learned up of prosecutors saying they dont want to they dont want to say who their for its first witnesses could be because of what donald all trump could do so kate, thats an example of one way were donald trump could actually suffer a meaningful consequences of violating the gag order because prosecutors, as weve been discussing, they now alleged that donald trump in his social media post has violated the gag order ten times, and it looks like theyre right in most or all hello, those allegations, the problem though is one of enforcement and discipline. L that the law aows the judge to do is either a imposed fines, but under the new york law that the da cited only a maximum of 1,000 per incident. Thats nogoing to matter to donald trp. And then the which i think is very the up, unrealistic. And i just dont think is realistically in play here now, the thing for donald trump though, where hes suffering, is now the da is refusing to give over to the Defense Lawyers the order of witnesses, and thats a big deal because if youre Donald Trumps team, you head into this weekend, youve seen their witness list, but theres dozens of names on that list. You need to prepare hair for whoever youre going to be crossexamining potentially on monday or tuesday. And if the das office is unwilling to give you the order and the judges unwilling to make them give you the order because they dont want Trump Tweeting about them, then donald trump is sort of leaving his own lawyers adrift. So theres a real consequence to that elie honig, thanks for jumping on. Ali brynn is outside court, are going to be following it as courts about to get underway and just a few moments, well be bringing you updates throughout the morning. You cnns Breaking News. All right. We will continue to follow the Breaking News from the new york courthouse more donald trump, just walked in there. There was a lot that a sect about what he said. In the meantime, more Breaking News overnight, of course, He Israeli Strike inside iran, apparently a Military Installation near the city of its behind. Now, the fact that israel and iran seemed to be targeting each other in the open is a new stage in their decadesold conflict but the most important developed this morning, there seems to be the fact that israel and iran are both trying to downplay this in the world, largely seems relieved a short time ago, us Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken said the United States was not involved in any offensive operations. He also said this you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack but our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also deescalating tensions, avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus all right, cnn has learned that the us was informed before the strike. Jeremy diamond isnt tel aviv, Christiane Amanpour standing by in london first, jeremy, whats the latest from Inside Israel . Well, absolutely no word from the israeli military, from the Israeli Government about these strikes overnight, they seem intend to stay absolutely quiet about what was actually done by israel overnight, we have heard reports of explosions over that city of isfahan with iranian officials saying that at least three drones were intercepted over isfahan is fine, is, of course, very important because not only is it home to a military base, but also to a Nuclear Facility, although there are no indications that that Nuclear Facility was targeted, Syrian State Media has also reporting that israel targeted its Air Defense Assets in inside of syria. We also know of course, that iran maintains a significant Military Presence inside of syria. And so where does this leave us ultimately . It leaves us with the fact that over the course of the last week, we have heard israeli officials looking for response tha wasng could thread the neee here here tt could makelear that this irani attack over t ekend, that thfirst of its kind to target israeli soil unanswered. And so ts sends a message that, that attack was not going to gunanswered, but it also avoids escalating this conflict into all out war between iran and israel. And as of now a regional intelligence source is indicating to us that iran does not intend to respond, but rather that this for tat between israel and iran, for them so minutes, at least in terms of direct confrontation appears to be over and that is significant because last night we had heard the Iranian Foreign minister warning that an Israeli Attack on iranian soil bill would draw an immediate and an overwhelming Military Response from iran. And clearly that has not happened. So it seems at least for the moment that we have hit that kind of balance of the ability to deescalate this Going Forward and the United States is now instead focusing on a Global Coalition so further isolate iran, which very much suits the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin NetanyahuJeremy Diamond in tel aviv. Thank you also with us, as john mentioned, Cnn Chief International FlankerChristiane Amanpour, because john, on that point that jeremy was making the reporting, the sense is that this is this phase, this moment, this is passed. No, its not going to escalate further, right now. The question then is, what does happen next . Well, i think its really interesting because as jeremy mentioned, the Iranian Foreign minister did tell cnn, erin burnett, last night that if there was to be an attack, it would be a responded to the president even said that the iranian president yesterday said that. So that is why they are saying that Nothing Happened so, that they dont have to follow through with retaliation. Weve also heard as jeremy said, from actually an iranian official telling the Reuters Agency that they had no plans to retaliate because the only explosions were their own. They say antiairaft Defense System andhat they intercepted and infiltration these are the words that they are using as a way to essentially try toraw a line under this, because while both sides, i mean this Needle Threading Business at some point is the thread is going to snap. Frankly, because its been a whole bunch of miscalculations attack going back in this chapter two for the first, the United States was totally surprised when it was told at the last minute that israel plan to attack that building, that consular thats facility in syria. And if you look at it, is being completely obliterated and it did in fact, take out several Senior Iranian military officials so they didnt think that that would engender an iranian response. Why . Because israels be doing this stuff for years. It has being covertly and overtly acting in order to eliminate officials over the last several years and iran never attacked and never responded so theres been a whole series of miscalculations and it looks like now they are trying to say, i can do it to you. You can do it to me. We can all do it to each other, but we dont want to go into all out war. That appears to be whats happening right now. I spoke to an israeli general just before this attack happened. Said israel had to do, needed to do three things. One, respond to last weekends aerial barrage from iran to not take its focus of the war in gaza. And three, not lose the sudden goodwill that israel has gained from the International Community after iran struck it. Remember . Number israel was definitely on the defensive over. Its its counteroffensive in gaza, which is causing so much civilian casualties the g7 was meeting when the strike happened overnight, Antony Blinken spoke today and was really clear over and over and over again talking about deescalation. How do you think World Leaders are looking at this right now as they see this backandforth, but they also see that neither israel or iran are on the attack verbally well, i mean, they presumably hope like presumably everybody does, that this is not going to escalate whats happened over the last week anyway is now contained we dont know what will happen in the future because there is an actual hot continuing israel against gaza, against hamas. So that is a major issue that continues and iran, although the us and Israeli Intelligence confirmed that was no evidence to suggests that iran had anything to do with the slaughter of october 7, nonetheless, iran is an Interested Party watching this war in gaza and this war is causing a huge amount of anxiety, not just in the western alliance, but around the region. As you can imagine, as the pictures and the reality of 34,000 plus dead people in gaza in six months, the vast majority of those, even according to the israeli general, i spoke to the vast majority of those being civilians so this has two boils down now to some kind of leadership in the world to try to fix whats happening between israel and gaza. And theres no suggestion that this may have been even yesterday. Qatar, which has been the one essential mediator, certainly with the hamas, sayyed is saying its going to have to reevaluate its role because it doesnt believe its being treated as an actual and good faith and then a load of Paul Politics is derailing the Mediation Effect Events as they stand now because john, thank you so much for coming out with great to see you because hes going to have much more of course, throughout the day. And her on reporting still ahead for us President Biden said the United States would not 14 Israeli Offensive opera