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Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation 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 so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israels attack was at a Military Base near the City Of Isfahan right here is beyond a very interesting, beautiful place does have Nuclear Facilities nearby. Those apparently not the targets at all. A Military Base we are covering this from every angle this morning, Jeremy Diamond isnt tel aviv. Kylie out, what are the State Department . Kevin liptak at the white house. Jeremy, first you for the latest from israel well, listen, john, still no official word or confirmation of this attack by the Israeli Government since or the israeli military, it is absolute silence over here as it relates to these reported explosions overnight. But what we do know from both iranian officials as well while a syrian state media is that Air Defense Assets in syria appear to have been struck by israel. And in iran in that City Of Isfahan that you were saying there were reported explosions at an a Military Base there, the Nuclear Facilities in that city were not struck. And there are reports of three drones having been downed by Iranian Air Defense assets, but both sides here are really saying quite quiet in terms of public statements, and that appears to be the intention here. This we have been hearing over the course of the last six days since iran carried out its strike on israel, that israeli officials were looking for a way to thread the needle here to send a message of deterrence to ensure that this attack by iran did not go unanswered. But also at the same time try and find a way to avoid the escalation that could potentially lead to an allout war between iran and israel. And ultimately this response israel appears to have achieved that aim at least for now, with a regional intelligence source telling us that this for tat between iran and israel is over, that iran does not at this stage anticipate responding further. And so because of the fact that this was not publicly messaged, this is also of course, allowing that International Coalition that anti Iran Coalition that we have seen blossom once again this week, be able to move forward as we heard the Secretary Of State, tony blinken talking about more ways for the g7 for the United States to move forward with a coalition against the ron to restrain a rons activity in the region. And also of course, to exact further diplomatic pressure on the country all right. Jeremy diamond in tel aviv. Jeremy, thank you. Is there just minutes ago as Jeremy Diamond just mentioned, us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken finished speaking at the g7 ministerial meeting, making clear their focus is on d escalating tension in the middle east, and that the us, he repeated several times was not involved with israel in the attack cnns kylie atwood is at the State Department for us what else did you hear from Secretary Blinken . I he was asked over and over and over again about the strike from israel into iran yeah, thats right. The main line, as you said, is that he said that the us was not involved in any Offensive Operations. And then he went on to actually not even directly acknowledged are directly connected firmed that there even were israeli strikes against iran overnight, calling those reports and saying only that the us is really focused on deescalate relation. He said that has been the focus that will continue to be the focus. And essentially embodied that commitment by not commenting on what happened overnight, by not giving extra to refuel to this fire that has already been lit, perhaps a tacit acknowledgment that the us believes that this was a measured response by israel block to watch and see kind of how that plays out over the course of the next few hours here in washington, as we talked to more us officials about this. But the other thing that he did was really focused in on the g7 commitment to israel. After what he called that unprecedented attack from iran against israel over the weekend saying that the g7 is committed to israels security, committed to making sure that israel is able to defend defend itself, and committing to Holding Iran Accountable for that attack that happened over the weekend. The other thing that he did was pivot to the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas us calling on hamas to come to an agreement for a ceasefire. Listened to what he said the only thing the only thing standing between the gazan people and a ceasefire is hamas its rejected. Generous proposals from israel it seems more interested in regional conflict the other thing that he was asked about were reports that there had been Human Rights Abuses by elements of the Israeli Police forces. You didnt comment specifically on those . As reports, but he did say that he has made a determination when it comes to israeli Human Rights Abuses. And he said, we can expect that determination in the coming days. All right. Kylie atwood with all of that. Thank you so much. Joining us from the State Department. Appreciate it. Okay. Lets go from state to the white house right now. Were kevin liptak is standing by for the very latest from there kevin, what are you hearing . From officials are right now to be frank, not much. And this is sort of a tightlipped approach that you saw from Secretary Blinken that youre seeing from other parts of the administration in it does reflect i think this attempt to put some distance between the us and the decision by the israelis to strike back because of course we know that President Biden in a conversation with Prime Minister netanyahu last weekend, was counseling restraint when it comes to responding to the iranian attack, his message was essentially that the israeli attempt to intercept those missiles from iran was successful, and that a Military Response might not be necessary. And he did try and reinforce that message just yesterday, but clementine, new sanctions on iran essentially trying to say that there are other nonmilitary ways to punish that country. But i think in reality, when you were talking two american officials over the course of the last one . Week no one was under the impression that israel would do nothing. And they view among american officials was that this would be a limited response and at least on the surface right now it does appear that thats whats happened. Now, President Biden, his under are two overarching goal here is trying to prevent this conflict from escalating, furthering. You heard that very directly from the Secretary Of State himself. We do understand from american officials that they did receive a headsup from israel before they launched this retaliatory strike last night, but officials have been clear that they didnt endorse it. They didnt greenlight it, making very clear to point out that this was not a us offensive operation. And of course, President Biden in that conversation with netanyahu last week, made very clear that the us would not participate in any offensive action against iran. So now the real question Going Forward for officials here for President Biden is what happens next . Does this cause further escalation . This for tat or focus now returned to the war in gaza us officials have made clear that they still have those disagreements with the israelis over humanitarian aid, over a planned Ground Offensive in rafah. And certainly those issues have yet to be resolved. Kd kevin, its great to see you. Also another question is, when will we hear directly from the president himself in reacting to the strikes this for tat and where it stands right now, its great to see you. Thank you so much. Hes gonna be standing by and were going to have much more more on this Breaking News throughout the shope. John. All right. On a fasttrack for Opening Statements in the criminal case against donald trump is unusual tensions boil over between the prosecution defense, and then new details about a plot for a School Shooting that police say they stopped before it could happen theres new ally in the fight against climate change. This is new car business perfect. 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Com the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs presented by Geico Begin Tomorrow On Tbs you continue to follow the Breaking News coming out of the middle east israel hits back retaliating against iran overnight, directly hitting inside iran the First Official word coming from the Biden Administration on this coming from the Secretary Of State, tony blinken telling reporters just now that the United States has not been involved in any Offensive Operations and not going beyond that, despite the questions he was facing. Lets talk about all of this joining us right now is seen and military analysts retired Us Air Force Colonel cedric leighton, its good to see you. Thank you so much for coming in. You say this strike confirms that word. A watershed moment in the middle east explains cedric yeah. What good morning. The basic difference here is from what weve seen before and in recent years is that for the first time, israel and iran are attacking each other theyre sending nat proxy forces. Theyre sending themselves through their weapons directly into battle from their respective territories. Now, that doesnt mean that this is going to escalate Out Of Control or anything like that. But what is different is that these two countries are doing away with the pretense of working through proxies youre working In The Shadows such as with cyber campaigns and things like that, those things In The Shadows are still going to go on. But now things are a bit more out in the open and in essence, theres a bit of a fig leaf that has actually disappeared from the way these countries conduct their conflict. And what do you think of tony blinken . Response and reaction this morning . A lot that he did not want to address very clearly, not even directly confirming that there was a strike overnight. What do you take from that . Yeah, thats very interesting. I think the United States and Secretary Blinken is probably reflecting this. I think the United States wants to a kind of be in a position where it can serve as a bridge between iran and israel i obviously the United States is supporting israel in a defensive dance, but they are not supporting Offensive Operations. And theyre using the abilities that they have, the connections that they have. Not only to defend israel, but also to work on the diplomatic track. And what that really means is that through intermediaries, they are talking to the iranians. They are trying to defuse tension fins and it seems to be at the moment, at least in both sides interests that these tensions do not escalate. And thats i think what were seeing at this point lets talk about what at least is known right now of what was hit, what was targeted where and where not, i guess the strike triggered or rons air Defense Systems in doing so, is it possible have we learned have you learned anything about their capabilities from this . Well, we knew that a lot of things about the uranian air Defense Systems, but every time theres a situation like this, kate, you have the time to learn more about what theyre doing or what theyre not doing, or what theyre capable of so what this shows to me is that the Iranian Air Defense systems are nowhere near the quality and the ability give the israeli or Defense Systems, the israeli or Defense System is basically a three layered Defense System that handles everything from the low distance threats all the way to along intercontinental type threats. And thats the kind of system that is basically integrated in his, of course, also integrated at least it was in this last instance with the us and with other countries. The Iranian Air Defense system is not integrated with other countries, at least not yet, although it does use technologies from places like russia i, but the other part of this is, is that its not a Defense System that seems to cover the entire country is not effective at discerning the types of missiles and drones that the israelis probably used in this attack colonel cedric leighton. Thank you so much. Sarah. Right . I had the Trump Criminal Trial Jury is almost complete. Only the alternative need to be chosen, but there is another big issue. The judges gag order could get even tighter. Well discuss also new polling showing a couple of shakeups and the rais for the white house. Thats ahead sanity needs a safe space have a show were right and left talk to each other cnn presents an encore presentation. 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I know there is some concern really on both sides that there could be episodes moving forward, not just your typical episode in terms of a Family Member getting sick, but also with this view of can they be impartial . This is a very high profile case with a very polarizing defendant. So were going to see today is there are 22 people left of that 96 from yesterday. They are going to go through the entire process again to see if they can get one of these five alternate seat. They are going to go through the questionnaire, then youre going to see both of the sides question that now, whats interesting about the alternatives . They actually get both the prosecutor you should end the defense more strikes for the alternative than they did for the actual jury pool. They get to strikes per alternate seat. So well see how both sides end up utilizing this. But as you said, it is expected to move quickly. They are expecting this to be done possibly by midmorning. And i want to talk about monday because that is when were talking about those opening arguments. The other part of this is that its likely that we see the prosecution calling their first witnesses and some of the drama that we saw yesterday at the end of court was trumps lawyers going to the judge, going to the prosecution saying, can we have a list of those early witnesses and they were turned down. The prosecution saying they dont trust donald trump not to post about those witnesses. And the judge sided with the prosecution here. So this is usually a courtesy that is extended is not mandatory, but in this case, theyre not going to be doing this now one thing i do want to just lay out here is what we saw overall, the jury makeup so far because its really been a crosssection sharing of new yorkers. You have seed, people who are in finance, a speech therapist, you have seen people who are lawyers. You are looking at 12 people hear seven them our menn, five of them are women, and their opinions of the former president barry, it was interesting to see again, this is a very high profile case with a very high defendants can Everybody Knows who donald trump is. You had some people saying they didnt like his persona. They thought that he was a selfish person. Youd other people saying they thought it was interesting that they had read part of the deal. So again, how All Of This Plays Out will be very interesting, particularly given who the defendant is and the fact that this is the first criminal trial of a former president in us history, john. And theyre also use this issue of what donald trump continues to say and post while not in the courtroom itself. And the judge keeps saying, were going to bring this up in a hearing now that hearing is moved earlier, whats exactly going on here this is all about that gag order and what we have heard Donald Trumps say time and time again. And really, this goes to the fact that the prosecution doesnt have to share their witnesses with donald trump because hes continually posting. We have seen him do a series of posts about michael cohen, about Stormy Daniels so posted quote from a fox news hosts saying that there were the prosecution was finding or the defense was finding liberal activists who are trying to pose as jurors to get into convict donald trump. These are all things that the prosecution say are violating that gag order. Donald trump talking about, hes not allowed to talk about jurors. Hes not allowed to talk about the various witnesses. We will see what happens in this case. I know and i can tell you this from talking to trump senior advisers they have been briefed by the lawyers on just how far donald trump can go without crossing the line. They do not believe he has crossed the line yet, but obviously, the prosecution disagrees, and we will learn what the judge thinks about that. 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On a procedural vote, if you will, or votno, and block the package of foreign aid billso ukraine, isrl and taiwan. E lls and Th Ve Splintering Hoe still and still threatening their look and speakers job. Lets get the very latest cnns lauren fox is joining me nowith all of this. D lauren hse democrats came to johnsons Rescue Le Last Night in another key vote are they. Readto dit again yeah, obviouy, what you are talking about is what unfolded on the House Rules Committee last night, typically, these are rules that are passed out of this committee. This is known as the speakers committee, and it is passed out of this committee with the republican or the majority support in this case, there were three republicans who voted against the rule which meant that democrats swooped in at the last minute, voted to advance these bills. That means get this debate to the floor and we do expect that to also occur today because there are a number of republicans who have already said they are not only opposed to this legislation, they are opposed to voting on this procedural step known as the rule that means that democrats are likely going to step into advance this set of three important supplemental packages, including one for israel, one for ukraine, and one for the indopacific. Now this has been brewing for the last several weeks on capitol hill, johnson at one point seems like maybe he wasnt going to go forward. Then he announced on wednesday that he was going full steam ahead. We expect the final votes on these packages to happen tomorrow, then they will be tied together, sent to the United States senate that process could also get underway over the weekend. And then we could lets see a vote next week. And the United States senate. But obviously this has taken months. Kate and this package that we are seeing today in the house, it looks very similar to what the Senate Passed months ago out of their chamber and in the mix with all of this and still hanging out there is as speaker, johnson allows us to move forward, well, his fellow republicans, Marjorie Taylor greene, more specifically, try to oust him from his job. Were Gonna Standby because we could actually see some action today on that. Its great to see you learn. Thank you so much. Sir. All right. Thanks. Kight, the middle east and Global Leaders at the g7 united and calling for deescalation after us officials confirm israel struck iran overnight, a us source saying further direct strikes are now over. Both israeli and iranian leaders are downplaying this latest retaliation as well with one israeli leader even calling it lame in hebrew on social media, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken spoke barely an hour ago saying the g7 as a whole remains committed to deescalation. And the reason, but beyond that, he didnt comment much at all on the strike as us leaders are not condemning or endorsing it. Joining me now are cnns Global Affairs analyst kim dozer and Cnn National Security analysts, bet sanger thank you both for for coming on today as this strike happened overnight, kim, im going to begin with you, how significant is the strike by Israel Inside of iran . Well significant in the selfcontrol that the Security Cabinet showed. The war cabinet in that it could have gone for something much larger, something that had to be attributed to israel. But the way it did T Quadcopters apparently, which its used before, and attacks that iran blamed on israel, attacks that assassinated various Nuclear Scientists and hit various nuclear bases this was done targeting Military Bases. So iran could hide any damage from the public. So it was a strike. Yes. But very deniable by both sides. And facesaving. Its a recipe for tamping down the tensions and gave iran away it out so that it didnt have to follow through with it stressed its threats to strike back yeah. Israel said it carried out a minimum response sort of geared towards to military basis. Im curious beth, what you think of israels response when it comes to what theyre saying now, after this attack well, i think this puts everybody in a much better position. Were all Breathing A Sigh of relief but looking ahead, i think there are two factors here. One is that i think israel showing that they were threading a needle to try to deter iran, to try to put this reestablish deterrence. But at the same time, keep both the United States and very importantly, the arab countries that supported herded them both overtly like jordan, but also through Radar Sharing kind of Isr Information Uae and saudi in defending israel against the strike. And i think it shows that israels understands that the best offense in the field future in dealing with this really broad and deep iranian threatened the region is not by being isolated by having these partnerships. And so this could be really a very good move forward. But at the same time, risks of escalation remain right . And i want to talk a little bit about that because iran Foreign Minister was talking to our Erin Burnett Last Night before israels attack on isfahan. Here is what he said in case that the israeli regime, for a embarks on adventurism. Again, and takes action against the interests of iran full then next response from us will be immediate and at a maximum level immediate and a maximum level that was just a couple of hours before israel struck iran. What do you see happening next . After a warning like that, was it just bluster because were seeing a very different response from iran after the attack. This goes to you, beth yeah i think its called deterrence. They were trying to scope down what israel would do and i think that that worked. And now theyre really shaping the message just like they shaped the message after the Massive Attack on israel by calling it very proportional. Now, theyre downplaying this and saying that there was no damage. This were a couple of drones. These wouldnt didnt even come from israeli territory. These were drones flown from somewhere inside iran so nothing really to see here. And so i think were just kind of in messaged control, which the iranians during a very good position to do and theyre closed society. All right. We just heard about about a half an hour ago from secretary Anthony Blinken whos at the g7 meeting in italy. Lets listen to what he said. He was asked about this. He didnt really bring it up himself. He didnt speak directly to the attack. But he was asked by a reporter about what happened in iran as opposed to from the israeli strike the United States has not been involved in any Offensive Operations what were focused on, what the g7 is focused on. And again, its reflected in our statement and in our conversation is our work to deescalate tensions kim, what does it tell you about the us and its position on this after warning israel that look, this looks like it was over before all this happened before they attacked iran i think the us is relieved right now because they knew that netanyahu felt pressure to respond to show the israeli public that they wouldnt let this historic strike go unanswered. But you havent seen at least on all of my News Releases from the Israeli Defense this forces or from the Israeli Government. You havent seen a public declaration that they carried out this strike. You, havent seen them owning it on social media or crowing in any way. So theyre letting it pass the israeli public knows what happened. Thats good enough for them. And the iranian government can tell their people owe it hit a couple of bases mostly what you saw exploding was our counter offensive weapons nothing to see here. And so i think for now, we move on. It seems that everyone is in deescalation mode at this point. Good for the worlds kim dozer and beth center. Thank you both so much for your analysis. John. All right. Weve got some brand new polling from Battleground States out this morning with a cnns senior data reporter, harry enten, one of the numbers show what are the number of shares show . John, weve been looking at the National Polling and its generally been showing perhaps a trend line towards joe biden in the Battleground States, look, we still have a pretty close race on our hands, right . And pennsylvania and wisconsin, these fox news poll show that joe biden and donald trump are tied in georgia. We still see that donald trump is pretty far ahead up by six. And this is generally been in line with what weve been seeing throughout this campaign, which is that joe biden is holding much better in the great lakes Battleground States like wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania than he has in those sun belt Battleground States like arizona, nevada, and of course, george on this particular one one where donald trump has held a pretty consistent lead through this campaign. You know, one thing thats notables, all these states here up on the screen in 2020, joe biden won michigan by the widest margin since surely so youre correct by three points. So whats happening there now . Yes. So whats happening here in this particular one, if we were just looking at one pole, right. And you saw okay. Donald trump ahead by three points. Thats well within the margin of error, but i want to sort of take a look here at the trend line. And that is, that there really isnt much of a trend line. Theres just a lot of consistency going on here. Fox trump plus three wall street journal, trump plus three cnn last month, trump plus eight cute quinnipiac trump plus three ba in march, and fox back in february, had trump plus two. So in fact, there isnt any real trend linthat were seeing a from donald trump. Despite what were seeing nationally in michigan, we are still seeing that joe biden is trailing donald trump by a consistent, a small but consistent margin. And that of course, is very interesting because as you pointed out, michigan was that swingstate that joe biden carried by the widest margin last, i wont be surprised to see President Biden are someone close to them nearly moved to michigan in the next several months because they absolutely need that to put a lovely state, to 70. Ill talk to you about the why here. What are you seeing behind the numbers that might indicate why this is all . Yeah. I think theres a lot of talk in this campaign about the lesser of two evils. Im not quite sure that is an app description, right . This is viewed favorably across georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin in 2020 exit polls, what do we say . 50 of voters view joe biden on average favorably in those states compared to just 45 for donald trump. Look at the joe biden trend line, where he is now joe biden is far less light than he was four years ago, just 43 of voters now view joe biden favorably, nice states and donald trump, despite everything that has happened, everything that has happened its actually slightly more light, 47 favorable rating. So this isnt just the lesser of two evils thats going on. The fact is that donald trump is in fact better likely wants four years ago and has better life than joe biden is right now in these Battleground States, its pretty gosh, are unclear are in great to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Sarah. All right. 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And this is cnn weve been situation unfolding in paris that were following this is just into cnn were told a Police Operation is underway at the iranian consulate in paris after a man who was seen carrying a grenade or an explosive vest into the building. Cnns melissa bell is pulling together the details for us. Shes joining us right now. Melissa, what is happening right now well, pretty big Police Operation underway in the western rents, areou talking about ,000 small he the search wellheel areasf paris, a thats where Th Uranium Sponr located. Teve entirely barricaded off th wholeart of paris. Well, we understand om paris officials. Is that a man was seen entering the iranian consulate about 3. 5 hours ago, that he was carrying. He was med. This is what they saying, eitither carrying a grenade or an explosive vests that is unclear. And what appears to be the case i. Havent given much more information than that for the time being. Is that the operation appears to be going for th to get their hands on this man who is now inside the iranian consulate. So did pretty sketchy for the time bei, but a big part of paris cordoned off. Kind of threats that theyre on high art for. This is a city thats been on an even higher level of alert, but is usually since the attack, the Terr Attacksf two years, youve got a pole presence, of course, in the street, but also military personnel, 3,000 of them that patrol the streets of france. Day in, day out. That was doubled in the wake of the moscow tax last month. So this was a city on the highest level of alert. And of course, l of those forces now mobilised around that 16 since i want to smoke paris in the hope of ying to extricate this man frothe iranian consulate for now, the detail much for about who he is, why hes there, or the details of how we gotn the first place a t to work through clearly is speak, Melissa Bells Pulli all thdetails together, were going to bring you updat throughout the morning athe braking is connuous, john and obvisly that follows the Breaking News that israel conducted someind of a strike inside iran targeting a Military Facility Ne the d he of isfan. Though this morning, the United States says that it was not involved in any way in Offensive Operations in the world seems a bit relieved that neither israel nor orawn are playing this up at all. In fact, theyre both trying to downplay it with this now is a democratic senator from the commonwealth of virginia. Tim kaine and senator if youre like me, i went to bed last night with the news that israel was conducting strikes against iran. And there was a very real concern of this spiraling Out Of Control, yet we wake up in both countries or downplaying it. So how do you explain it im john President Biden strongly urged israel to avoid any response once the us, israel, and others very effectively defeated the missile and drone strikes that iran launched into israel. And that file hello the Israeli Attack on a consulate in damascus that killed iranians with the last thing we need is escalation right now in this region, we need to deescalate hostage deal ceasefire deescalation. Thats what we need. So yes, i was troubled when i saw that israel had decided to wage a strike inside iranian territory. But it seems from what we know now to be fairly calibrated, to send a message to iran you launched against our soil. We can read reach out and touch your soil, but were not intending to cause great harm. And if that is the understanding now, both iran and israel want to show that they have capacity the but they want to deescalate. Hopefully, this will stop and there will be no more backandforth so relieved its it is. Yet. Yes, i am. I think i went to vet just like you wearing what would this portend . And yet the fact that both israel and iran or downplaying it is a good sign so this the escalation needs to stop in this region Houthis Firing into the red sea has villa firing into israel from, from lebanon the ongoing humanitarian crisis in gaza. What we need to see is deescalation and hopefully the events overnight was israel just show calling. It has a capacity, but calibrating that demonstration to avoid significant escalation, it is a strange thing would a Military Strike somehow seems to come on nerves around the world, but well leave that for a second because the us house will we believe vote over the next day or so on an aid package . Package to ukraine to israel, not to mention taiwan how much credit you give Speaker Johnson for pushing this forward i am so glad that he is. I mean, weve been very frustrated in the senate because its taken too long. It took us too long, you know, we didnt get action in the senate on this till february. But we have been waiting on the edge of our seats to see if the house would finally move im very, very glad that the speaker is doing it. Its in an unusual posture where hes based basically taken the senate bill, split it into three. Hell have separate votes on each of the three pieces and add in a fourth piece that the house once which includes some like the regulation of tiktok some sanctions on iran that the senate acted on in my Foreign Relations committee the other day. But then what everyday pass on, i think theyll likely pass all four bills. It will come back to the senate as a single bill. And well take it up as a single bill. The speakers strong words about the need to provide Defense Support to israel, but also to ukraine. The other de, were very powerful and i think he is had a sense of resolve about it. And clearly the democrats are helping him the vote yesterday that set up this weekend vote needed democratic votes on the rules committee to make it happen democrats supplied the votes to enable us to move forward so i think youll see this get out of the house on a bipartisan way this weekend, we get about 30 seconds left. What do you think . Get by the fact that its possible this cost Speaker Johnson his job i dont think its going to cost him his job. I dont think the house has anyone else that could get them votes to be speaker. And given that they dont i dont think theyll move him aside and i also think that democrats, once this bill passes, democrats would come to as aid and make sure that hes not pushed aside by partisanship. Strange, but bipartisanship, that would be senator tim kaine from the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committee, particularly great to have you this morning. Thank you very much. You bet john. Glad to sarah. Strange, but good john, speaking of which just a few hours ago, taylor swift gave fans a huge surprise. She released not one but two albums, sending fans into a frenzy were not dealing im patti swift released her long anticipated 11th studio album, the tortured Poets Department late thursday night. And then at 2 00 a. M. This morning, she released the tortured Poets Department, the anthology with 31 total songs between the two album cnns Elizabeth Wagmeister is joining us now. Elizabeth, did you stay up all night and a lot of swifties did stay up all night trying to hear all of those songs yes i am coming to you right now, sarah, with very little sleep, but for good reason this is an international holiday, right . This is the day of the swifties, really a huge cultural moment for a cultural icon. And i spoke with many of the swifties over the past few days. Lets take a look. The epic Countdown Ending overnight with the release of taylor swifts 11th studio album. And then some, the tortured Poets Department dropping just before midnight on friday, only to be followed by a Surprise Drop at 2am of 15 additional songs. Swift announcing the surprise, telling her fans, she released a secret double album. How does that sound . The global phenomenon that is taylor swift. The only solo artist in Music History with four grammys for album of the year, much more than a singer. Swift is a cultural icon now with the tortured Poets Department exploding to even Greater Heights with. The albums first single, fortnite in collaboration with post malone and songs like florida featuring florence and the machine, her dedicated fans, anticipating this moment since the album was announced earlier this year here at the grammys, pretty big fan, i love her. I know every lyric to every song. Im really excited swifties, counting down to the coming from taylor herself including some at this popup installation at the grove in los angeles. I can take a picture and decipher it and be like, oh, maybe its this lyric arguably the most famous musician on the planet, the 30 yearold superstar, is breaking through her already sky high ceiling with new songs like guilty as sin in style. But daddy, i love him with this. Release, taylor is likely to smash even more records in 2024. After already earnings spotifys most streamed artists of 2023 headlining her erez torre, the first torre to ever break 1 billion and releasing a blockbuster concert film. She also boasts almost a half 1 billion social media followers. But the impact of the tortured Poets Department is expected to exceed all that and more engaging swifties with not only music, concerts, and films, but also bracelets he shirts even tattoos. I dont think ive ever felt that way in a concert just to be surrounded by so many girls giving out friendship bracelets, just girl ahead moment of connection, her fan its coming from the white house. They have white ascii or jp in the trial in the das representing the de a because hes probably not smart enough to represent themselves. Guy got elected using trump was to do very much like letitia james, all new york is going down is a very corrupt place to do business. I can tell you a lot of people are not going to be moving to in case there was working very strongly because of politics. So instead of being in pennsylvania or georgia, or north carolina, are lots of other places today. Im sitting in the courthouse all day long. This is going on for the week and this will go on for another four or five weeks and is very