Story about a relationship with a porn star before the 2016 election. Jury selection getting under way this morning. What the former president is facing in court. How it will impact him on the campaign trail . Michael fallout over irans assault on israel. Unleashing missiles and drone, most shot down or failing to reach their target. Israels war cabinet weighing a response, as President Biden and other World Leaders try to prevent further escalation. Top National Security official john kirby joins us live with the latest. Linsey wall street on edge. Tension in the middle east and higher than expected inflation sending stocks to their worst week of the year. What it means for your wallet . George the battle over o. J. Simpsons estate. Will Nicole Brown Simpson and ron goldmans families get what they are owed . Dan abrams breaks it down. Michael why prosecutors are asking for the toughest penalty for Hannah Gutierrez the armorer on the fatal set of rust. George two men caught damaging rock formations up to 140 million years old. Why they could face felony charges. Linsey air borne. A car crashing into a home and parked car. Why it spun out of control . You make my dreams come true whose dream is about to come true . Id ready from a maturity standpoint, from a basketball stand point. Michael Caitlin Clark stands ready just hours from tonights wnba draft. And caddie shock. The man behind Scotty Scheffler leading the way on their victory walk. Announcer live in times square, this is Good Morning America. Michael Good Morning America. I know i was watching thinking, that could be me. [ laughter ] linsey it could be. Michael no, it couldnt. [ laughter ] michael i played with george. Neither of us. Good morning, america. Linsey good morning everyone. Also ahead what you should know about an accelerated biological age. Can you slow it down and is it connected to the rise in cancer in young people . George well start with the trial of donald trump. What a moment in american history. 45 men served as president. Donald trump is the only one ever indicted for the crime. Thats happened four times. He will enter the courtroom as the only former president to ever stand trial on criminal charges. Aaron katersky sat the courthouse in Downtown Manhattan where jury selection is set to begin. Good morning, aaron. Reporter good morning to you, george. Donald trump arrived at the courthouse. Supporters here. The judge just taking the bench in the first trial, criminal trial of a former american president under way. 71543 docket number, people of state of new york versus donald j. Trump will be called for jury selection. They will begin choosing the jury to hear this understand precedented case. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Theres never been anything like it. Reporter trump may be wearing the indictment like a badge of honor but has tried to delay the court. For the next couple months he looking to reclaim the white house while spending most time in the courthouse. Trump has pleaded guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. I relish the day i get to face him and speak my truth. Reporter prosecutors allege trump feared for his prospects in 2016 if the public were to learn about Stormy Daniels who claims she had sex with trump, whom she denies. The access hollywood cape just surfaced, trump boasting of grabbing women. When you start they let you do it, you can do anything. Reporter prosecutors put him at the center of a scheme to bury damaging stories with the help of david pepper at the national enquirer. Documents say pecker ar ravened the hush payment to daniels and trump falsely recorded monthly reimbursement amounts. For nine straight months the defendant held documents in his hands containing this key lie. Reporter once done, hope hicks is expected to testify. Trump said he might testify, too. I would testify, absolutely. Reporter the judge is beginning with some last minute motions. Once jury selection gets under way thats expected to last for the next few weeks and the trial testimony could take another six weeks after that. This first criminal trial is well under way george. George aaron, thank you very much. Lets bring in dan abrams. Nothing normal about this. Can you imagine covering this trial . What are you looking for . How hard is it going to be to pick a jury . Its going to be tough. Im one of these people who typically in high profile cases says, theyre going to find a jury. The public doesnt follow these cases as closely as so many in the media think. This case is different. This one is really going to be tough to find a jury. Not who dont know anything about the case. Remember, thats not the standard. The standard is not, do you know who the defendant is . Thats not what it is. The standard is not, do you know anything about the case . The standard is, can this person objectively evaluate the evidence . And thats where its going to be tricky. George how do lawyers weed that out . You weed it out by figuring out who these jurors are. Right . First they will be asked questions, not directly have you ever supported or voted for donald trump . Its going to be things like, have you ever been to a trump rally . What media do you watch . Do you watch msnbc versus fox news . These Little Details will tell you a lot. These lawyers will be looking at social media as well. They will have their name, etc. Theyre gonna want to know, what that they posted . Have they posted things about trump, biden . Thats going to tell them enormous amounts about these jurors in a way that almost no other case is. George unlike most other cases i imagine there will be a lot of jurors who want to be on this jury. I think you are going to have jurors who want to be on this case. Thats going to be something both sides will have to be looking out on one side or the other. Are they shading the truth . Im not going to say are they lying . Maybe some are lying, too. More importantly are there going to be some shading the truth a little bit in an effort to say, no, no, id be fine on this case. Id be perfectly objective. I dont have a position on this case. Yet thats something these lawyers have to be looking for. George final question. A separate question. Donald trump is still out there on social media every day. Hell probably be doing press conferences. Is he in jeopardy of violating this gag order . Sure. Hes always in jeopardy of violating the gag order. Seems like every day. Either in violation of it or very close. The question will be, how will this ultimately impact the judge down the road if hes found guilty . George dan abrams, thank you very much. Michael . Michael donald trump is standing trial at the same time as he is running for president. Rachel scott has more on the impact on his campaign. Good morning, rachel. Reporter michael, good morning. Sources inside trumps inner circle tell us the former president is irritated but anxious heading into his first criminal trial today. One source telling me this is going to be an absolute scheduling night mare for his campaign. Thats because this is unprecedented. We have never seen a presumptive nominee who is also a criminal defendant. Trumps Campaign Staff preparing to rotate not in and out of battleground states but in and out of new york city as he stands trial. We know the former president has made his legal issues the corner stone of his campaign. The Republican Party has rallied behind him. But there are real questions about just how much a possible conviction could impact his support. In fact, according to a recent poll, 13 of his own supporters say they would not vote for him if he were to be convicted of a crime. 24 as a whole said they would not either. And we cannot under score this enough. Just how striking this is going to be, to see the nominee in the courtroom more than the campaign trail just six months out from election day, michael. Michael this is unprecedented. Fallout from irans attack on israel. Israel is still considering whether to respond to the missile and drone barrage almost all of it intercepted. Matt gutman is in tel aviv with the latest. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, michael. For the second day in a row israeli war cabinet is in that military complex behind me discussing potential retaliation against iran for that massive barrage of missiles and drones. It was so much larger than anticipated that a senior u. S. Official telling us as he was taking down the reports, he was so shocked by the numbers, his hands were shaking. This morning the world on edge as israel weighs its response to that swarm of more than 300 iranian missiles and drones early sunday targeting military installations in israel, some of them going right over the compound. Israels war cabinet announcing no decisions. It was one of the largest salvos of ballistic and cruise missiles ever fired. Israels Missile Defense system along with a combined International Effort led by the u. S. Intercepting 99 of the threats. Including more than 100 Ballistic Missiles, according to the idf. U. S. Forces alone taking out nearly 90 drone missiles long before they reached israels borders. President biden on the phone with those air men sunday. You made an enormous difference in saving lives. Reporter there was global condemnation of the attack and the g7 with an emergency meeting sunday to coordinate a response. Some of the missiles did make it past the defenses. In a video circulating online verified by abc news, you can see missiles striking israels air base. The aftermath seen here, debris from a rocket booster found in southern israel. Israel saying a 7yearold girl, severely wounded, was the only casualty. The multilayered aerial Defense System including the iron dome which specializes in short range missiles, david sling and the arrow designed for long range missiles. Iran has been clear it considers the matter closed. But an israeli official tells me israel will respond at the time and place of its choosing. But there is concern a tit for tat style response will permanently change the rules of the game. They dont want that here. The u. S. Has been blunt, if israel retaliates against iran, it will be doing so alone. Linsey matt gutman, thanks to you. Lets bring in our chief White House Correspondent mary bruce and martha raddatz. Lets start with the biden administration. Certainly walking a fine line as it tries to deescalate tensions in the middle east. Reporter the white house says what comes next, whether or not to respond is ultimately up to israel while also urging restraint. The president we learned encouraged israeli Prime Minister netanyahu to slow things down, to think carefully about the risk of escalation. The white house trying to do everything it can to prevent this from spiralling into a wider war saying this was a second spectacular success for israel saying retaliation may not be necessary. The president spent the weekend engaged on this, reaching out to reaching out to allies and partners in the region. While under scoring the u. S. Has total support for israel the white house says the u. S. Will not participate in any retaliatory counterstrike against iran. Linsey the white house making that very clear. Mary, thank you. Martha, what is the pentagon saying about the attack and israels successful defense . Reporter the pentagon looks at the interception of these missiles and drones as an enormous success. U. S. Ships in the mediterranean and elsewhere blasting the iranian projectiles out of the sky. We have also confirmed this morning that many of those Ballistic Missiles didnt have to be shot down. According to two u. S. Official, there were over 100 targeting israel but at least 50 either failed to launch, failed in flight or crashed before reaching their targets in israel. One u. S. Official telling abc news that iran may be harolding this unprecedented attack although its more a paper tiger but no one is letting their guard down. George . George okay, martha. Thanks. Lets bring in john kirby. Thanks for joining us again this morning. We know the israeli war cabinet met this morning. What do you know about what they decided . We dont have any indication that they have made a decision, george, or what they might do. Obviously, this is for them to decide and to speak to. The president in his conversation with Prime Minister netanyahu did reiterate it was a tremendous success for israel saturday night. Not just military superiority that they showed. But they showed they are not alone. There was a coalition willing to help them defend themselves. They ought to think about that success and what that says to iran and the region. George do you think hes persuaded the Prime Minister not to strike back . Again, thats going to be up to the Prime Minister and war cabinet to decide. The president was also clear, as he has been throughout, that we do not seek a wider war in the region and we dont seek conflict with iran. George the United States is not going to be parted of any retaliation, we know that. Is there any other limit to support for israel if they do escalate this conflict . This gets into the idea of conditioning aid and that kind of thing. What i would tell you is that were going to continue to make sure israel has what it needs to defend itself. President biden is the first president to put u. S. Forces in the fight in that defense of israel. Of course, he was the first president to visit them during war time. He takes that commitment very seriously. At the same time, what is happening in gaza, our humanitarian scale has got to improve. We are continuing to talk to our israeli counter parts not just about what operations theyre conducting but how theyre conducting them and trying to get that done in a more precise careful way inside gaza. George you heard marthas report about the missiles not getting through. Are they a paper tiger . I think this shows not in addition to israels military superiority, i think it did show, did demonstrate that iran is not the power that it purports to be. That it doesnt have that same military superiority. Thats said. Martha is right. You cant take it for granted. They still have quite an inventory available to them, a large military and sizable maritime force. They have a sizable Ballistic Missile capability. You cant make that for granted. Nobodys taking their eye off the ball. Were going to stay vigilant. George aid needs for israel, ukraine. Are you confident the house will pass it . They need to, george. My goodness, if they just put the bipartisan bill that the Senate Passed and put it on the floor of the house, we know theres a vote for that. And if the events saturday night proved anything, its the sense of urgency here for both helping our ally, israel, and helping ukraine which, are continuing to face russian onslaught in the area and russian air assaults to their infrastructure. George john kirby, thanks. Michael . Michael all right, george. The rising tensions in the middle east is contributing to concern on wall street along with higher than expected inflation. Chief economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis is on wall street. Good morning, rebecca. Rebecca good morning, michael. When you think about the Financial Impact of the middle east and the tensions there, here on u. S. Citizen, the biggest thing is oil prices. Gasoline. Right now weve seen gas prices up about 0. 20 over the last month. The National Average this morning 3. 63. And moodys believes that if there was some sort of prolonged escalation in the middle east, it could drive gas prices above 4 a gallon nationwide. But here on wall street, traders are breathing a sigh of relief this morning because of the fact that irans massive attacks didnt cause more damage. Storks have rebounded, oil prices are down. Keep in mind the United States today is the worlds Number One Energy producer. We produce 13 Million Barrels a day of oil. And this is a very different circumstance than we were in in the 1970s with the arab oil embargo. Back then we produced far less. They produced much more. Today we have some buffer. Guys . Michael thank you very much. Coming up the battle over o. J. s estate. Will the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and ron goldman receive the millions in damages they won in court . George also why prosecutors are asking for the maximum penalty for Hannah Gutierrez. The armorer on the fatal set of alec baldwins movie rust. Linsey search for two men caught on camera damaging protected rock formations. But first ginger. Youre bringing the heat today. Ginger im bringing the heat here. We are also bringing tornados. Unfortunately, we are below average for the season so far by about 40, 50 or so but unfortunately well be seeing them erupt. We started the morning in st. Louis, where they did have their hottest of the season so far, 89. A big hail threat that includes nebraska and kansas but all the way from south dakota down into texas. Its really tomorrow where the tornado threat rises significantly. Des moines, cedar rapid, missouri, illinois. Your local weather now in 30 seconds. 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