Are downplaying this. They are not at this point pointing the finger at israel. They are not at this point promising revenge. We are expecting to hear the iranians speaking fairly shortly. This is preplanned speech. Its not specifically in response to this strike, so well be closely monitoring that. In terms of israel, they are not officially claiming responsibility one way or another there are no plans of address from netanyahu and no official comment from the Israeli Government and israeli military. And that, too, is really telling. It feels like the israelis are trying to give iran space to not escalate this further. Theyre not trying to rub irans face in this. Theyre not crowing, not claiming victory. So you have this kind of war of words playing out on top of the actual strike itself, so at this moment despite those iranian threats weve been hearing all week that any iisraeli attack would be met with massive retaliation, it does not look like iran is trying to escalate, and here inside the idf is not giving new instructions to the civilian population. It is not canceling large gatherings or anything like that, which is not the case last weekend when there were severe, severe restrictions on people inside israel. That another indication possibly ali, israel right now at least is not bracing for retaliation. The conversation here in the u. S. Has been u. S. Officials including the president urging the israelis to use restraint in this. It seems at least from these initial reports that were getting overnight, that thats exactly what happened. Now, my understanding from my colleagues at the Pentagon Department is that they were given, the u. S. Was given a sort of heads up by the israelis on this. I mean tease out what the israeliu. S. Conversations have been and any impact on those on what we ultimately saw play out in just the last few hours. Yeah. So lets rewind the week, right . At that point it was israel bracing for an iranian attack. The conversations between the u. S. And israel were that the United States would be there to help protect israel in those chaotic hours. And in the skies in jordan and iraq taking down a lot of these incoming drones. President biden spoke to Prime Minister netanyahu shortly after the iranian attack on Saturday Night. And he told them, quote, take the win. Israel succeeded in this unbelievably complex operation. They hit an air base in southern israel, and the israelis were being told not to escalate further. All week the israelis have been getting that message from the United States, from germany, from the u. K. And other countries. And while they have chosen to respond, it does appear they have responded in a limited way. They have left both military and diplomatic space for iran to potentially choose not to retaliate. And i think as long as israel does not claim credit, it is possible for the iranians to kind of wave this away, to keep talking it down in front of their own people, but we will see in the coming hours what path they take. Yeah, to keep talking it down and hopefully not continue seeing it escalate in this region. Nbcs raf sanchez live from tel aviv, thanks so much. I want to bring in now former fbi agent clint watts. Can i get your reaction to this news, and what are you going to be watching for in the coming hours here. I think the first thing were going to be looking is is there any evidence at all we can discern. These are locations youre not going to have a lot of media and access. I think a key point is what do we know about the attack . Youll see both sides posturing trying to scale these things down. At the same time, they did have to do something. The israelis felt for their government they had to do something to respond, so really trying to parse out what was the actual damage of an attack, how severe was it, what was the scale of it. Were they trying to was the Israeli Government trying to retaliate and hit a target important to them, that being the natanz facility, for example. A key point everyone is trying to understand is whats the level they can push for. Iran was trying to push towards their own domestic audience about their retaliation even though it was not successful ipany way. Israel also seeing an opportunity here to maybe go after a Nuclear Facility that they very much worry about. But at the same time also having to meet some sort of response internally and domestically after suffering what was really the largest attack on their country ever. I think the other thing i think about here, clint, is the role that mis and disinformation can play in a situation that is so delicate and that were watching at least according to what is on the ground right now. Both countries seem to get to a point to deescalate, but whats the role of disinformation, whats the role that could play here . Last night when i was looking at Telegram Channels in both directions and both languages trying to discern what was going on, it was difficult to know both in iranian media and israeli state media. Its just almost impossible to discern what the actual part of it is. Some of it is acting or posturing to show the other side doesnt have capability or successful. At the same time its very difficult to get to the truth, so you can imagine the confusion about whats going on. I would say obviously the israeli media very different from the iranian media. They will get to the bottom of it. Theres a lot of vices and competition. But anything coming out of iran is very much one way. Its all Iranian State media. Amost of the programming in farcei, for example, or arabic languages is going to be other what the Intelligence Community might tell us we probably dont have a good handle on the scale, sophistication and success from an israeli perspective of this operation. Im glad you bring up the u. S. Response about this, because if we track back to the initial moment those strikes initially that spurred irans retaliation, the u. S. Government made clear or tried to iran, hey, we didnt know this was going to happen, we didnt get a heads up on this from the israelis. Of course now we know the israelis did give the u. S. Some kind of acknowledgement that a response was going to be coming from them. But as you look at this landscape now in light of this latest round of attacks, what is the thing you think could draw the Biden Administrations gaze on this, the thing that could maybe make them perk up and say, hey thats a red line for us . Yeah, its really curious what the stance is going to be generally in negotiations or public statements, countries dont take options off the table, and they basically did that in the early hours and were criticized by it particularly by people like john bolten. They quickly wanted to signal to iran they were not going to be the ones to escalate, and it seems like theyre reinforcing that message again here. So their big goal from the u. S. Perspective is not to see regional escalation or rolling out of this war in multiple theaters. Behind the scenes, though, its already been happening. If you look at houthis in the red sea, Iraqi Militia and shia in iraq and syria that did the tower 22 attack, theres been a broadbased proxy war between iran, israel, iran and the United States boiling for many months. So i know theyre trying to make sure and assure people theyre not escalating, theyre not tipping off a larger regional war. A very delicate line to cross. I think any sort of attack or Direct Action against u. S. Military personnel again in the region or u. S. Civilians would be a red line for the u. S. Where they would have to move up escalating and i would also note theres the irgc, the Iranian Revolutionary guard corp and hezbollah in the past have directed Terrorist Attacks towards foreign targets, so that would be Something Else to watch out for if the iranians would want to escalate. I dont see any reason to believe that right now or any indication of that, but that would be a major indication that would tip it off im sure into a much wider regional war. I think thats important to point out as we continue to track what the Biden Administrations response is going to be. Clint watts, thank you for bringing us your expertise. Weve got a busy morning and still got more ahead because Jury Selection in Donald TrumpsHush Money Trial is now almost complete. Well take a look what happened in court yesterday and have some legal analysis. Plus on capitol hill democrats on the Rules Committee advance speaker Mike Johnsons foreign aid package finally. What the hes saying across the aisle. Those stories plus a check on the weather when we come right back. N the weather when we come right back sup . Who are you . Im your inner child. Get in. Listen, what you really need in life is some freakin torque. What . Horsepower keeps you going, but torque gets you going. What happened to my inner child craving love and acceptance . How about you love and accept this . Pppppowershot when can i drive . You already are the dodge hornet r t. 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Mobile savings are calling. Visit xfinitymobile. Com to learn more. Doc . Jury selection in trump Pfs Hush Money Criminal Trial is almost complete. The process resumes this morning. The jurors made up of 7 men and five women, one alternate was also chosen, but five more alternates are still needed. The process appears to move faster than expected yesterday after two jurors seated on tuesday were excused at the start of the proceedings. One said she was not sure she could remain impartial after identifying information about her was made public. Another was excused following concerns from prosecutors that one of his answers during questioning wasnt accurate. If none of the jurors are excused Jury Selection should wrap up as soon as today. Judge juan merchan sez hes hopeful opening arguments will begin monday. A former u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia. Thanks for waking up early. Your reaction to the speed at which these jurors and alternate jurors were selected yesterday i think i thought and many of us would have thought this was going to go a little more slowly. Pretty surprising, ali. And i think its a tribute to something judge merchan did really unorthodox, in fact, unprecedented in my experience. When we pick injuries we generally dont start by having the judge say if theres anybody here who thinks they cant be fair and impartial, raise their hand. About 50 of the first batch of 196 jurors raised their hand, and they were summarily dismissed. I can tell you thats not the way Jury Selection is ordinarily conducted. Usually if a juror says they dont think they can be fair, we ask a bunch of probing questions to really test whether they can be fair or not. But in this case, judge merchan basically decided to let those jurors who feel like they would have a hard time being fair sitting in judgment of donald trump just opt out. They could summarily leave. And i think that is one of the reasons we saw Jury Selection progress really rapidly. 12 jurors in the box in less than three days of Jury Selection is pretty impressive. But it speaks to the sensitivity around this case, right, and the fact that although Jury Selection doesnt go like this, usually jurors are not sitting there in front of a former president of the United States whos facing criminal charges. It was striking two previously seated jurors were dismissed. Whats the chance that we see more seated jurors excused during the Selection Process today or Going Forward prior to monday . It wouldnt surprise me at all. Its not that unusual for jurors to be selected and then overnight think about the implications of jury service and come in the following day and say, judge, i slept on it and i have some concerns. Now, these jurors seem to have real concerns because donald trump is forever trying to inject fear and intimidation into a process, and thats a real perversion of the administration of justice. I can tell you, ali, the last thing anybody wants is for jurors to feel like they have a personal stake in the outcome of the case theyre about to decide. Caseerize to be decided exclusively on the facts, the evidence presented during the course of the trial and the legal instructions the judge gives to jurors, but weve already seen donald trump posting about jurors. That injects fear into the process. And what i can tell you ive had to contend with this over the years as a prosecutor when a defendant or a defendants criminal associates injects fear into that jury box, it generally does not to the benefit. So donald trump for selfpreservation reasons might want to ratchet back what hes saying and posting about jurors. Maybe, glenn, jurors were also presented with seven new instances of former President Trump violating his gag order. Prosecutors pointed to trumps social media attacking the credibility of his former personal attorney and expected witness in this trial, michael cohen. Prosecutors want trump to be held in Criminal Contempt for violating the gag order, filing a formal motion late yesterday. One of trumps attorneys argued the posts not violations and that the situation brings to light, quote, some of the ambiguities of the gag order. Hearing on the matter and whether trumps social media posts qualifies for violations is set for tuesday. As much as you say trump might want to continue dialing it back, it doesnt seem like hes going to, and it feels like hes trying tot up that pressure, so what are the chances that the judge finds that trump did violate the gag order . And does this kind of keep growing throughout the trial . Yeah, chances are high that judge mer hp chan is going to find that donald trump violated the gag order. Seven alleged violations in just the first three days of trial is pretty impressive in a really bad way. When what ive seen judges do, ali, when ive seen defendants insist on violating court orders is the first time they violate a court order they give a stern talking to, the second time theyll impose sanctions probably in this case money, penalty and fines, but ill tell you that that second violation judges will say three strikes and youre in a jail cell, do it one more time and i will impose the up to 30 days of incarceration that the law allows me to impose, in the event you continue to violate court orders. I would bet the buck on donald trump ending up inside a jail cell because we all know that he cant help himself. He will continue to post things and say things that are likely to violate judge merchans gag order. Glenn, that would put us obviously in such uncharted territory. That is of course where we are in all these proceedings, but i think it would ratchet up the reality of whats happening here. If it were ever to come to that, well be listening to what the judge says in regards to his violation. Thank you for coming on with us. And still ahead well continue to bring you updates out of The Middle East following israels strike on iran overnight. As the price of oil is rising this morning. Well get more insight on that from our friends at cnbc. And well hear from House Speaker mike johnson who was pretty candid last night about the rebellion happening in his own party over his foreign aid bills. Way too early is coming right back. Id bills. Way too early is coming right back smile you found it. The feeling of Finding Psoriasis cant filter out the real you. 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