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minister, however, did. he said that the u.s. was informed at, quote, the last minute by the israelis. and of course, ana, this comes days after that phone call between president biden and prime minister netanyahu in which president biden urged netanyahu to, quote, take the win, that israel demonstrated its ability to defend itself in intercepting roughly 99% of those missiles that were launched by iran. so this strike isn't coming as too much of a surprise to the white house, considering israeli officials had vowed retaliation, even after that phone call, but still no official reaction from this white house. we do have several opportunities today to see and hear from the president as well as white house officials, and no doubt they will be peppered with questions about this, ana. >> thank you for that reporting. general, you know, before this happened, iran had been saying things like even the slightest, the most tiny or minor kind of
hour, but we start at the courthouse in lower manhattan where day four of donald trump's hush money trial is just convening for the day. they now have a jury, seven men and five women who will decide trump's fate. the search resuming this hour for five more alternates. nbc's yasmin vossoughian is outside that courthouse, also with us msnbc legal analyst carol lam, a former federal prosecutor, and joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney. yasmin, kick us off here, what's the latest from inside that courthouse? >> reporter: 22 juror in that case pool going through their questionnaires. two of them already excused, ana, for quotes like this, and i'm going to read them for you. one woman, i have really, really bad anxiety. people have found out where i am. i don't think i'll be able to be completely here and fair. she was excused. another juror, i don't think i can be impartial. i want to be and i have every intention, but after the questions posed to prospective jurors and asking those questions to myself, i don't think that i can be, in fact,
is out there saying -- and other witnesses saying things about donald trump, but the fact is there's no gag order against them. it's only against trump at this point. i think these are some of the factors that the judge has to weigh at that hearing he's going to have next week about whether donald trump has violated the gag order, and if so, how much punishment how old he be subject to. >> joyce, what do you make of how judge merchan has handled this process so far, particularly with trump's inclination to push the boundaries of what's allowed? >> there's been some concern about the lengthy period of time he permitted before the hearing will take place, but, ana, the judge isn't completely a free actor here. he's constrained by new york law. what the d.a. has asked for his criminal contempt, this is not civil contempt, and there's a provision of new york law that says that if the violation of the gag order occurs in front of the judge, then the judge can
strike with surface to surface missiles, whether these were missiles launched from aircraft or whether they were drones. ana, i will tell you here in tel aviv right now, the situation is calm. it is quiet, and very significantly the israeli military has not imposed new restrictions either here in central israel or up in the north near the border with lebanon, and that is an indication that israel feels at least at this point that there is not going to be imminent iranian retaliation. >> raf sanchez, thank you for bringing us the latest there. >> ali, israeli officials reportedly gave the u.s. a heads-up here. how is the biden administration responding this morning? >> yeah, ana, you heard raf mention it's now been more than 12 hours since israel's strike, and despite efforts overmight and throughout the morning, we haven't received official reaction from the white house or president biden, and that is likely by design, as u.s. officials try to distance themselves and try to deescalate this situation, trying not to
if he were to testify, and these are some prior court determinations that are further evidence of that. >> joyce, vaughn just ticked through the long list of potential areas of questioning that the d.a. has signaled they want to discuss if trump does take the stand, everything, again, from e. jean carroll to the civil fraud trial to other legal matters. does everything on the list that we know of sound fair game to you? what do you think the judge is likely to do? >> so the judge will have to balance the evidentiary value of this material to the prosecution against the risk of undue prejudice to the defendant. and the courts in new york have said that they leave those determinations up to the judge's sound discretion. he'll only be reversed on appeal if there is a conviction, if he abuses his discretion. so we can expect to see him go carefully through each of these incidents. ana, it's important to note here, this isn't evidence that
can see so far there have been four democratic nays, we'll keep an eye on those different columns. these bills are facing significant republican opposition. that's why democrats may end up stepping in. far right members threatening speaker johnson's job over this. let's get right over to nbc's ali vitali who's tracking the very latest on capitol hill for us. walk us through what we expect of this vote this morning and after those unusual dynamics overnight. >> reporter: we're expecting it to be bipartisan in fashion, ana. a lot of movement around me here because these are the steps that lawmakers take to go up into the chamber to vote. some of them of course are already on the floor now. if you're going to see and you're looking at the vote tally in the house chamber right now, you're likely to see a lot more republican votes happening than you are to see democrats voting. it might look like that because our understanding is that they might be waiting, the democrats to see how many of them they actually need to join with republicans and help them get
impartial. they're currently going through that 42-question questionnaire with all of those potential jurors looking to fill those five alternate seats, ana, so that leaves just 20 jurors in that potential jury pool now, the former president seated in the courtroom as well. he started the day off with his eyes closed. however, when he heard one of the potential jurors saying they had read "the art of the deal" he popped his eyes wide open. before heading into the courtroom, he did speak to reporters about that gag order. here's what he had to say. >> the gag order has to come off. people are allowed to speak about me and i have a gag order just to show you how much more unfair it is. >> reporter: seven potential violations they're talking about when it comes to this gag order. they're going to have a hearing on the gag order tuesday afternoon.