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washington, breaking news in the middle east. we are learning new details about the unprecedented attack on is israel overnight by iran, us central command now says us forces destroyed more than 80 iranian attack drones, at least six ballistic missiles launched from both iran and yemen. the israeli military says iran and its proxy forces across the region launched some 350 groans missiles, and rockets in total into its territory or edits territory. this iran says was in response to a deadly attack on its consulate in damascus earlier this month, which it blamed on israel, though israel has not taken responsibility with me now cnn's nic robertson and jerusalem and priscilla alvarez at the white house mic. you heard earlier a cnn analyst, barak ravid reporting that the israeli response was actually put on hold right in the midst of this iranian attack, that there was a case made in the war cabinet to
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begin the response as the attack was happening from iran. where does that leave the israeli response now? and was that a step towards de-escalation? >> well, it gives us space for de-escalation, but i think the rhetoric that we're hearing that the pause is at the moment to decide when to strike and how to strike. it's not about deciding not to strike, but but but in the absence of a decision to go ahead, then that leaves the space. but look, we heard that both from bright ravid, that both gadi eisenkot and benny gantz, both former chiefs of staff within the idf wanted to strike back at iran while iran's missiles were in the air. now president biden had, had cautioned prime minister netanyahu to notch this up cautioned him about about a quick response about
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retaliating and the decision has been taken clearly to pause to think about it more handed off to the idf in part to come up with a plan of action about what they could strike. the part of the strategy going forward appears to be to build out a broader international coalition. so israel doesn't have to go oh, it alone, or at least has its allies standing closer to it, though president biden has been very clear that if israel responds, united states is not going to be part of that response against iran, but we know that right-wing members of prime minister netanyahu's cabinet want a forceful response, a deterrence response, and that's why i think that although there's a pause at the moment, israel's go-to position to deter its enemies in the region is to hit them back harder than they've already been hit the deterrence that's how it works. and israel has stood by that and it's believed in it for decades. so that's the position they're at today and they
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don't seem to be backing away from it. they seem to be considering how best to put it into effect or not isolate themselves from the allies, did so much to help them last night, gem yeah trouble is each step up call it deterrence is also by some definitions escalation nic robertson, thanks so much. priscilla, president biden. perhaps with that in mind, he has been speaking with g7 allies today. what is the intent of those talks? and is he looking to build an allied coalition in effect on next steps here including applying some pressure on israel not to strike iran in response. >> well, looked in the focus here at the white house for a month, but especially in this moment, is to contain the risk of widening this regional conflict. and so in this phone call with g7 liters that occurred earlier today, president biden and the leaders talked about coordinating a unified diplomatic response,
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diplomatic response being the key words they're really moving forward, forward with non military actions, what they want to see is the region to stabilize. there have been heightened tensions and there was real fear and concern that this could escalate at any moment, which is party so the reason that president biden in his phone call with israeli prime minister yesterday evening said that the us will not participate in an offensive action against a ran. it said cautioning and telling the israeli prime minister to think carefully and strategically about next steps. now part of this stems from the fact that the us has assessed this should largely a success for israel. they were able to take down missiles and there wasn't any major damage to infrastructure. and that is exactly how national security council spokesperson john kirby frame that this warning. take a listen. >> think about what they threw. that israel, right several hundred drones and missiles
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over the course of a few hours. and what damage did they cause? not >> very much. i mean, it was an incredible effort by israel, but also it shows that iran is not the military power weight that they, they claimed now a senior. administration official also says that israel doesn't want to escalate, but it still means that there is a big question here in terms of how >> israel chooses to move forward. of course, there have been public risk between president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu over the course the war in gaza. so the question is what will israel do next? and will it also try to contain the risk of broadening this into a regional conflict. all of that very much still a top concern at this hour here. >> no question that we should know that israel is now allowing schools to open tomorrow morning, this morning, israeli time which you can imagine would not be happening if either israel was expecting another running an attack or planning its own retaliation immediately, priscilla alvarez
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at the white house. thanks so much. tonight, president biden is holding a call with congressional leaders to discuss the ongoing situation in the middle east that happening just hours after house speaker mike johnson said that he plans to discuss some aid package on the house floor this week, whether that's a supplemental that includes a najah for israel, but ukraine and taiwan or something separate. we don't know yet joining me now, republican congressman from florida, carlos jimenez congressman. thanks so much for taking time on a sunday evening >> my pleasure. >> as you know, there was already a supplemental passed by the senate with bipartisan support, which includes aid not only for israel, but also ukraine and taiwan, which if brought to the floor by all accounts, would pass immediately. the quickest way to get aid to israel, but also to ukraine and taiwan. if that would happen, would you vote for it? would you vote for that supplemental? >> i. don't think so >> i want aid for ukraine. i
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want aid for israel. i want aid for taiwan and i also want border security. i'd rather have those put to me separately. i want to see where everybody stand. there are things in that pit aid package that i don't think are i think we could do do the same, have the same impact without spending so much money, i wanted to do military aid. >> and >> there there's billions of dollars for other stuff in there that i really have no, no appetite for. so at this time i'd rather see that i look forward this week to our speaker putting an aid package together for israel, but also we'll be encouraging him to put an aid package military aid package for ukraine, taiwan, and then also add another, another, another attempt to try to control our border given though, as you know, if that would happen, if it were to be separated out and parcel doubt, it would have to then go back to the senate if >> if these are urgent needs, not just for israel but for ukraine, why not take the most
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urgent? path to getting that aid across the finish line >> i mean, we can pass this next week and give it to the senate. they can take it up next week also. so i mean, you know, it goes both ways. this urgency and so again, i've been asking to speak or for some time to put the ukraine taiwan, israel on its separate, separate as votes. and let's go. it's time that we need to help our allies. and this, these attacks, this yesterday, just show how much we do actually need to help our allies, especially israel and ukraine. and so that's what i would like to see now, some of my colleagues would like to see a bigger package, a different package >> then >> then the then the senate sayyed. so i think the senate senate bill has issues that will have difficulty in passing, in passing, i think congress at this time, as you know, you have republican colleagues in the house who are thriving happening the speaker,
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if he attempts to bring any aid for ukraine to the floor, marjorie taylor greene, i'll name might make a motion to vacate a risk for the speaker. what would you do in that case? >> i do. luck i will do exactly what i did when i was mayor of miami-dade county, just do the right thing. okay. and you let the chips fall where they may, but you got to do the right thing >> what is the right thing? so you can't would you vote to remove the right thing is >> no. heck, no. no. i support mike johnson. i think he's a good speaker and he's an honest man. he's a good person. no, i think that in my estimation the right thing is put forward these aid packages to ukraine, taiwan, israel, okay. and, and let the chips fall where they may after that, see who else votes born. so you votes against it and then send that off to the senate. israel needs, needs a package right now. so does ukraine. they're running out of bullets. and the last thing i want to see is russian tanks rolling into kim.
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okay. and so we need that also. so yeah, my advice to that to the speakers do the right thing and i think in the end it things will work out for you. >> speaking about next steps in the middle east right? now, israel is, of course, considering options now for how it responds and in what way your republican colleague in the senate, marsha blackburn cheese advocating for a us strike on iran in response. and i wonder if you would agree with that >> at this, at this time, no, but i do think that israel has the right and the duty to protect itself. >> look, what >> what do you think would happened if somehow we woke up yesterday and iran had fired like 300 drones homes, and ballistic missiles at us. do you think we're going to respond even if we shot them all down? >> yeah. i think we would respond because you want to deter that kind of activity, that kind of threat in the future. so i think that it's right for israel just to take their time, figure out what
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they're going to do. but in the end, just because you took, you took a swing and the punch it's didn't do too much damage, doesn't mean that you're not going to strike back because if not, then our ramzan to think, hey, we can just launch missile after missile after missile. and israel is not going to do anything the prime minister has a duty to protect the people of israel. and so he needs to do that. and i'll support his actions. >> one thing we saw work in effect here and i'm not certainly not minimizing the size scale, and brazenness of this iranian strike. it's new, it's unprecedented. but the defense systems in coordination between israel, the us, the uk france, apparently, but also arab allies taking part in shooting these missiles down, showed cooperation against the iranian threat. and i wonder if you see a model there to some degree, not all those folks taken part advertise their participation in it. some of those arab allies but they did. and i wonder if see a model
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there for standing up to iran going forward >> i should hope so, and i would hope so >> lucky. i ran is the state that's causing most of the problems in the middle east day they fund hezbollah, they fund hamas us unfortunately because we're not enforcing some of the sanctions and guest iran, there actually selling 500% more of their oil and using that money against israel, against our interests and so, yeah, i think that that was a very good sign that arab states in particular took part in shooting down these drones. and it was also a signal to iran that, hey we're not with you on this fight and don't use our airspace and don't try to get us involved. and we're going to shoot down your stuff. so that this doesn't escalate beyond what we have right now, because then it can spill over it's into our area, into our
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territory and involve our country. so yeah, i thought that was very good, very good thing >> we had before i go, we had an ambassador, john bolton on the air last night, and he was advocating for a strike on iranian nuclear facilities this time around, in effect, saying that now's the time to neutralize that potential threat. now, as you know, that's something that general understanding is, israel cannot do without us help. do you think the us should help israel carry out such a strike? >> i'm not privy to the intelligence on this right now. what what where where is the nuclear capability of iran? how close they are. but i'll tell you this. all right. >> i ran >> has said and the agile has stated time and time again that he wants to wipe israel off the face. of the earth. >> i take that seriously. and if you, if i wasn't israeli, i think i'd take that seriously
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two. and so yeah, they're going to have a weapon that's going to wipe my white me off the face of the earth. i think i'm going to take some action. so right now, i don't have that intelligence. i'm not going to say go ahead and pull the trigger. but when the time comes and the thread israel, israel is going to have to protect itself. >> congressman carlos jimenez, we do appreciate you taking the time this evening >> my pleasure >> i still ahead this our iran is promising further action. if israel response will, israel and iran climbing this ladder of escalation? there's genuine concern in the region and back here in the we're going to break down those risks coming up in the cnn newsroom >> you know what's brilliant boring. think about it. boring is the unsung catalyst for bowl. what straps bold? who are rocket hurdles and into space, or boring makes vacations happen, early retirements possible, and startups start off because it's smart, dependable, and steady all
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national security analyst peter bergen, who is host of the podcast in the room with peter bergen, peter vertilaire is in the room with me >> you wrote a piece for >> cnn.com today asking an essential question, which is, what does iran want? and your description of what iran wants is quite ambitious. >> yeah, i may they want to evict the united states from middle east. they want to turn israel and palestine. they want to end the us based world order. these are not modest goals, but ayatollah khomeini daily four, who runs around he believes he's goals representative everyone he has absolute theocracy. and if you look it from the iranian perspective, they'd be doing pretty well with this project. they basically, they control lebanon through hezbollah they largely dominate syria they kept considerable could control in iraq, and they largely dominate yemen through the houthis. so think about that. jim is 1,500 miles from beirut
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to the red sea in yemen they control much of that region and so will they achieve these goals? different question but they certainly got the us out of lebanon and the 80s. they certainly have put huge cost on the americans in iraq after the 2003 invasion and from that is that project is going, i think somewhat well, now, when you describe the intention to go further from the progress, it's already made from its perspective, but to evict the us will middle east to in effect wipe israel off the map i mean, obviously it's an existential question for israel, the us is not going to be evicted from the middle east. it will not allow itself to be those are those are positions where there's no negotiation over that presumes a broader military conflict over time. well, i mean tomorrow we have a very significant meeting at the white house, which is the rocky prime minister else you,
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danny's meeting with biden now that's a long plan meeting. but what's a subject of discussion is the 2,500 us troops that are in iraq right now there's a lot of pressure in iraq by iranian-backed political parties to remove those us troops. so obviously this meeting is going to be a little more intense than it would have been perhaps a week ago but the iraqi prime minister is honore a lot of pressure to remove those troops, except the last time us pulled out of iraq three years later, you got it this is marching on baghdad. so a lot of iraqis don't want to see that again, but it doesn't necessarily mean an all-out conflict. i mean, iran can operate in different ways. so for instance, in iraq through pressure on rocky politicians do basically it spell american troops? >> okay, so that, that is the conflict between israel and iran and the us and iran as well. but you have, it's not a conflict, but you have divisions between the us and israel. certainly over the progress of the war in gaza. but now over and israeli response to this you hear this
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frequently. when israel's attacked, we strike back harder. you and i have covered israel carrying out following through on that threat for many years and decades in the middle east in this case, you have the us president saying israel you got to win here. let's move on. in effect as israel listen to that >> well, i mean, i think netanyahu is not achieved his strategic goals in gaza. he hasn't wiped hamas militarily. he hasn't got the hostages were once he remained alive back he is not popular at home and so an assertive wartime president is a popular one. there's a rally around the flag effect plus. and we don't have any polling data yet. you can imagine a lot of the israeli public saying we have to respond. yes, we have to restore deterrence against iran. we can't do nothing so if i'm unfortunately i think the likelihood of escalation is high. and in fact, by the way, netanyahu government has an ally, particularly good record of listening to the biden administration. >> a little bit lead >> sure. right so i mean, he's
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got to deal with his own the most right-wing government in israeli history. there. i think there'll be considerable pressure for him to respond how that happens is the thing is that when you look at it big picture, now this, we've heard this for years again in decades that we have to strike back harder. the trouble is that that's how you escalate, right? because each side strike it's back harder and harder has israel over decades of following that effective policy, achieved its security aims well, is it safer today than it was 20 years ago? >> does an amazing documentary called the gatekeepers, where they interviewed all the head, former heads or shin bet the israeli domestic intelligence service. and they also have versions of the same thing, which is we win every battle, but we are not winning the war, which is what folks said about us military. long wars in iraq and afghanistan as well, right? that's an indictment of the effective security policy, is it not >> yeah. >> on the other hand, israel, october 7, was there hadn't
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been a serious attack on israel since the 1973 war. so something was going right, right. >> yeah, i understand. listen longer conversation, but a major question now, as to how this particular attack is responded to peter bergen thanks so much. and still ahead, a personal connection to the conflict in israel. were speaking to an israeli palestinian foreign policy analyst with a great deal of personal experience through the years in the region, you are in the cnn newsroom >> debris in this >> guy, parents husbands and wives, sky, i wish i could have done something differently. you can just make it better for those that follow up space shuttle columbia, the final flight two part finale tonight at nine on cnn. >> when it comes to family, i always do what's best. my parents taught me that that's why i called a place for mom. there personalized guidance was just what i needed to find senior living for mom and their advice is free to families not
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>> you, cora, we make uti relief products we also make proactive urinary tract health products. you core is a life stage right? today at your core >> tensions remain high in the middle east tonight as iran is warning israel that any new aggression are retaliation will be met with quote, a heavier and regrettable response. in fact, both sides are speaking of bigger and bigger responses in both directions. i want to bring in roller derby you she's a visiting professor at the university of miami, a journalist, foreign policy analysts, as well as a palestinian israeli. thanks so much for joining tonight. >> thanks for having me, jim. >> you have family in haifa, israel. there are 2 million arab israelis or israeli palestinians in israel. i wonder in the midst of this attack last night, what was their view of this and what were their fears of escalation? >> so thank you for asking me ask me about my family. i have family and haifa, i have family in east jerusalem and i have family in the west bank. we
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have three different reactions. >> so my family and haifa basically, their assessment that it is a clear that this was a message and they were fearing measure retaliation. basically, they were fearing that there will be a coordinated attack by, not only by iran, that other countries will join in they feared the militias in syria. they feared attacks, from iraq and >> above all hezbollah in lebanon they were thinking 300 missiles that were shot or drones and others. they're not thousands that were fearing that the iron dome would be overwhelmed. and this is when they realized that it was a message. it was not actually meant truly to trigger escalation. and they all where ready because when two weeks ago the government bombed the embassy in syria, there were waiting for this attack and they're getting ready. >> they >> didn't know if it was if it's going to be only iran alone or other proxies will
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join in and they're bigger fear is that when other countries will join in there will be a real serious quarter orchestrated at docx. they think that the government is reckless. they think not done. yahoo is once a regional war. and they fear that the regional war, israel kinda twin and nobody can win that regional war not iran, not, not israel. and they fear that the united states would be dragged in. >> yeah, there's great for you during this country of that exactly to that point because there's been concerned about hezbollah's participation for years, given many thousands of missiles and that very fear you described that it could overwhelm israel's air defenses. i was speaking with the military analysts earlier in this broadcast that the drones and missiles could have been fired in such a way that they all would have arrived at the same time and therefore had a greater chance of overwhelming those defenses. and i wonder, do you believe that was deliberate? in other words, and i'm not downplaying the size of the attack, but that it was limited in some some respects so as you say, to
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deliver a message more than two, cause massive damage are casualties. >> absolutely. no doubt. however, understand that iranians and saw that operating in syria, in iraq, and elsewhere know that they wanted to damage, they would have damaged israeli badly. they know that. but they didn't they didn't want to divert attention from what's happening in gaza. they couldn't not answer to the killing of their officials. in syria. there is a direct attack on their consulate there are people died. so they wanted to send a message not only to israel, to the region and that they're all is going to be consequences when you attack iran directly and look the iranians and their proxies in the regions. obviously they want to fight israel, but they want to fight israel in their own time and their own term. they're not going to fall into nothing. yeah. has trapped there their son that israeli in this moment is isolated and because of what
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they're doing in gaza and in the west bank, by the way. and if you look at the israeli, especially the iranian media that israeli media, but also the arab media everybody's talking about the terrorist attacks of the settlers in the west bank, the bunk rooms the torching villages, the a hundreds of people are dying. and also about that starvation. why would the iranians want to deflect from that? >> let me ask you this. what is the view of the us role at this point? do you when you look at this, do you believe that israel or iran or other players in the region respect american power? or do they see the us as retreating >> that's a great question, jim. and i think probably a requires more time. but look, they, iranians, especially, i mean, there's, we have what we saw last time, two different regions, right? you have the sunni arabs jordanians, and others who they don't want
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escalations, they are very critical of what israel is doing in gaza, especially the starvation and the described bumping. they understand this is not good for regional stability. they are very worried that israel doesn't want a greater piece. but wanted greater israel. and that's why there are hitting lebanon. they're hitting syria, they're hitting their word. but when iran off tapped, you saw that the jordanians himself actually stepped up their game. they helped israel and even know the jordanian themselves. there are very critical, but you saw the other axis off what they called the axis of resistance. on his melodic basically, even the iraq is they record prime minister informed the americans. >> so the fact >> that even the iraqi prime ministers and other shia world informed the americans. that means the ultimate goal of the iranians in this moment, not to enter in a direct confrontation with americans. they want to avoid dot that, that doesn't
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mean they are not going to enter in confrontation directly and indirectly. i mean, you might see more cyber attacks and hidden attacks between israel and iran, but there would never be direct conference patient because they want to avoid a collapse of the region and a wider war. and they all agree, everybody has sunni and the shia and the region that this is nothing the whole school, this is his game. they fear that he wants to stay in power and he's using this momentum to basically deflect from what he's doing and to continue with this endless war and expand the war for his personal benefits that they all agree on. and you can see that even the saudi crown prince doesn't want to talk with him, said now i'm self the mri is our very uncomfortable and these are the people who normalize relationship with israel what they expect from the americans. i think they expected a stronger reaction from president biden, not now, not today. they expected that two month ago when they were calling him relentlessly
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saying, we don't want the region to blow up. we don't want an explosion please put some kind of pressure, red lines and the fact that president biden didn't do that until now, i'm still reluctant to do that. i think that is a reason and that's major concern to all of them >> religion, we'll >> so good to hear your analysis. thanks so much for joining tonight. >> thank you for having still had this hour and historic trial begins tomorrow. we're going to discuss what to expect as donald trump's first criminal trial is set to begin there's new ally in the fight against climate change. this >> is in carbon this is blue carbon. we just need to protect nature will do the rest >> carbon plus cnn filled next sunday at nine >> allergies >> with allegro. they won't
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mobile savings are calling. visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more. doc? universe. experienced the difference at moon pod.co >> the assignment with audie cornish, listen wherever you get your podcasts the judge overseeing donald trump's hush money case has rejected trump's latest attempt to delay the trial, which is set to >> begin tomorrow. brian todd has a closer look now at how this historic case came together. >> it wasn't until almost 12 years after the affair allegedly occurred that the world first learned of the allegations of hush money payments to stormy daniels in january 2018, the wall street journal reported that in the weeks before the 2016 election, donald trump had arranged a $130,000 payment to the adult film star to keep her from publicly discussing their alleged 2006 encountered later, former trump attorney michael cohen testified that trump directed him to make payments to daniel's, quote, for the
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principal purpose of influencing the election. and that trump later reimbursed him. coincidence serve jail time for campaign finance violations related to the hush money payments and gave jarring testimony to congress. >> i am ashamed that i chose to take part in concealing mr. trump's elicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience. >> donald trump has always denied having an affair with stormy daniels in april will 2018, trump was asked by reporters about hush money but later in 2018, in an ethics filing, trump acknowledged reimbursing michael cohen for more than $100,000, but didn't say what it was for. daniel spoke to anderson cooper in a cvs her view about the alleged payment was it hush money to stay silent? >> yes. >> i believe without a shadow of a doubt in my heart. and some people argue that i don't have one of those, but whatever that i was doing the right
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thing, that same year, the new yorker magazine detailed reports that trump had had an affair with former playboy we model karen mcdougal. she spoke to anderson cooper about it. the >> only regret i have about the relationship that i had with donald was the fact that he was married the wall street journal reported four days before the 2016 election that the publisher of the national enquirer tabloid had paid mcdougal $150,000 for the rights to her story shortly after trump became the republican nominee for president. but that the enquirer never published the story, catch and kill. that is, pay someone and then till a story that would be damaging to donald. >> i knew the story wasn't going to be printed. they didn't want to hurt him trump has denied having an affair with mcdougal. he was indicted a year ago on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to the daniels hush money payments. he's pleaded not guilty cohen, daniel's and mcdougal are among those expected to be on the witness list for this trial. how
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credible a witness would daniel's be? >> she seemed like she the mega very good witness. if i were trying the case, i'd be happy to put on the stand what really helps the prosecution here is what she is talking about is all corroborated in the documents the trial is scheduled to begin monday with jury selection, potential jurors will be asked 42 questions, including their feelings about donald trump, whether they ever participated in a rally for or against trump, and whether they can be fair and impartial, but they won't be asked what party they belong to or who they've voted for. brian todd. cnn, washington >> now for some insight into the trial, cnn legal analyst norm eisen, he's the editor of trying trump the complete guide to the manhattan da's prosecution. he also investigated trump as counsel to house democrats in the first impeachment >> norm >> thanks so much for joining you wrote an op-ed all cnn.com this week talking about jury selection, the judge's questions tell us what the
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judge wants to know about potential jurors in this case? jim the judge wants to know if each of the jurors who is chosen can decide the case based upon the facts, the evidence that they hear and the law he wants to rule out anybody who will decide the case with disregard for the proof that they here because they favor donald trump or they're opposed to donald trump, or they have any other reason other than what happens in that courtroom? and if they might even shade a little bit to one side or the other he doesn't want them i've been criminal lawyer for over 30 years and i believe juries can and will do this however, as i wrote for cnn opinion, donald trump would like to get just one juror, one angry juror that will hang this jury
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>> let me ask you because yes, this is unique. first time a former president has gone on trial, and of course, donald trump there's a polarizing figure and he's a political figure. but the fact is this country has tried politicians before, where there are questions about political partisanship. it's tried some very famous people before that are very well known and people have strong opinions. four and again, so i wonder if you find this to be a truly unique situation or one that as you say, they're just going to have to do the work and get through it might take a lot of jurors, but they'll get to that 12 eventually. >> jim, it's one of the most >> historic trials in our two-and-a-half centuries as a nation. but at the same time, it's perfectly ordinary. i'll be in court every day of for the trial and i was there when the parties appeared, including the former president on march 20 to, try to get a delay in the case. and i was struck by the simultaneously fact that in
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that not the most glamorous of courtrooms we were doing something that was completely unprecedented in american history, but also that donald trump was being treated like any other criminal defendant. and i thought that was extraordinary because it speaks to a foundational american principle that no one is above the law, but no one's below it either. jim, he's innocent until proven guilty, he's entitled to an airing of the evidence contestation of the legal issues that begins tomorrow with the selection of the jury. i'm with the words that this judge will speak to the jury when he summarizes the case that these are allegations of criminal election influence, the judge will say that if bragg proves it, you've gotten election interference case here. kind of a precursor to what happened in 2020. the
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election interference cases in dc, jack smith and in georgia fani, which play explained in detail that is because i know that people, it's hard to keep track of all these cases. and this case has been talked talk about hush money. he talks about an adult film star, but the fundamental legal issue here is whether there was fraud to interfere in the election, to basically kill a story, right? that well, voters might have wanted to know about >> that's right, jim, hush money is not a crime that what happened here is according to alvin bragg. and now we'll see if he can prove it. remember, these are allegations he says that there was a pattern here where this payment of $130,000, which by the way, is $127,000 more than the law allows for campaign contribution. this payment was made to deprive
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voters of essential information which which in turn was covered up and with the intent to affect an election. and that identical pattern of deceiving voters to affect the outcome of an election. that's what jack smith is alleging. donald trump did deceive being that he claimed he won the election when he didn't. to grasp our gym. that's the allegation deceiving voters to grasp hour. now, alvin bragg may not prove it, but that is why this is an alleged election interference case. >> well each side will have its day in court. norm eisen, thanks so much. >> thanks, jim. >> so you didn't will have special coverage of this historic trial beginning 9:00 a.m. eastern time tomorrow morning we will be back in just a moment >> there's debris and this guy, parents, husbands and
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>> shoppers cnn exclusive tonight, the us air force giving cnn and up-close look at one of the most powerful bombers in its fleet, the b52 is currently flying along the borders of russia, north korea, and china cnn's oren liebermann got to see the flagship b 52 up close and found out why it remains so important >> my 110933 933330 under the shroud of pre-dawn darkness, flight, mylar one-one roars that have louisiana's barksdale air force it's the start of one of the longest military missions in the world, non-stop 33 hour flight by this b35 jews region did you bomber group to the other side of the world flying your russia, china, north korea and back. >> you can see it's dark outside. the cockpit has red light once again for this hi, cnn is the first new's crewe ever allowed on one of these
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extensive b52 missions. >> only are one of the most visible and flexible legs at the nuclear time as we can be two. where you need it. when you need it within 48 hours. >> these flights are intentionally high-profile, two years into the war in ukraine, as russia challenges the us and nato, the kremlin is meant to know about our bomber flight. so his china with beijing pressuring taiwan chinese coast guard vessels harassing ships of the philippines, a us ally, both the national leadership of russia and the national leadership of china. what do they react to >> we see >> that they publicly comment about our vomitus force missions, particularly when it involves others very joint and public ways to contact >> five hours into the flight, we hit our first of four aerial refueling off alaska's coast, taking on as much gases we can attract out your own. >> i'd like >> to take you after an hour of formation flying during this refuel, we aren't out over the
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pacific towards japan. >> that that we communicate to our partners that we mean what we say when we say that we're committed to our alliances, that's an example of what the piece of pq dies show up on >> this 63-year-old boeing b52h stratofortress, decades older than its crewe shows its age, but it remains the air force's primary bonds comer taking part in every us war since vietnam, with planned upgrades to its antiquated systems, it'll see nearly a century of service this year, the us began producing its next-generation b 21 bomber. china is close behind promising their age 20s strategic stealth bomber will be unveiled soon >> as i can for the parents five thank you. >> onboard mylar one one we passed by russia's east coast closer meeting up with us and allied fighter jets hour flight is unarmed. the mission is not to attack but to prevent attack, to deter. but this is a bomber. of course, if we were carrying nuclear weapons, the
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air force would monitor the flight and the joint nuclear operations center back in louisiana, seen here on news camera for the first time. it's a 24/7 operation, tracking all ballistic if missile silos and airborne nuclear weapons on the ground, crews trying to turn the aircraft into an offensive platform. you teams, or months as they're known on base symbol weapons outside loading teams, married bombs to bomber >> the >> beef d2 can carry up to 70,000 pounds of bombs >> five, your >> it is a marathon of marathons to put the b52 and its crew virtually anywhere in the world point flig. we've been in the r morehan 16 hourss the midd of the day you're in japan ere we'reverflowing a mission area wilwere meet up with several othecountries here and carry out next here on the edge of the east china sea fighter jets from japan and south korea take up formation.
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i'll four wings hours earlier during our flight, north korea test-fired a mid-range ballistic missile a reminder of the threats in the pacific. you want to be seen by both allies and adversaries. >> we want to >> be seen by allies and adversaries. it is still ahead, turner is taken around the world it is, but it's china that the us is watching most closely in october of chinese fighter jet intercepted a b52 flying over the south china sea at night, coming within ten feet of the bomber by number of ships, china has the world's largest naibe. soon have the world's largest the air force, according to the commander of us indo-pacific command beijing is rapidly modernizing its military, including its strategic forces. and they're not part of any non-proliferati on treaty obscuring their nuclear assets after 19 hours of flying and 14 more to go. a warning light signals trouble with one of the planes main engines the crewe runs through the checklists, can five or
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five >> they make >> the decision to shut down the engine. there is no panic, just a management of risks nearing the 30 hour mark of the flight we see our second sunrise over washington state's mount rainier. >> and although the two is higher, they all know there's a critical task ahead and that is getting the bbc to backup my grounded. that is one of those difficult parts of the mission. >> on final approach, the b52, which has been in the air nearly 15 hours longer than the longest commercial flight in the world as one final surprise at one year, not down hey sam, right, main gear is not down >> emotions flight mile r11 touches down at three in the afternoon after 33 hours in the air, a mission that showed the abilities and the age of a jet that remains critical to the airforce. >> despite how many years cbct cheers, but running she is a tough girl >> officers we spoke with in air force global strike command sake countries like japan or
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requesting more beef 52 flights, they want to see the bomber in their skies. it is not just a measure of assurance between the us and its allies. it's also a message to adversaries like china, who are very much aware of those b52 missions, especially the long range ones. meanwhile president joe biden and japanese prime minister fumio kishida held a meeting on wednesday in which they said there would be increased defense security cooperation, more integration on things like command and control between the military's and making sure these militaries can continue to move together, biden said, it is the most significant upgrade to the alliance since it began. oren liebermann, cnn in the pentagon >> thanks so much for you for joining me this evening. i'm jim sciutto in washington. >> the >> new original series space shuttle columbia, the final flight two part finale airs next. only here on cnn

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