or the other? cut us the right kind of deal. because if people are willing to pay at extra dollars, why don't we take 40 and let the consumer have 30 and you take ten. but because there's only one platform and it's weird in a world in which no one knows to watch the movies because they not 97 streaming services. the idea that these two platforms were allowed to consolidate to one and to take value from the provider as well as the consumer. that strange, it was a huge >> mistake in 2010, it was a huge mistake in 2010 that they didn't actually merger happen when this merger happened, that they didn't actually try and stop it. and i think actually in this case, the biden administration and its justice department has been taking a much tougher line on some of these for luck competition breeds fair prices for the consumer. and i think there's a reason that doj is now really looking at this as a way to many here. this, but this is not competition at all. this price gouging out, it's worth at the end of the day, schult mask, but also there's going to potentially be a new

administration, right? so what is the likelihood that this investigation carries over? that's another much too. >> all right. don't mess with taylor swift and her fans, just don't do. all right, thanks, guys. thanks for panel. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm john constant cnn, new central stretch right now >> the new challenges facing donald trump and the manhattan da after more than half of the potential jury pool was immediately dismissed. on the first day in court. >> the supreme court hears arguments today that could overturn hundreds of january 6 cases and have a huge potential impact on the federal case against donald trump and do not mess with the swifties new reports that the justice department is preparing to sue huge concert ticket provider live nation after a website outage left taylor swift code his dof sarah is out. i'm john berman with the host of five things now streaming on max, kate bolduan. this is cnn news central

>> this morning, new details about what's out, what's in, and what is still left to be decided as de to of the historic criminal trial of a former president begins very pretty soon in new york city. next hour we should see donald trump leaving his apartment for court and then work continues to try and seat a jury that will weigh the 34 charges against him. he's accused of falsifying business records to conceal a scandal involving adult film star stormy daniels, dozens of potential jurors, though are already out after they told the judge that they could not be impartial in deciding this case. also out for him from the trial, playing the access hollywood tape for the jury, though the judge did say it could be discussed as for what's in the testimony from stormy daniels, the testimony from trump's former fixer, michael cohen, and

testimony from former playboy model karen mcdougal, who alleged she too, had a relationship with donald trump and also was paid to keep quiet. trump has denied all wrongdoing. also, in for now, donald trump required to stay in court for the four days a week that it's in session, even though trump continues to make requests for exempt exceptions. among the big unknowns will trump be fine $3,000 after prosecutors alleged she's already violated the gag order. will any jurors be seated today and will donald trump stay awake through at all cnn's brynn gingras grass is live outside court for us. >> so >> brynn, where do things pick up this morning >> yeah. i mean, day one is proving exactly what everyone sort of thought it's going to be difficult to find an impartial jury for this trial as you just said, more than 50 people were excused yesterday because they said they couldn't be impartial or fair, and then that number continue to whittle down basically based

on those 42 questions that the judge is asking these jurors, one juror said that they had strong opinions about trump. another juror said that they believe an ex-president, a current president, even a janitor there it should should basically be held to the law. so there's a lot of questions here that are continuing to be asked in that process is going to continue to de, now listen jury-selection didn't even get started until about 2:30 in the afternoon yesterday because so many emotions were heard earlier in the day when courts started, some of those, you've already laid out for the viewers basically, who can testify, who can't testify, what's in and out of this trial as it continues to proceed. but another is that gag order that you just mentioned. now, the prosecution basically asked a judge that trump be held to that gag order. remember, he's not allowed to talk to spare angie disparagingly about jurors, about the prosecution's family, about the judge's family, about any witnesses, and the prosecution police said he violated that three times with three different tweets.

one of them he called his x attorney who will be a main witness in this case, michael cohen, a flees back so the judge is saying that he is going to rule on that next week at a separate hearing, but the prosecution asking that trump be fined $3,000 for violating they say that gag order. so a lot happened in day one, jury selection is going to be picked up today when court resumes at 9:30, the judge saying he wants to start sharp at 9:30 and everybody needs to be here, so we will be waiting for the former we're present again to be back in court as he's required, cape know as you're laying out a lot of work before all of them, this morning, it's good to see brin. thank you. john are happening now. israel's war cabinet is behind closed doors meeting in response to the huge and unprecedented aerial attack from iran on this weekend, iran president is warning this morning that depending on what israel does, they are prepared to launch a severe extensive and painful retaliation. seen

as nic robertson is in jerusalem this morning, nick wass, the latest from there yeah joan the. >> war >> cabinet spin it in session now for about an hour-and-a-half, no indication when they'll wrap >> up these sessions have been going longer than previous war cabinet sessions that have discussed the course of actions in gaza. we know at the moment discussion centers around not if israel was straight back at iran, but how it will do it when it will do it, what will be the scope and scale of it? you only have to look at the people around the table there, the tight war cabinet of courses the former leader of the opposition, benjamin netanyahu's former sort of bad political opponent, if you will, benny gantz, there's the defense chief, yoav gallant there, and the prime minister make up the core of the war cabinet. but there are a lot of other people around the table. we've seen around the table the military chiefs, the head of the head of mossad, to name

just just a few there's a lot of military expertise around that table and we're learning one fact this morning from comments made by the un watchdog nuclear watchdogs chief rapidly grossi yesterday, he said that the iranians had informed him that on sunday they had shuttered their nuclear facilities four security reasons. >> that >> tends to indicate iran is concerned. it appears that israel might strike back at those facilities. or look at israel's track record of striking a covertly deeply into enemy territory when they want to the iran nuclear reactor, an asieh 1981. the syrian nuclear reactors that had been bought from north korea 2007 sophisticated deep penetrations of enemy airspace to take out specific and tight targets. we have no idea what israel is discussing. the army chief of staff, last night told truths. we are looking ahead. there will be a response. the clock

seems to be ticking, but it's anyone's guess at the moment, john. what and when will be hit? but something seems to be in the sights of the government here. >> obviously these are the key questions is real facing a lot of pressure from around the world to keep it proportionate. nic robertson, thanks so much for being there into russell appreciate it. okay >> riot revisited the supreme court is about to hear a january 6, case that could overturn the sentences for hundreds of people who stormed the capitol that day. and the disputed stop, the undisputed star. pardon me, of women's college basketball. caitlin clark is headed to the wnba and my home state. how bright is or fewer? future-looking. now, we've got all the details and this morning, the torch has been lit in greece for the olympic games. in this long-held tradition, the march to the summer olympics, and where the flame will travel and it's three-week journey to paris 2024 there's new

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>> obstruction charges against hundreds of january 6, rioters are at stake today, the supreme court is about to hear oral arguments in a case that could result in those cases and sentences getting thrown out. this is all about a federal statue that came to life after the enron scandal. actually, the statute makes it a crime to corruptly obstruct an official proceeding. prosecutors leaned on this and the cases against more than 350 rioters who

forced their way into the capitol on january 6. and what happens here could also have real impact on the special counsel's case against donald trump. cnn's joan biskupic has much more on this. and a note to everyone, her book on the court, nine black robes is out in paperback today. joan and the many hats that you wear for all of us what is going to happen when oral arguments begin? >> sure. you're going to hear the justices take a very close reading at that statute. kate. and as you see there, it says that anyone who obstructs influences or impedes any kind of official proceeding could be charged and what a lower court judge first rule is that you need some evidence, you need some documents at this law passed in 22,002 in the wake of the enron financial practices scandal involves evidence of documents in a lower court judge said it couldn't be used against the january 6,

defendants and potentially against a couple of charges that are right now level that former president donald trump. but an appeals court reversed. it, said that the law was actually written by congress in a way that could sweep up broader, broader conduct. and that's what the us solicitor general elizabeth prelogar will argue today, is that congress wanted to get a broad range of conduct here, not just conduct that would involve actual documents. and kate, just so you know special counsel jack smith put in a footnote in his filing having to do with a big immunity case that will be argued at the supreme court next week. saying that he was aware that this fisher case, fischer versus the united states was coming up. and he said, no matter how the supreme court rules, it should not actually affect donald trump because he says that donald trump's own activities on that day also involved evidenced the certification of the electors for that day. but you were right to hit how this can

affect more than 300 cases. these cases many of the defendants from january 6 were charged with multiple crimes. so it's not like suddenly lots of people would go free. it's just that maybe some sentences could be reduced if the supreme court, in the end rules against the government here and says that the statue has to be read more narrowly, kate. >> yeah, still a mess though, when you're talking about 300 more than 350 cases and if they're now, you need to go back somewhat to a bit of a drawing board on this. it's great to see you, john, a lot to listen to. i >> cannot hear you no worries no worries. not it stay with cnn at 10:00 a.m. we're going to bring you those oral arguments, blocks of live i loved obviously big so much rnerhones,nd a very tasers, bloody scene. thnew detail coming out n abouthat wa found aftetwo oklahoma women went missing, and e cuody battle that may be involved in their deaths. >> and istoric

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when they vanished in rural oklahoma. now, they were supposed to go to a birthday party because they didn't show up to the birthday party. butler's family went to go look for these two women and they found their abandoned vehicle. now, that's when they called police. we have video of that area from are affiliates. that's where you see the flowers and the cross with the names of those two women. well investigators, obviously responded to the scene and according to affidavits, here's how that scene is described, quote, blood was found on the roadway and edge of the roadway. butler's glasses were also found in the roadway south of the vehicle? the gold near a broken hammer, a pistol magazine was found inside kelley's purse at the scene, but no pistol was found. now, the affidavit also says that butler and the grandmother of her children or in a custody battle, and now that grandmother sure. it's charged with butler's murder, but she's not the only suspect. there are four suspects here. they are the grandmothers, tifany, michelle atoms, her boyfriend is also a suspect.

tad bert cullum, and the two other suspects are married. cole earl twombly and cora gayle twombly according to the affidavit, they all belong to an anti-government group. now important to note that two bodies were found over the weekend in this rural area of oklahoma medical examiner's office is working to identify these two bodies. they have not been identified byd as butler and kelley, but the affidavit makes it very clear that the four suspects are charged with two first-degree murder charges to kidnapping charges, and one charge for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder quote by arranging and planning the deliberate, intentional, and unlawful taking away of the life of veronica butler and/or jilian kelley. now, the affidavit goes on to say that the grandmother adams had purchased five stun guns, three burner sounds, and that tuan lese teenage daughter had told investigators that that they're the defendants had made other

attempts to kill butler. now, that's a lot, john, i've got to mention that we have made attempts to contact the representation of these four defendants if they have representation can we have not been successful? they're expected to face a judge for the first time tomorrow morning. john, back to you. they face a judge for the first time tomorrow and >> it's a lot you did a great job explaining it all. so there have been two bodies recovered. no positive identification yet on the body's any timeline of when that might happen and how important is that to the case >> i think i heard your question, john and i think i just love lost if b4 are technical folks. what we know from investigators is that the medical examiner is working to who identify the bodies, but the osdi in oklahoma and the da's office have been very tight-lipped about any more details about providing a

timeline in this case, all they're saying is that they're working to identify the two bodies that were recovered. but as i mentioned in the affidavit and makes it very clear that these four suspects are charged with the killings of the he's to women. >> all right. rosa flores, horace covering this roza. i really appreciate you reporting whether you can hear me or not, you've done a great job with this. thank you very much. we are standing by as donald trump returns to a new york city courtroom, will they be able to select a juror today? not a jury? a juror, a single one. also. >> will donald trump be able to stay awake? and then how heard of angry taylor swift fans loved the justice department had taken on ticketing giant live nation

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ukraine. the indo-pacific, as well as israel and his argument for making these separate votes is simply that lawmaker was deserved the opportunity to decide each one upon their own merits. obviously, behind the scenes, republicans are deeply divided over this question of additional aid for ukraine. but on israel, perhaps they're much more united. meanwhile, democrats are more divided on that issue. so essentially this is a gamble. he's going to put these bills up for individual votes. and then there's a question what exactly happens in the united states senate? the other huge question looming right now is what does this mean for mike johnson's ability to keep his job? he was defiant last night saying that he does not make decisions in his leadership to hold on to the speaker's gavel, saying that he thought that this was the correct moment to have this discussion that he has been moving toward this for some time, and that he doesn't keep an eye on whether or not he is going to be able to keep his job. but of course looming in the not so distance is the fact

that marjorie taylor greene is arguing that she has not made a determination yet about whether or not she would try to oust johnson if he moves on ukraine. here's what she said last night >> he's definitely not going to be speaker next congress if we're lucky enough to have the majority. and i think that is widely held belief throughout the conference isn't giving me speaking for the rest of this congress do you think that is to be determined >> this >> morning, one of the key questions is going to be if marjorie taylor greene moves forward with an effort to try to oust johnson from his job. what do democrats do given the fact that now johnson is promising to move on ukraine aid, even though oh, it's slightly structured differently than what the senate bill is. even though he's going to use some lone component when it comes to some of the humanitarian assistance he's given to that country. what do democrats do? would they vote to table some kind of effort to oust speaker mike johnson will

be outside that meeting later today. john, >> one democrat here or moscowitz did tell us that he would vote against a motion to vacate, which means that at least some democrats are willing to help save mike johnson's job if marjorie taylor greene is the one to push for his ouster, laura fox. great to see you this morning. thank you. >> so a new de and one filled with new challenges for donald trump, his legal team, and the manhattan district attorney, we're standing bach this morning for jury selection to resume in the first criminal trial of donald trump. trump facing 34 felony charges for allegedly falsifying business business records to cover up a hush money payment to stormy daniels days before the 2016 election, joining us right now, former trump white house lawyer jim scholz, and cnn legal analyst and former chief assistant de a for the menn manhattan district attorney's office. karen friedman, agnifilo. a note. karen is of council for a firm that represents michael cohen, though she has no contact with cohen, does not work on his case. >> let's get to it. karen day, one of jury selection showed that it can be slow and it can

take time to seat a jury on any case, but especially it historic would like this. this is it. >> it is. you >> point out and i think i thought it was really interesting that this is donald trump's jury, his picking as much as it is the prosecution, which is different from all any case, any legal an any any legal case. he's kind of seen before this. why is that important for people to understand when we're looking at this? >> i think it's important because he talks a lot about how this somehow involved joe biden and that the judge is biased and alvin bragg, the da is biased. but this really has nothing to do with any of those people. and first of all, those prosecution or in that office has nothing to do with joe biden. it's a state elected position it's about the jury, and its 12 just regular people who are going to be selected, like any other jury by both sides. both sides agree on the

jury. in the end, they have challenges. they can they can say this person should be excused. they have a certain number of them, but they can excuse the people. they don't like. but ultimately it's his jury and they're the ones who are going to decide whether the prosecution has proven their case beyond a reasonable doubt. so i think it's significant because no matter what you can say about politics, et cetera. at the end of the day, it's just about it's same thing that happens in every courtroom across america where you are judged by a jury of your peers, stripped down, it, strips it, maybe you're saying is it's stripping away a lot of the theatrical that we're seeing outside the court all the time in which won't stop when you get inside the court gym, the numbers here from yesterday, 32 potential jurors were left in the courtroom when court recently more than half of the first group of prospective jurors was dismissed. almost immediately with that question that they said that they could not be impartial in deciding this case and deciding on donald trump. i've seen it described two ways. what

happened yesterday. one, that this is exactly why the process is here, and this is just as it is, but i've also seen it described as remarkable and rare to have a more than 50% fail rate when you're looking at seating in jury, what do you think? >> so? i'm not surprised by it. right. you do have a jury pool here >> in new york that isn't predisposed to be for donald trump, right? so you have that issue at the outset, but that's why you had the protections that we were just talking about, right everybody, they get their strikes. think at the ask the questions, and it's gonna be a long process and they're gonna be a lot. don't want to be part of this because they can't feel that they can be they don't feel that they can be impartial no surprise on my part. >> what did you think? did you from what you heard, did you hear any surprises, karen, you were part of our coverage, ally yesterday? >> i did not. i mean, in big cases where you are asking jurors to sit for two months, or it's a high-profile case, it's very common to lose half the people who show up. i mean, who in their life? can say, you

know what, i can press pause on everything. >> simple but important things. one man saying, one of his kids was getting married in may or june >> that >> exactly prisons and so that's very common, actually to lose a large percentage of the people also in a high-profile case, people will know about it or have strong feelings about it. i didn't see anything surprising at all yesterday. in fact, it was extremely routine and boring, so much so that it's been reported that the former president fell asleep in court, which happens to people in court because it can be very boring in real life, there's a lot of waiting, there's a lot of downtime i'm so it just felt very ordinary and it felt very much like every other case that is prosecuted in that building. let me ask you just about that. it's been described. maybe you're falling asleep also, just without knowing his rem state, it's he was seen with his eyes closed for significant periods of time, minutes at a time

regardless, donald trump in the courtroom, i'm fascinated on your tape, right? this is day one, and he was described as slouching, scowling, scoffing. maybe that's not a surprise. as either what is six weeks going to look like this? >> i looked know so i think it gets different. it's going to be a different situation once they get into the trial. right. but this is really a long, boring process, and i think a lot of people are saying, yeah, i probably would have fallen asleep two now, they don't have an opponent that they're calling sleepy joe but i do i think that that is one of the issues here, right? it's gonna be a long, arduous process here. good hurt or help his case, how he just looks in court and is sitting there before the jury, how he projects himself in his daily course on television in the courtroom wherever is going to how people perceive him. so, yes, it's important, but no surprise that he's that he's a little supposing off during the day. i think most people would think they're going to do the same. >> i promise you, cnn will not.

it's good to see you. thank you so much. for those, john. >> no nap time before matlock. all right. knew this morning while donald trump is in that new york courtroom, president biden is heading to his hometown, scranton, pennsylvania, where he is expected draw a sharp contrast between his quote, kitchen table view of the economy and what his team is calling trump's mar-a-lago vision. this is the president's first stop and a three-day tour through the battleground commonwealth that is shorter, heavy significant impact on the election. this november, cnn's kevin liptak is at the white house this morning. kevin, what are we expecting to see? >> yeah, because the biden campaign is essentially taken a vow of silence when it comes to this of trump's legal cases, but they do believe the split-screen here, trump pulled up in a courtroom, president biden on the campaign trail, talking about kitchen table issues will essentially speak for itself and what that will look like this week is three full days of campaigning in pennsylvania starting today. and the president's hometown

of scranton, where he really well start to focus on these issues of tax fairness next, and they do believe that that is an issue that trump is very vulnerable on. remember, he signed that tax reform bill that had outsized benefits for the wealthy what president biden will talk about today in scranton is trying to make the tax code more fair, including raising taxes on the wealthy he's proposed a minimum tax on billionaires of 25%. he's also proposed raising the corporate tax rate, which is an issue that they really do think will have an effect on voters, particularly in a place like pennsylvania where pulls currently show quite a tight race between between biden and trump. now the economy has been something of a singular difficulty for president biden when it comes to the campaign trail, of course his team had been hoping for an easing in inflation numbers that has not been an easy he wrote and i think what you're going to see them do this week. and going

forward is really trying to flip the script. going after trump and corporations for raising taxes on middle income people on corporations for raising prices on americans. and it really is this message of economic populism. of course that's not a new one for democrats, but it is the backdrop of this trial that makes it so unique. did hear from the trump campaign communications director saying that no matter where donald trump is, whether it's in mar-a-lago or a courtroom or anywhere else, he'll be focused on himself, his toxic get gender, and his campaign of revenge and retribution. so certainly this split-screen very in-focus today and this week as president biden hits the campaign trail, john. >> all right. kevin liptak at the white house. we'll be watching it closely thank you >> this morning, there's new reporting that could rock the live music industry in concert industry according to the wall street journal, the justice department is getting ready to bring an antitrust lawsuit against live nation, one of the biggest names in the live music

space. live nation is the parent company of ticketmaster and live nation. live nation and ticketmaster got old wrong headlines. remember back in 2020 two after that pre-sale ticketing debacle for the taylor swift erez tour joining us right now is seen on media analyst and senior media reporter at axios sara fischer. so thank you so much for jumping on. we saw this reporting out of the journal today. >> this will be a big deal. what are you hearing about this? >> yes. and we've had a source, kate, confirm that to us as well, but the doj is preparing a lawsuit against live nation. this is a big deal because this company was formed through a merger in 2010. and at the time, regulator setup, we don't need a pseudo block. it's not a big deal. just please don't do anything bad. that's harmful to your competitors. well let's fast forward ten years later, i think the whole taylor swift debacle forced everybody in washington to figure out whether or not one company consolidated too much power. and that becomes a problem, kate, because then one does not room for competition, but then

two, when something bad like this happens, you have to wonder, why did it happen where they not innovative enough for they're not prepared? and if they had stronger competition, maybe this could have been prevented and so this is a huge deal for the live music, live ticketing industry. if they were to get sued sources tell me likely they wouldn't get broken up. it would mean though that they would likely have to do some sort of settlement where they have to agree not to engage in monopolistic behavior the wall street journal is reporting that the justice department investigation, it really gained momentum after that botch pre-sale of the taylor swift tour is that what this is all about? i mean, taylor swift's impact. i mean, jeez louise yes. >> so a lot of times when you're talking about thorny issues, they will impact consumers head-on. and so lawmakers think this is something that we can do out with the companies. it doesn't become a big public spectacle, but with the taylor swift thing, it became a huge consumer outcries. suddenly you have trade groups representing consumers that are weighing in. you have campaigns targeting washington on behalf half of them. and so this became such a

big issue lawmakers are getting calls from angry constituents that i do think it prompted them to act. it's worth noting, however, kate, they were investigating and looking into live nation well before that, basically they wanted to ensure that they weren't forcing some of their vendors live nation to use ticket ticketing. but the taylor swift thing definitely put this on the map. >> sarah, it's great to see you. thank you so much. john. >> thank you. all right. this morning, one chicago, barber ii is giving out free haircuts to the homeless you feel are not >> you feel brand new without a haircut person feels depressed stressed out >> one good day haircut or you feel like no matter what, once you going through in life, you feel like a brand new person. >> you looked in the mirror, troy, and saw yourself. how did you feel? >> i felt good. i'm like good man. >> i forgot. i looked as good >> barbara omar abdullah, what he does this on the sidewalks in the cargo every wednesday

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this where the first olympics were held at 776 bc. so clearly close to three millennia ago. so now the flame begins its journey across greece and will then travel all the way to france and marcell, the port of mars, say you in a historic three massive cargo ship, a wonderful historic vessel. the crew from the boat was here today. there were actually standing right next to us and they were cheering along with the rest of the crowds. and from there it will begin the last leg of the relay in order to reach paris in time for july 26 and the opening of the olympics >> there. now the french have promised a spectacular opening ceremony. they have said that they will host most of the ceremony along the river sense. so beautiful backdrops of paris along the way as you can imagine >> however, >> due to some security concerns, we understand that president macron, just a couple of days ago said there may have

to be a plan b, so it may they may need to change the venue. it may need to be held inside all the same that spectacular at games ahead of us for all of us, kate >> absolutely. i for one very much looking forward to the summer games. thank you. lena john >> all right. this morning, secretary of state antony blinken is on his way to europe as g7 liters consider weighing new sanctions on iran after the weekend attack on israel. us officials are in lockstep with their g7 partners to arrange new multilateral sanctions that would target iran's missile. in other programs, seen as alex marquardt is with me now, alex, i understand you have new information about what us officials are hearing right now about these meetings and plans the israelis might have well, john what we're hearing from us officials is that the plans that israel may have for iran, they have been assured the us has been assured >> that they would be limited in scope. so this retaliation by israel, if it's carried out, would be rather limited. and that's an attempt by israel to

essentially comfort the us that what they may do who would not necessarily escalate the situation, but that is far from a done deal or that is as far from certain there are lots of mistakes that can be made here. if israel does choose to retaliate against iran, what we know for now, what we're being told is that there has been no warning to the us by israel, that anything is imminence that a military operation is going to be carried out imminently, the us certainly hopes that there would be some kind of warning because an iranian response to that could threaten us military and the region. it could threaten us diplomatic facilities should note that before the israeli strike, strike against the iranian building in damascus, which essentially provoked this weekend's iranian retaliation. there was no warning to the united states beforehand. they only got a warning once those planes were in the sky. so what we're hearing is that they're the israeli response, military

response would be expected to be limited in scope and american officials are treating this essentially as not a question of if, but when and what that would look like would it be an overt say, bombing of a military facilities by israeli jets? would it be something a bit more covert that it means to be seen, but there is still hope on the american sayyed that essentially israel well as they've said take the win. one senior official telling me that equilibrium has been re-established following the iranian retaliation. they are now essentially even. and so with all this new goodwill that is israel now has after being attacked, us officials are hoping hoping that israel will just leave it there. john >> all right. alex marquardt with that new reporting. alex, thank you very much for that with this. now, is max boot. he is a senior fellow at the council foreign relations and a columnist for the washington

post, max, i think you've just heard alex's reporting there us officials being told are reporting that israel they're response will be limited in scope. what do you think that means >> really hard to know john, because certainly any israeli airstrike on iran, iranian territory would not be a limited one that would be something that would be likely to prove voc. further iranian retaliation. and escalation but there are certainly other things that israel can do including cyber attacks, including attacks on iranian targets and lebanon or syria, or even iraq so it's really hard to know, but i would hope that the uranium that the israelis would do just what alex was talking about and take the win without having a need to lash out at iran because that could easily draw the entire region into a wider war. and i could draw the us into a lighter war, which is the last thing that the biden administration wants. >> david initiates, who also writes for the washington post,

says, this is really a question i shouldn't have how can israel retaliate and not escalate? is that even possible? do you think max >> and in theory it's just very hard to pull off. i think any any direct israeli attack on iranian territory unless it's very, very limited, maybe taking out a drone factory or something of that nature has kind of a symbolic strike. maybe they can get away with it. but anything is certainly larger >> would >> i think the ratings have made it clear that they would feel compelled to retaliate for that. and i think israel can feel very good about what happened on saturday night and turn capability with known air defenses buttressed by the us jordan and other allies to stop this rating attack and take down 99% of projectiles. but they need to understand that. and i'm sure they do understand that they cannot count on that kind of success in the future and that iran still have some cards that hasn't played, including the fact that hezbollah in lebanon, as an estimated hundred and

50,000 rockets. iran did not fire those rockets on saturday night. if it did, they would have a chance to inundate israeli air defenses. and those, those missiles would be fired right next door it is where they wouldn't have the kind of flight time they would not have the kind of warning time they add with all of the missiles and drones that were fired from iran on saturday. so i think israel understands it needs to tread carefully here and it can't it did very well on saturday, but is it a dangerous you are setting it quickly. >> max us has made crystal clear that really does not want israel to do anything that would escalate the situation here. but how much influence does the united states have all these european nations? how much weight will that carry inside the israeli war cabinet meeting? >> let's a great question because prime minister netanyahu has certainly ignored advice from president biden in recent months to wind down the operation in gaza and to limit

civilian casualties. so we'll see if he pays attention now. but i think the fact that the us paid played such a major role in defending israel that are jets were shooting down or raining and drones. and that our coordination with arab nations made possible the early warning, all of that i think should buy a lot of goodwill and credibility for president biden, and it should show to prime minister netanyahu that you can't go it alone, that he needs it's help, he needs allies. and this is how effectively israel can be defended. one, it has other countries on its side >> max boot, great to see you this morning. thank you very much. we are getting some new reporting as donald trump shortly will head to new york city courtroom from his criminal trial, a new row, row cnn, new central starts now donald trump back in court new challenges today facing his legal team and the prosecution to get a jury seated.