unprecedented. >> brian: we have the caravan and will be doing it everyday, this might be most important of the whole trial, jury selection. >> lawrence: former president of the united states heading to jury selection and could face jail time. >> ainsley: this is unprecedented, never seen a president stand trial on criminal charges, this is a first. donald trump left trump tower and is heading to the court. >> far greater damage being done to justice system than donald trump. >> brian: more than likely former president will be speaking some point today. that will do it for >> lawrence: "america's newsroom" starts right now. >> bill: day one of the trump hush money trial. jury selection in an hour. the former president will be

there and expect him to be there for six to eight weeks. that's what the law requires in a criminal matter. he left from trump tower a short time ago and we expect to see him outside of court before he goes in for today's proceeding. >> dana: historical day. never been a former president tried in a criminal court. it will be historic but in some quarters you will hear some people think it is an out rage this case was brought. alvin bragg is the new york prosecutor. president trump and motorcade arriving there. >> bill: president trump has had harsh words for the judge and his family and he believes they are tainted by their own political contributions, etc. that slapped a gag order on him two weeks ago. many questions about this case that our legal team is ready to address in a matter of minutes including why misdemeanor can be elevated to felonies and whether it's a good tactic. the statute of limitations was extended one year due to covid

rules. so did that rule apply to other cases? >> dana: jury selection begins today. expected to take two weeks. very explicit instructions about what you could ask the potential jurey pool and who you could not ask them. >> bill: some of these attorneys, especially on the trump side, when you consider he got 10% of the vote in manhattan in 2016 and then got 12% in 2020, there is a great piece out there about lawyers who will go through the social media postings of potential jurors to find out if they have an inclination one way or the other. >> dana: you might see some people dismissed quickly. often president trump will make a statement beforehand. we don't know if it will happen this morning. an interesting situation. middle of a campaign where in the battleground states he is up

in the polling but president biden has been coming up a little bit in those polls. so president trump will be here. he will try to do as much as he can virtually. make comments here and travel on the weekends and maybe evening, trying to run a presidential campaign from a criminal courtroom not easy. >> bill: with a national election 6 1/2, seven months away. if there is a conviction how many people that may sway against him or will he weather the storm in we wait to find out as trial begins today with jury selection. 58 minutes away. major news over the weekend. unprecedented assault on israel. the first of its kind from iran more than 300 drones and missiles raining from the sky. u.s. said proceed with caution. we find out who makes the next move. if you were watching saturday

night and sunday morning a lot of drama in the story as we watch together. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to a new week live in new york. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." there is so much news we'll help you get through it. the u.s. helped defend israel during saturday's assault. coalition forces shot down nearly all drones and missiles marking the first time iran has attacked israel from its own soil. >> bill: it prompted president biden to confirm an emergency meeting of the g7. he says the u.s. won't help israel in a counter attack. >> dana: john kirby is here. first let's go to trey yengst in tel aviv. how does it look this morning? >> good morning. we're gathering more information on this brazen iranian attack against israel over the weekend that included hundreds of drones and missiles. i just got off a briefing with an israeli air force official who indicated u.s. central

command deserves much of the credit for organizing the shoot down of these drones and missiles. israelis had jets in the sky along with the americans working to intercept the iranian projectiles during this attack. right now as we speak israel's war cabinet is meeting to determine what an appropriate response might look like. there are differences in opinion on the scope, scale and timing of such an israeli counter attack against iran and all of this comes as president biden is set to meet with the iraqi prime minister today in washington. they are likely to discuss this attack over the weekend amid reports that president biden indicated to prime minister netanyahu the united states will not help in any sort of counter attack against iran. dana. >> dana: trey yengst, thank you, keep us posted. >> bill: back to there momentarily. joe biden said don't do it but

they did anyway. john kirby is with us now. thank you for coming back to "america's newsroom." listen, iran has been a pain to your administration. it has been a pain to israel when you consider its support for hamas. in light of saturday's events where iran hit israel for the first time, or tried, those that got through, is it time to rethink allowing iran access to billions of dollars in electricity sales between iraq and iran? will that policy be stopped, sir somme >> as you know, that's an item that comes up for extension every few months, bill. previous administration also extended it as have we. the iraqi people are so reliant right now on energy resources from iran. we don't want our friend, iraq, to not be able to power itself. we're working with them, of course, on improving their own energy infrastructure but it is something we're extending to

make sure the iraqi people have the power and energy they need to survive economically. we have put a lot of pressure on iran. the president met with g7 to talk about the diplomatic response that's unified and explore other opportunities to hold iran accountable for what they did. >> bill: you have your hands full. looking back at the track record for president biden. here is what sticks off. afghanistan withdrawal was a mess. failed to stop putin with going to ukraine. israel and hamas, china's military build-up is substantial. that was this morning when i came up with. can you argue american strength and persuasion is better today than it was four years ago globally? >> 100% i can do that comfortably after serving in uniform. this is a president who understands american leadership on the world stage.

devoted additional resources not just militarily but diplomatically and economically to advance national security interests and we'll continue to do that. american leadership. talk about the middle east on the weekend. american leadership was absolutely vital to helping israel defend itself. we had american fighter pilots in the air first time ever that we were involved in the active defense of israel in a combat sort of scenario. that's how seriously we take our commitments. as the israelis said themselves they count have done what they did without american help. >> dana: the attack is this hinge moment in the middle east in its history. now you have a situation where iran from its soil has attacked israel and i agree what a remarkable outcome with the cooperation that we had diplomatically and from defense standpoint. i have two questions. one is deterrence being so important and israel being willing to fight the fight for all of us who care about the

region, how strong is president biden's position that israel should not react and retaliate? >> i won't talk about the details of the diplomatic conversation the two had on saturday night except to say that prime minister certainly came away from that conversation knowing how serious joe biden is in terms of protecting israel and israel's security and our commitment to them is iron clad. we proved that on saturday night and president made clear to prime minister netanyahu that going forward we'll continue to prove that when it comes to defending israel. what the president has also said, and i believe the american people would agree, we don't want to see a war with iran or a wider conflict in the region. we will keep making the posture changes. we'll keep making the diplomatic efforts we need to do to try to prevent a wider war in the region. the president pre-positioned additional military resources in the last ten days just to make sure we could meet our

commitments. >> dana: the israelis seem unified even though they have problems with internal domestic politics. bennett, the former israeli prime minister tweeted when a bully tries to hit you 350 times and only succeeds seven times, you have not won. they don't feel that way. however, i wanted to ask you this. this week this house of representatives is putting aside appliance week and focus on foreign policy. that will include action hopefully on aid for israel and possibly ukraine. will president biden engage and how will he try to persuade them to pass this aid? does he have the sort of credibility in the bank in order to spend it on this week to try to get this done? >> we have engaged actively. the president himself and others across the administration. with speaker johnson and house republicans. the best and fastest way, dana, to meet our commitments to our ally, israel and to our partner, ukraine, is for the house to pass that bipartisan bill that

passed in the senate. we know that if it gets to the floor it will get the votes and then we can start getting additional weapons to ukraine, which is starting to get pushed back by russian forces and certainly make sure that israel is ready to continue to defend itself. that's the fastest, surest way to do that. >> bill: israel has the right to respond and defend itself, i'm sure you would agree with that. will it? >> of course. >> bill: who makes the next move? >> that will be up to prime minister netanyahu and the war cabinet. as you said right before me coming on, they are meeting now and kind of figuring out what their next steps are going to be. we respect they have to make those decisions for themselves. we want to see the tensions de-escalate and we don't want to see a war with iran. we'll continue to make sure that israel can defend itself. as you rightly said they live in a tough neighborhood. we talked about hamas today. they are facing threats from houthis, hezbollah to the north and now facing threats directly

from iran proper. we have to make sure they have what they need and that's why we need that supplemental passed in the house so quickly. >> bill: okay, sir. a lot to get to and hope you come back soon. there is more to cover. thank you for your time. >> we do not want this blood on our hands. we are not interested in paying for, facilitating for this genocide. this is not something that we want and how dare he come and ask for our vote when he has been literally killing our palestinian siblings day after day after day. >> dana: activists in america cheering iran over its attack on israel during a meeting in chicago this weekend. garrett tenney is live are w the latest. >> this was a conference with pro-palestinian groups across the country who came to talk about their plans for disrupting the democratic national convention in august due to the u.s. support of israel since the october 7th attacks. we want to show you some of what happened at this conference when

news broke about iran's attack on israel. organizers shared those developments and the crowd of several hundred people responded by cheering for iran. >> iran has just responded about 30 minutes ago. [cheers and applause] >> there are reports of drones having been fired on israel from yemen and iraq as well. [cheers and applause] all of the anti-war committee here, all of the palestinian support coalitions here must be ready immediately to be out in the streets and to stop the u.s. from expanding this war on iran. >> stop the u.s. from expanding this war on iran. a committee member of the u.s. palestinian community network investigated for alleged ties to terrorist organizations. during that investigation in

2010, the f.b.i. searched his home ultimately no arrests in that case were made. at a break-out session earlier in the day at this weekend's conference, though, here on american soil again, one organizer taught participants how to chant death to israel and death to america in farsi. [chanting] >> some of the supports of these far left groups including receive members of the chicago city council, allies of brandon johnson and encouraging these groups to march on and disrupt the dnc with or without permits in august. >> dana: garrett tenney, thank you. >> bill: we're watching to see whether or not the former president, donald trump, speaks before going into court for day one of jury selection. our all-star legal panel will be

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are found negligent. you did not respond, "we are sinking. and our passengers and our crew are in danger. what agreement with the military? war, miss ricard, war. rated pg >> bill: live look now, two sites here, screen left jerusalem. screen right in jordan. we await israel's response, if there is one, to the iranian

missile and drone attack from saturday night. as we mentioned with john kirby a moment ago the ball was in israel's court. what action they take we'll see. the administration is urging israel to chill things out. we'll see whether or not that's the case. in a dangerous neighborhood. >> dana: we are waiting to hear from former president trump of day one of his criminal hush money trial beginning today. bring in the legal panel. what a panel it is. really wonderful to have you all here. as this gets underway. andy, top thoughts overall big picture. >> i think the world is upside down because we're dealing in a jurisdiction where we have a progressive prosecutor who ordinarily won't prosecute serious crime and here we have an unserious crime that he has taken and parsed into 34 felonies. it is inconceivable it would be done to anyone other than donald trump. >> bill: let's go down the line.

kerrey, has brag brought a case that he can win? >> in this state of affairs in new york, maybe. at this point i'm convinced the new york justice system is determined to crush donald trump. we have oh he seen their attempt to do so and doing so financially with the leticia james case. this is to remove him from public life that carries jails time. in a normal circumstance, normal world, the answer would be no because it is allude krauss case on its face. given how it's going in new york for him i think it's possible. >> dana: i have so many questions. michael cohen is supposed to be the star witness promised a big surprise. we're supposed to be waiting for this big surprise from michael cohen. he with as the president's legal advisor at the time. so how does that work if the president was following his lawyer's legal advice and now that lawyer is the star witness for the prosecution? >> right. he is also a convicted felon.

that will be interesting. michael cohen has already indicated years ago he is ready to throw donald trump under the bus. the problem is since he is the star witness in alvin bragg's case with 0 credibility, i don't know what he can put forth to change that. the jury will be able to assess his credibility when making all the decisions that they need to make. i don't think michael cohen is really going to be the be all, end all of this trial. >> bill: here was trump on friday talking about jury selection. he knows it by now, time after time. watch here. >> jury selection is largely luck. it is unfair i'm having a trial there and unfair we have this judge who hates trump and has tremendous conflict, as you know. >> bill: andrew. >> i have a belief in the jury system. you put 12 people on a jury, at least one of them even in

manhattan should have some sympathy for donald trump . more important than that. the prosecution should be a passion for the constitution. the idea of proof beyond a reasonable doubt is the highest standard in the history of civilization. when you put such a high burden of proof on a jury who i think will have a passion for that and i think that's part of the attorney's job is to make sure the jury buys into that, this standard being so high, the charges against donald trump are something that i think he can win under these circumstances with the complexity of the nature of these allegations. >> dana: wasn't alvin bragg, andy, supposed to tell us what the other underlying crime is? why is he hiding the ball? >> it would be scandalous if he had been explicit about this because he is trying to enforce federal law. what he did was filed an indictment that laid out in kind of bare bones fashion what the

felony counts were and then also he filed a statement of facts where he described what he calls the scheme and the crime -- the problem he has he doesn't have a statute for the crime he wants to charge. he wants to charge him with stealing the 2016 election and his theory of that is that trump should have complied with the federal campaign finance laws and disclosed these payments that were made to stormy daniels. the problem is, legally they aren't campaign expenditures and factually even if the campaign finance laws applied the next reporting period after the payment would have been after the 2016 election. so it wouldn't have made any difference anyway. >> bill: another point that i'll ask you. the camera is there and may speak going in. that has been his pattern. whether it's now or 30 minutes from now we don't know. in this case, these were

misdemeanor elevated to felonies. how do you do that-in-law? second question. the statute of limitations on the felony had expired but there was a covid law where you could skip a year and still make it apply. how was that -- how were you able to do that in the legal system? whether it's donald trump or joe blow down the street. did everybody have that opportunity? >> the statute of limitation had expired to the misdemeanors. the only way he could revive it by making it felonies by saying it was to conceal an underlying crime. as andy mentioned it is unclear what the crime is. that's actually one of the things that troubles me most about this case. a hallmark of a free and fair justice system is for the accused to know what they are being accused of. a pinnacle in the sixth amendment and the right we all have.

it's unclear even to us today, i'm sure to trump and his defense team as well as to what actually is going on is quite concerning. >> dana: ask both jonna and andrew their thoughts on jury selection from a defendant's point of view. jonna, what do you think that the trump legal team is looking for and how many people can they just say absolutely not and get rid of? >> each side will be ten challenges and you get different challenges for cause. i don't know how donald trump is ever going to seat a fair and impartial jury. we were talking about this off air. there will be a number of people who want to get on this jury at all costs and say what they have to say, lie about whatever they have to lie. i hate to say that. but to be somebody who can put trump away if you are a never trumper and sneak hours on that jury is a real possibility. one another thing. this underlying crime, the only reason why this case is a felony

and should be barred by the statute of limitations, does not exist. to me it's akin of prosecuting someone for stealing someone else's uni corner. it is not a thing and not real. the fact it was elevated on a crime that doesn't exist makes this an even bigger farce and i this i the general public can understand that. >> when they are walking in to meet the jurors for the first time they have to exude confidence in their case and connect with the jurors. you look for people open to a different kind of realm of ideas what donald trump might be thinking. to that point there are two layers of specific intent the prosecutors have to prove in donald trump's mind at the time that these crimes were committed. proving beyond a reasonable doubt he was thinking not only about falsifying business records but also about the campaign finance purpose of it. that's a very difficult thing to do. you want jurors open to those ideas as to what the variation

of what somebody like this might say. >> bill: the department of justice denied taking up this case, correct? >> correct. >> the southern district of new york, they also denied taking up this case. >> right. >> bill: why did bragg jump on it? >> leticia james got big praise for bringing her case. they are both ambitious, progressive democrats in new york and he decided even though he buried this case a year before, when he saw the way she was lauded for bringing the case that she brought, he decided i better become the first prosecutor ever to indict a former american president who just happens to be the defact owe nominee for the next election. i think it ends up being important that the underlying crime is not a crime because i think what is going to happen

here is trump could get convicted and walk and when i say that what i mean is, he is entitled under new york law to ask for what's known as a lesser-included offense charge, meaning have the jury instructed as to both the misdemeanor and the felony. if they decide to convict him on the misdemeanor the case has to get thrown out. >> dana: president trump might be walking in here. door are open as we wait to see if president trump will make any comments walking into the courtroom. >> bill: is that common? >> dana: let's see if we get a comment. [[inaudible] questions >> this is an assault on

america. nothing like this has ever happened before. there has never been anything like it. every legal scholar says this case is nonsense and should never have been brought. there has never been anything like this. there is no case. people that don't necessarily like donald trump say they is an outrage this case was brought. it is political persecution, a persecution like never before. nobody has ever seen anything like it and again it is a case that should have never been brought. it is an assault on america and why i'm very proud to be here. this is an assault on our country. it's a country that is failing. a country that's run by an incompetent man very much involved in this case. really an attack on a political opponent. that's all it is. i'm very honored to be here, thank you very much.

[inaudible question] >> bill: nothing like this has ever been brought. called it an out rage. a case like this has never been brought before not for what you guys were talking about but the fact it is a former president now being tried on a criminal matter. >> you know, you asked andy about why did bragg decide to bring this case and talked about letitia james. he was under an enormous public pressure campaign by someone who worked in that office who wrote a book about the case as the case was ongoing. that is mind-boggling to me. pomeranz. and it shocks the conscious as a lawyer to write a book about an ongoing case, include facts and it was part of a pressure campaign on bragg to reopen it and force the issue and get it out there. >> dana: will the judge at all be watching president trump's comments in and out of the courtroom?

will it matter? >> i'm sure. he will want to level another gag order if he can. this is the worst possible judge that could ever be presiding over this case. he should have recused himself let alone -- really. the appearance of impropriety given to his connections to his daughter and his daughter's connection to the democratic party and joe biden and kamala. he should say i respect my robe too much. this man will be probably the main reason -- the gate keeper of the objections, evidence, everything. the voir dire. he will be the reason why donald trump loses a case he should win. >> bill: andrew said it's not like you can't find another judge. more judges in new york, right? >> there are so many judges in new york, obviously. for this connection to his daughter as well as other issues with past cases actually sitting on trump's civil case. these are real issues that

affect the overall fairness of the system. defense attorneys need to be more likable in that courtroom, more likable than the judge and prosecutors and have the connection with the jury that the judge -- let the judge seem biased and prosecutor seem biased. defense attorneys need to put on the show. >> i just think everything is upside down. this shouldn't be a prosecution and when you guys were talking about aren't there other judges, my first thought was yeah, the democrats have elected millions of them in new york. >> bill: thank you to you all. terrific team and we'll ride you guys for the next eight weeks. thank you very much. 33 minutes past the hour. let's get back to this. we're now in a new chapter in a close alliance. u.s. intercepting dozens of iranians drones and missiles tar guesting israel marking the first time the u.s. has directly come to the defense of the

jewish state. jennifer griffin it was done in dramatic fashion. to the pentagon for the latest from there. >> this marks a rubicon moment in the middle east. first time iran has fired ballistics missiles or any missiles from iranian territory at the state of israel. fortunately the u.s. military, israel and allies were ready and able to shoot down 99% of the 300 plus drones and missiles launched by iran over a five-hour period. it takes 12 minutes for a ballistic missile fired from iran to reach israel. those hours were incredibly tense on saturday night. at one point u.s. sent compagno anders and president's national security team at the house were watching as 100 ballistic missiles were launched simultaneously with the intent of overwhelming israel's missile defense shield. half of those missiles we have learned failed in flight. this video shows the carney

based in the mediterranean using a missile to shoot down one of the six ballistic missiles the u.s. navy intercepted. president biden called the commanders of the two air force f-15 fighter squadrons who shot down more 80 iranian attack zones. >> they're incredible. absolutely incredible. they made an enormous difference saving a lot of lives. >> we thank you for your work. this is the lieutenant colonel fighter squad command and we're provided to have our part in that contribution, sir. >> french, british and jordan war planes shot down some of the drones while protecting jordanian airspace. there was very little damage to israel with only seven missiles landing on israeli soil and no deaths. this chapter in military history will be studied in years to come as a textbook case of allied

missile and air defense. centcom commander coordinated and deconflicted a complicated allied defense of israel for the first time ever included arab countries, jordan defended its sovereignty and airspace and now learned that saudi arabia and the uae provided realtime intelligence that helped track the incoming missiles allowing allies to shoot them down. defense secretary lloyd austin is hosting the iraqi prime minister at the pentagon this afternoon. >> bill: thank you. more to come on that. jennifer griffin from the pentagon. >> a few days after i became speaker way back in october we passed our israel support package. it has been sitting on schumer's desk ever since. we understand the necessity of standing with israel. we'll try again this week and the details of that package are being put together now. we are looking at the options and the supplemental issues. >> dana: mike johnson putting

aid to israel on the front burner following iran's attack in the middle east. former house speaker kevin mccarthy is here. this week the house was supposed to have all week long going to talk about appliances and believe me, with the dishwasher that takes three hours i'm here for that. but they will set that aside and going to focus on foreign policy. 17 bills they are putting forward. aid to israel and ukraine possibly are both on the table. can speaker johnson, with his very narrow majority, get it done? >> i think there will be overwhelming support. the difficulty here is why are we here? first thing we need to do is thank our men and women in uniform. they did a tremendous job this weekend helping deflate what went on. for the first time in history, iran sent missiles from their homeland directly into israel. this is something that has never happened before and why did it take place? it is the foreign policy of the biden administration. what he did in afghanistan,

allowing of raising the sanctions of the oil to produce not 400,000 barrels a day but 3 million. iran has billions of dollars now and they are funding terrorists everywhere. congress has been slow to act. they should have taken care of this back in october. the world looks much different. it looks like the 1930s. you have not just iran but russia, north korea and china creating the axis of evil bounding together. we only saw this in the 30s. the actions that the house and senate take really sends a message throughout the world. it has been delayed since october seven, six months before we've taken action on israel. it was a mistake to try to put a pay for on this. the wrong message around the world. much of this funding will go to reproduce weaponry for our own stockpiles because we have been sending, just as we used missiles this weekend to deflect what iran was sending. our own stockpiles here in

america. we shouldn't be depleted or in a weaker situation. if you simply look back to what then vice president biden wrote in 2020 about the policy of the middle east, it shows every decision he made has been wrong. secretary gates has been right. his change in foreign policy here has led to five embassies evacuating from america on foreign soil. what happened in afghanistan, the movement to our allies looking to china and now for the first time in history iran sending missiles into israel. >> bill: i will add to that the middle east has changed period. in our lifetimes there are alliances now that never existed before. if you listen to the end of jennifer's report. jordan, saudi arabia and uai coming to israel's defense. a remarkable moment. one to behold. >> let's look at why. >> bill: dems are divided on the whole idea.

john fetterman from pennsylvania just pierced that point on cnn sunday. watch what he said there. >> i think it really demonstrates how it's astonishing that we are not standing firmly with israel and there should never been any kinds on conditions on all that. when a nation can launch hundreds of drones towards israel i'm not going to be talking about conditions ever. >> bill: your witness. >> an excellent position. fetterman has been superior when it comes to his position on israel. remember with president biden being sworn in january 2020. why are all those nations working together? the abraham accords. this is something that we've never seen before. it should have been a nobel prize recipient because of what happened there. had president biden embraced the abraham accords on the day he was sworn in saudi arabia would be part of it today. october 7th would never have taken place and this weekend would not have taken place and the hostages would still not be

held today. this is uniqueness in the policy change from the last administration. you have democrats as fetterman. that's not where the majority of democrats have been. they have shifted their position on israel. they have shifted politically leaning more towards where this democrat party is going, appeasement to a terrorist organization. it's not acceptable and it is causing more harm. we're less safe today because of it. >> dana: thank you so much. it was interesting to see how many democrats put out statements in support of israel as the missiles rained down on saturday night. thank you for being here. we'll stay in touch. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: bill, you called it. scotty scheffler captures his second green jacket after dominating at augusta national yesterday.

>> his stardom confirmed. >> dana: at 27 he is the fourth youngest player to win the masters tournament twice. he was in a four-way tie for the lead at one point during the final round yesterday. this beautiful shot into the ninth green set the tone as he shot four under par over the final ten holes to pull away. >> bill: that's such a difficult shot right there. >> dana: there are a lot of numbers here. wow. >> bill: didn't hemmer say i'll take scheffler and give you the field for 20 bucks. >> dana: 20? >> >> bill: i think so. maybe a dollar? >> dana: i think it was a dollar. >> bill: it was anti-climatic. you wait for the back nine on sunday for some real drama. scheffler put it away. tiger didn't have a great saturday or sunday. hope springs eternal for him. jury selection is only moments

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>> there is no case. they've said it. people that don't necessarily follow or like donald trump said this is an outrage that this case was brought. it's a political persecution, a persecution like never before. nobody has ever seen anything like it and again, it's a case that should have never been brought. it is an assault on america. >> bill: president trump is in court. moments ago speaking before he went in about the trial about to get underway.

will sharp is an attorney for the former president and in studio in person. let's start with this. donald trump saying that he will testify, all right? from friday. >> are you going to testify? >> yeah, i will testify, it is a scam. i tell the truth. all i can do is tell the truth and the truth is that there is no case. >> bill: do you support that and i think he told shannon that jury selection will be difficult. >> it is probably going to take a couple of weeks particularly in light of the ongoing presidential election, it will be really difficult to find jurors who come into this just with an open mind for the facts and the law. in terms of president trump testifying that's going to be a decision for him and the trial team as we get into that later in the trial. i will say, though, that i think that president trump will be a very compelling witness here just because at the end of the day the truth is on his side. i really don't see how any of the other witnesses, any of the other evidence the undercut that basic fact.

>> dana: one of the star witnesses calling him a star is michael cohen, used to be president trump's legal counsel now a convicted felon and served time and now he is saying this on saturday. >> one of the things that donald and his legal team are trying to do is every day it's to discredit me. and they think that's a winning strategy for getting an overturn of whatever conviction that a jury may or may not determine. that's not the way you run a trial. have your own defense. the defense is not to attack the witness. but that's what they think is going to be the successful result for them. >> dana: what do you think of that? >> i'm in a difficult position here because of the gag order that the judge placed against president trump here. the first gag order of its kind against a candidate for political office i believe in american history. i'm somewhat limited in what i can say about michael cohen and the other witnesses. courts have previously found him

to be a perjurer. at the end of the day that will be telling. any fair jury would look at his testimony as deeply suspect in light of his history of open perjury in court. >> bill: you are back in the same jurisdiction as the jean carroll matter. she took a lot of questions about the incident. that was not allowed in court. why not? >> i think extra court statements like that often aren't allowed in court. the key thing here, though, when you think about the witness testimony and when you think about that basket of issues, we have a judge here who is consistently ruled against us on a lot of evidentiary issues and legal issues. we've obviously moved to have him recused what we believe is bias on his part. that's something that will have to play out in court. >> dana: will sharp, i hope we

see you many times. there aren't cameras in the courtrooms, you can be our eyes and ears. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me on. >> dana: fox drone camera in new mexico capturing suspected smugglers throwing rocks to break it. a live report at the border is next. did you see this? a car goes flying into the air and comes crashing down into a building. what caused all this? we have it next. veteran homeowners checked your credit card rates lately? many are over 22%, near 30% if you pay late. why not do what thousands of veteran families have done. call newday and pay off that high rate debt with the lower rate newday 100 va cash out loan. it lets you pay off your credit cards and car loans with one easy monthly payment. get the cash you need and the peace of mind you deserve.

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you could tell by the way they threw rocks at it. the scouts were keeping an eye on law enforcement down below. we found a group of 12 young men in the mountains scrambling on the hiking trails waiting for the moment to come down to the u.s. side. the catch is, recreational hikers and smugglers are using the same hiking trails. >> thought it was pretty unsafe. they come as they please. we need more people out here to defend. >> the young man up this were waiting for rides on the u.s. side. as soon as the cars pulled into a parking lot at the base of the mountain they scrambled down, loaded up and made a break. agents with customs and border protection got on them. some were apprehended. el paso sector is third in the nation with apprehensions with about 1,000 per day. the el paso sector also leads the nation forgotaways with about 50,000 people who escaped into the population over the

last fiscal year, bill. >> bill: mike tobin in el paso, texas, beginning another week of coverage down there. thank you. >> american leadership was vital to helping israel defend itself. we had american fighter pilots in the air. israelis have said they couldn't have done what they did without american help. >> dana: john kirby with us earlier as the israeli war cabinet meets about the attack over the weekend. president biden is urging restraint. general jack keane is ahead with more an iran's first ever attack on israel. the white house response and israel's military options coming up. former president donald trump arriving for jury selection minutes ago in the first criminal trial of a former president. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning. interesting weekend. >> dana: yeah. >> bill: a lot going on.

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