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Hes accused of Stealing Millions of dollars from the baseball superstar hello, im wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom we begin in the middle east right now, cnn has learned that Prime Minister Benjamin Ateneo is meeting with his war cabinet just ahead of what they anticipate could be a potential attack from iran. It comes after an israeli airstrike hit the iranian consulate in Damascus Syria last week, killing a dozen or rainy and military officials. The pentagon says the top us general for the middle east is an israel right now meeting with Israeli Military officials about the Security Threats and the white house tells cnn that officials there are keeping a very close eye on the situation and are in constant communication with israel. Lets get to the latest reporting from our correspondence Cnn International diplomatic editor, nic robertson, whos joining us from jerusalem and aryna Tasha Bertrand is over at the pentagon. Nick, first to you. First of all, working to tell us about this as really work cabinet meeting, how concerned are israelis right now that iran could launch an attack, a retaliatory attacks against israel theres a real concern wolf, that iran could do that in the coming 24 or 48 hours. Ive talked to varioUs Intelligence sources in the region at the moment. They understand and this is what were getting from a lot of different sources that iran is poised to respond. Now of course, this could be iran intentionally did informing, putting disinformation out there just to create that sense of jeters among the israeli public here, among the leadership, and israel hello, about precisely what theyll do and its unclear what theyll do. Will they respondents straight back directly to israel themselves with the us proxies, the strike into israel where they strike israeli interests elsewhere in the region thats a question on peoples minds at the moment, but that strengthen and show of unity and support between the the United States and israels on display today are hand, saw base in the south of israel, the centcom commander, general erik kurilla, there with you. Ive gland the israeli haley Defense Minister, deputy idf, chief of staff, also there. So this is very much a message of unity and strengthen preparedness. So this is what we heard from rear admiral daniel hagari, the Idf Spokesperson just last night, speaking about how Prepend Israelis for what ever threat comes from iran were highly alert and prepared for a wide range of scenarios. And are conducting a situational assessment. Go far. Were ready in both defense and offense to various idf capabilities and strategic partners. So i still think you should give fahmy shut off iran a strike coming from iranian territory will clearly prove iranian intentions to escalate the situation in the middle east and to stop hiding behind its proxies i think you get a level of the understanding of how this concern is shared jointly between the United States and israel. A State Department and the embassy here morning, staff not to stray beyond the sort of tel aviv Area Jerusalem area best shiva area stay in those areas. The concern is its just not clear what irans move is going to be the sense that it could be soon, wolff. Yeah, theres a lot of concern in those ambit the us embassy and other embassies in israel as well are issuing warnings to their citizens to stay put basically. And worry, i start worrying about the potential, lets hope it doesnt happen about the potential of this war escalating big time between israel and iran natasha, i want to go to the pentagon with you for a moment. The top us Military Commander in the middle east, that the commander of the us military Central Command is in israel right now, he just heard nick talk about that. What do we know about his trip . The coordination thats going on between the United States and israel in anticipation, in fear of a fourth from a fullscale iranian retaliatory response well, if erik kurilla, the top general for the middle east, he did say that the us the pentagon did say also that the us stance with israel against any potential attack that iran might launch against the israelis and President Biden made this very clear as well that they are in constant coordination with the israelis to prepare for the possibility that they do launch some kind of attack directly on israeli soil. And according to a readout from the israeli Sayyed Generall erik kurilla. He did meet with you, have gone today to discuss readiness for an iranian attack against the state of israel, which may lead to who regional escalation. So clearly all sides here are bracing for the possibility that this escalates into a fullon conflict between iran and israel. However, Us Intelligence assessments, as we reported a little bit earlier in the week, they assess that this is more likely to be carried out by Iranian Proxy Forces in the region rather than from iran directly. And that is for a number were of reasons, but most prominently is because the iranians dont necessarily want to get involved in a fullblown war with israel that the us, as they have stated publicly, would then come to israels defense width. So the iranians trying to temper their response according to our sources, however, it is very possible at this point according to intelligence testament that these iranian proxies carry out a against israeli assets in the region. And so all sides bracing for that. And importantly, how israel is going to respond, because that is also going to inform just how much this conflict escalates. Wolf so the tasha, just to be precise, if hizballah and raining proxy in Southern Lebanon starts launching rockets and missiles, bombs towards haifa tel aviv, elsewhere in israel, the israelis presumably would respond big time against his vallow in Southern Lebanon, try to destroy their capability, but wouldnt necessarily attack directly or targets in iran, is that the us understanding as well well, its not clear it just whether the us would characterize an attack by an iranian proxy against israel as an attack by iran itself, the us has made very clear, of course, that the proxies are only able to function and really survive because of iranian support for them. But at the same time it would definitely be a layer removed from iran itself if the proxies were the ones carrying out these attacks, however, israel has said that theyre going to respond forcibly to whatever kind of attack they are faced with by iran or its proxies. And so it just remains to be seen how exactly this is going to play out. Are very important, very, very worrisome developments unfolding, write down natasha. Thank you. Nick, thanks to you as well. I want to bring in cnn military analysts, retired Us Army Lieutenant general mark hertling, a general. Thanks so much for joining us says, you know, officials are telling cnn they expect iran will respond imminent lee keyword imminently. Do you think iran is likely to strike israel directly or could that happen through a proxy like hezbollah, for example, in lebanon everyones asking that question, wilken, what id say is gentle kurilla, is there because hes looking at what is the most dangerous course of action that around will take and whats the most likely, the most dangerous is a strike by iran inside it, israel, because that could certainly cause an Inflection Point and expand this war. The most likely is all of your reporters. Natasha just said is likely an attack by any number of proxy groups, whether its hezbollah and in lebanon or any of the pmf forces in iraq or syria, or in the area so thats what general kurilla and probably he has some of his Intelligence Officers with them as well as some of his operators so that they can react with naval and air forces from the us in case anything does happen because the key is deterring any further expansion of this regional conflict. The israeli strike on that iranian Consulate Building In Damascus was what, about a week or so ago . Why do you think iran has now waited this long to respond immediately issued warnings that they were going to respond, but they havent yet well, part of it is the messaging that iran off often uses and theyre concerned about attacking inside of israel because truthfully, wolf, as you know, israels force is pretty extensive and pretty confident. They can certainly go after a forces if they do these kind of things. So i think around on his trying to get their proxies together to determine what would be the best and most effective attacks by their proxies and potentially themselves, without being deterred, are countered by any israeli forces. So again, thats why everyone is on the edge to see which kind of force around well use and how they will use it. Yeah, very, very nervous situation unfolding right now, israels Defense Minister says a direct, a direct iranian attack against israel would be met. And im quoting him now with appropriate israeli response against iran, how worried are you general that this could start a much larger youre regional conflict unfolding in the middle east right now yeah, im very concerned truthfully, wolf, this is one like i said earlier, this is an Inflection Point. If this begins a fight between iran and israel, that is, in each others territory. Then were talking about much wider conflict and the us may get involved in this and thats what the administration is attempted to do is limit the conflict that were seeing. So it doesnt come to this so this is one of those things that i think and the State Department watching very closely and hoping it doesnt come to blows between iran and israel. Because if it does, thats not going to be the limit of the operation. Its an extremely dangerous moment in the middle east right now, because if there were a fullscale war between israel and iran, it would make whats going on im in gaza, look like relatively small potatoes because that were would be devastating to both sides israels got enormous capabilities. So does iran. And lets hope that doesnt necessarily unfold retired Lieutenant General mark hertling. Thanks so much for joining us other Important News were following right now at any moment, Vice President Kamala Harris will depart for arizona to campaign for Reproductive Rights. Its a top issue in that key Battleground State, after the states Supreme Court upheld a Civil War Era Law Banning nearly all abortions this afternoon, harris is expected to blame donald trump for that bannon argue that hell sign a national ban if he wins in november cnn whitehouse correspondent Priscilla Alvarez is in tucson getting ready for those meetings over their priscilla up. What is the Biden Campaign saying about the Vice President s trip today . To arizona well, theyre seeing this as an opportunity to really hammer the threat that they say former President Donald Trump faces. Or at least poses on health care and personal freedoms, tying these unpopular abortion bans directly to him. Now, in prepared remarks that were shared with reporters the Vice President is expected to cast this court ruling from this week as quote, one of the biggest aftershocks yet after the overturning of roe and say that trump quote is the architect of this healthcare crisis. Now of course, the Biden Campaign sees the issue of abortion as a salient political issue. One that can mobilize voters especially in the Battleground State of arizona. And just this week they launched a seven figure ad buy on the issue again, placing the blame squarely on donald trump and the Vice President in particular killer has been positioned over the course of the year to speak on Reproductive Rights. She launched a Reproductive Rights freedom tour in january and has been crisscrossing the country on this issue. So her argument is going to be here in arizona that this court ruling is the aftermath of donald trump and that there is risks posed if he is to take a second term. Now, i spoke to a democratic strategist who said, look, this is ultimately another data point into continuing argument by democrats and ultimately one that theyre going to be bringing here to arizona today with the Vice President are Priscilla Alvarez or the seed for us and arizona. 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But there is absolutely no evidence of that being a widespread concern. And to add some Context Johnson was a key congressional figure in the former president s failed efforts to try to overturn the 2020 me president ial election results. Just before the january 6 insurrection the Louisiana Republican spread a lot of misinformation that has been debunked repeatedly. This in and watch this the allegations about these voting machines, some of them being rigueur with this software by dominion. But theres a lot of merit to that. When the president says the election is rigged, thats what hes talking about. Did it with the fix was in when you have a Software System that is used all around the country that is suspect because it came from, hugo chavez has been azuela fit in georgia. It really play was rig, it was set up for the biden team to win. The system is set up for massive fraud and clearly none of that was true. I seen as Kristen Holmes is in west palm beach, florida for us, right near maralago. Kristen, what more do we know about this News Conference . And what trump and johnson want to chief wael, we are told that part of today will be them relitigating the 2020 election, which of course, as you just mentioned, is not that surprising given the role that those of them took trying to overturn the election back in 2020. But the other thing is talking about these Voting Noncitizens essentially trying to potentially put forward a bill were at least draw attention to this idea of noncitizens voting in the election. As you noted, start any kind of indication that this is a widespread problem, but on top of that, there is actually a federal law that bans noncitizens from voting. But this issue has become somewhat of a rallying cry for republicans. We know donald trump himself has actually gone as far as to say the democrats want undocumented immigrants coming over the border or so that they can help them in the 2024 election. We also know that there has been a series of legislation of lawsuit its brought in various states to quote Unquote Ban Noncitizens from voting. Again, federally, that is already not allowed, which is what these two menn, the election since that day deal with. However, i will give you some nuance here. There are some cities and various states who have pushed to have gone citizens vote in local elections were talking talking about school boards, but not a widespread issue however republicans are talking about this. They are linking their pet issue of the election shin, to what is a very real concern for voters this election cycle immigration, they are stoking fear that its going to impact the election. They are also say that immigration its something that the biden to wants. So they are using this in that way in order to further their agenda, moving into 2024 Kristen Holmes reporting for us said, kristen, thank you very much. Youre gonna have a very busy day today, minutes from now, embattled House Speaker mike johnson, weve tried to untangle the latest embarrassment to his leadership ship in the House Of Representatives just two days after donald trump letter republican revolt to defeat a foreign spying bill some republicans reportedly have warmed to a revised version and lawmakers are about to vote on it. The stakes are considered huge, not just for Speaker Johnson, but for National Security the Intelligence Community has warned that fisa, the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, is essential absolutely essential. They say to protect the United States from Terror Attacks. The law allows the us to collect communications of nonamericans overseas without a warrant. And its due to expire a week from today. We have a lot to discuss. I want to bring in congress for sending lawyer. Hes a democrat from maryland, congressman. Thank you so much for joining us. First of all, how confident are you that this revised revised bill will pass . And what are the stakes for the American People if it doesnt . Well, i think you made clear what the stakes are and what the Intelligence Community says they believe our intelligence gathering efforts will be deeply damaged at a time time of great conflict in the world and great threat to the American People and to america itself so that i am very hopeful that the majority of members of the house, having listened to the intelligence, people, not the, not the politicians not the biden the administration, but the Intelligence Community professionals who have indicated that this bill is critically important to the National Security and safety of our country it is ironic that the speaker of the house you have just indicated how important this bill on the floor is that the speaker of the house is down as a conspirator with the former president United States, to spread misinformation that clearly is they lie, not true. Keeping beating this dead horse of the election was stolen after scores of courts have looked at the evidence and said they were absolutely wrong, and that contention but hes able to vote on this floor. This is a critically important bill for the National Security of our country. And hes down in florida with the president continuing the president s the bleeding and yelling about something that they should know. And i think do know is on true, given all this republican Infighting Trading Congressmen on fisa, the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. Do you still have hope that Speaker Johnson will bring the desperately needed Military Aid Package for ukraine to the house floor for a formal vote anytime soon if he doesnt, it will undermine the security of the United States of america we need to make sure that putin understands that we are for freedom were against invasion, where against the breaking of international law. And were against the killing of people in their own country. Because you want to take them over if this doesnt come on the floor next week, we ought to raise hell and we are raised this issue and have the American People see how irresponsible this is for the security of america, not just ukraine but of america. And our name sadow allies president s have said the congress of the United States has said, we have an agreement with europe. If a single inch of their soil is invaded crane is not a member, but all the europeans believed that putin is not going to stop our own people think hes not going to stop if we dont beat him and make sure that ukraine is not overrun by the invaded russia so that this is a critical issue. The week for 450 plus plus days, we have not done anything to help our ally and friend and victim of this international aggression. 450 the days are gone by on america has not helped. Now, very frankly, the president United States has in fact had some authority to give some relief, to give some weapons. Theyre running out out of bullets and trying to defend their country with our help but we have not helped them in a way that is absolutely essential next week he needs you. Next week critically important to be sure. I quickly want to shift gears very quickly to the middle east, our top story, this our sources telling cnn that the israeli Prime Minister benjamin and you has convened his Work Evidence to discuss readiness for a possible attack by iran what is your level of concern . A congressman, that the world could be on the cusp right now of a much wider potential conflict in the middle east well, my own thought is that if we have been given a very strong message to ran, that we will not allow israel to be destroyed thats a Rans Objective very frankly, backing up, historically, you can go to chamberlain and churchill but you can go much more recently in 2014, russia invaded and occupied and took crimea, a part of ukraine. The west did little to send a message that you cant do that. They still occupied crimea and as a result, there now trying to occupy Eastern Ukraine and perhaps all of ukraine we cannot allow that to happen. Weve sent a message to iran, the secretary of state, or send that message president United States has sent that message. And very frankly, the congress of the United States has sent that message, uh, ran, we will not stand for your invading israel for your attacking israel and i think the president will stand by that. I think the congress of the United States will stand by that. I think we should take the action that is appropriate to not only inform a ran that there will be a grave contract. Prices, but if they do something that the grave consequences will occur. Do we stand at risk . I frankly think we stand at risk in either instance. And thats why i brought up the crimea. We did not respond forcefully. And as a result, the aggressor thought that they could keep on aggressing. That is russia that has putin. And we learned that lesson and world war ii as well too. To the tragedy of losses of millions of lives so in this instance, we cannot allow, are ran with impunity two damage one of our closest allies the state of israel. Its clearly a very, very dangerous moment of the region, right now, congress been sending harder of maryland, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Coming up sources now tells that the trump attorney, who became a witness in the classified documents case has left the former president s legal team we have details just to have see idp disrupts the idp derails. Lets be honest sucks but living to see idp doesnt have to. When you sign up at shining through cid p. Com, youll find inspiration and real patients stories helpful tips, reliable information, and more. Cid p can be tough. But finding hope just got a little easier. Sign up. Its shining through cip. Com. Be heard, be helpful. Bu hey there, brenda. Its carroll actually, which like are we operating on . 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So over at maralago and encouraged him to lie to the Us Justice Department and withhold them. Also, the fbi has released the transcript from a 2022 interview with walt nauta, the trump aide who now faces several obstruction related charges in this case, not a described the boxes of sensitive documents get cnn senior justice Correspondent Evan Perez is joining us right now. Evan, this is all coming just ahead of another hearing today in this case, update our viewers well if this is an important hearing for a couple of reasons walt nauta and carlos de oliviera, two of former president s trump. President trumps employees, theyre still employed by him and theyre also his codefendants. Their lawyers are in court today trying to get the judge Aileen Cannon to toss at least a couple of the charges that they face the main part of this is the Obstruction Part of this case. What . Lets equators allege is that both nauta and de oliveira helped move boxes that contain these classified documents and help obstruct this investigation. And so the lawyers for these two men are saying, well, they didnt know that there wasnt investigation. So how could it be that they obstructed this case . Ill read you just a part of this fbi. This theres may 2022 fbi interview. Will with walt nauta, in which theyre asking him about these boxes and what he knew about it. Here. Lets put up a part of this where whatnot he says describing whats in these boxes. He says all a lot of his personal items carry the same. Its still in the same box the fbi agent says, but now youre looking inside of these boxes nada says his personal items and then they continued to talk a little bit about exactly whats in these boxes. At bia agent says, and when you say personal items, what our personal items and not a response, hairspray and shampoo, of course, minimising, according to prosecutors, minimizing what was actually contained in those boxes, what they say were in those boxes were hundreds of classified documents, some of them of the highest nature, highest sensitivity for the Us Government. And one of the reasons why this interview was happening, was because fbi agents wanted to know whether they needed to warn the Intelligence Community entity about perhaps possible dangerous two operations, both civilians documents, sci sensitive, compartmented information doesnt get any higher in the classification level than that. Having perez. Thank you very much. Lets discuss whats going on with cnn, legal and National Security analysts carry cordero, shes joining us right now. How concern carry should trump be trump, the former president about the potential for prosecutors to call Evan Corcoran, is now former lawyer as a witness. Well, he would probably be a pretty powerful witness. First of all, no lawyer really wants to have to testify against their former client. And so its it would be a pretty extraordinary situation, but this case really the key to it is the Obstruction Part of it. And thats the part that Evan Corcoran would be best positioned to be able to testify if it comes to that because the fact that he would hadnt information that the president was trying to obstruct the former present with trying to obstruct the investigation and his knowledge, it takes a really High Standard brake the attorneyclient privilege, but even attorneys, if they are witness to evidence of a crime have to comply with the justice system. As you dont. This coming monday. So only when a few days away will be the start of the first criminal trial ever in American History against a former president of the United States trial in new york. Hush, hush money. Trial as its being called. Give us some context right now, how significant potentially this is. This is a historic moment well, its a historic case in that it is of a former president of the many cases that have been brought against the former president. In my judgment, this new york case is on the weaker end of the cases against him. If we compare them to the charges in the january 6 federal case or in the obstruction related case, in maralago classified documents case. So it is going to be very specific. Its going to be a jury trial. And so juries are unpredictable. We dont know which way they will well go and whether or not they will go along with the Prosecutors Theory that the falsification of records constitutes the significant federal crimes that new york has charged. But these are serious felonies that the new york de, has brought against the former president. And well see how it plays out in both the jury Selection Process thus and the trial. I wanted to get your thoughts because you have a personal interest in fisa, the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. Any moment now the house is expected to vote on a reauthorization of fisa. Theres a proposal now for two year authorization as opposed to a fiveyear authorization, you were involved back in 2008 . With, the original passage of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, give us a sense of the importance. Why is this fisa act so, so important ive been told by Us Intelligence officials that because of fisa, several Major International Terror Attacks against the United States have been prevented because of the information he gathered an advanced absolutely. So the provision that is currently be considered by the house for the reauthorization is one part of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act is section 702, which pertains only to targets who are not american the outside of the United States for counterterrorism or other National Security purposes. Back in 2008, when i was working with the Justice Department and the office of the director of National Intelligence elegance. The major justification for the law at the time was counterterroris m of the era of 2000s, the post nine 11 era. Today, i would argue that 702 is even more important than it was back then because not only is it relevant to ongoing counterterrorism matters, whether it is the hamas related matters or other international terrorism. But it is relevant to ongoing National Security threats pertaining to china, pertaining to russias war in ukraine even pertaining to the international fentanyl trafficking has issue, has been collected against and it has provided valuable for an intelligence information to the Us Government. So it is a critical National Security authority. If the deal that they can make is a twoyear extension that is better than letting the law expire. But even sunsets provide the Intelligence Community with the fact that then they have to go go back several years later to be able to reauthorize it. But two years would be better than letting this important higher fisa allows the Us Intelligence Community Law enforcement to monitor conversations from nonus citizens overseas, right . So this particular provision of pfizers section seven, zero to only authorizes collection when the Us Government needs the assistance of Us Telecommunications or other Communications Providers against nonus persons outside the United States. This is not the provision of fisa, which has a separate part of the law thats still is an existence and is not up for debate in this current Public Policy debate that is focused on on americans at home. This is only about nonu. S. Person targets bonds. Are those conversation they dont need a Court Martial under fisa. What they need is they need a Legal Framework and they need court supervision. So this is about the process by which the fisa court a spelling i shall National Security court can conduct oversight over the process to make sure the governments following its rules to protect us National Security in the presence. 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While he worked at the State Department. So for over two decades, a prosecutors really did not detail this information in the indictment that was handed up against him in december. Theyll prosecutors did note that russia was in conversations with cuban officials, but they he also had access to top secret information as well as a high level of Security Clearance considering his role as a Us Ambassador to bolivia and the time that he worked at the Cuban Interests Section in havana, cuba. Now, it is important to note here that he has never been charged with espionage although process it is believed that he was acting on behalf of the cuban government since at least 1981. Again, he was he was arrested back in december and he is expected to change his plea he later today and then sentencing will take place shortly after. Well, i will stay in touch with your carlos. You let us know what that sentence winds up being. Carlos suarez in miami for us. Thank you. 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Well, according to the complaint, mizuhara helped To Thani Open A bank account and told all the stars other advisors that ohtani wanted this one which held all of his Baseball Earnings to be private and we obtained recordings up telephone calls, which once you horace spoke with Bank Employees lied to them about being mr. Ohtani gave personal biographical information for mr. Ohtani in order to impersonate him and thereby convinced the bank to approve large wire transfers of large amounts of money to the bookmakers and just over two years say investigators, mizuhara placed approximately 19,000 bets on sports. Some as big as 160,000 when he one, the money went into his account when he lost. He covered his debts from ohtanis. He lost over 40 million in all this lawyer represents a bookmaker, Ippei Mizuhara, used and ippei will tell you and matt will tell you that he was a terrible gamble, but he just couldnt help himself apparently, mizuhara never Bet On Baseball. Soccer was more his thing. Just to kind of just go over the result in conclusion, ebay has been stealing money from my account and has told lies mizuhara allegedly wrote in the text to that bookie in june last year, i have a problem lol can i get one last last last bump . Thats Gambling Lingo for a credit extension. So i never Bet On Baseball or any other sports or never have asked somebody to do it on my behalf texts also appear to prove ohtani had no idea. He has were told cooperating fully with investigators. And while some suspicion did swirl these past few weeks, ohtani carried on doing what he does best one, playing baseball logging a careerbest five straight multi hit games. Maybe put that down to the untroubled mind. Of an innocent man now, we will be in court here in los angeles later for mizuharas first appearance since all this blew up, he and his lawyer have been very tight lip, but going to say, i do have some questions. Mizuhara, apparently 140 million lost 180 million. 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