Overnight, a us official told cnn, israel carried out a Military Strike deep inside iran good, this escalate the already tense situation in the middle east Jury Selection in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial could wrap up today. Opening statements in this store, a case are on track to begin monday, plus on the house floor, a critical test for a longstalled foreign aid bill for israel and ukraine hello, im wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening now a decadeslong shadow war between israel and iran spills out in the open. Us officials dow say israel launched and overnight strike on iran, appearing to target a Military Facility some 200 miles from the Capital Tehran in the hours since the attack, there has been a nearly unified Global Response arounds allies like china and russia echoing calls from israels western supporters to show restraint. And avoid a wider regional conflict. Cnn is covering the story from around the globe our chief International Security correspo
extraordinary iran, israel s defenses were. but defense is not deterrence. and what they need to do is reset deterrence. and you do that through two things. one demonstrating will and capability and by attacks ron, despite iran warnings up to the last minute, and then being able to reach deepened iran, they ve demonstrated that capability. now the key thing will be as is deterrence, restore, restore and did we block, did they block iran from establishing a new normal whereby anytime something happens against is iran s interests, they strike israel with ballistic missiles. only time will tell the israeli strike, as you know, triggered iran s air defense systems. what do you think the us has learned about arounds capabilities from this israeli strike? well, much like iran s ballistic missile capability, some of which never left the launcher or some of which probably didn t make it across the persian golf. their capabilities while they have an extensive missile inventory numbering in th
again, with michael cohen, you have michael cohen out there tweeting about the former president egging on almost asking for a battle over social media with the former president. so if he s going to continue to do that, and i said, i expect donald trump it was going to respond in kind. and i suspect you re right. jim shows the former trump white house attorney. thanks. as usual, for your expertise. here s a question. what did the us actually know about israel s strike inside iran? i ll ask florida congressman jared moskowitz from the foreign affairs committee. he s coming up next stay with us. you re the cnn newsroom live from the nation s capital, one of the most unforgettable night in dc, the swatter will read back here, resident biden and comedian collin joseph headline the white house
this is a churchill or chamberlain moment, and democrats along with some of our republican colleagues are deciding this is our churchill moment to make sure that we re standing by our allies, not just ukraine and israel, but sending the message to all of our allies around the world that you can still depend on america and not ceding more power to russia and china if this bill fails russia and china are the winners. you could not be a republican here and say you re worried about china. china s aggression. and then vote against this because this dies, china becomes more powerful. they fill the void and china, russia and iran, that axis the people will look at this and tell the rest of the world. now is the time to do business with us and not with america you use this week, you introduce a bipartisan bill, congressman condemning iran s last weekend drone and cruise missile attack on israel. how do you read israel s clearly more limited and precise strike on iran that happened overnight
attached her step by. i want to bring in nick paton walsh right now. nick, you re monitoring the reaction from iran. what are you hearing? yeah. look, it s been comparatively muted this morning from iranian officials or lack of transparency, frankly on the damage done. some military official suggesting we re talking about three drones potentially intercepted another suggesting that the noise is heard over is for a city that has some key military and nuclear facilities are rounded, but that was essentially related to air defenses are targeting a suspicious objects. so we don t really know exactly whether the iranians are going to admit what was hit here. and that may play very well into their hands what are the key advantages of being an autocracy is you get to control the information within your own society. and so iran looks like for now it is essentially trying to say that israel didn t really manage to hit anything and what happened in the skies over iswaran last night was a bit