Iran attacks. The president reportedly concerned a wider conflict is ahead, and that america could get dragged into it. Also tonight, pretrial tantrums. Donald trump on the attack against key figures in his Hush Money Trial with Jury Selection just hours away. And we put a spotlight on a gop art form known as Judge Shopping that has led to the roll back of your rights and how to stop it. Lets begin. We are continuing to follow this weekends major escalation across the middle east. Iran Launching Hundreds of drones, missiles, towards israel saturday. Which it says is its response to israels deadly bombing of a consulate in syria earlier this month. It is what happens next that we are all watching for and bracing ourselves for. Based on new reporting from nbc news, some top u. S. Officials are worried that israel may in fact respond hastily to irans attacks and provoke a wider regional conflict that the u. S. Could get dragged into. Well dive deeper into that in a moment. But over the pa
convicted of 34 felony counts in his new york hush money case, eight republican senators vowed to oppose all biden nominees and all democratic legislation as retribution. today six republican senators led by trump vice presidential short lister jd vance put oppose all nominees into writing. anyone who endorsed trump s guilt, anyone who supported organizations that celebrated the indictment of donald trump, and anyone who supported manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg orn supported law fare or censorship in other ways, which is just vague enough to include basically anyone president biden s nominated. now, these republican senators say their blockade will last until election day, and in practical terms that means the u.s. government will not be able to appoint representatives to thingsep like the u.n. general assembly or the world health organization or even to the not particularly seeming places like the international civil aviation organization and the public buildings
diplomacy, the president meeting with world leaders at the g-7 summit. his message on gaza and ukraine. good morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s get right to breaking news on capitol hill where former president trump has arrived in just the last hour, his first visit to the hill since his supporters tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power on january 6th, 2021. a reminder, trump himself didn t go to the capital that day, and he won t be in the capitol building today. instead he s holding meetings with sitting lawmakers nearby. right now he s behind closed doors with members of the house. later he meets with senators. nbc s ali vitali is staking out this meeting and joins us live from the hill. also with us former democratic congressman from new york, steve israel, and former press secretary to republican house speakers john boehner and paul ryan, brendan buck. ali, what have you seen out there this morning, and what should we
the republican party s presidential front runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts. that is the reality. the republican party must now grapple with that. if they were into reality. that is an issue. but what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted in the case brought by a new york city prosecutor who does not report president biden. trump is facing another 10 criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases were brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from coordinates with president biden. so donald trump has reacted the way he traditionally does when reality does not fit his preferred narrative. he lies about it. he claims that president biden is the one who is really pulling the strings. these are all biden cases. this is using the justice department to go af
The Supreme Court has decided to uphold federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, for now. But this week s unanimous ruling isn t the final word. The justices denied the challenge