It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Were tracking several breaking stories right now. Israel strikes back, targeting iran overnight. The fallout as tensions grow in the middle east. Here at home, a critical vote under way right now on capitol hill to advance a whopping package of aid to ukraine and israel. In new york city, Jury Selection back under way in Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial, a full panel of 12 in place as they search for five more people to fill the alternate seats. And we begin with Breaking News on capitol hill, where happening right now the house is voting on whether to consider a package of bills with 95 billion in aid for ukraine, israel and the indopacific. Joining us now from capitol hill is nbcs ali vitali. What is happening right now . Reporter look, just in the last minute or two, jose, since we came on the air with you, democrats who had seemingly been holding their votes back from this rule vote just i think to get a sense of how many republicans would vote to pass it, and to get a sense of how Many Democrats would have to join them to help, we are now seeing that democrat dam breaking. All members of leadership from leader Hakeem Jeffries to whip Katherine Clark to the vice chair pete aguilar, all of them voting yes on the rule. This is a pretty wild moment, given the fact that this is not how things usually work up here. Rules are not typically passed in bipartisan fashion. But, it speaks to the realities that we have seen with this House Republican conference, many of the members who are voting no vocal about it just in the last few minutes here on the stills with me as they went in to cast their no votes. This is how we thought it was going to go, but it is also why this is such a politically thorny and tricky issue, not just for the democrats who are crossing over here, they say that theyre doing the right thing, aiding our allies in ukraine and in israel and the indopacific, but for republicans specifically Speaker Mike Johnson who basically said as much last night in an interview on a conservative network, he said, republicans only control one chamber here, and i barely control this chamber. Another nod that the conference has been a consistent thorn in his side. What this does tee jose, the time is technically zero, but it is the first and only vote of the day and sometimes it takes members a little longer to get on the floor and cast their votes. But what this does tee up is a saturday session where likely tomorrow afternoon we are going to see the house vote on these four separate bills that would provide aid to ukraine, to israel, the indopacific, and then a potpourri of other priorities that are included in a fourth bill, one of those includes legislation around banning tiktok. But this all tees it up. This is the procedural motion that had to happen in order for us to get to saturday. And now here we are, though, it is not official until the gavel is sounded in that room. And so, ali, we look at the numbers, pretty strong yeas, more than 300 yeas so far. But if you could kind of explain to us a little bit about how unusual it is that in the Rules Committee, the vote would be a bipartisan vote, when the Rules Committee, which is the committee that really determines what is and or not able to be discussed and voted on at the floor, normally just takes a party line vote. Reporter yeah. Theyre the gatekeepers, jose. The Rules Committee are the gatekeepers to whatever legislation will get a full floor vote. Thats why we are here today, watching this vote playing out. Because late last night the Rules Committee did something and they did it in a very rare way. Youre right, this is typically a committee that functions solely based on party narrow a. The problem is that three conservative republicans were outspoken about the fact that they were not going to vote yes on getting this rule to the floor, it was a big enough priority for democrats that all four of the democrats on that Rules Committee banded together and in rare fashion helped to pass this rule out of that committee, and on to the house floor, again, a reminder of the way this houseworks and the reminder of the way that republicans are effectively bucking their leadership in plain sight. What that vote is going to lead to, though, and we heard murmurs of this already before it even happened was many disgruntled republican members saying that if there are members on the Rules Committee who cant seem to vote with leadership and vote with the majority of this conference, then they should be taken off that committee. The three members were talking about here are ones that we talked about a lot during the motion to vacate of Speaker Mccarthy and even during his multiple balloting rounds at the start of this congress, they negotiated those seats on that all powerful committee for themselves so they would have levers of power throughout the rest of this congress. They are exercising those and so this is really a moment where the decisions that republicans and Kevin Mccarthy made in the very beginning of this congress are now coming back to sprout and to show what the impact of that actually is. Ali vitali on capitol hill, thank you so very much. And turning now to more Breaking News this morning. From Inside A Manhattan courtroom, where a Jury Selection and former President Trumps Hush Money Trial continues. Right now the prosecution on the defense are working through candidates to fill the final five seats for alternate jurors in a process expected to potentially take weeks, a busy thursday Afternoon Led the selection of a full panel of 12 jurors to decide Donald Trumps first criminal trial. They include five women and seven men whose identities the judge ordered to be kept confidential during the trial. Judge juan merchan said he hopes to select the remaining alternate jurors today and start Opening Statements on monday. A reminder, trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts. Joining us now from outside the courthouse, nbc news correspondent yasmin vossoughian, and with us barbara mckwid, former u. S. Attorney in michigan and msnbc legal analyst and david henderson, Civil Rights Attorney and former prosecutor. What is the latest from inside the courthouse this morning . Reporter we started out with 22 today, were down to 19. Three so far have been excused from the jury pool that showed up early this morning. One of them because of fear and anxiety, fear for her identity being revealed, one saying after thinking about it overnight, doesnt think they can necessarily be impartial. We have got some interesting characters, jose in this jury pool, which are fairly interesting when we get to the voir dire portion of the q a, when they ask their own questions of the potential jurors. Let me read the quotes from inside the courtroom from the potential jurors. The one that was excused said i dont think i can be fair and impartial. This was a potential juror who said they were watching fox news mostly reading the Wall Street Journal as well. At that moment in which she talked about watching fox news, he looked in her direction, he was interested in hearing more of her answers. Hes interested in those people who seem to be more politically ambiguous. Jurors more politically ambiguous, passing notes for instance to his attorney todd blanche and those moments in which he feels as if possibly maybe a juror would be more in their favor than not. Seat number 14 is a male and talked about volunteering for Get Out The Vote for the Democratic Party during the clinton campaign, and attending a womens march as well. Im told in that moment the former president kind of perked up looking in the direction of this potential juror as well. And there was another interesting potential juror, a woman who says her father is a life long friend of governor Chris Christie in this moment, im told, the former president kind of smiled, smirked, i should say, and talking about his former foe, back in 2016, governor Chris Christie, and at one point long time ally. And then went on to say that michael cohen, the star witness of this case, Michael Cohens son actually works at this potential jurors company. And so there is a lot of interesting kind of nuggets to take away from this potential jury pool and were all going to hear that come out, of course in that q a portion of the voir dire. The Voir Dire Process is extended by five minutes for each side, asked early this morning by attorneys if they could get five more minutes because of the larger jury pool, right . 22, now 19. And judge juan merchan granted that. David, Jury Selection was anticipated to pay weeks, maybe two weeks. But were nearly done after just four days. What do you make of the pace of this case so far . Jose, im less focused on the pace than i am how generous the judge has been with the defense, with regard to Jury Selection. Im not saying the judge has done anything improper, but what often happens in Jury Selection is you ask who here cannot be fair and impartial, people raise their hand, then you have followup, if i explain the law to you, are you telling me youre going to disregard the law or can you set your bias aside and sit and hear the evidence on this case and be fair and impartial, people often say yes and then it is a battle about who can rehabilitate those people or get them stricken for a reason that says they cant comply with the law. You take that out and excuse jurors when they raise their hands, things are going to move much for quickly than they normally would. And so, what would you think is probably the what would be the better way to sift through these people . I can tell you what i think the better way is for the perspective of a trial lawyer. A trial lawyer, you want more time to spend talking with the jurors. The only way you get that is to spend time talking to them individually. I had Jury Selection last as long as six weeks, though thats rare. Normally it takes a day. You dont have it go more than one day. But i say that because here when you look at this makeup, the people that make us nervous as Trial Lawyers are other attorneys and engineers also make us very nervous. The reason why is because they can say, you know what, i dont agree with this law, but it is still the law and im going to follow it. And so you typically want to know more about an individual like that, having one is a threat, here on this jury panel, you have three so far. Thats 25 of your jury. With limited information we do have, what do you make of the jury so far . You know, it is interesting, jose, because the Jury Selection is purported to be this incredible science and all of the scrutiny. But the end of the day, a lot of it is based on hunches and even stereotypes. Assumptions that people have certain world views based on the kind of job they have. We heard engineers or lawyers or people who think about things more methodically versus other people who might make decisions more on gut feeling than on facts. But it strikes me as a jury that although as david said we have not really met a lot up close, we have weeded out everybody who is identified by themselves biased against donald trump and with this 42 question series of questions, i think this is about as good as these lawyers are going to get in terms of understanding what these jurors are all about. There is always the opportunity for someone to be less than truthful or misleading and hiding a bias that they may have, but i think this is the best were going to do. So far i think this jury seems just fine. Yeah, and what about the fact that there are three attorneys on there . Is that unusual . It is very unusual. As a lawyer myself, when i pick a jury, i often would excuse lawyers from the jury because what i worried about wasnt that they were going to rule for me or against me, but that they were going to become someone that the rest of the jury would look to out of deference. Who am i to decide . Im not a lawyer. Lets ask the lawyer. When you have three, then maybe they neutralize each other. The other thing as a lawyer, i tended to want people who were educated, people who might be able to work through sometimes complicated jury instructions. Keep track of all of the evidence, and then make a very elemental decision about the evidence here. I could see so lawyers might be good for that reason. They might neutralize that jury of one concern that i would have. From a defense perspective, i might be less interested in having juries on board because they might be better suited to process all of the evidence and look at the elements. I suppose if youre the defense, one thing that you might realize about lawyers is they will truly hold the prosecution to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Not deciding based on gut, it seems like hes guilty or seems like he did something wrong, theyll look at that very elementally and look and parse each of those words. Maybe the defense feels like they get a better shake from lawyers in this case. And yasmin, i know you dont stop reporting on this. What has been the former president s Demeanor Inside Court today . He seems more involved, jose. Ive been getting a lot of notes from inside the courtroom, he seems more involved in picking these alternate juros than he has been in the last few days. I say that because of kind of being more animated, in the courtroom, especially when it comes to some of the answers were hearing from the potential jurors. I will say we also heard from the former president earlier today as well, talking about the gag order. Remember there are seven potential violations being filed for this gag order. The former president stopped for cameras before he entered the courtroom early this morning and he said the gag order should be lifted. Take a listen to what he had to say. The gag order has to come off. People are allowed to speak about me and i have a gag order. Just to show you how much more unfair it is. So, just to let you know there is going to be a hearing on the gag order on tuesday, right . I think the idea in anticipating this hearing and the gag order will be how judge juan merchan deals with it. We remember back to judge engoron and he held donald trump in contempt of the gag order two separate times, he had to pay a fee over those two separate times of 15,000, right. So well be watching to see how judge juan merchan sets the temperature for his courtroom throughout this trial. Yeah, david, is there any chance a gag order could be lifted . Under the gag order, i think well have an ongoing problem with this trial. Joe jamil, known for cursing in the courtroom, the judge said every time you curse in my courtroom, ill fine you A Thousand Dollar and the legend goes he shows up the next day for a check for 100,000 and said, judge, just let me know when that runs out. Former President Trump is going to push the envelope as much as he can and not going back off, violating the orders put in place where hes not supposed to make public statements. You got it treat him the way you treat any normal person who did this, not that normal people do this often, but dont think it is enough to stop him. I think the gag order stays in place, i think hell continue to violate it. It is going to be a lot of back and forth throughout the duration of this trial. Yasmin vossoughian, barbara mcquaid, david henderson, thank you. Back to capitol hill, Breaking News there. Ali vitali. What do we know . Reporter this rule has now passed in the fashion that we expected it to. But certainly in a considerably rare way, which seems to be the word of the day here because of the way that the house is conducting its business. The final vote total is 31694. 165 democrats and 151 republicans supported the rule. What makes this rare is not the bipartisan nature of it. Though it is not typical to see Democrats Join with republicans to pass rules in bipartisan fashion. What makes this notable is the fact that there are more democrats from the Minority Party than members of the republican Majority Voting to put this eventual vote on the floor on saturday. Now, we might hear from Speaker Johnson in the next few minutes, certainly thats something that were keeping an eye out for because the other thing that is now going to be very much alive is the threat of a motion to vacate because although this was being threatened before the vote, now that we see that 90 plus folks on the republican side were able to vote against this, there are a lot of people coming out here on the steps behind me voicing the fact that ali, sorry to interrupt you, here is the speaker. Into four separate measures for consideration and thats what we will have tomorrow. Everyone can vote their will and their constituents desires on the israel aid, the ukrainian aid, the indopacific and our Fourth NationalSecurity Package that has all of our innovations in it. Because we did this process, we got a better outcome here. We have a lot of innovations that the senate did not