fresh reporting on how top us officials are worried that israel s response to iran will provoke a wider war, one that could drag the united states into this conflict. new reporting on the president convening top congressional leaders to discuss retaliatory strikes for iran as cause grows forrester and legislative response. and buckle up, big apple. a historic week ahead where jury selection begins tomorrow in the hush money trial of donald trump, the first american president to sit for a criminal trial. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s do it. tensions are high in the middle east as the world waits on israel s next moves in the aftermath of iran s retaliatory attack. united nations envoy issued a stark warning at the emergency security council meeting earlier. we are not a frog in boiling water. we are a nation of lions. following such a massive and direct attack on israel, the entire world let alone israel cannot settle for an action. we will defend our future. this comes as
danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me again, stephen. israel has a vital choice to make right now with regard to iran. does it respond again, up the ante, escalate, or does it not? what do you believe the choice will be and should be? frankly speaking, stephen, i don t think we have a dilemma here. we have to retaliate. the question is how we do it, when we do it, against whom. but i don t think we can sit idly by after the attack we saw two nights ago here in israel, 300 projectiles that came from iran directly into israel. i m not familiar with any other sovereign nation that will not retaliate after such an aggressive attack. and we have to make it very clear. iran chose to send those rockets, missiles and uavs from iran. for many months and years, they use their proxies in the region. they built a very massive force around israel, but they decided to escalate. they decided to create a new equation by sending all of those rockets from iran i
standing trial in a criminal case. this was donald trump setting off from central manhattan a couple of hours ago. he s charged with 3a counts of fraud, relating to hush money allegedly paid to the former adult film star stormy daniels before the 2016 presidential election. he s now in the courthouse itself for the start ofjury selection. prosecutors accuse him, of arranging payments to stormy daniels in an effort to buy her silence. donald trump has pleaded not guilty, describing the case as a witchhunt. he spoke to the media just before heading in to the courtroom, let s have a listen. something like this has never happened before. there s never been anything like it. never happened before. every legal scholar said this case is nonsense. it should never have been brought. it doesn t deserve anything like this. there is no case and they ve said it. people that don t necessarily follow or like donald trump said this is an outrage that this case was brought. this is politi
reply, is that the number is published by hamas are not only inflated they include the number of terrorists combatant death, every one civilian death, and every civilian deaths, by the way, is a tragedy is one civilian deaths, too many but compared to any other modern conflict, including the united states involvement in iraq, afghanistan, and syria, where the ratio was a for civilians to every combatant debt or nine civilians, 30 combatant. that that is a record that s not been matched by any other army in history including the united states military. so we re going to have an issue with the vitamin striation about those numbers but at base, i think the goals of the war remained unchanged, destroying hamas, assuring that over seventh can happen again i think we should point out that the white house has assessed that those numbers historically have been fairly accurate coming from the palestinian ministry of health. nevertheless about us ambassador michael oren, we have to l