Are downplaying this. They are not at this point pointing the finger at israel. They are not at this point promising revenge. We are expecting to hear the iranians speaking fairly shortly. This is preplanned speech. Its not specifically in response to this strike, so well be closely monitoring that. In terms of israel, they are not officially claiming responsibility one way or another there are no plans of address from netanyahu and no official comment from the Israeli Government and israeli military. And that, too, is really telling. It feels like the israelis are trying to give iran space to not escalate this further. Theyre not trying to rub irans face in this. Theyre not crowing, not claiming victory. So you have this kind of war of words playing out on top of the actual strike itself, so at this moment despite those iranian threats weve been hearing all week that any iisraeli attack would be met with massive retaliation, it does not look like iran is trying to escalate, and here i
something judge merchan did really unorthodox, in fact, unprecedented in my experience. when we pick injuries we generally don t start by having the judge say if there s anybody here who thinks they can t be fair and impartial, raise their hand. about 50 of the first batch of 196 jurors raised their hand, and they were summarily dismissed. i can tell you that s not the way jury selection is ordinarily conducted. usually if a juror says they don t think they can be fair, we ask a bunch of probing questions to really test whether they can be fair or not. but in this case, judge merchan basically decided to let those jurors who feel like they would have a hard time being fair sitting in judgment of donald trump just opt out. they could summarily leave. and i think that is one of the reasons we saw jury selection progress really rapidly. 12 jurors in the box in less than three days of jury selection is pretty impressive.