Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack. But our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israel
along intercontinental type threats. and that s the kind of system that is basically integrated in his, of course, also integrated at least it was in this last instance with the us and with other countries. the iranian air defense system is not integrated with other countries, at least not yet, although it does use technologies from places like russia i, but the other part of this is, is that it s not a defense system that seems to cover the entire country is not effective at discerning the types of missiles and drones that the israelis probably used in this attack colonel cedric leighton. thank you so much. sarah. right? i had the trump criminal trial jury is almost complete. only the alternative need to be chosen, but there is another big issue. the judge s gag order could get even tighter. we ll discuss also new polling showing a couple of shake-ups and the rais for the white house. that s ahead sanity needs a