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Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll

back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.

Israel has launched an unprecedented attack on Iran.

Nuclear sites, military leaders and top scientists have been killed. People across the region

are bracing for what comes next. We'll speak with Israeli journalists, Gideon Levy, in Tel Aviv,

and Iran expert Trita Parsi in Washington, D.C. Then Congress member Ilhan Omar on President

Trump's widening crackdown on immigrants and protesters.

You have the military being deployed in our streets. My God, this is America.

And we look at the Trump administration's dismantling of U.S. aid and what it means for people around the world to lose this

critical lifeline. The biggest owner was by far the United States and overnight aid was cut.

So one aid organization after the other has left these people. The water is not flowing anymore.

The latrines are

overflowing and the last

food distribution were

months ago.

We'll speak with Jan Egland of the Norwegian

Refugee Council and we'll look at

a new Amnesty International Report

on the impact of the cuts.

All that and more coming up.

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