Hello everyone it's four o'clock in New York I'm Ali Velshi in for

Nicole Wallace at the start of a very big and busy week of news.

Just a few hours ago, attorneys for Donald Trump filed a brief defending their clients

place on the ballot in that critical 14th Amendment case that's before the Supreme Court over whether

his role in the January 6th insurrection bars him from running for office.

Oral arguments before the justices are on Thursday. We are also hearing from

special counsel Jack Smith. His prosecutors are mounting a defense of the

classified documents probe in a filing to judge Aileen Cannon.

We're going to have more on that in a little while as well.

But we begin with developments in the Middle East where the threat of further airstrikes

looming across the region and a flurry of diplomacy with one goal

preventing the war in Gaza from widening even further. President Biden and his

officials say that there will be more airstrikes in retaliation for the

deaths of three service members in Jordan by Iranian-backed militia groups.

Officials are not saying when they'll take place or how they'll be carried out,

just that the US response to the attack is far from over.

That was after dozens of airstrikes on Friday,

85 targets in Syria and Iraq, targeting not just militias,

but facilities used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and strikes by the U.S. and the UK on Saturday which hit dozens of sites in

Yemen belonging to the Houthi militia group. That was part of an ongoing

campaign. The strikes on the Houthis were part of an ongoing campaign. The strikes on the Huthies were part of an ongoing campaign that were intended to

deter them from attacking cargo ships in the Red Sea, which is a vital shipping route which leads

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