Hi there, everybody. It's now 4 o'clock in New York on a very busy Friday and a very busy day of developing news stories right here at home and abroad. We'll have all of it for you. There is a volatile situation unfolding in the Middle East right now.

Iran today launching a wave of airstrikes against Israel after Israeli strikes last night

targeted Iran's nuclear program and killed a swath of Iran's top military leadership.

At this hour, Israeli officials say that the public is allowed to leave shelters.

We'll bring you the latest and we'll talk to the ranking member of the House Intelligence

Committee, Congressman Jim Himes, about what the U.S. does as this conflict rages on.

But we begin today with what threatens to be a full-blown constitutional crisis right here at home with consequences for

every American. Events in Los Angeles could be merely the canary in the coal mine when it comes

to which path we take and the very future of our democracy. The Trump administration is heading

into the weekend, facing protest

nationwide from a galvanized opposition and a sharp rebuke written for the history books

from a federal judge that opinion amounts to a legal body blow to Trump's efforts to use the

United States military against Americans.

It's a ruling currently paused by an appeals court from federal judge Charles Breyer.

That order says that Donald Trump can no longer mobilize and command California's National Guard

troops over the wishes of California's governor,

Gavin Newsom. The judge went even further, though, than what the state of California asked for,

which was an order limiting what exactly the troops could do on the streets of Los Angeles.

The judge said that Donald Trump's, quote, actions were illegal,

both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the 10th Amendment to the United

States Constitution. This is from the ruling, quote, he must therefore return control of the California

National Guard to the governor of the state

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