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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, April 15th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today the latest from tensions between Israel and Iran

plus how abortion is playing out on the campaign trail and Trump goes on trial.

Israel still has not decided how to respond after Iran launched an attack with waves of missiles and explosive-laden drones launched toward its territory, though most were intercepted.

But multiple officials said yesterday that there will be some kind of retaliation.

That moves Israel's long simmering conflict with Iran, out of the shadows,

and risks sparking a wider direct military

escalation that could draw in the US and other countries. It may also

potentially change the outlook of the Israel-Hamass war in Gaza. Iran's Saturday attack comes after the the and consulate the strike killed seven Iranians including a senior commander of its revolutionary guards.

Israel has not admitted responsibility for the attack.

Abortion is one of the issues of this year's election.

I spoke with USA Today, National Political Correspondent David Jackson, about how it's shaping up for former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

Hi there David.

Hey, how you doing?

Good, good.

Thanks for dropping back on the excerpt.

So David, just refreshes, if you would would on these recent comments made by former

President Donald Trump on abortion and you know what it tells us about his current

stance here. The key word here is current because he's changed his mind on this issue quite a few times over the years, really over the past 25 years.

But on Monday morning he released a video kind of out of the clear blue sky saying that he thinks that each individual state should decide its own abortion policy.

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