we will speak to the scientist and bestselling author on al, gary marcus good evening.nited states and britain have imposed new sanctions on iran and its weapons manufacturers to punish tehran for its missile and drone attack on israel last weekend. at a meeting of g7 foreign ministers in italy, lord cameron said he hoped the international response would pursuade israeli officials not to retaliate too strongly and set off a wider war. white house officials said the sanctions were aimed at disrupting iran's ability to produce the unmanned aerial vehicles that its military used to attack israel by cutting off global financial transactions with companies and individuals involved in building them. in case of any use of force by the israeli regime and violating our sovereignty the islamic republic of iran will not hesitate to assert its inherent rights to give precise and response to it to make the regime regret its actions. in a response to it to make the regime regret its actions.— regret its actions. in a speech to the un security _ regret its actions. in a speech to the

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and artificial intelligence, we speak to the scientist and best-selling author on ai, gary marcus.good evening. the u.s. and britain have imposed new sanctions on iran and it's weapons manufacturers to follow -- tehran -- to punish tehran for its attacks last weekend. lord cameron said he hoped the international response would persuade israeli officials not to retaliate too strongly and see off a wider war. white house officials said sanctions were aimed at disrupting iran's ability to produce the unmanned aerial vehicles its military used to attacksrael by cutting off global financial transactions with the companies involved in building them. iran's foreign minister had this to say. >> in case of any use of force by the israeli regime and violating our sovereignty, the islamic republic of iran will not hesitate to assert its inherent rights to get a decisive and proper response to it, to make the regime regret its actions. christian: but in new york the u.n. secretary general antonio guterres was decidedly downbeat about the situation in the middle east, warning that the region is

caitriona: gary at the u.s. supreme court and manhattan, thank you both for joining us. and studio is marcus childress, the former investigative council for the congressional committee that investigated the january 6 the capitol riot's. you have been sitting in the oral arguments on the u.s. supreme court today. did you get a sense from the line of questioning there is a view that some level of presidential immunity might be required? >> the first thing i noticed was the gravity of the day. it felt a lot like the january 6 hearings where you just had to get it right. we knew on the committee we had to get the facts right. you could feel from the justices today they really wanted to not just create a rule for today but create a rule for future misconduct as well. there is competing interests going on. you can see it from the justices. one of a ruling that would have a chilling effect on the president being able to act in practice. on the other side, whether a president really should think about not violent criminal statutes. that is really what's going on here today. it w