Good afternoon, thank you for staying with our special coverage of the israelhamas war. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington, where there is breaking news. The State Department confirming in the last hour at least 22 americans have been killed in the conflict so far. That update coming just minutes after President Biden doubled down on his strong comments supporting israel with remarks at the white house. This attack has brought to the surface the painful memories and scars left by antisemitism and genocide against the jewish people, and this moment we have to be crystal clear. There is no justification for terrorism, no excuse. Were also learning that Secretary Of State blinken will be traveling to israel this afternoon with a delegation that includes steve gillon, the special envoy for special hostage affairs. This hour well check in on capitol hill where a deeply divided House Republican conference could be one step closer to selecting their next speaker. Joining me now msnbcs chief cor
it could certainly be described as obstruction of justice. however there is a speech and debate clause under the u.s. constitution in which members of congress are gibbon broad range to speak about matters being litigated. i don t think this is going to wind up to be a legal case especially because trump himself has said worse things about cohen and more threatening things. it was the president who tweeted why aren t they investigating cohen s father-in-law. i mean he s the one in charge of the department of justice. gaetz is just a junior member of congress who really doesn t have much authority to do anything. it s much more threatening to have the head of the executive branch talking about your father. i mean, jeff, what s interesting is gaetz isn t even on the oversight committee so it s just like he s trying to get in on the game and sort of, you know, please daddy trump. i mean, that s essentially, you know, he s just trying to get