hunter biden on capitol hill, pushing back on house republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of congress and calling him out from the committee room. coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls. five days from the iowa caucuses, with front-runner donald trump going from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again to potentially speak at his civil fraud trial tomorrow during closing arguments. all as ron desantis and nikki haley go head to head in a gop debate tonight. and our andrea mitchell joining us from tel aviv this hour, with more of her exclusive interview with secretary of state antony blinken. with 90% of gaza s population struggling for food and growing concerns of a broadening conflict. it is 11:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you so much for being here. jose diaz-balart will be up next hour. we begin with breaking news
possibly secretary austin. this is something they re marking the start of this year as an oversight impeachment year, it is also an election year, so because of this, and all of these political dynamics today will be one to watch. but as ryan said, it is expected that they will successfully report out this resolution and then it will head to the house floor for a vote. julie, i ll let you go, so you can go and see what is happening. barb, the house could vote to hold in contempt hunter biden. that would send this to the department of justice. are there contempt claims legitimate, do you think? would you expect the doj to move forward with charging contempt? so this is really interesting. i think from a political matter, before congress, hunter biden likely is in contempt. that s because he doesn t get to call the shots. if the house wants to have him behind closed doors, he wants to be in public, it is not his call. so i think he could very well be in contempt of congress. now, mak