give us his. good day. welcome everyone to "alex witt reports." breaking news. several idf soldiers have been killed in an incident in southern gaza. let us go right to matt bradley. he is joining us from tel aviv with more on this. matt, we are not able to get a lot of details yet. what do we do know, you probably have them. what do yoyou know? >> reporter: they have said that they are investigating this.at by that i mean the israeli defense forces. this was an meincident that the regret. it is not supposed to happen per se. they said that this was a bomb or explosion of some kind that ignited an armored personnel vehicle. some sort of armored vehicle that was caring large number of troops. eight people were killed. the only one we can mentioned is a 23-year-old captain. there were others who are not identified because according to the idf their bodies were so badly burned that they still cannot actually make a positive identification. because of the situation they are saying they are going to open some sort of investigation because what they think happened and this was the information that my colleague god from the israeli defense forces that there was some sort of explosion that may have ignited flammable materials or ammunition inside this vehicle and that is why we are seeing a large loss of life. deaths and more are not supposed to happen in this way. this is something that is supposed to be avoided. there is supposed be safety redundancies to keep flammable materials igniting when a vehicle like this is heads. we are also hearing news from the gaza strip that the floating peer that was e established by the united states government announced in march was set up about two months later has been on-again and off-again delivering millions of tons of aid. now it is once again offered authorities have said they have had to disconnect it from the shoreline in anticipation of bad weather. just a little while ago it was so badly damaged it was taken out of commission for a while. they are ouremoving the pier , presumably moving it to a beach or some sort of port in israel. that is where it will wait out the storm. it sounds as if the u.s. military does not want to see this pier damaged again. they are taking more precautions. this is a lifeline for much needed food aid and all ate into the gaza strip, where but w.h.o. just want earlier this week that millions are facing malnutrition. we have already seen hundreds of thousands facing what looks or at least acute malnutrition. many are children. >> it is absolutely heartbreaking. i think this is the third time the pier has met with some sort of setback. matt bradley, thank you so much for information on both fronts. let us go now to decision 24. new reaction to the thursday visit capitol hill. he returned to the area since the january 6th capital attacks. here is jamie raskin with my colleagues at the weekend earlier today. >> he came back to the scene of his crime. he made no apology to 150 capital officers, mpd, montgomery county police officers who were injured and wounded by the bobby unleashed against us. president biden says his star-studded fundraising event in california has already raised a record $28 million. the alheadliners included georg clooney, julia roberts, jimmy kimmel, jack black and others. donald trump will speak to supporters in detroit later on. he celebrated his 78th birthday on friday in a rally in west palm beach. senate democrats say they will escalate efforts to investigate potential ethics violations from justices alito and topless. over the organization ties with foreign investors which include several middle eastern governmentsin and whether those investors may be seeking influence we have a number of correspondence in place covering all the developments. we will start with julie tsirkin . welcome. what can you tell us about the new efforts to investigate members of the supreme court and this news about investigating jared kushner as well. >> reporter: a lot of news on the front in terms of democrats beefing up their investigation board and then generated kushner's justices are completely separate. let us start with the supreme court justices. yes i had a conversation with one of the democrats on the judiciary committee days after new information that clarence thomas, a conserved justice on the court who is already embroiled in controversy took on harlan crow, a private jet from the years of 2017 to 2021. why is this relevant? these were not included in clarence thomas' own disclosure forms a couple of days before. he had to amend the form after the democrats published and unveiled this information. they are closing the door on their investigation as a relates to harlan crow. one of the members on the committee told me yesterday that they had more of a fact- finding mission to go under to keep going to make sure they ey could unveil any other improprieties when it comes to clarence thomas. samuel alito at well with the flag controversy. i want you take to listen to jamie raskin, a senior democrat on the judiciary committee and what he had to say to our colleagues this morning, alex. two the highest court in the land has the lowest ethical standards. they are the only court that does not have of finding ethics code where you can actually go to make a conversation. >> do they need to write that code for him? >> as soon as we have the right congress. the democrats want to do that right now. t we went in inspector general in the supreme court like we have one in homeland security or the department of defense. we want a binding ethics code. you can actually make a complaint that will be heard. we have the right to impeach supreme court justices. we can impeach them and hwe ca change the appellate jurisdiction. >> reporter: republicans controlled the house right now. democrats control the senate with a slim majority. they tried to pass an ethics code of conduct for the high court this week but were blocked by republicans. meanwhile another investigation also launched by senate democrats, ron white who is the chairman of the senate finance committee into jared kushner because of the $2 billion at his firm that had received from the saudi government just six months after the former si president left the white house and after kushner left the white house as well. this is something that white has been looking into for a long time. because kushner was tapped by trump to lead and be the front man and the point person on middle east relations. there was a lot rsof investment and conversations with the saudi government. why did eslooking to potential improprieties. this has to be pointed out that this comes after republicans in the house have made a very big deal about hunter e biden potential busine dealings over foreign business dealings with china and the others like that. this is clearly something that democrats are escalating and trying to counter in terms of the g narrative something that relevant with the former president running in november against her by them. >> keeping you busy. thank you. let us now go to julian frankel at the convention in detroit. maga approved lawmakers are taking the stage ahead of donald trump as we speak. one is -- what has the president up to before the addresses evening? >> reporter: former president donald trump will be here later today after speaking at a roundtable discussion held at a predominately black church. we may hear him discuss his campaign's efforts to court that a minorityts voters and younger voters. we heard from longtime trump ally, steve bannon, who described the stakes of the 2024 presidential election using violent rhetoric. i want you to hear what he had to say earlier, including what he said about january 6th defendants who are now being prosecuted for their involvement in the capital attack. take a listen. >> are we at war? is this a political war to the nice? are you prepared to leave it all on the battlefield in 2024? on the afternoon of january 20th, we must free the 1400 patriots and must incarcerate the criminals. >> reporter: alex, earlier this week we heard from rnc chair ir and co-chair michael watley, who are on the ground here in michigan and encouraging volunteers to participate in their election day, election day initiatives and to encourage early and mail-in voting. >> julian frankel, rathank you much. in just a moment we'll talk about donald trump's meeting with several ceos and why some thought he failed to impress the room. anthony scaramucci, former sc white house director and founder of skypers capital will give me his take just a little e later on this hour. let us go to breaking news. biden set to usissue new executive action that would protect undocumented spouses of american citizens. we will go right to aaron gilchrest running us from los angeles for the president is hosting a fundraiser tonight. what can you tell us about this initiative and when it would go into effect? >> reporter: multiple sources tell nbc news that the president is set to announce as early as tuesday but this executive action will happen and it would protect about half 1 million undocumented immigrants from being deported from the united states. this would be, in particular, undocumented spouses of legal u.s. citizens who are living in the state and it would allow them to work in this country legally as well. this would specifically impact those spouses who have been in the u.s. for at least 10 years. protecting them from deportation . sources tell us that would be roughly 500,000 people living in the united states right now. a week or so ago when president biden made an announcement about executive action around immigration and migrants coming across the southern border. he hinted that there would be additional actions that he would be taking in the weeks to come. back then, he announced this measure that would restrict asylum access to people coming to the u.s. border if the number of people coming to the border reached a certain threshold and not be temporary until the number had decreased. in making the announcement the president indicated there would be more to come. he would continue to take executive action to the extent that his authority allows it. because, he said, the u.s. congress has not taken action to deal with a crisis at the border and to do with a broken immigration system. this announcement that we should expect this week from the president on this additional action is something that is in line with what he suggested a couple weeks ago in saying that there would be more to come. obviously, the president is here in los angeles for this major fundraiser. you mentioned it will happen tonight in downtown l.a. something that is going to be celebrity laden braided star- studded, as they say. $28 million already raised by the event that will happen here. this will be an opportunity for president biden and former president obama to sit together and talk about the campaign and stakes of the selection the president has said that democracy is at stake. so many freedoms in this country are at stake and that is why he is going to talk to this group of supporters. people who have deep pockets and large levels of influence and lots of social media following. they will be able to take some the talking points from the president and former president today to spread the message to the people who are attentive to them over the course of the next several months. >> it is l.a. nice job, 72 hours on the executive action announcement set for tuesday. appreciate that, aaron gilchrest. coming up, the supreme court and acdonald trump's immunity claim. why is it taking the court so long? 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would he change the calendar because trump finds the timing inconvenient? >> reporter: i don't think he will change the calendar for the sentencing, if that is what you are asking. i think that july 11th date is pretty set. >> okay. trump completed the virtual meeting with the probation officer. that happened monday about 30 minutes or so. that special a combination drew the attention of the public defenders but he did at mar-a- lago. he was not in downtown manhattan doing that. giving trump's pension for bloodless city, marketing, why would details of his probation interview not be reported in the press? do you have any sense of how it went? >> reporter: we know that it was brief. i think under 30 minutes. these things can take a while. they also take a while because a lot of defendants in criminal cases have lengthy criminal history to talk about. lengthy, you know, issues in terms of mental health or education and employment they have to go through. a lot of that would donald trump in terms of his employment and educational background, his family, a lot of that is already well known. he does not have any criminal history. i expect maybe that is why it would have been shorter than we would sometimes see. in terms of the fact that it occurred at mar-a-lago, i don't know that there is anything that is improper about that. if you have gone to the probation office, there are a lot of other criminal defendants in cases at the probation office. it would've been white a headache for secret service and for law enforcement generally to arrange the visit there. i don't think the fact that there was a special accommodation made in this case is so surprising. >> got it. almost everything about this case is incredibly unprecedented. this can join that ranking. the rnc is preparing for a convention that trump might not attend if he gets a home confinement sentence. can the judge of boyd his sentence a big influence by politics? >> reporter: if i had to predict here i would predict that john will -- donald trump will attend the rnc. i believe he will impose a jail sentence here. whether that is some sort of home confinement is unclear. i do think he will impose a jail sentence. i also believe that that sentence will be stained, meaning put on hold while donald trump pursues his appeal. as we know in these cases, the appeals can take a long time. not just talking months, it could be years. even if a jail sentence was not stayed pending appeal, typically, in a case like this with white-collar defendants that have been out on release while they have the trial. typically, there is a surrender date that is given before they would go to jail and that is a few weeks out to allow them to get their affairs in order. given the dates of the rnc, july 15 through 18th, i don't see any way that he is not attending the convention. >> case and point to what you're saying. steve bannon was convicted two years ago and has yet to report to prison. he will do that july 1st. let us talk about the supreme court. it did not put out its ruling on trump's immunity claims yesterday. george conway says even if the court delays the ruling until the end of this month, trump's generate 6th trial could start right before the election but what do you think of that timeline? the -- what is the reason is for this holdup? >> reporter: i did not think it would come down this week. i think it is towards the end. maybe not the last day. leading up to the end of the term. i think they anticipate that there will be protests. i don't think that donald trump is going to win. i don't think the supreme court will say he has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. i do think there will be some compromise where they say some private acts, he does. there is going to be that he would not have immunity for and some of the public acts, he would. i think that is going to be splitting hairs about what acts fall within the outer perimeter of his duties. they men -- they may send this back to judge truck and. if that happens, i think that would be an unpopular opinion. they may anticipate some protest here. i just do not know the date are going to want to deal with that. i do think this will be kicked as late as it possibly can get to avoid that scrutiny. in terms of why it is taking so long, i think they anticipate the reaction and that is largely why. >> christie greenberg, we always appreciate you on the show. thank you so much. turco coming up, the push to bring a to starving people in gaza. and it takes another unbelievable turn. unbelievable turn. blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. our biggest challenge? 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