just decided to recommend the full house find former-trump associate steve bannon in contempt of congress for defying a committee's subpoena to appear. i want to start off right now with cnn's ryan nobles at the capitol with the very latest. so walk us through what happened at this vote, ryan. >> reporter: it was pretty straightforward, anderson. the committee chairman, bennie thompson, the vice chair liz cheney both read somewhat lengthy opening statements kind of outlining the case as to why they believed that this was a necessary step to refer steve bannon for criminal contempt. they talked about how defiant bannon had been in terms of his lack of cooperation with the committee. they also really took aim at his legal arguments that he somehow was protected by executive privilege because of the efforts of the former-president donald trump, and saying it just was not enough for him to be so uncooperative with the committee. and then, liz cheney who is of course the vice chair and a republican and a big critic of the former president talked specifically about how both