steve bannon's polits,o th'rabusintheir po >> reporter: trump himself weighed in today, lying about 6 was t noa riot at all, saying, quote, "the insurrection took onr 3rd, election day. january 6th was the protest." liz cheney today directly responding. >> today, madam speaker, the former president suggested that the violence was justified. the republican members of this body have to understand, have to recognize that there's a moment when politics must stop if we want to defend and protect our institutions. a violent assault on the capitol to stop a constitutional process of counting electoral votes is that moment. >> and jon karl with us live from washington tonight. and jon, it's now up to the justice department, of course, to decide whether to prosecute steve bannon with criminal of course, everyone studying every word from the attorney general today and there weren't many. >> reporter: no, and david, congress has no power itself to