that is reflected in those text messages. congresswoman, it s not it would maybe not wrong for me to astum that if there are two sides of those conversations that the committee may have access to both side of those conversations? that is correct. okay. you will note that there s only a handful of people who are not cooperating with us, but there s a large number of people who are cooperating with us. the committee identified the fox news host who sent these messages. sean hannity, laura ingram, brian kilmeade and identified donald trump jr. in quoting a text message he wrote to mark meadows. why did you not identify the lawmakers who sent messages? that was a part of vice chair cheney s remarks and so i can t speak on her as to why she presented as she did.
bird in hand here, you can t un you can t take it back from you if you have it. we have significant amounts of information that will be helpful in our investigation. he s not going to show up to this deposition, correct? that s our expectation. and it is unfortunate. and you have already the committee the committee has already voted to hold him in contempt of congress, correct? no. that was mr. clark. i m sorry. that was clark. thank you for correcting me there. so is meadows going to be held in contempt? we ll see. if he doesn t show up, we ll move forward with the next process. the chairman and the vice chair cheney have been very clear that is an option on the table. if he doesn t show, that s something we ll have to move forward with. so you before said that mark meadows turned over communications from people in and out of government, in and out of congress, you mentioned congress. were there people in congress involved in planning the riot? well, public repor
away? did you make partisan excuses and accept the unacceptable? this contempt citation is crucial to our investigation. witnesses cannot simply ignore congressional subpoenas when they prefer not to attend. we must do everything possible to understand that dark day in our history and to ensure through potential legislative and other actions that such a thing never happens again. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. thank you vice chair cheney. we ve been listening to the house rules committee ahead of the full house vote which will be happening tomorrow on holding steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress. let me bring in cnn s ryan nobles who has been watching this hearing to explain more about this. as we all know, these committee hearings are often overlooked, right, ryan? the rules committee sets the terms of debate for a vote. that s really not even what we
terms about what she believes is at stake and why it s necessary for the committee to get this information, and specific the testimony of steve bannon, is so stark. i want to play a clip of steve bannon himself on his podcast talking about january 6th. it s something both thompson and cheney cited numerous times. let s play that clip quickly. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. just understand this. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it s not going to happen like you think it s going to happen, okay? it s going to be quite extraordinarily different. all i can say is strap in. the war room posse, you have made this happen and tomorrow it s game day. so strap in. reporter: the committee has talked about this often and why they believe it is so important to hear what bannon knew about the planning leading to january 6th, what was going on in the war room that they established at the willard hotel that was meeting on january 5th and
and it s just not clear at this point based on our reporting what exactly he is going to do. but we know he is under considerable political pressure. late-last week, president biden weighed in saying he believes, yes, biden should bannon should be prosecuted. but the justice department has pushed back on that. the justice department is, of course, supposed to be independent and they say this they will make this decision independently based on the law and the facts. all right. paula, thank you very much. and i want to go now to laura coates, former-federal prosecutor, norm eisen who served as counsel to house democrats during the first trump impeachment trial and was also the white house ethics czar during the obama administration. and gloria borger, our chief political analyst. as we get ready for this vote and these live speeches by of course chairman thompson and vice chair cheney. so, laura, as paula lays it out, you go from committee to house floor vote handing it over to, yo