Starting line on a wednesday night, ashley parker pulitzer prize-winning for the washington post lisa lerer national political correspondent from the new york times, former u.s. attorney joyce alene who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor for good reason she is one of the cohost of our podcast sisters in law with kimberly atkins store and barbara mcquade. good evening and welcome to you all. ashley, you get the tough one the white house is to put a charitably stalled. and democrats in the senate are to put it charitably, paralyzed. so why political impact is there if the democrat indeed do have the numbers for this vote against banning tomorrow? well, the key thing still i think is the stalled domestic agenda. with infrastructure and reconciliation. that is the key thing. but the vote against bannon does help for the democratic
This could be ten amount to the public opening of a bottle of molasses. what will be the impact on the work of the one six committee should this vote go against bannon tomorrow? well, they say they are talking to many many witnesses involved. i think the political impact will be a bit less than what s ashley is laying out, just as you point now for quite some time. well beyond the midterm elections. but i do think it is a test to congress, if they don t take this vote and they don t refer bannon to the justice for criminal contempt, it s unclear why anyone would comply with congressional subpoena. this is something that was about the very essence of our democracy, it was a violent attack on the institution itself, if they can t push this forward, i think there s real question there. i do think there is also question for the administration obviously, how doj proceeds
Them tonight on all in. every single republican senator just blocked this chamber from having a debate on protecting americans rights to vote in free and fair elections. the expansion of federal voting rights are blocked in the senate as trump s henchmen mess menace the select committee. you know what, that might work on steve bannon s podcast, but that s not gonna work i m sorry mr. gates. tonight sure and republicans against democracy, and what we re beginning to learn the select committee about pre-insurrection planning meetings. mr. bannon was in the war room at the willard on january
That bannon be held in contempt after hearing from lawmakers on the january six committee. also, her from good measure trump acolytes jim jordan and matt gates who showed up just to speak against the move to subpoena bannon. during one lively exchange, games made sure to push the former presidents lies about election fraud. do you accept that joe biden won the 2020 presidential election? i accept that joe biden is the president. do you accept that he won by 7 million votes, and if he did donald trump a margin that donald trump or landslide when he beat hillary clinton by the same numbers? i think that our election was uniquely polluted by these indiscriminate mail-in ballots. today just to remove any doubt republican house leaders officially reminded their members to vote no, on holding bannon in contempt. one of them used a trump to refrain to renounce the one six
Liz cheney are fooling around again, i think bannon, i hope i m proven right, and merrick garland better get off the dime here. the justice department exist for one reason, not the insecure shun or anything like that, it exist to enforce the law of the united states. that simple, that s his job. when people violate the laws of the united states, like bannon is doing, then you bring down the whole thing on them. it s simple. that s why we have the justice system. mike. i couldn t agree more, we need leg iran s, rocket posters, grab him hallman. this should not be ambiguous. if i were steve bannon i d get off the route right wing nuts and i had google cheney family. if she had her way she probably have so, i think the committee is going to play hardball here,