yeah. i mean, to see how many republicans in the house actually have the courage of liz cheney, of adam kinzinger, um, that is one thing we will be watching very closely. ryan nobles, thank you. joining us is cnn senior political commentator and former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod. cnn chief political correspondent, dana bash. so, dana, just on a political level, how significant is this move by the committee tonight? i mean, if the former president and his allies are able to stall the investigation, obviously, in the months ahead while they claim persecution and try to run out the clock for the midterms, does this whole thing then become a huge rallying cry for republicans in the election year? yes. i mean, no matter what, it is going to be a rallying cry for republicans in the election year. and you are probably going to see that play out in a very big and robust way on thursday when the full the full house i should say, is expect today bring this up. but it
this is this is really interesting. it s very murky. the last time this kind of happened was with ali north and the iran contra investigation. and so, what happened there is congress really wanted the information, so they granted north immunity to testify. and so, that s what bannon s lawyers are probably going to be working on right now. is they will say, okay, we ll show up. we ll testify. as long as you give us immunity from prosecution. that means the prosecutors have to ignore anything he says in their in the hearings while they build a potential case against bannon for conspiracy of insurrection. but as john said, that could take months and months to work out. if you are bannon s lawyers, i suspect all they want to do is get to the november elections, and maybe the house changes hands and then the whole thing gets dropped. well also, john dean, to the professor s point, you know, bannon as a vested interest in not talking not only because it may incriminate him in some wa
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 bannon and president trump s actions played a direct role in what we saw here on january 6th. and and that gave an awful lot of insight into what the committee s thinking is at the base of their investigation as they move forward. after those opening statements, it was pretty cut and dry, anderson. the chairman called for a vote of the committee members. they offered up a roll call vote. all nine members voted in the affirmative. they reported the report out. it s now going to go to the full house of representatives. we re told that could happen as early as thursday. once the house votes on it, it
well you know what s even more shocking? is that some of them were publicly terrified on january 7th, including leader mccarthy. but he s quickly shifted back to being an enabler, along with so many other republican members in the house. um, of this big lie. and we hear the former president repeating these lies about the election over and over, again. and continuing to embolden people who are engaging in political violence, and, you know, this investigation has to get to the bottom of that. we have to hear from the people who were closest to the former president at the time of january 6th and were familiar with his thinking and and can understand, like ms. cheney said, things that we know very publicly from public statements that that the president the former president was aware of these things going on around him. um, and, you know, made comments himself and failed to take action himself to to tell people to stop and go home. can i just ask you just what it was like tonigh
court can set that would safely provide protection to mr. murdaugh, to the community. reporter: separately, the south carolina law enforcement division, or sled, opened an investigation last month into satterfield s death. it is just one of a half a dozen investigations connected to the murdaugh family. in september, the 53-year-old was arrested request charged with insurance fraud, among others, after police say he tried to stage his own killing to collect $10 million of life insurance for his surviving son. in june, murdaugh s wife and son were found shot dead outside their family estate. one of his lawyers last week told cnn affiliate, whns, that murdaugh is a person of interest in sled s investigation of their murders. we reached out to sled, and they are not commenting on matter. that investigation led authorities to re-open a probe into the 2015 unsolved death of 19-year-old steven smith, found dead on the road in hampton county. there is no evidence that he was involved in a