left that happened on january 6th for the national archives were donald trump to win. what would be left from his day in the white house? it s everything. reporter: remains to be seen. there s only 700 or so other documents that the national archives has that the president isn t suing them over or preventing them from turning over to the committee. this is just the first trove. we ll see what happens as more documents are requested. maybe one is the menu for lunch. julie, thank you. we ll shift our focus to the g-20 summit with mike memoli and the virginia governor s race. we ll head overseas first. that s where president biden is finishing up a day on the world stage. just a few hours ago the president sat down the european allies to discuss the iran nuclear deal. mike, a busy day for the
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to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt for defying a subpoena from the select committee that s tasked with looking into the january 6th insurrection. that vote scheduled for tuesday night kicks off a process that could lead to prosecution. nbc s julie sirken is on capitol hill for us this morning. the committee is moving quickly against steve bannon. what are the expectations come tuesday. reporter: good morning. the committee is moving quite fast here. on tuesday night, they ll hold a vote whether to hold steve bannon in contempt of congress. if that passes, which they believe it will, it will go on to the full house for a vote, and if that passes, speaker pelosi will then refer it to biden s department of justice, where bannon could drag this out if they decide to prosecute him, but let s take a step back and look at why the committee is so focused on bannon and why they want to hold him in contempt of congress. there s two reasons. first, they want to make example
out the clock. even if the department of justice engages and prosecutes him, he s just going to litigate this and appeal it to the appellate court and appeal it to the supreme court. reporter: congressman ted lieu was on the house judiciary committee, he s familiar with trying to get former trump allies to testify so unfortunately, if the doj decides to prosecute this against bannon, bannon could drag it out for months, if not years. all right, julie, thank you for setting us up here. let s bring in steve cohen of tennessee, never one to mince words. he sits on the house judiciary committee. congressman, good morning you and thank you for being with us. and we have a lot that we want to get to you, but first, we want to ask your reaction to that developing situation out of haiti. have lawmakers been briefed? do you know what s going on right now to get those people back safely? well, we re all in our home districts and homes and i don t
democratic party leaders. julie sirken is on capitol hill for usis and heidi presbil at the white house. let s begin with julie on the hill. what is the reaction thisul morning, hello, joe, the reaction this morning to this very critical new statement from senator sinema? kyrsten sinema is playing hard ball with this statement and democratic leadership knows it. she s putting it all out there she s calling the delay to that bipartisan infrastructure bill onra the house floor an ineffective stunt. she goes on to say, accuse leadership of moving the goal post on the infrastructure bills. here is what richey torres, a new york democrat had to say on msnbc yesterday. watch., it is an inexplicable statement. we re committed to passing both bills by the end of october. the obstruction is not coming from progressives. it is coming from two senators.