them, fox news hosts like laura ingraham and sean hannity, they responded last night by attacking the committee, not necessarily surprising given the way that we know the conservative media has dealt with the january 6th commission, but something struck me last night when it came to who actually voted for this contempt referral, and it shows you the ways in which the meadows contempt referral is different from the bannon referral. nine republicans joined with democrats to vote for the contempt of steve bannon. some because they believe he should be held accountable. the other thing that strikes me here is that in this case, you know that meadows has a different claim to executive privilege than steve bannon does because meadows was actually in the white house. joyce can get into the legalese of that, but that s something that seemed to be weighing on republicans here. the other piece is you only have two of them now voting with
loose. but it was just a spontaneous thing that bannon knew absolutely nothing about? no. well, all but nine republicans want to look the other way and not hear more from steve bannon. paula reid is outfront live from capitol hill. doj now has the bannon referral from the house. obviously this passed overwhelmingly with those nine republican votes in addition to democrats. so what happens now? reporter: all eyes, erin, are on the attorney general. today s vote to hold bannon in contempt gave speaker pelosi the power to refer bannon for prosecution, and that referral will go to the u.s. attorney in the district of columbia but the big decision on whether to prosecute ultimately lies with attorney general merrick garland. coincidentally he was here on the hill for a routine oversight hearing. he was asked about this referral and he wouldn t tip his hand about how exactly he intends to handle this. he just said that the justice department will handle this as it handles everything else,