biden white house flat out rejected. also, in a new lawsuit against the january 6th committee, former president trump is going to his old playbook citing executive prif levilege as he t to block documents from being turned over to investigators. according to the lawsuit, the national archives will give the records to congress on november 12th unless a court invenes before then. they re calling the lawsuit a stall tactic. whitney wild joins us now. do we expect this to pass and do we expect it along party lines? i would certainly expect it to pass at least through the committee. there is just no chance this isn t going to go through the committee. once it gets to the house floor, it it is still probably pretty likely to pass. the jury is still out on that. there is still a question mark because there are several stages of this. but very laikely to pass throug the house and then to the department of justice where there is another open ended question because merrick garland ha
subpoena. tell us what happens now and what happens next. reporter: so tonight, 7:30, anybody can watch this, it will be live streamed, the committee will vote on this criminal contempt referral. then it goes to the house for a vote then to the department of justice. the chances that the most extreme punishment will be levied against bannon are slim. if things get jammed up in appeal, the time line begins to be extended. but what the committee is looking for here is leverage. they are trying to throw the book at steve bannon because they want his testimony. they believe he was at the nexus of this big election lie that preceded the rally that preceded the riot. they want to know who he spoke with, the intention of the rally, what was leading up to the rally and the violence. what is notable about this information is for the first time we re seeing steve bannon s full subpoena. before we had a two-page summary. now they are trying to drill down on 17 key areas of investigati
Top of the hour here on a tuesday morning. good morning. i m erica hill. i m shjim sciutto. the house committee veging the january 6th insurrection is looking to hold steve bannon in contempt of congress. the panel is going to vote. house investigators overnight released a criminal contempt report saying, quote, there is no reasonable argument that mr. bannon s communication with the president on january 6th are the type of matters on which privilege can be asserted. this comes as former president trump is trying to use the executive privilege defense in a new lawsuit against the january 6th panel in order to block the national archives from releasing documents related. whitney wild joins us now. listen, congress is moving forward here to hold bannon accountable for defying the