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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 will then go to the department of justice who will determine whether or not they will prosecute steve bannon for criminal contempt so this is a major step for this committee as they move their investigation forward, anderson. just talk about a little bit, the process in the house now. the house will will vote on this. will it be discussed much? do you know that what the exact timeline ....
Are going to come out and did not want any investigation at all. yeah. congresswoman, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. back now with david axelrod and dana bash. um, dana, i mean, again, just the the the courage that liz cheney shows. she i mean, she is they are trying to destroy her, aren t they? absolutely. first and foremost, to beat her and the the former president has endorsed and is encouraging her one of her primary opponents. now, i guess, her main republican primary opponent. and in wyoming, she s got an at-large seat. having the trump endorsement is a big deal. donald trump won wyoming by more points than percentage points than any other state in the union. so, that s a huge, huge deal. the cheney name is is an important one and it s one with a big legacy in wyoming. but she understands, full well, what she is doing here and what she could be doing is ending her political career in the ....
Actually be forced to provide documents? or forced to talk? i mean, it yes, it it you know, it goes through courts. he pleads the fifth. what, in the end, actually happens? does it just amount to a a fine? or does he actually talk? 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 ....
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 tonight to be sitting there, you know, with your your colleagues? i mean, obviously, it it is a um, it s an important night and and to be in the room as liz cheney is saying these things. and the political price that she is already paying. i mean, her colleagues are ....
Of justice who will determine whether or not they will prosecute steve bannon for criminal contempt so this is a major step for in committee as they move their investigation forward, anderson. just talk about a little bit, the process in the house now. the house will will vote on this. um, is it will be discussed much? do you know that what the exact timeline of everything? yeah. so the what we are being told right now and it hasn t been formally scheduled yet but a number of people that are familiar with the planning of the house floor calendar have said that this will come to the floor as soon as thursday. there will be an opportunity for debate on the floor, as there always is with any resolution. and i think, anderson, the big question that we have here tonight is, you know, there won t be many surprises on the democratic side. this will pass and it shouldn t have any trouble passing. the question is how many republicans will vote in favor of this criminal-contempt char ....