is a hung jury. they may look for one or two people in the jury box and try to appeal to their emotions as much as appeal to their sense of the facts and the law. glenn, i only have less than a minute left. i want to ask you about another case of high interest to both you and i, the january 6th investigation and the steve bannon contempt case. it does not appear yet that the contempt charge against steve bannon has shaken loose more testimony. is the january 6th committee at any risk of kind of being exposed for not having the ability to really follow through on their subpoenas and compel testimony if steve bannon never ends up having to testify and if others don t feel compelled to come forward so they don t share his fate? yeah. boy, do they ever run the risk of looking weak? first, they continue to refuse to use their own power of inherent contempt to compel testimony, and it s inexplicable to 34e why. but, for example, mark meadows on the exact day that steve bannon was indicte
thank you, nicolle. public outrage as the governor is literally trying to recruit anti-vaxx police officers in his state. also later tonight, we have an important legal special report. it s about justice, it s about reasonable doubt and a new controversy on oklahoma s death row. it is the kind of story that tests what kind of nation we want to be, so i do invite you to stay with us, hang with me this hour, because that report, which is vital, comes later on in this edition of the beat. our top story right now picks up on the continuing probe and insurrection. the steve bannon contempt, a battle over possible jail time, now we have the combination of new independent reporting and congressional fact finding about how coordinated this plot was which goes to how high the culpability is. the committee s operating theory increasingly looks at this more like a top down operation than many originally thought in
stopped being surprise of a duplexity of mccarthy. no, i am not surprised that kevin mccarthy s spinelessness. overall if i think about it, i am a lot more surprised than democrats overall have moved to hold steve bannon contempt. as you recall we got spicy between myself and the general from maryland, there steel steel mr. steel because i didn t think democrats will hold bannon accountable. i am just really shocked and encouraged at this overall turn of strength and turn of so what
we are back in washington where we re going to rejoin the debate on the floor over the steve bannon contempt vote. let s listen to congresswoman liz cheney. the chariot of time. and she takes notes in her book, reminding all of us that our words and our actions will be judged by history. ist history particularly will judge those of us in positions of public trust for what we are doing today. in the immediate aftermath of the attack, madam speaker, we all recognized how profoundly wrong january 6th was. my colleague from ohio, mr. jordan, who just suggested that we were here because we opposed president trump s
the justice department? reporter: speaker pelosi hasn t said when the house is going to vote, but everyone is under the impression it ll happen quickly. the reason is because the committee has moved very quickly toward this vote with steve bannon. this is we all know congress and we know how slowly things usually work around here. the fact that the committee is moving with such speed on this vote is a signal that that s how they re going to operate throughout this entire process. so we should expect a vote perhaps as early as this week. we also know the committee is going to vote to refer this steve bannon contempt issue tonight unanimously. that s what we expect to happen. the committee is united, even the two republicans on this committee. we expect chair cheney,