accounts today. nearly 10 million children are at risk of slipping back below the poverty line if payments are not extended. senator michael bennet will join us this hour. we ve got to start with the historic vote in the house to recommend criminal contempt charges against one of their own, former congressman and white house chief of staff mark meadows. just two, only two republicans, liz cheney and adam kinzinger joined 220 democrats in voting to hold meadows in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena. it s the first time a former member of the house has been held in criminal contempt since 1832. i want to bring in nbc s ali vitali on capitol hill, scott mcfarlane, investigative reporter nor nbc 4 in washington. luke broadwater, and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. ali you have to start on this vote because two, only two republicans voted for it. we all heard those text messages. those are republican members of
caucus, today s vote forces them to get on the record as choosing the side of the disgraced expresident and his disinformation fueled push to whitewash the insurrection overupholding the powers of the legislative body on which they sever and even democracy itself. for the third time this week liz cheney is calling out her fellow republicans for lashing out what happened on january 6th at first. and then trying to appease the former president. watch. there are people in this chamber right now who were evacuated with me and with the rest of us on that day, do you go that attack. people who now seem to have forgotten the danger of the moment, the assault on the constitution, the assault on our congress. right there is where we start today. ben rose is here, former deputy national security adviser to president obama. now an msnbc contributor. also joining us, anna palmer. and robert costa is here national political reporter for the washington post and coauthor with bob wood
. a federal judge last hour handing down that four-month sentence bannon will remain free while an appeal plays out. outside the courthouse minutes after learning his fate bannon thanked the judge and immediately attacked democrats. november 8th on november 8th on november 8th there s going to have judgment on the illegitimate biden regime and, quite frankly and, quite frankly, that nancy pelosi and the entire committee, or they are about to be beaten like luria and others, or they will lose their power and become a minority. the american people are weighing and measuring what went on with the justice department and how they comported themselves. we re going to take you straight outside of the courthouse where cnn s sara murray has been covering all of the developments inside. sara, the judge seemed pretty dismissive of bannon s efforts to defy the subpoena, but ultimately bannon got jail time, which is had more or less what the government wanted. reporter: that
pence let me down. the panel also cited witnessed who described how trump watched tv for hours as the violent assault unfolded and the committee s republican vice-chair said the dam has begun to break as more pieces of the puzzle fall into place and new witnesses step forward. can a president who is willing to make the choices donald trump made during the violence of january 6th ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again? cnn s manu raju is on capitol hill for us. what do we know about the focus of this committee for future hearings? reporter: well, they haven t decided exactly yet how they will split-up those future hearings in september. the committee members told me last night those are still issues that they are still trying to sort out. they plan to use the next month in august when congress is on recess to have more testimony from witnesses behind closed doors. liz cheney indicating that subpoenas have been issued and committee memb
wanted to happen that day, that it was the pre-planned and desired result of a wide-ranging coup attempt by donald trump and orchestrated by him and his close allies and just like they did in other hearings, the committee will use team trump s own words to describe what happened on january 6th with video of trump s own advisors and trump s own allies and trump s own lawyers and trump s appointees, a sneak peek was posted by committee member adam kinzinger who will be co-leading alongside his colleague congresswoman elaine luria shows trump officials in effect corroborating one another, each of them testifying to the fact that as vice president mike pence and lawmakers fled from a mob of trump supporters filled with white supremacists and domestic violent extremists, donald trump was in the dining room watching tv. watch. was the president in that private dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on or did he ever go to the oval office or the white