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THE executive assistant of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres did not appear before the House Committee on Judiciary and Governmental Operations at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

The committee will take its first step to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt.

Mr. wolf blitzer next door in the situation room. i will see you tomorrow. happening now, the january 6th select committee is getting ready to vote on holding trump ally steve bannon in contempt. we are waiting this milestone in the investigation of the attack on the u.s. capitol. also tonight, president biden holds back-to-back talks with dueling groups of democrats as he ratchets up efforts to try to advance his stalled agenda. he is meeting with moderates right now. are they any closer at...

So kind of a flip side to what we saw on the trump administration where the stone walling actually served to not have things go to congress. this i think is going to end up being the opposite. a judge is not going to give him an injunction. it is not going t ining to wind through on time. i think it is pretty likely that those documents go over, rendering some of this moot in terms of what the president wants to stop getting out to congress and in the public eye. >> so you think those documents ...

Nothing like that dark day in january ever happens again. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> pursuant to notice, i now call up the report on a resolution recommending that the house of representatives find steven k. bannon in contempt of congressional for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. a report was circulated in advance and printed copies are available. the clerk shall designate the ...

I know he loves the attention. he relishes it. in some sense, thats why im a little disappointed hes getting so much attention out of this. but were going to be going after anybody who doesnt comply. on door number two, it is not remotely a foregone conclusion that it takes longer under civil contempt than criminal contempt. i disagree with that conclusion. >> to get to your point, youre saying your framework is you think he will blink. you think you guys are putting on the pressure and this is ...

Cooperating now if they dont cooperate soon congress has the ability to assert its rights and authorities with a criminal complaint. and this will be a shot across the bounce and the other potential witnesses socially coming to the committee. >> what about the potential political fallout subpoena there a fallout for republicans? they are digging deeper into what happened. >> yeah, i think the steve bannon issue is interesting for a few reasons. fist, he was not a government employee at the time....

>> and he is running the military. so we should blame him for what happened in afghanistan. >> no. and the drama continues tonight in the life of a once-prominent south carolina attorney whose wife and son were murdered. a judge is keeping him behind bars tonight. why? and we will take you live to the january 6th committee meeting. as i said, that crucial vote on holding steve bannon in contempt will happen live, and you will hear the speeches. with extra hot sauce. tonight, ill be eating sa...

Don mcgahn, the mueller witness, they spent years in court trying to get him to testify. i think it was after president bidens inauguration that he finally made his way to the hill. tell me about the stakes of this trump lawsuit. >> yeah, i agree with that "new york times" piece to a point. i think the problem with it is it treats this like any other contempt dispute and the fact is, its not. we certainly held people in contempt before and had litigation about that. and litigation about executiv...