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Know pretty criminal account of what is -- pretty critical on what is happening, she has been outspoken on the dangers of that day, that they shun be forgotten. she is a surprise in where we are looking now in terms of the ten or show republicans who voted to impeachment trump. she didnt. her vote stands out this afternoon. >> robert costa, your thoughts about the few, the bereave, the people who can see the truth about january 6th. the eight people so far on the board to hold steve bannon in co...

Ordinarily prosecuted from members -- you dont have congressional referrals. it is a very, very unusual thing, which is why the news today is such a big deal. but at the end of it he is going the ask is there a need for this evidence? congress has said there is one. i think he would be differential to congresss judgment. then he would ask, there any valid defense? i think he would find that the answer is no. i think it is virtually inevitable that the merrick garland justice department will laun...

>> hi again, everyone, its 5:00 in new york on a day of potentially tectonic plate shifting news. today a victory for the rule of law as the house of representatives in just the last hour voted to cite former trump senior advisor, steve bannon, for criminal contempt, now a crucial witness for the january 6th select committee faces potential prosecution for refusing to comply with the committees subpoena. todays vote was notable because when forced to go on the record, both about getting to the t...

With steve bannon. when the republicans were chairing the intelligence committee, they subpoenaed him as a witness, and he refused to answer anything but 25 questions that had been written out for him in advance by the trump white house. he had had that kind of disdain for congress even when the committee was run by republicans. he believes hes above the law, as, indeed, donald trump believes hes above the law. but i hope theyre still going to find out from the garland justice department they ar...

I know youve got information on the participants and the work they did ahead of that, there was a white paper, there was a plan. the coup was the plot. >> thats right. the goal of this meeting was discussing efforts to reverse the legal outcomes of the 2020 election. that was what the project was. what we dont know is if this meeting discussed specific violent tactics toward the capitol, but we do know that scare tactics in general were a big part of what trump was trying to use to frighten repu...

Certainly it seems that they will be unwilling to relinquish it, so everything that were seeing played out, to me now, is prelude of a disaster to come and the contours of that republican party, such as they are, arent just well known. theyre hardened into a type of granite contour at this point. theres no mystery left to any of it. >> steve, they unveiled a new tool today. donald trump announcing that hes creating a social media platform called, wait for it, truth social. your reaction was inst...

>> okay. lets turn to the january 6th attack on the capitol, the house is expected to vote next week on speaker pelosis select committee with subpoena powers on the riot and your thoughts on that committee and would you want to serve on it if a sked? >> im very pleased that speaker pelosi decided to form a select committee, of the january 6th insurrection, and it will be bipartisan in the sense that there will be both democrats and republicans on this select committee. its important to know that...

The push of the big lie and we saw the violent deadly consequences during the insurrection. now, speaker pelosi is just minutes away from holding this meeting about what you do now, because there wasnt the bipartisan support to get that independent investigation pushed forward. so, i wonder what you would like to see speaker pelosi call for. a house select committee, for example, or do you believe that standing committees should carry out their investigation? >> last week, the u.s. senate asked ...

General investigation at the department of justice, but the inspector general does not have jurisdiction over former employees like bill barr and jeff sessions. the house judiciary committee, as you pointed out, can issue subpoenas to them. second, republicans, we urge them to join our investigations, but in the house, republicans cannot block congressional subpoenas. this is going to be a full-on investigation and well get to the bottom of this scandal. >> just letting people know what theyre s...

Insurrection very soon. but it might go nowhere at all, with at least half senate republicans saying theyre against the plan. meanwhile, infrastructure talks are near collapse. president biden and republicans cannot even agree on the definition of infrastructure, or anything that you see on the screen right now. what does that center in? how we pay for it. nbcs leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill. president biden set a memorial day deadline for these infrastructure talks. doesnt feel like ther...