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Frantic pleas from fox tv hosts, trump's son, don junior, and some lawmakers, their names have not yet been released. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles is live on capitol hill. ryan, the house vote in favor of steve bannon's contempt charge, we saw that vote with just a couple of republicans on board. what are we expecting for meadows today? >> reporter: it should play out in a very similar fashion, victor. house republicans are recommending to their members not to vote for this contempt. we do expect two republicans, right, liz cheney and adam kinzinger, who are members of the house...

Democratic e-mails. >> it's really interesting reporting. thank you so much for talking us through it. back to capitol hill because any minutes, we thought it was going to be 3:30. that slid a bit. we expect the house to start debate on whether to hold mark meadows in contempt of congress. garrett, when can we expect it to start happening? i assume this now pushes the actual contempt vote back later than e with thought. >> everything is sliding back and part of the reason is it just takes so long to vote right now. we've got about 150 members of the house who are using proxy voting today. th...

Consensus about where this investigation goes toward those lawmakers and whether or not we could see this january 6th committee, select committee, subpoena members of congress? sitting members of congress. >> well, ayman, let's start with the fact that house republican leaders are whipping their members to vote against this contempt resolution. in other words, they're pressuring their caucus to vote this down and arguing that meadows should be shielded from a referral to the justice department for criminal contempt for defying a subpoena on january 6th. and look, frankly, the mood among the re...

Immediately after on the contempt resolution. this is something the committee has done before. steve bannon was first and department of justice official was second and now, the former chief of staff to the former president mark meadows. what's interesting about meadows is he was a member of congress. he was the rankling member of the oversight committee before he became chief of staff and used to bristol when administration officials neglected to appear before the committee and cooperate with congress. now he's failed to cooperate and come before the committee to be deposed. meanwhile, though,...

Congressman Fred Upton is among nine House Republicans to vote with Democrats to hold former Trump advisor Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress on Thursday.