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Your weight shortly, thank you. >> john: thank you congressman. they recessed but one of those coming up later is whether or not to hold president trump's chief political advisor steve bannon in contempt for defying subpoena from january 6th commission. i think that's what we heard jim jordan speaking to briefly as we dipped in. would not be the affirmative. for more on all of this let's bring in congressional chad pergram. chad, this matter came up in an exchange between eric swalwell and attorney general. but first, give us your perspective on this particular vote and the issue on capitol hi...

Congressman steve scalise. congressman's lease on the issue of the contempt charge for a steve bannon, you said that the feeling in the g.o.p. caucuses to vote against it and vote no. why? >> that's correct john and sandra. if you start with the creation of the commission, it was clear from the beginning. and she went to the extreme of rejecting the picks that kevin mccarthy made to be on the committee so they undermine the credibility from day one. and it meander around and look for things to keep going after donald trump. they don't want to deal with the things they are facing in everyday am...

Trying to look past. i'm seeing that republicans from a political standpoint are saying we kind of want to recalibrate this and look at actually what happened and what were the security arrangements on 1-6, whereas democrats obviously want to go back and target president trump and those closely associated with him. somebody we didn't talk about here he was issued a subpoena is mark meadows. the former white house chief of staff and of the reason he's not being held in contempt of congress here is that he has hired outside counsel and he's kind of playing ball. whether or not they eventually ge...

Vociferously as they wish. >> john: at the attorney general miranda says that people have the right to complain as vociferously as they wish. meanwhile the school board is soliciting the expertise and resources, and the u.s. secret service, and national threat assessment center. it sounds like al qaeda is at the school board meeting and not parents. >> exactly. it's really sinister and i think jim jordan again kneeled the question to merrick garland, where garland just could not answer, where he initially said they were domestic terrorist moms dads but then why was he employing the national se...

They threaten these things all the time. they even have a vote which is what they will have this afternoon. they never get the end result. that is some people like jamie raskin, john talking about may be moving at some point to inherent contempt. >> sandra: 10 minutes left in the current vote. we will probably see that hearing reconvene in the next 1. your point about nancy pelosi earlier why contempt of inherent contempt. excellent audience on that, as always. we don't take it to court, they take it to court. that was her exact words. now kevin mccarthy though. he spoke early on and in contem...