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People. again, we thought that the ceiling was the ten people who voted to impeach. clearly, that's not exactly true. you but look at the list here of the eight people, they are mostly those folks who voted to impeach the former president. but that one really did catch my attention. >> ally vitale, thank you. with 70 votes to go we are out of time. thank you for watching this hour of hallee jackson reports. i'm garrett haake. "deadline: white house" starts right now. hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in new york. we are following that breaking news from capitol hill, where the house is voting right no...

Or is it mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy. mccarthy is more in step with trump than mcconnell. but these are decisions people are making not just about trump and bannon, but about their own pril futures, where do they want to go. >> there is depressingly few people to talk about this that category. nine republicans according to the tally we know of so far have voted with all the democrats to hold steve bannon in contempt of congress, to uphold the prerogatives of congress to investigate a deadly insurrection at the united states capitol whose mission statement was to hang mike pence. your re...

What do you make of the significance, not in political terms, but historic terms, of this vote under way right now to hold steve bannon in contempt of congress? >> well, i think, first of all, the only difference i would have with the liz cheney clip you played is not that the republicans who are voting against this have forgotten. it's that they don't care. that's much more disturbing. they don't care that there was an insurrection against our democracy. they don't care to learn the facts, and nicole, they don't even care about the role of congress in our constitutional system. let's take a s...

Butler. your thoughts about the vote today to hold steve bannon -- >> nine is actually better than we usually do when the question is about, you know, the future of our constitutional republic. or what today's vote was really about -- look, you and i both know that issues of executive privilege don't apply today. that steve bannon was long gone from the white house when he had the conversations that allowed him to predict the events of january 6th. what was really on the table today was the institutional pregnantives of the united states congress, whether somebody can just say, sorry, i'm goin...

Whom are suffering the attacks of donald trump because of that, stands up and do the right thing. but, no, it is not at all clear that one party, abiding by the norms and the rules -- i have got to tell you, this is really hard for me to say. because i am kind of a norms and rules guy. i am sort of a traditions guy. but when you have a president who is willing the violate every norm and every tradition and to continue to do so after the -- after his presidency is over, you really have to scratch your head and say, wait a minute, does that mean we need to do things that we had never contemplate...