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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 didn't. 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 contempt? >> so much of this is they don't want to defy donald trump ahead of their 2022 re-election ...

Ordinarily prosecuted from members -- you don't 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 congress's 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 launch a prosecution of steve bannon. steve bannon is refusing to tell the truth under oath. that's wh...

>> hi again, everyone, it's 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 committee's subpoena. today's vote was notable because when forced to go on the record, both about getting to the truth of what happened on january 6th and about their beliefs in the power of the legislative body...

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 he's above the law, as, indeed, donald trump believes he's above the law. but i hope they're still going to find out from the garland justice department they are not above the law. no one is above the law. >> it's an interesting point, considering the pardo...

I know you've 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. >> that's 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 don't 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 republican members of congress and democratic members of congress into resisting the outcomes of this...