Yes. We`re going to take up both bills this week and both bills will pass.

Not at all surprising he wants to block the committee from finding out about his conduct on January 6 and in the days leading up to that date.

There has been sustained effort before the election, during the election and after the election to this day to discredit the whole idea that we can still rely on elections to decide who should govern.

He’s obviously at the center of efforts to overturn the election.

These are insurrectionists, in my view, wearing suits and ties, and they’re not done.

the Republican Party and its infrastructure, like that institute, are now an anti-truth, anti-democratic cult of a former president.

This is how democracies come to an end when the very tools of democracy are used against democracy itself.

I think if you or I or any of my constituents were trying to subvert an election that way... they would be under investigation about an indictment by now.

President Trump compromised our elections. He will do so again. Truth matters little to him. Decency matters not at all.

I was surprised, you know, it`s telling about this euro when you`re surprised and delighted to get as many as nine Republicans to uphold our system of checks and balances and hold people to account when they ignore congressional subpoenas.

We are here this afternoon to test a proposition as old as the country's founding: Are we a nation of laws? We are here because one man has decided that we are now only a nation of men and that rich and powerful men need not follow the…

It is this abdication of their Oath of Office that has our democracy on such fragile ground.

It is extraordinary, and it really defies the expectation of the founders, that members of the Congressional branch would defend their own institution.

Well, the 'Still Could' refers to the fact that the president, the former president, is still out pushing this big lie that led to the insurrection.

Yes, there is a right of association, but there is no right to incite violence.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. And nothing in the First Amendment precludes us from protecting the country from these violent white nationalist groups.

The point is that the rule of law needs to be observed and it`s surprising to hear senators uh you know talk so blindly about an attack on our Capitol that resulted in the deaths of Americans, the beating of police officers, but also…

A big lie doesn’t take shape of its own. It’s built upon a scaffold of lies.

I expect we`ll take this up on the floor very soon. And I`m not in a position to announce how soon, but I think it`s going to happen very soon just as we took up this criminal contempt.

Well, I think it`s extremely important. And you know, we have to take notice of the breadth of what Bannon tried to do which is not come to committee and assert some kind of privilege, but claim that he doesn`t even need to show up, that…

I think every member of our Committee is determined to go wherever the evidence lies, to Members of Congress, to the former White House -- anywhere, we need to fill up the public record and expose all of the events that led to January 6th.

I think certainly, someone that was as close to the President is as close to the President as Steve Bannon, who was organizing at the Willard Hotel efforts to persuade lawmakers to decertify the election and overturn the results.

Steve Bannon was given every opportunity to comply with a lawful subpoena. He chose instead to make specious claims of executive privilege.

I think the chances are actually very good. And the fact that if the Justice Department prosecutes Steve Bannon, other witnesses will see they will face real consequences, including jail time and potentially stiff fines, that is a way of…

It seems as if there is nothing that this former president can do that will cause at least the Republican leadership as it exists today to stand up to him and defend the democracy.