senator michael bennet will join us this hour.ve got to start with the historic vote in the house to recommend criminal contempt charges against one of their own, former congressman and white house chief of staff mark meadows. just two, only two republicans, liz cheney and adam kinzinger joined 220 democrats in voting to hold meadows in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena. it's the first time a former member of the house has been held in criminal contempt since 1832. i want to bring in nbc's ali vitali on capitol hill, scott mcfarlane, investigative reporter nor nbc 4 in washington. luke broadwater, and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. ali you have to start on this vote because two, only two republicans voted for it. we all heard those text messages. those are republican members of congress pleading with meadows for help. they were inside the capitol as it was being attacked, yet they didn't vote for it. what am i missing? >> and steph, congresswoman liz cheney l

senator michael bennet, have a great holiday, thank you. >> thanks, have a great holiday, chris. >>> wednesday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you, my friend, appreciate you being here. thanks at home for joining us. appreciate you being here. it is a very excite lead-up to the christmas holidays at the end of this week. so much so that i feel like the news is kind of all rushing into the off-ramp, trying to get all done before the christmas holidays are upon us. one of the stories we've been watching tonight starts in the great state of georgia amid the tidal wave of election

the child tax credit has been important to people like brian deese, senator michael bennet, and it wille a hard decision for them to get something through without such a transformational policy. yamiche: susan, there is a power struggle going on right now between president biden and senator manchin. i wonder what you make of who has the power here, and what does it say that some see senator manchin as being the president -- even though he is not -- but even president biden said when you have a 50/50 senate, any senator can be the president. susan: this has been a train wreck on sunday. the question is, can they get the cars back on the track early in the new year to get something big past? a 1.70 $5 trillion package that included things like climate change and universal pre-k, that would be a pretty big thing to pass, but the risk now is, it is not likely to include the child tax credit and other provisions that progressives wanted, maybe it will not be seen as such an achievement. there is a real expectation problem here. the other peril for the white house, joe biden was elected with

senator michael bennet of colorado is one of the architects of the child tax credit, and he joins menator this is been one of your central focuses as a u.s. senator. i was gonna say your lives, work but that may be overstating things. >> i will say chris i -- on this idea. >> i've forgotten about that, you know what i'm kidding. that's true. you did run on that, but in all seriousness i know sharon brown and others have worked with you to have this happen. it's been there. first of all, what's the take away, just substantively okay we ran the experiment, we try to for a year, what is your take away about of success, failures, what you think of it? >> it's been one of the most successful domestic policies in generations. we've cut child poverty almost in half. we've reduced hunger by a quarter. just think about that for second. we reduced hunger in this country, we were one of the highest child poverty rates in any industrial con trees in her 38 out of 41. -- what we said is, we don't have to accept that. it's a permitting feature of our democracy in our economy. it is working exactly

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senator michael bennet, have a great holiday, thank you. >> thanks, have a great holiday, chris. >>> that is "all in" on this wednesday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you, my friend, appreciate you being here. thanks at home for joining us. appreciate you being here. it is a very excite lead-up to the christmas holidays at the end of this week. so much so that i feel like the news is kind of all rushing into the off-ramp, trying to get all done before the christmas holidays are upon us. one of the stories we've been watching tonight starts in the great state of georgia amid the tidal wave of election laws and voting rights restrictions enacted over the course of this year in republican-controlled states, all these laws coast to coast making it harder to vote, easier for republicans to control elections and their outcomes. one of the most insidious such laws was passed by republicans in georgia. there's a reason there was a big national controversy this year over the voting rights restrictions passed in georgia. in that big new package of restrictive voting