anderson cooper has more. >> which country in the world would fall in 11 days? it took 20 years for women to stand and be recognized and to see that it was awful. >> reporter: under the taliban's all-male government, women have already lost ground. while they are still permitted at some universities in segregated classes, girls cannot attend secondary schools until so-called security concerns are resolved. yet girls grades 6 and younger are still in school, for now. razia is determined to build on that. >> i can't tell you how wonderful it is to see these girls in the courtyard playing and also in the classroom and trying to learn. it's just amazing. i am a great supporter of the community, and the girls, they want to learn. that gives me hope. maybe it won't be the same, but we can do something to educate these girls because i'm not going to give in. >> to find out more about razia go to cnnheroes.com. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. . >>> vaccine news that could make halloween the least horrifying day of the year. "the lead" starts right now. pfi

cooper. it airs tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> there was a key vote in the house to pave the way for the full house to vote tomorrow on whether to recommend charging steve bannon with criminal contempt. you know the ex-chief strategist to former president trump is refusing to even show up to respond to a subpoena. this is from the house committee investigating the january 6th attack. >> so in a hearing today, congresswoman liz cheney, one of just two republicans on the panel, urged her gop colleagues to put country over party and vote to refer the charge against bannon. >> let me address my republican colleagues specifically. i've heard from a number of my colleagues in the last several days who say they quote just don't want this target on their back. they're just trying to keep their heads down. they don't want to anger kevin mccarthy, the minority leader, who has been especially active in attempting to block the investigation of the events of january 6th. despite the fact that he

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anderson cooper moderates a cnn presidential town hall with joe biden thursday night at 8:00. >>> we are hours away now from a rare event on capitol hill. the house committee investigating the january 6th attack is preparing a criminal contempt referral against trump ally steve bannon. the last time something like this happened was in the reagan administration. bannon, as you know, is refusing to comply with subpoenas, citing executive privilege. we are learning bannon's attorney tried to delay, but the house committee denied that request. >> more resistance from former president trump himself he. he filed suit against the committee and the national archives. the former president is claiming executive privilege. his attorney's reported stop the steal lawyer who has tried to overturn election results. cnn's ryan nobles is on capitol hill. s explain to us what's going to happen at this committee tonight. >> reporter: there probably won't be too many surprises. the committee is going to gavel for a business meeting at 7:30, there will be a couple of opening statements, they will introdu

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cooper but this is happening live right now. >> this is the chairman of the 1/6 committee, bennie thompson. let's listen. >> i'm a grandfather, and when i talk to my grandkids about that horrific attack on our democracy on january 6th, my mind jumps ahead to the future in store for them. questions about whether american democracy as we know it now will remain strong, whether it will withstand future tests. that's got to be the legacy of this committee's work. to be sure, we're going to answer questions about what happened on that day. but we also need to draw a road map for making sure our democracy remains strong tomorrow. we'll work backward at what happened and try to explain how and why the insurrection came about. but we'll also look forward and generate recommendations for legislative policy and process changes that will help ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. and when we get to the end of this process and look back, we're going to ask ourselves, did we do everything in our power to uncover every fact? did we use the tools at our disposal to get a full accounting, or d