to michael bloomberg, from the department of information, technology and telecommunications. so obviously can help us answer a lot of these questions. and, evan, i want to start with you, this has raised so many questions about what s going on, and why, if you can recover one message, where are the rest of them? right. and, you know, look, this letter that jamie gangel obtained indicates also that the committee, the committee asked the secret service to preserve these records on january 16th. this is before the so-called migration, this is before the devices were being changed over. this is what the secret service says is the cause of this deletion of these text messages. but what was being requested was all of these communications for 24 people at the secret service. we don t know exactly who those people are, but there are people who would have been in key positions to know what was happening in those days before january 6th and, of course, on that day. the only message t
the hour. thank you for being here. the single text exchange and the time line, cnn was first to report the secrets service provided only one text exchange to the attorney general though the watchdog had requested a month s worth of records from two dozen secret service employees. the agency is under more scrutiny now after it revealed that it has not been able to recover any data they say was lost during a phone migration. it is worth noting that congress sent the secret service a request to preserve records ten days after the capitol attack, that phone migration didn t begin until 11 days after that. the agency s credibility is now on the line ahead of tomorrow s primetime hearing for the january 6 committee. let s get started with whitney wildlife on which i will awhichi will. and capitol hill? what are you learning? reporter: this letter obtained by cnn and the test message was between the chief of the uniform division tom sullivan now retired and former capitol police
and simon schuster, and nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is with me on set. talk to me where we are in this moment and why the speech could be critical. you ve been on the front lines for months. ukraine is trying to do everything it can to stay relevant, to keep the attention on ukraine. ukrainian money, and weapons and wants sanctions to be maintained on russia. i think many are watching. some nations seem to be wavering, maybe it s time to strike a deal. maybe it s time to bring putin back in the fold. perhaps ukraine should give away some of its provinces in exchange for peace. and ukrainian officials are trying to counter that narrative, saying we can t stop. putin is not going to stop even if we cut off part of our country and give it away to him. this leads to greater appetites of dictators. there s a tremendous desire from president zelenskyy personally to make sure the world continues to focus on ukraine and stay with ukraine. do you get a sense
those secret service text messages that the committee wants to see. plus, 17 members of congress arrested at a rally for abortion rights. we ll speak with one of them. congresswoman sara jacobs. this morning 100 million americans are waking up to heat alerts and oppressive temperatures. the scorching conditions will be felt from coast to coast with some regions seeing triple digits. in dallas temperatures could reach 107 degrees by this afternoon. it will reach 100 in memphis. and new york could see 94 degrees. meanwhile, as the chances of passing climate action in congress look increasingly dim, a white house official tells nbc news president biden will announce executive action today. the president will deliver remarks at a former coal-fired power plant in massachusetts where he ll announce actions on the wind industry as well as funding to protect low income communities grappling with extreme heat. across the atlanta, european nations without the infrastructure to gr
ukrainian territory. russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014. what do you make of this warning coming from the white house? it is interesting because we saw earlier this month something that i have never seen before, which is the head of mi-5 and the fbi getting together in london and joint press conference saying we re really concerned about chinese espionage. and i think they re aware, the china and russia, right before the invasion started, signed this agreement of memorandum between them. they made it clear they want to change the world order, they want to create a stronger alliance and i think all of this speaks to that. and i think the intelligence community is very, very aware of what they re trying to sow and they have been very public and coordinated in trying to get the word out about just what can happen if you allow this to continue to grow. annexation, how does that complicate the