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Understand the importance of those messages. we actually requested four committees of congress requested from them those records on the 16th of january. and they proceeded with this data migration and upgrades of their phones without taking a pause to figure out how to respond to congress first. and thats kind of stunning that they wouldnt have thought that it was important to respond to congress or to preserve the information from that day. >> was this incompetence or something worse? >> i thin...

Thursday night this sort of primetime -- not even spectacle, primetime drama that the committee is hoping to display to the world will go on. and i will say as jake mentioned, they know that time is of the essence and of the utmost. and so i think based on what, you know, they have conveyed which is that they are really racing against, you know, january when likely a republican house comes in, they are going to do everything possible to proceed on all cylinders. >> chuck, i only have about a min...

Again, i am a layman, i am not the secret service, have never worked in government. when i backup my phone, and buy a new iphone, i back it up two or three times, its on automatic backup, just for that reason. i dont have anything important text messages of secret service agents. so, are you not buying that they, simply, just lost data migration? >> let me put it this way. i will trust what i can verify. i would be doing, precisely, with the j six committee would be doing. serving subpoenas, put...

And google searches local information another data could now be used as evidence of a crime in states that are banning abortion im ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> lets begin with the news that dropped in the dead of night from the january six committee. chairman bennie thompson has issued a subpoena to the secret service, requesting text messages and other records related to the capitol insurrection. , that subpoena, issued days after the committee learned that the secret servi...

So lets walk through what happened. three days ago, july 13th, the dhs, the inspector general which was looking into the secret service handling of january 6, they notified capitol hill to say that there were text messages that were erased as part of a data migration process that dhs was doing and that present there were missing text messages from secret service phones on january 5th and 6th. the dhs inspector general was clearly very frustrated with this and felt like they werent getting the in...

Watchdog overseeing the investigation for january 6th, tells congress text messages were erased as part of what dhs said was a data migration that was ongoing. there were texts missing from phones january 5th and 6th. the house select committee then got a briefing from the ig yesterday on capitol hill and the members emerged from that quite concerned. i know you were there and saw them. they were speaking about wanting to get to the bottom of it. so last night we saw them issue that subpoena. th...

Thank you for your reporting as always. i appreciate it. >> lets talk more about this, well bring in secret supervisory, charlie marino and elie honig. charlie, let me start with you, whether or not these texts are recovered, this has become quite a mess for the secret service. does that explanation track in your mind? >> lets acknowledge that the optics of this whole thing stinks, right? it stinks not only for the secret service but also for its parent agency dhs and for the inspector general. ...

They do a data migration updating the devices without backing up the data, without saving the data. and let me say this, secret service knows it has to do this. they do this all the time they save the data because everyone knows secret service from their duty of protecting the president, but lesser known, the secret service also routinely does criminal investigations. when i was a federal prosecutor i did all sorts of fraud cases with really talented secret service agents, and in a criminal case...

January 5th and 6th, until 72 hours ago, when the inspector general over that agency announced in a letter to capitol hill that they had learned the texts were missing, that there was a data migration in process at dhs at the secret service to caused the erasure of some text messages from secret service phones. the inspector general announced that to capitol hill. the january 6th committee received a briefing from that watchdog agent on friday. all nine members sat for several hours, trying to f...

Information. and well make a decision ourselves. >> so thompson there is highlighting confusion about what really happened. the inspector general did put out this information to several congressional committees that text messages were erased, they were frustrated with some of the responses to their requests for information, and nthen the secrt service said in a statement, that none of the texts the inspector general sought had been lost in the data migration. its a complicated situation. its sti...