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A government watchdog that oversees the secret service. importantly, the letter says those text messages were erased after, after they were requested as part of an evaluation of what happened on january 6th being conducted by that government watchdog. the letter notes that the secret service is claiming that the messages were erased as part of a device replacement program. it is important to note that the messages were erased only after they had been requested by the inspector general. and the i...

Watchdog report claims the secret service erased pivotal information from their agents phones after january 6th. >> the secret service claims any lost data was due to a planned tech migration and those texts that investigators wanted were not among those that disappeared. lets bring in our law enforcement correspondent whitney wild with more. good morning, whitney. >> reporter: good morning to you. jim and poppy, the summary of this story is this. the department of homeland security inspector ge...

Consequences? >> this is a new twist in what the house has or hasnt been able to obtain. and this story really is unfolding we were just learning about it the first time yesterday. cnn reporters learned yesterday that the watchdog agency for the department of homeland security, inspector general, was trying to get access to text messages from secret service phones. but those text messages were erased after that request came in and dhs, which is the department where the secret service sits, they ...

>> ali, is there reaction from the january 6th committee on this? >> do you want to get to the bottom of these accounts? the january 6th committee. they are very interested in the text messages and are concerned about the fact they are lost for whatever reason. the secret service and as we mentioned, this is a result of changing over systems and of course the inspector general himself using the word deleted, which uses the intention of getting rid of those text messages. here is how some of the ...

Erased as part of a device replacement program. the secret service erased those messages after oig requested electronic communications from them as part of your evaluation of events at the capitol on january 6th. the secret service is responding and saying dhs/oig requested electronic communications for the first time on february 26th, 2021, after the migration was well under way. the secret service notified of the loss of certain phones data but confirmed to oig that none of the texts it was se...

We saw a number of reasons why they decided to make this trip. chief among them are the gas prices. >> thank you so much. at home, the secret service is being accused of deleting records related to the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. nbc news has learned the homeland security department inspector general told two congressional committees that the agency informed them that many text messages from january 6th and the day before had been erased as part of a device replacement program. the s...

Department notified us that many u.s. secret service text messages from january 5th and 6, 2021, were erased as art positive a device replacement program. the u.s. secret service erased those messages after oig requested records of electronic communications from the secret service as part of our evaluation of the events at the capitol on january 6th. a spokesman for the secret service disputes that. "the insinuation that the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is...

Troy, former head of homeland security and counterterrorism expert and hugo lowell of "the guardian." what do we know about the erasure of these text messages, just from the 5th and 6th because it sure does seem suspicious from its just from those two days. >> i caught up with the chairman of the committee today, benny thompson, and he said they werent quite sure whether it was just january 5 and january 6 that they dont have the texts from or whether it was other dates in january. what they do ...

January 6th investigators want to know if critical information from the cell phones of secret service agents gone forever. they have learned that they notified the committee that text messages from january fifth and sixth were erased and that it happened after those records were requested by the dhs inspector general. here is jamie raskin. >> we dont know what the facts are and we will get to the facts about why that happened and we will do whatever we can to retrieve the substance of those text...

0 >> danya perry, matt miller, thank you both. that is all in on this thursday night. im gonna be back here this weekend, with american voices at 6 pm eastern. msnbc prime starts right now with mehdi hassan. good evening, mehdi. e starts right now and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have breaking news about january the 6th, out tonight. news about one of the key law enforcement agencies that has been at the center of several january 6th hearings so far. tonight, we are learnin...