difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three
thank you for staying up late with us, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. lat with us, i will see you at we have breaking news about january 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 learning that the u.s. secret service service erased text messages sent by secret service officials between january the 5th and sixth of last year. that is according to a letter sent by congress a government watchdog that oversees the secret service. importantly, the letter says that the text messages were erased after they were requested as part of an evaluation of what happened on january the 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. again, it is important to note that the messages were erased only after they were requested by the inspector general. the
inspector general of the apartment of homeland security, which has jurisdiction over the secret service. the most important secret service text messages since the invention of text messaging. they were deliberately erased by the secret service, according to the inspector general. the most important text messages in the history of the secret service. we don t know if any of the text messages sent to and from vice president mike pence s secret service detail survived the deliberate erasure by the secret service. those text messages could show attempts by the secret service to move mike pence away from the capital against his will. those text messages could show the efforts to remove mike pence from the capital during the attack on the capitol. so that mike pence would not be able to continue to participate in the certifications of the electoral college vote. the secret service text messages on january 6th are the most important text messages secret service agents have ever sent
the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three months system migration. in that process, data on some phones was lost. there s also new reporting that efforts to get testimony from the two most important figures on
winner. he s just going to say he s the winner. on the eve of his trial, new audio of steve bannon, laying out trump s 2020 plans. plus, as the senate tries to trump proof american democracy, will it be enough? we re gonna get insight on that, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am alicia menendez in for chris hayes. and we have some major new developments tonight in the ongoing investigation into the insurrection on january 6th. the wall street journal reports that members of the house january 6th committee are considering seeking interviews with both mike pence and donald trump. congressman adam kinzinger, one of two republicans on the committee, says that they may request a written interview with the former vice president, or they could issue a subpoena to try to compel him to testify. the committee is still weighing whether it will ask trump to testify. congressman kinzinger, quote, expects the committee to likely decide to make a crimina