thing that americans were really looking for most. what is gonna happen with those gas prices? the president is on his way back to the united states. he will have to answer that question in the coming days and weeks. all right. we ll be answering that question. carol lee, thank you so much for that. from there to capitol hill, that is where the january six committee has issued a subpoena to the secret service. it is over missing text messages from january 5th and sixth. we are joined now live from the capitol. julie, this is the committee s first public subpoena to an executive branch agency. what exactly are they looking for? what do we expect to happen? that is right. alex, the secret service text messages are highly sought after. it was revealed that they were arranged for those critical days of january 5th and sixth. this week, this secret service said in a statement that those messages were erased as part of a, quote, device replacement program. it caused some data to be lost.
stephanie ruhle. and we have breaking news from the january 6th committee this evening. just moments ago, the house analysts subpoenaed the secret service over there missing text messages from january 6th and the day before. and today, all nine january six committee members met with the dhs inspector general. their focus, trying to retrieve that missing information. it s obviously an alarming thing to learn that there were secret service text messages from january 6th itself and the day before that were deleted as part of a device replacement program. we don t know what the facts are and we are going to get to the fact that as to why that happened and we will do whatever we can to retrieve the substance of those texts. and earlier today, the panel made it official. thursday, 8 pm eastern, we ll
worrying things. what more can you tell us about the select committee subpoena and its plans for getting this information. did i think it s gone forever? he, has good questions on the met with the inspector general yesterday morning. for my understanding of that briefing, the inspector general told the committee that the text messages appeared to be gone for now. he welcomed to show why they re been erased of several different versions of the story from the secret service. the software upgrade, and then that story kind of got question the secret service change their story to all actually, with a device replacement program. that was a swap, with that concern in this letter. all of this accommodated late last night, they subpoenaed and this lekima neighbors to be subpoenaed two things. a text messages and communications as well as the reports and the text messages
on the investigation being conducted by the inspector general s office. we have a former secret service agent with us this morning. christopher joins us to share his protective. so we re grateful to have you this morning. the secret service says messages got deleted as part of a device replacement program. they were not backed up. is that standard operating procedure or what do you think of the claims? well, first things first, good morning, boris and thank you for having me. i don t want to necessarily speak on what the policies and procedures are of the secret service in reference to the deleting of the text messages because it goes towards their procedures as far as security are concerned, however, i can testify at that time, there was in fact an equipment rollout. i was an agent at that time and there was new equipment that was being pushed out to the agents
general of the department of homeland security. we should note this is the first time the committee has subpoenaed an agency in the executive branch. and earlier this week a government watchdog accused the secret service of erasing those texts after his office had requested them. but the secret service says the messages were deleted simply as part of a device replacement program. i will say that the explanation that you have to factory reset and eliminate your data without backing up your data just seems i m skeptical. i mean, i wouldn t do that. the argument about when the request was made is largely irrelevant. the secret service was aware that this was one of the signature events of our country and that there would be a need to preserve all of the evidence because of that and also there s