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Aspects. there is a level required for that responsibility. >> to back this up and going back to the years i was there -- this is a decade ago at this point -- department of homeland security is sort of beset by these kinds of problems. and this is not the first time youve had sort of ethical lapses of the secret service. youve heard the rumors of wheels up, rings off. and the misbehavior folks would engage in when going on trips. its problematic on that level. to me, sort of from a prosecutoria...

But hand over text messages from agents on both january 5th and january 6th, and according to the ig, after that request was made, that the secret service underwent what they said a device replacement program, and over the course of that replacement program, all of these text messages were deleted. now, the committee finds that to be problem, the homeland security committee of which benny thompson is the chairman of and in addition to the january six committee chairmen, we have a stamp from gary...

And text messages between agents come within the scope of those discovery obligations. if this is a pattern or a practice to routinely lose text messages, that is not consistent with efficient and lawful running of an investigative organization. so there are many, many questions that need to be answered here. i agree with jonathan, theres a lot more that we dont know here. there may be some non nefarious answers to some of those questions. boy theres a lot of information. >> julia, the idea that...

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 gove...

Service that i find incredibly -- kind of impossible to understand. theres word of deleted text messages from on and around january 6th. can you explain what you know about this? >> reporter: yeah. whats interesting about this anderson, and jamie, zach and i were able to put this story together. this comes from a letter that was sent to the department -- or i should say the committees dealing with homeland security and both the house and senate from the inspector general of the department of hom...

Investigative organization. so there are many, many questions that need to be answered here. i agree with jonathan that theres a lot more that we dont know here. there may be some nonnefarious answers, but theres a lot of information we need. >> julia, the idea that messages are deleted as part of whats called a device replacement program after they were sought by officials, if that is, in fact, the case, does that make sense to you? >> no. i mean, i think -- it doesnt sound credible. so if ther...

Difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening once again. im stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, im 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 ...

>> the way you prefaced it though, it made me say, gosh, do we want to change that culture? if the job actually is to take a bullet? is that we want to change? the idea of being much more forthcoming and exposing certain aspects. there is an element of secrecy that is required for that level of responsibility. >> yeah, to back this up, its an even going back to the years when i was there about a decade ago at this point, the department of homeland security is beset by these kinds of problems. an...

House presses for it, it really could get into some complicated areas of executive privilege. so we dont know if they will be able to get that sort of information. and now we have the insight into what donald trump was thinking or they want that insight. whether the committee could learn that, that is a whole other ball game. kinzinger did mention potentially subpoenaing trump and possibly pence too, but weve seen trump fight off pursuits of this before. remember the mueller investigation they c...

Could be critical to the investigation of the attack on the capitol on january 6. in a let they are week to both the house and senate, the dhs inspector general, after an evaluation, the secret service deleted a significant number of text messages from january 5th and 6th of 2021. this letter was obtained by nbc news after its contents were first reported by the intercept. meanwhile secret service is denying the messages were deleted with any malicious intent. in a statement the spokesperson cla...