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5th and january 6th. namely, a text message conversation from the former u.s. capitol police chief steven sun to former secret service uniform division chief thomas sullivan requesting assistance on january 26th, 2021 and advised the agency did not only have further records responsive to the dhs/oigs request for text messages according to the letter from assistant director ronald rowe to the january 6th committee. what are we seeing here? was does this say? >> don, lets just pause and say, you k...

A full answer from the agency. and then they will follow up. there may not be anything that the national archives can do if the texts were, in fact, on phones that were essentially tossed away. there is some residual question of whether a commercial service that was involved in the text messaging that dhs use. whether something could be recovered from them but i doubt that those messages have lasted until now. and so, i think at the end of at the end of the day, the administration is going to be...

>> the secret service certainly has more explaining to do. the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point but they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is whether the steps that they are taking to determine first of all, whether any of these messa...

Before the committees next big hearing in prime time. what are you learning about this single text conversation? >> reporter: yeah, this is a single text conversation that is the result of the dhs inspector general asking the secret service for text messages sent or received by 24 specific secret service personnel between the dates in december and january 8th. the secret service saying in this letter to the january 6th committee yesterday that we obtained saying once they got that specific reque...

Texts are recoverable. further, this includes efforts to pull any of the available metadata to determine what, if any, texts were sent or received on devices of the identified officials. so heres the issue. it is not clear that there were text messages that would have been substantive that would have had to be handed over to the i.g. in the first place, victor and alisyn. thats what theyre trying to figure out, certainly more to come on this. back to you. >> okay. whitney wild, thank you for tha...

>> yeah. and i think even the administration, we saw homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas saying were committed to cooperating fully. obviously those are good signals to be getting from administration and dhs specifically on this front, but there are questions. i am not the most tech savvy person when were talking about phones, but its clear that the timeline here of that migration of data, they were instructing people back up your phones manually and that wasnt happening, so there are...

Huge, important function in the transfer of power and in protecting president biden and im not buying it right now. >> yeah. representative lofgren says it does not look good. >> can i say one more thing? >> yeah, go ahead. >> can i say one more thing thats interesting, ive been in d.c. long enough or ive been around and in d.c. long enough, one of the things thats interesting to me is the white house and the department of homeland security which oversee the secret service have been pretty silen...

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>> hes armed inside this building, we have him contained. hes going to be on the building on the west side of the property. >> reporter: but the suspect was inside room 111 and 112 and still shooting. report says alongside local officers there were 149 border patrol agents, 91 dps troopers and 27 members of the u.s. marshals and dhs responding to the scene. some inside robb elementary, others outside the school. still the committee points out command post was never set up, leading to breakdown i...