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>> 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 t...

but this source says that it was january 27th, after the request. what do you think of that discrepancy? they clearly have some explaining to do here. >> the secret service certainly has nor explaining to do. and 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, what...

Stuff, and why wasnt it preserved? and who directed this operation of getting rid of these texts, and why did they do it? and can this be recovered now, because i think as most people know, just because you hit delete on an email or delete a text doesnt mean its gone forever. it sometimes can be recovered. and that is an operation that i expect the january 6th committee and possibly the fbi will want to be doing because these texts are very important. this is perhaps some of the most important d...

Happens to the rest of the stuff and why wasnt it preserved? who directed this operation of getting rid of these text? why did they do it? can this be recovered now? because i think its most people know, just as you hit the lead on an email or at the league attacks, doesnt mean its gone forever. it is sometimes can be recovered. that is an operation that expected generate six committee and possibly the fbi will want to be doing. because these texts are very important. i mean this is perhaps some...

People who took the fifth amendment or fled the country. we still had a number of indictments because we got bank records, phone records and other documentary records. so i think people should not read too much into that. for bannon or mark meadows, as buck said, why believe them anyway? i would rather have their texts from that time. and at the other end of that text is another person who may be cooperating. and you even have mark meadows lying basically, it appears, about what he wrote in his ...

Their opponent. thats important, stephanie. zblal wi stay with us, ken, i want to bring in seth lassman. senator chuck grassley, a republican, leads this committee saying he wanted to release this saying this thing is a nothing burger. when i look at the senators in the room for the majority of this, theyre democrats. why release this now? whats going on here? >> i think theyre trying to continue their narrative that this is a nothing burger just as you put it there theres no collusion or conspi...