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For a number of reasons. because politics is involved here, but also because they want to roll it out when they also have effective means that they have implemented in terms of lessons learned. so we are really still waiting to hear from the biden administration what they have learned because of course you will remember after this chaotic and awful withdrawal they did say that they were going to do these after action reports. we're still waiting to see what those after action reports actually say. >> fair to say i think there could be some more transparency on that. kylie, we know that you wil...

Watchdog overseeing the investigation for january 6th, tells congress text messages were erased as part of what dhs said was a data migration that was ongoing. there were texts missing from phones january 5th and 6th. the house select committee then got a briefing from the ig yesterday on capitol hill and the members emerged from that quite concerned. i know you were there and saw them. they were speaking about wanting to get to the bottom of it. so last night we saw them issue that subpoena. they're asking for the text messages if the secret service has them. the secret service seems to indic...

Secret service says this is an innocent mistake, this was not nefarious plot to delete these messages on purpose, it was almost by accident as they were getting new phones and shifting data. but, that said, the committee still wants these text messages. so they are letting secret service know they're ready to do everything possible to get them. and, we want to know exactly why they were lost, why there were deleted, and anything you have done to address these problems with your data. and that is why the requesting goes after action reports as well. >> eric, do you think it was an innocent mist...

This before. and i have been involved with a lot of after action reports. we have to go through the chronology. when it originally happened, you had a whole bunch of bravado from various law enforcement and the governor abbott about how great everything was and everyone is chatting away and talking and everything is -- we protected the kids, you know, which is hard to defend. then within 48 hours you have this sort of regrouping that something terribly went wrong and that the police actually were there, and didn't go in, and now you have silence. so you have this sort of couple of weeks that i...

Can get anything from the witnesses as they enter. >> so many unanswered questions and they're not being answered in the short-term, because as you said these hearings are happening behind closed doors. i want to bring in cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. let's just start there, this is happening in secrecy. i guess there is some argument for protecting people in order to get maybe a more fulsome understanding of what happened. but you are a former government official, at many levels. you worked on many after action reports. what do you make of what is happening and not happening ...