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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...

Thank you for your reporting as always. i appreciate it. >> let's talk more about this, we'll bring in secret supervisory, charlie marino and elie honig. charlie, let me start with you, whether or not these texts are recovered, this has become quite a mess for the secret service. does that explanation track in your mind? >> let's acknowledge that the optics of this whole thing stinks, right? it stinks not only for the secret service but also for its parent agency dhs and for the inspector general. i mean, my understanding is that this data migration was known throughout the department for quit...

They do a data migration updating the devices without backing up the data, without saving the data. and let me say this, secret service knows it has to do this. they do this all the time they save the data because everyone knows secret service from their duty of protecting the president, but lesser known, the secret service also routinely does criminal investigations. when i was a federal prosecutor i did all sorts of fraud cases with really talented secret service agents, and in a criminal case, you absolutely have to save all those communications, often you have to turn them over to the defe...

January 5th and 6th, until 72 hours ago, when the inspector general over that agency announced in a letter to capitol hill that they had learned the texts were missing, that there was a data migration in process at dhs at the secret service to caused the erasure of some text messages from secret service phones. the inspector general announced that to capitol hill. the january 6th committee received a briefing from that watchdog agent on friday. all nine members sat for several hours, trying to figure out what happened here with the secret service, what was going on in this other investigation....

Information. and we'll make a decision ourselves. >> so thompson there is highlighting confusion about what really happened. the inspector general did put out this information to several congressional committees that text messages were erased, they were frustrated with some of the responses to their requests for information, and nthen the secrt service said in a statement, that none of the texts the inspector general sought had been lost in the data migration. it's a complicated situation. it's still unfolding. right now there's this activity we're seeing on capitol hill, and it is creating a ...