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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 you've had sort of ethical lapses of the secret service. you've heard the rumors of wheels up, rings off. and the misbehavior folks would engage in when going on trips. it's problematic on that level. to me, sort of from a prosecutorial standpoint or just investigating it, the fact that they've been requested by the committee and ...

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 peters who is the senate chairman of the homeland security committee who is also concerned about it...

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, there's a lot more that we don't know here. there may be some non nefarious answers to some of those questions. boy there's a lot of information. >> julia, the idea that messages are deleted as part of what's called a device replacement program after they were sough...

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 government watchdog that oversees the secret service. importantly, the letter says that the text message...

Service that i find incredibly -- kind of impossible to understand. there's word of deleted text messages from on and around january 6th. can you explain what you know about this? >> reporter: yeah. what's 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 homeland security. department of homeland security is a -- or the secret service is a subsidiary of t...