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Investigative organization. so there are many, many questions that need to be answered here. i agree with jonathan that there's a lot more that we don't know here. there may be some nonnefarious answers, but there's a lot of information we need. >> julia, the idea that messages are deleted as part of what's called a device replacement program after they were sought by officials, if that is, in fact, the case, does that make sense to you? >> no. i mean, i think -- it doesn't sound credible. so if there is a credible explanation, the secret service needs to provide it. the normal upgrade that th...

Difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening once again. i'm stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i'm gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many o...

>> the way you prefaced it though, it made me say, gosh, do we want to change that culture? if the job actually is to take a bullet? is that we want to change? the idea of being much more forthcoming and exposing certain aspects. there is an element of secrecy that is required for that level of responsibility. >> yeah, to back this up, it's an even going back to the years when i was there about a decade ago at this point, the department of homeland security is beset by these kinds of problems. and it's not the first time we've had ethical lapses of the secret service, we heard rumors of wheels...

House presses for it, it really could get into some complicated areas of executive privilege. so we don't know if they will be able to get that sort of information. and now we have the insight into what donald trump was thinking or they want that insight. whether the committee could learn that, that is a whole other ball game. kinzinger did mention potentially subpoenaing trump and possibly pence too, but we've seen trump fight off pursuits of this before. remember the mueller investigation they considered for months whether to subpoena donald trump and actually did not. so we're still waiting...

Could be critical to the investigation of the attack on the capitol on january 6. in a let they are week to both the house and senate, the dhs inspector general, after an evaluation, the secret service deleted a significant number of text messages from january 5th and 6th of 2021. this letter was obtained by nbc news after its contents were first reported by the intercept. meanwhile secret service is denying the messages were deleted with any malicious intent. in a statement the spokesperson claims some data was lost during what it called a pre-planned device replacement program that began in ...