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so let's walk through what happened. three days ago, july 13th, the dhs, the inspector general which was looking into the secret service handling of january 6, they notified capitol hill to say that there were text messages that were erased as part of a data migration process that dhs was doing and that present there were missing text messages from secret service phones on january 5th and 6th. the dhs inspector general was clearly very frustrated with this and felt like they weren't getting the information they wanted out of the secret service for their investigation. told capitol hi...

A fellow in u.s. policy and international security at dartmouth college. danielle, good to see you. so in a recent article, you wrote that hostage diplomacy will likely be a more prevalent threat to the security of western countries. what do you mean by that? >> hostage diplomacy is when foreign governments use their criminal justice system to take hostages. essentially, they arrest foreigners under the color and guise of law, but the intension is always to use them for foreign policy leverage. so when we look at the case of brittney griner and other americans held in russia, if venezuela, in ...

Stronger military stance in this case? >> we need leverage. you heard the commentary made by the secretary of state. this is not -- words are not what work with putin. what works with putin is something that changes his calculation about how much it's going to cost his country. the one thing he cares about is the income that supports his military. you take that away, you break the monopoly and tell eastern europe, all of whom have written to the speaker of the house, four countries, four heads of state have written to our speaker john boehner and said please give us an option, please send gas,...