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tonight there are new questions about missing secret service text messages around the january 6th insurrection. multiple sources telling cnn that the top watchdog at the homeland security department actually knew about those missing texts way back in may of 2021. that's more than a year before he alerted the select committee. i want to bring in cnn's kara scannell, former nixon white house counsel john dean and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. nice to see all of you this evening. also, he is the author of the threat how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump...

About healing the nation, is that a viable concern that the doj ought to be thinking about at this juncture? >> it is not a viable concern for the department of justice to be thinking about right now. and it was not a viable concern for the department of justice to be thinking about in the 1970s as the watergate prosecution were heating up. as you mentioned, it was president ford who issued the pardon here. the department of justice has one job, to determine whether -- as you know as well as anyone, laura, to determine whether prosecutor pros prosecutable crimes have occurred. doing some kind ...

Were heating up. as you mentioned, it was president ford who issued the pardon here. the department of justice has one job, to determine whether -- as you know as well as anyone, laura, to determine whether prosecutable crimes have occurred. and if they have, to move forward with the prosecution. doing some kind of national interest thinking here, that's the president's job, and to do that with respect to trump would really be preemptively pardoning him and taking that determination from the president when the constitution assign it to him. >> that's an interesting idea, preemp preem preemptiv...