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Insurrection. you showed evidence that there were some passed on by the fbi and others. and also other misrepresentations. tell me more about that. >> look, i don't know what's going on in the secret service. whether it's cultural issues, whether it's this desire to maintain secrecy. we know about the text messages that disappeared despite the preservation request. you remember after cassidy hutchinson testified what she had heard, what she heard about what happened in the limo. and you had these sources coming out saying that is being disputed. we said, great, come in. never came in. they did...

Fbi to the gestapo. even today, house republicans putting out a preservation request, where they accuse the biden administration without evidence of weaponizing the justice department. so these threats are coming out of a milieu of mainstream republicans aiming very pointed rhetoric at the fbi and the justice department. >> it seems, jonathan, to sort of point to a split within the republican party, right? you've got this outrage from republicans, saying the things, as we just heard, but in some cases, others toning it down a little in recent days. and in fact, "the new york times" says, quote...

Least. and, you know, i think first off, let's say the secret service knew this over a year ago. they knew that the preservation request had gone out from the other committees, not the january 6 committee yet. and yet they never alerted the committee, hey, look, we accidentally deleted them. and if you did accidentally delete them, probably best to get out in front of it. instead, it was covered up until finally the ig tells us. i don't know if it was trying to cover up gross mismanagement, or if there's something more to it. but we deserve the answer. and i guarantee you there's somebody in t...

Texts are recoverable. further, this includes efforts to pull any of the available metadata to determine what, if any, texts were sent or received on devices of the identified officials. so here's the issue. it is not clear that there were text messages that would have been substantive that would have had to be handed over to the i.g. in the first place, victor and alisyn. that's what they're trying to figure out, certainly more to come on this. back to you. >> okay. whitney wild, thank you for that. let's go to cnn's jessica schneider, what is the january 6th committee's reaction to getting o...

Up. i'm talking about that fencing that you see on your screen there. all of these things in preparation for next saturday. it will hear from both law enforcement and lawmakers face to be able to learn for what happened in the past and make sure that it does not happen again. today and, we'd already seen a security beefing done in terms of an investigation of how they can better fortify the capitol complex, as well as how best to protect lawmakers. those lessons will certainly be applied to next saturday. of course, there's also what's happening on the other side of this coin. trying to figure...