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Started, did he not know what was happening? did people around him do this? it is a very clear. it was wanting to stay in power, and now we want to hear from them >> there were some suggestions today, at the hearing, there were some individuals of the secret service, in the u. s. secret service, that have been told your committee the truth about, whether or not, there were any threats ahead, and you show that they're evidence of there were some passed on by others. and, other misrepresentations tell us more about that? >> with the other secret service, there is cultural issues, it is too desir...

That much sense, and it might have to be changed by in the case of the secret service we know that there was some -- there have been allegations of malfeasance here. repeated preservation requests, congressional investigators going to u.s. secret service and the department of homeland security asking them for these text messages prior to them actually wiping them for these phones. but at the end of the day, both of these situations could reveal potentially important information to not just the january 6th select committee investigating the insurrection but also the department of justice as wel...

Is this the standard for high-ranking personnel to be wiped when they're out of office? there are issues that happened here? >> i don't think that anyone serving in government anticipated an insurrection to have taken place on january 6th. so in its totality, the circumstances are highly unusual. and yes, this could have been simply a procedural breakdown, but at the end of the day, multiple preservation requests were sent out by democratic committees and democrats attempting to do oversight, that asked several agencies to preserve any and all communications related to the january 6th insurrec...

The american people through our committee deserve that answer because it's the law to keep that stuff, particularly if you're the secret service and it was like one of the more dangerous days since 9/11 that you've been part of. >> just adds a day in u.s. histy the idea that everything wouldn't be preserved. is it possible they were lost to incompetence? >> it's certainly possible it was a scheduled migrmigration, nobody cared enough to take the action. they're just like whatever. i mean, i don't want to make an accusation without the evidence, which is why it's so frustrating that we're just ...