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trump administration officials. details of that new reporting ahead as well. and later on, we don t have the manpower as the doj s january 6th probe expands, sources telling our team resources are at a breaking point. what we re learning about the most wide-ranging investigation in justice department history coming up as well. i m in for hallie jackson. want to get to ali vitali on capitol hill. what i am hearing as we wrap up this incredibly surprising week to say the least is that there is a procedural vote happening in the next couple minutes. walk us through what you know. reporter: yeah. certainly a week with a lot of twists and turns here between the senate and the house. the house leaving town now, at least for the next week or so, and doing it with a flurry of activity before they get there, setting up this vote, this procedural motion in just a few minutes that s going to be a vote on the rule to get onto the actual vote on an assault weapons ban. in talk ....
that the messages were missing back in february the ig didn t push the department on why the texts were deleted nor did he try to retrieve those messages. these missing records are just a part of a mountain of missing pieces of the puzzle related to january 6th that pose a challenge for the january 6th select committee as well as the justice department s probe into the insurrection. that poses a to investigate the actions of the inner circle. a spokesperson for the select committee telling nbc news that the panel is sharing 20 witness interview transcripts with the department of justice. that news was first reported by politico which adds this, quote, the committee did not indicate which transcripts would be part of the initial tranche provided to the justice department, however prosecutors recently deposed two top aides to former vp mike pence, mark short and greg jacob who both had previously interviewed with the committee and it would be of high interest to investi ....
He appeared alongside him at a rally a week ago. and we have seen him pulled away in numerous polls here. for blake masters, you know, this is an opportunity for him to take on mark kelly if he were, to in fact pull off this primary win. i asked jim layman last night about the endorsement by trump of blake masters and he told me that, you know, not everybody is perfect and that sometimes people get things wrong. he said donald trump made a, quote, bad pick in pav p.a. of course referring to mehmet oz who we have seen trailing to john fedderman by a significant margin. he hopes he ll pull off that win tuesday night and get that chance against mark kelly in november. vaughn hillyard, thank you. coming up, we are live in the capital city of kyiv in ukraine as dozens of p.o.w.s are killed with ukraine and russia pointing blame. first nbc news exclusive reporting on why we re now ....
Ree hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in the east and the mystery surrounding the deadly capitol insurrection appear to be growing as the twin investigations into january 6th expand their reach deep into trump world and brand-new reporting raises questions of a potential, possible cover-up by a whole host of trump officials and allies tied in one way or another to the deadly insurrection. the washington post today is reporting on yet more missing text messages, this time from the department of homeland security s two most senior officials that would be acting secretary chad wolf and acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli. the washington post says messages from both officials from a, quote, key period leading up to the january 6th attack are gone and that while the inspector general was told ....
Were so used to seeing when he was in this position at dhs, a very close ally of trump s. trump did appoint him immigration czar at a period of time. he s wanting to fire back at the washington post here. really what it comes down to here, there s really not a lot of gray area. it s that these men handed in their phones and dhs did not properly record or log this information as they would have been required to do by the federal records act. it s one more thing, one more piece of information we now won t get, and it s another question as to why dhs continued to not comply whether its be with secret service or with these top-level secretaries and acting secretaries why they wouldn t take the time to preserve it. yeah. why was the ball dropped? major, major concern there to say the least. julie, thank you. talking about new fears today of the justice department s january 6th ....