asked for secret service communications, from the day of the insurrection on the capitol and the secret service official said by the time that the department of homeland security inspector general asked for the records in late february of 2021, that information was already deleted. the exact timeline of the request for the records and the date of deletion is still in question. and is currently under investigation by the national archives. last week, the january 6th house committee issued a subpoena for text messages by the secret service on january 5th and 6th, 2021. a source told nbc news on tuesday that the secret service does not have any additional text messages to hand over. if you think that is bad enough. wait. there is more. yeah. jonathan lemire, just what late last night carol leonnig
steps to annex parts of the country. the former president of ukraine about this latest news. and cancelled, chronic delays, scores of lost luggage. can this summer s travel woes get any worst? one small airplane has a possible solution to all of this. we start with the growing controversy over the secret service text messages and the january 6th attack on the capitol. a source tells nbc news the secret service has no new text messages related to the january 6th insurrection to hand over to the house select committee investigating the attack. that revelation comes after an inspector general informed the committee the secret service had deleted text messages from january 5th and 6th, 2021.
was himself a pro-trump elector. and for the first time the january 6th committee has issued a subpoena to the u.s. secret service for information about text messages that were later erased. cnn s jessica schneider has that story. reporter: homeland security inspector general joseph gufari on capitol hill. he briefed all nine january 6th committee members on his claims that the secret service erased text menssages from january 5th and 6th, 2021. now that the committee has heard his take, they want to talk to the secret service. one of the things we have to make sure is that what the secret service is saying and what the i.g. is saying, that those two issues are in fact one and the same. reporter: the inspector general says he raised the issue of erased text messages with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas more than once but ultimately turned to congress for help, telling congressional committees this week that many u.s. secret service text messages from january 5th an
service for information about text messages that were later arrested. cnn s jessica sni snyder has th latest. reporter: he briefed all nine committee members on his claim that the secret service erased text messages from january 5th to 6th, 2021. now that the committee has heard his take, they want to talk to the secret service is. one of the things we want to make sure is what the secret service is saying and the a.g. is saying is that those two issues are one in the same. reporter: the inspector general said he raised questions with alejandro mayorkas more than once, bun ultimately turned to congress saying many cease caret service text going add ups of jan 6, 2021, were replaced as part of a device erasing
6th, we re going to ask these questions, and so i think that that people should expect us to do just that. joining us now cnn s katelyn polantz live in washington. these were texts and data that were requested by the homeland security inspector general well before there was even a january 6 committee. that s right. so this story, john and brianna, is all unfolding because of a notification that capitol hill is getting from this watchdog agency that examines the secret service. cnn reporters learned yesterday that the department of homeland security inspector general was trying to get access to text messages from around january 5th and 6th, 2021 from secret service phones, but those text messages were erased after that request came in. dhs said that that erasing happened in a device replacement program, the secret service adding there was nothing malicious about this, but this is arising among two areas of tension. clearly the dhs inspector