can someone explain what is going on with the missing texts? first on cnn, the cell phones of several senior defense department u.s. military officials were wiped when those officials left their post at the end of the trump administration, and that means texts that might have been suntory received on january 6th have all been deleted. our watchdog group is seeking january 6th data from former acting secretary of defense chris miller, former chief of staff cash patel, and former secretary of the army ryan mccarthy, among other pentagon officials. cnn is learning this from court filings. let s discuss now with cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe.
as this week. that is an important development because we know the committee has been especially interested in members of the trump cabinet. i am told that is because they are very interested in conversations related to the 25th amendment after what took place on january 6th. there have been several cabinet members that have already come before the committee. we have seen some of their depositions during the select committee hearings and with some of the video deposition clips the committee has released, including chris miller, who is the acting secretary of defense. they just released some of his deposition this week. of course, the acting attorney general, jeff rosen, and also, that then labor secretary, eugene scalia. we know they talk to cabinet secretaries. they could ve talked to cabinet secretaries that we don t even know about yet. but this also shows us, anderson, while the department of justice obviously expanding their investigation, the january 6th select committee is far f
pompeo s interactions with the january 6th committee tee? we know pompeo and his team have been sit being the committee. that is an important development because we know that the committee has been especially interested in members of the trump cabinet. and i m told that is because they re very interested in conversations related to the 25th amendment after what took place on january 6th. there have been several cabinet members that have already come before the committee. we ve seen some of their depositions during the select committee hearings and with some of the video deposition clips that the committee s released, including chris miller, who is the acting secretary of defense. they just released some of his deposition this week. of course the acting attorney general jeff rosen. and also the then-labor secretary eugene scalia. we know they talked to cabinet secretaries. they could have talked to cabinet secretaries we don t even know about yet. this also shows us while the departme
of the army, the secretary of defense, rather, then delegated to the secretary of the army. a very complicated. all being changed. here s why i think what s clear to me, at least, with the acting secretary of defense. number one, remember on january 3rd, ten former secretary of defense wrote an open letter to the pentagon saying, remember your oath of office. i do not allow the military to be used for political purposes. your oath is to the constitution, not to any one president. secondly, we are finding out that it s a likely they were ordered to put 1000 troops and because the president didn t want the national guard to foil his plans to have this armed insurrection to storm the capital. if the guard hedman deployed and they would ve come face to face with american citizens. they might have had that would ve been a situation with the president of the united states using military, armed force against peaceful, at least at that point,
and c. i m looking for who else is going into the grand jury, are there other people that would have had the access that marc short had, are there other people that would have been inside the white house, are they starting to subpoena some of the witnesses from the january 6th committee? are we going to see cassidy hutchinson, scararah matthews, matthew pottinger. i would be interested in watching what happened to mark meadows. who had more proximity to donald trump than mark meadows. they pulled his phone records so i would be watching for are other key players going in. plus search warrants. we know they were done on jeffrey clark and john eastman, those are some of the indicators we can match. chris miller who was the acting secretary of defense on january 6th has made it clear now, we ve learned he says trump is lying about ordering the national guard on the ready ahead of january 6. why is this significant, errol? it s significant in part because what donald trump has said in