and egotistically speaking, i think i had the best command of basketball skills of anyone that ever played. reporter: the champion of champions bill russell won more titles than any player in history. one thing i loved to do would be back on defense by myself and have a three on one fast break coming to me. i absolutely loved that. because over half the time i could stop it. i brought defense to a level where it was as important or more important than offense. but my defense was part of our offense. the 12-time all-star for the boston celtics revolutionized the game. if i m really going to be a good team player, i have to be willing to disappear sometimes. be out there without you knowing i m out there. he wasn t always such a force on the court. he took the only scholarship offered to the university of san francisco. in one year he won a championship, olympic gold medal and credits much of the success to his parents. first thing is i remember my mother and father
the secret service certainly has more explaining to do. the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point but they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is whether the steps that they are taking to determine first of all, whether any of these messages are still recover -able. i think i am holding out, don, that there is still a possibility that this agency will be able to turn up more of these messages. let s not forget, the secret service is a law enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency. and a half substantial forensic capabilities. so recovering messages, investigating what happened here, it actually is something that they are quite capable of doing and congress needs to really press in terms of what are the steps the
put himself above the law. the defense suggesting that to contempt of congress charges against him were politically motivated. proceedings began today after the judge in the case, carl nichols, who is a trump appointee, denied a defense request for a month long delay. you will recall that last week he rejected the number of defenses, including bannon s claim of executive privilege, leaving one ban a defense attorney to ask and these are his words what s the point of going to trial if there are no defenses? to which the judge replied, agreed. remember, this is the same c van who promised, as he made his first court appearance to make his, quote, the misdemeanor from. it s the same stephen and who, even as he recently offered to appear live before the select committee, express contempt for its members and continued his tough guy routine, conditions for his testimony here s what i need. give me a date, a time, a room number, a microphone and a wholly bible i can take the
doug jones who said the problem is that everyone during the 2016 election in the green room would say one thing about the former president before the cameras were rolling and the commercial break, and all the sudden, the lights came on and they said a completely different thing, because it is beneficial to them to say it. was it doug jones who said it? he s absolutely right. doug jones, doug heye, the two dougs, they call themselves douggy fresh, who are sitting behind the cameras right now. it is interesting to me, as somebody who would like to think that if you are asking for the opportunity to lead, then you at least have the wherewithal and confidence and integrity to say, i will tell it like it is. i would hope and, again, i recognize what i am saying, you re probably trickling and going that is not how washington, d. c. works, baby girl. i am saying, that s how it should work and don t call me, baby girl. you call yourself that. that s how this works. i can call m
i m john berman. brianna is off. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. honored as always. a very busy morning. just one single text message, just one, a few minutes before midnight our jamie gangel broke the news that the secret service turned over just one text message in response to a request by the homeland security inspector general. this is about text messages sent before and around the attack on the capitol on january 6, 2021. according to a letter obtained by cnn from the inspector general to the january 6th committee, the ig asked for a month s worth of records from 24 secret service personnel and was provided with just one single text he is change about january 6th. this comes as the national archives has asked the secret service to investigate saying they are aware of the, quote, potential unauthorized deletion of agency text messages. committee member zo lofgren calls it problematic. the secret service has turned over thousands of pages of