president trump. we ll have more on that speech and why he gave it just ahead. plus the january 6th committee releases more of what the former president wouldn t say the day after the insurrection. meanwhile, on capitol hill, covid is complicating crunch time for congress. democrats are running out of time to get things done before a month-long august break. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. there are new developments with the justice department s investigation into the january 6th attack. two top aides to former vice president mike pence have testified before a federal grand jury. mark short who was pence s chief of staff and greg jacob, pence s counsel at the white house was subpoenaed by the department of justice, short was with the former vice president during the insurrection. nbc news cameras set up for steve bannon s trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal courth
trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal courthouse last friday. just showing up. and short and jacob are the highest ranking trump administration officials known to have cooperated with the doj probe. both gave testimony to the january 6 committee and jacob, you will recall, was a live witness during a key hearing last month. meanwhile, member of the january 6 select committee congresswoman elaine luria revealed new testimony showing how former president trump edited a speech that was meant to condemn the insurrection. she tweeted this. it took more than 24 hours for president trump to address the nation again after his rose garden video on january 6 in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. there were more things he was unwilling to say. here is some of the video testimony. i m not sure when those conversations began because they could have started early the next morning but i believe they started that evening, on the evening of t
the capitol police, d.c. metropolitan police, other law enforcement agencies were attacked and assaulted before our very eyes, spirit, sprained, stomped on, brutalized and lives were lost. for three hours, the defeated former president of the united states watched it all happen. he sat in the comfort of a private diner next to the office. while he was doing that, brave law enforcement officer subject to for three hours. they were dripping in blood and surrounded by carnage. face-to-face to believe the lives of the defeated president. the police were there that day. donald trump lacked the courage to act. the brave women and men in blue all across this nation should never forget that. you can t be pro-insurrection and pro-cop. you can t be pro-democracy. you can t be pro-insurrection and pro-american. president biden doesn t talk about january 6 often nor does he talk about his predecessor often. we ve heard him use the phrase defeated former president, but he used donald tr
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difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three