also new this morning, surrounding new details surrounding former president trump s efforts to overturn the election, a georgia district attorney tells 16 so-called fake electors they are now targets of this ongoing criminal investigation in fulton county, georgia. it is a notable escalation. we ll explain why. and it comes as another election denier just secured the republican primary for governor in maryland. trump-backed candidate dan cox known for encouraging former president trump to seize voting machines will face off against the democratic nominee there in november. let s begin with the single text exchange that the secret service has provided to the january 6th committee, our justice correspondent jessica schneider is with us. just one back and forth, that s it? that s it. the committee members here continue to be dissatisfied with the secret service response. what we learned from this letter overnight, obtained by jamie gangel, the inspector general requested a m
sort of jams that narrative up and here is why. the first request for prechb r prechb race of records came from congress on january 16. the email migration happened on january 27th. and our understanding is that they were told in december and then again on january 25th how to preserve those records, that if they were going to do it, they would need to do it themselves. basically one of these emails made that you might get at your own office from your chief information officer saying we re moving to a new system, so you are going to upload your documents, you have to do it yourself. right now the secret service again continues to say, look, we re doing everything that we can to rectify this. so for example, they have handed over about 10,000 records to the house select committee. they have this cover letter explaining what they are trying to do to rectify the situation and what they can expect to see in this 10,000 records. they also say that they are continuing to do this for
internationally understand this abroad he will do what he can to smooth over hard feeling withs the saudis and encourage them to loosen the spigot when it comes to oil production at the same time. domestically, though, there s a heavy price to be paid. the price of criticism from both the political left and the right that what he s doing is essentially shuffling over to the saudis hat in hand while tamping down domestic oil production here at home. not exactly a real picnic when you consider he s been critical as rich pointed out as saudis human rights records. quote from the start my aim was to reorient but not rupture relations with a country that s been strategic partner for 80 years. today saudi arabia has help today restore unity among the six counties of the gulf cooperation council. has fully supported the truce in yemen and now working with my experts to help stabilize oil markets with other opec producers, end quote. understandably on capitol hill, you guessed it, go
the police were summonedded lee years ago by a family member who said the high school dropout had lettenned to kill everyone. threatened to kill everyone. the officers seized 16 knives, a cager and a sword, and that s about it. how is that possible? they could have arrested them for the threat, they can have slapped his name on a no-gun purchase list. instead, he was able to to legally buy 5 guns, a glock pistol and without that failure those seven people in a parade on independence day would still be alived today. what s more, the mass shooter posted violent rhetoric and images online that apparently went undetected by the cops and social media companies. look, the police have a tough job. no law is going to stop is every crazed shooter, but combined with what smells like an unraveling police cover-up of the school massacre in you value uvalde uvalde, everyone s got to do a better job of spotting these potentially heinous killers. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz
deal with the committee for a transcribed interview behind closed doors but it s happening this friday. oh, and it s going to be on video. a lawyer is telling cnn the interview will be limited to specific topics to avoid privilege issues. he was of course the white house counsel. the committee has called him, quote, uniquely positioned to testify. i mean, the understatement of the year. think of what he knows. think about how many times you out there even heard his name from other witnesses during these hearings. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capital, cassidy, keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. you still sitting on his phone and i remember passing to him, something to the effect of, the writers have gotten to the capitol, mark, we need to go to the president now. mark looked up and said, he doesn t want to do anything, pat. and pat said some