you re live in the cnn newsroom, i m ryan nobles in washington. jim acosta is off today. and we re less than a week away from the january 6th committee s last planned hearing and new developments are coming fast and furious. on friday, the former ceo of overstock testified behind closed doors for nearly eight hours. he was part of that chaotic december 18th white house meeting in which outside advisers urged then president trump to seize voting machines. but those weren t the only outside advisers pushing extreme measures. new today, the new york times reports that a little known conservative lawyer talked to trump about declaring something akin to marshal law after the election. and also today, the secret service responds after the select committee issues a subpoena for a bunch of text messages that were erased by the agency. let s start there with cnn s senior crime and justice reporter kaitlyn poe lants. this hunt for the missing text message comes a day after the select
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thank you for your reporting as always. i appreciate it. let s talk more about this, we ll bring in secret supervisory, charlie marino and elie honig. charlie, let me start with you, whether or not these texts are recovered, this has become quite a mess for the secret service. does that explanation track in your mind? let s acknowledge that the optics of this whole thing stinks, right? it stinks not only for the secret service but also for its parent agency dhs and for the inspector general. i mean, my understanding is that this data migration was known throughout the department for quite some time, and that this was never raised as an issue or flagged by anybody. you know, of course, the important point here is can the messages be recovered ultimately, but the secret service from my understanding is they ve been cooperating with the january 6th committee and the inspector general from the very beginning on this. they ve been sending agents to the hill numerous times.