fires, drought , and deaths. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with missing evidence in the january 6th investigation. the u.s. secret service failing to find text messages sought by the select committee. and that s fuelling more questions about whether the texts were inappropriately deleted. here s jessica schneider. tonight, key secret service text messages from the day before and the day of the capitol attack are still missing. the secret service, under subpoena from the january 6th committee, acknowledging they re still unable to uncover the texts after admitting last weekda wee ww wweek. sending this letter laying out concerns about the potential unauthorized deletion of text messages and telling secret service to investigation and report back to the archives within 30 days to detail how the messages got athdeleted. secret service is pledging to cooperate. we want to see w
conservatives must focus on the future, closed quote, a not so veiled shot at his former boss, the former president s false claims about the 2020 election. remarkable to have a vice president who served under that president to then challenge him. a spokesman for the former president tells cnn he will use his speech today to focus on law and order. this as the justice department s inquiry into the capitol attack widens. pence s former chief of staff marc short confirmed to cnn he testified before a doj grand jury investigating the january 6th insurrection, making him the highest profile witness known to have testified so far in the criminal investigation. have a listen. our secret service did a phenomenal job that day. and their job was made more complicated candidly by the fact that the capitol had been breached and they wanted to evacuate the vice president, but it has been covered the vice president didn t want the image of a 15-car motorcade fleeing the hallmark of d
further inflamed the rioters as they were raging through the capitol hunting down the vice president and shouting, hang mike pence. in a preview video released this week, you saw liz cheney referencing a federal judge s ruling back in march that the former president probably violated federal statutes throughout that pressure campaign. a campaign conceived, in part, by lawyer john eastman, a character you will meet today. a big player inside that circle of election deniers working around the clock to try to keep donald trump in power. this hour, we will expand that inner circle with a look at ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. bennie thompson saying that it is time for the committee to hear from thomas, quote, soon. this is a change in the committee s position and it comes after new bombshell reporting from the washington post on the emails between thomas and john eastman about overturning the election. we are going to talk about the new foc
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new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, june 13th. a man on the inside set to testify in this morning s second january 6th hearing in a surprise move by the committee. donald trump s 2020 campaign manager bill stepien will appear under subpoena to it s a question just how much of a cooperative witness he will be. what does stepien know and what is he willing to tell the committee and the country on live television? the focus today the committee s case that trump s lies about election fraud helped fuel the mob that attacked the capitol. the committee says that trump knew the allegations were bogus. joining me now ellie honing cnn senior legal analyst and a former federal and state prosecut prosecutor. when we saw this witness list come out one name jumped off, bill stepien trump s former campaign manager. what could he testify to? here is the thing, we don t know. this is going to be a surprise to s