secret service agents relieved while trying to get them to drive him to the capitol with the rest of his mob. something that some secret service agents tried to deny off the record, after that testimony went public. they have yet to come forward and testify about it on the record. funny. we also know from the testimony of a top aide to former president then vice president actually refused to get into a car with members of the secret service during the capitol attack, because they feared that they might take him away from carrying out his duty. we are learning the key records from that time have essentially vanished under circumstances that at least have the appearance of a potential cover-up. tonight, the committee attendance to reconstruct the missing text messages from the secret service as part of their investigation. what should we make of this?
of a top aide to former then vice president actually refused to get into a car with members of the secret service during the capitol attack, because they feared that they might take him away from carrying out his duty. we are learning the key records from that time have essentially vanished under circumstances that at least have the appearance of a potential cover-up. tonight, the committee attendance to reconstruct the missing text messages from the secret service as part of their investigation. what should we make of this? i have just the person to ask. joining us now is an investigative reporter for the washington post and has done some of the most preemptive reporting on the secret service. she s the author of zero fail, the rise and fall of the secret service. thank you for joining us tonight. let us start with the obvious question, what is your reaction to this story? you are somebody that knows the
0 danya perry, matt miller, thank you both. that is all in on this thursday night. i m gonna be back here this weekend, with american voices at 6 pm eastern. msnbc prime starts right now with mehdi hassan. good evening, mehdi. e starts right now and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have breaking news about january the 6th, out tonight. news about one of the key law enforcement agencies that has been at the center of several january 6th hearings so far. tonight, we are learning that the u.s. secret service service erased text messages sent by secret service officials between january the 5th and sixth of last year. that is according to a letter sent by congress a government watchdog that oversees the secret service. importantly, the letter says that the text messages were erased after they were requested as part of an evaluation of what happened on january the 6th being conducted by that government watchdog. the letter notes that the secret service is claiming that