the hour. thank you for being here. the single text exchange and the time line, cnn was first to report the secrets service provided only one text exchange to the attorney general though the watchdog had requested a month s worth of records from two dozen secret service employees. the agency is under more scrutiny now after it revealed that it has not been able to recover any data they say was lost during a phone migration. it is worth noting that congress sent the secret service a request to preserve records ten days after the capitol attack, that phone migration didn t begin until 11 days after that. the agency s credibility is now on the line ahead of tomorrow s primetime hearing for the january 6 committee. let s get started with whitney wildlife on which i will awhichi will. and capitol hill? what are you learning? reporter: this letter obtained by cnn and the test message was between the chief of the uniform division tom sullivan now retired and former capitol police
states. with nearly 110 million people under alert. we re tracking the extreme temperatures and the dangerous conditions in this country and in europe. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, the leaders of the january 6th select committee are expressing concerns about the u.s. secret service s handling of cell phone data after the agency turned over only one of the text messages requested by the panel. let s go straight to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. he s up on capitol hill for us. ryan, tell us more about the statement released by the committee just a little while ago. wolf, there s no doubt the committee is very concerned about the physical data that may be lost as it relates to the secret service and what they knew on january 5th and january 6th. but now their concerns are expanding. they are also just concerned broadly about the way the agency handled this ma
response to the robb elementary mass shooting. and we re looking closer at the state of president biden s agenda amid more dismal polling with the midterms less than four months away. we ll discuss with senator lujan. we are going to begin with the major new developments in the investigation into the january 6 attack. nbc news has now confirmed the names of the two star witnesses who are expected to testify during thursday s primetime committee hearing according to a source familiar with the plans. they are sarah matthews and matthew pottinger who is a former member of the national security council. both worked in the trump white house and both resigned in the wake of the attack on the capitol. thursday will be the first time either will have spoken publicly to the committee. committee chairman bennie thompson is also revealing more of the panel s future plans which include likely releasing a scaled back report of its findings followed by a final report. each potentially in
all right, so, the curtain has fallen on the january 6th committee s first round of hearings. and now, the question is, now what? so, the committee has made clear they are going to resume hearings in september. we know that is. much would happens between now and until then? now in a sense, it really is our turn. we in the news media, and you at home have a responsibility to take everything that has been presented and work to understand what exactly it means. not just in this quick knee-jerk manner that happened so often in the minutes after one of the hearings, but also in a deeper sense. when all the pieces of the puzzle can come together. let s listen to liz cheney this week in her closing statement about this. every american must consider this. that a president who is willing to make choices, donald trump made during the violence of january 6th, ever be trusted with any position of authority and our great nation again. there s probably nothing i agree with liz cheney o
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