they ve uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations. i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan law school, donelle works as a senior policy researcher at the rand corporation, katie benner is the justice department reporter for the new york times. donel, you ve been watching this unfold. could simple incompetence explain what happened here. at worst it s a conspiracy, at best incompetence. this is unconscionable to find that some of the evidence of a crime, and this wasn t a small crime, a large crime that happened at the capitol. any evidence should have been secured. the secret servi
it cannot come at a more critical time. with more legal exposure for the twice impeached former president after cassidy hutchinson provided a smoking gun, starting with as she exposed in the clearest detail yet that the former president was aware of the threat of violence from his supporters on january 6. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, i don t fin care that they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. take the fin mags away. let my people in. they can march to the capitol here. that s damning in light of the former president s speech to his armed followers. fight like hell. if you don t fight like hell, you are not going to have a country anymore. that kind of fight like hell, fight, fight, fight language was what the former president s lawyers said would be foolish to include. they were urging the speech writers to not include that language for legal concerns and also for the optics of wh
security gates. later that day, senator hawley fled after those protesters helped to rile up stormed the capitol. see for yourself. to be clear, on january the 6th, republican senator josh hawley authored the forthcoming book manhood, the masculine virtues america needs, ran away from the same mob, since the moment that was revealed by the select committee on thursday. he instantly became a laughing stock. let s look at the committee hearing and how they reacted. that clip went viral immediately, and trust me when i say the means have been just splendid, the washington post reported, holly may have in fact broken a guinness world record for starring in the most music videos in a single day. zoom is simply ruthless, laying spring steals born to run, running up that hill and entire playlist of songs over the video. my own favorite was brave, brave sir robin from monty python playing over the and running. believe it or not, holly did actually respond to the whole incid
capitol since the war of 1812. meanwhile, the committee is debating whether or not to rerve the former president trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. last hour we spoke with a member of the committee, congressman adam kinzinger who seemed open to that idea. i can t do the doj s job. as a nonlawyer, there is all kinds of threshold questions. but my belief is this. we never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations because that is what failed republicans, failed democracies do. but if a failed coup and an obvious coup attempt and a president that didn t just choose not to act, but willfully watched to see where the mob would go for three hours on january 6, if he is not held accountable through law, i actually fear that that is a far worse president far worse precedent, to make the determination, if they can and should indictment. if we just wash this under the rug and say for the sake of the country, let s put thi