single text exchange is from the capitol police chief to the head of the secret service uniform division asking for help as the riot escalated. we got one text message. and i haven t seen it yet. it will be sent over to me. it is obviously this doesn t look good. and so, you know, coincidences can happen, but, you know, we really need to get to the bottom of this. the january 6 committee and inspector general aren t the only ones demanding answers from the secret service. more from jessica schneider. reporter: key secret service text messages from date before and the day of the capitol attack are still missing. the secret service under subpoena from the january 6 committee acknowledging they are still unable to uncover the texts after admitting that data was lost because of a routine phone replacement program. and now the national archives is demandingn ing answers sending letter laying out concerns about the unauthorized deletion of text messages and telling the secr
focused on violent military tactics. i want to bring in national security analyst, julia, a former department of homeland security assistant secretary and she is also the author of the devil never sleeps, learning to live in an age of disaster. thank you for coming on. as terrifying as the attack on the capital was, with this new information, do you get the sense that it could ve been much, much worse? absolutely. the amount of weaponry that the proud boys alone had, as well as the oath keepers, just suggests that they were ready for some sort of activity that would ve been much more violent than what we saw. then, the question is, why did that happen? and in some of the filings we have seen so far in particular, in the cases against the oath keepers, because remember, a number of the oath keepers have now pled, they have turned against leadership, so we are learning a lot about what the planning was, they were waiting for some moments, some triggers, some activation from t
filmmaker who is right there with donald trump and family when the reality of his election loss, began sinking in or did not, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. and by this time tomorrow we should know substantially more about what led to the january 6th insurrection. beginning at 1 pm eastern tomorrow, the house select committee will reveal what it has learned about the role extremist groups played in the violent assault on the capitol. this will be the panels seventh hearing thus far. when committee aide tells nbc that tomorrow s testimony will focus on how donald trump summoned the mob, as well as the actions of militia groups like the proud boys and the oath keepers. the hearing is also expected to look at how some of these right-wing groups had ties directly to trump associates, including roger stone and general michael flynn. and revealed ties between some trump associates, and the qanon movement. a former
as well as a new video showing the police response to that massacre. a texas house committee investigating this may 24th shooting at robb elementary released a preliminary report on what it has learned so far. saying it found, quote, systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making. those systemic failures including three exterior doors that were unlocked, a classroom door with a faulty lock that nobody dealt with, wi-fi that was not working properly, and a force of nearly 400 law enforcement officers larger than the garrison that defended the alamo that did not have clear leadership, basic communication, significant urgency to take down this gunman. uvalde s mayor responding to the report by putting the city s acting police chief on administrative leave and releasing body cam footage showing the horror in the hallways and outside the school as well. i want to warn you, some of these images you re about to see, they are incredibly disturbing. [ gunshots ] am i green,
we were told that the families viewed the video or were ginn access to the video and told that it was going to be released publicly. they were so upset about the other video released. so the mayor being aware of that sensitivity wanted to give the families an opportunity to be aware of this. for him this is about trance parns sy and what we see in this body camera footage and we should warn is disturbing. the language and the footage. it really takes you inside those moments inside that school. you have a police sergeant outside the school making decisions and deploying officers unaware of what s going on and that there are children in a classroom and then seeing finally in the other video released we finally get to see chief pete arredondo who s scrutinized over the inactions in this incident. and then we also hear a radio transmission, a police operator telling a police officer late in the incident in the 12:00 hour of this incident saying a student calling 911 inside the c