it s a long time. at least it was 3:00 in the morning when you left your house. our marriage can drive now drink legally. our marriage can drink legally now. i m just saying. if it wants to. i am john berman. brianna is off, maybe happily at this point. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us this morning. great to have you here. thank you for having me and congratulations to your wife. i have a lot of questions for her. you keep if you are owing your eyebrows. congratulations to your wife, yes mark. we have new cnn reporting on former president trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. the fulton county district attorney putting all 16 fake trump electors on notice that they are now targets of an ongoing criminal investigation. before they were just witnesses. it represents a pretty significant escalation of the criminal probe in georgia indicating prosecutors could be moving closer to charges perhaps against those wh
to michael bloomberg, from the department of information, technology and telecommunications. so obviously can help us answer a lot of these questions. and, evan, i want to start with you, this has raised so many questions about what s going on, and why, if you can recover one message, where are the rest of them? right. and, you know, look, this letter that jamie gangel obtained indicates also that the committee, the committee asked the secret service to preserve these records on january 16th. this is before the so-called migration, this is before the devices were being changed over. this is what the secret service says is the cause of this deletion of these text messages. but what was being requested was all of these communications for 24 people at the secret service. we don t know exactly who those people are, but there are people who would have been in key positions to know what was happening in those days before january 6th and, of course, on that day. the only message t
happening in those days before january 6th and, of course, on that day. the only message that apparently was preserved, that they were able to preserve was one from the chief of the capitol police asking for help from the uniform division of the secret service. so as you say, it is raising really major questions about exactly what was done with this, why it was deleted, even before given the fact that they already were asked to preserve and according to the secret service, by the way, it is up to each individual member of the security the secret service to preserve their own messages, apparently. eric, stand by for one minute. we have questions about the technical aspect of it as can you really delete stuff like this forever. but just on the timeline, you keep alluding to it, to be clear, this is from cnn s own reporting that you re part of, congress told the secret service it need to reserve and produce documents related to january 6th. they made the request on january 16th and
everything is able to be recovered. but it sounds like what this secret service spokesman is saying now to the new york times is they actually don t think they ll be able to be recovered. yeah, it really strains credulity. this is like i was talking to a senior security officer about this, and he likened this to like winning the lottery, being hit by lightning all on february 29th. is it possible, potentially. but the odds of this, it wreaks at best extreme negligence and at worst a cover-up. what else do you see going on here, eric? and specifically with the idea of, in this day and age, can stuff really get erased forever? not really. in fact, i would argue this, if there is a real sort of real third party serious effort to do what is called forensic imaging where you go into these devices and look at the telecos and talk to, if they were using iphones
know, we narrowly avoided disaster. that s what kind of strains credulity here and that s why the inspector general has been doing this investigation, and why they re so frustrated, they say, with what the secret service has been doing to not cooperate according to the inspector general. these questions certainly remain, evan. we know you ll be pressing. very nice of you to join us in person. a rare occurrence. you know it is a big story if evan is here. so honored. eric, thank you for being with us as well. eric, thank you. the candidate backed by former president trump has just won the republican nomination for governor in maryland. state lawmaker dan cox is hoping to replace the current republican governor larry hogan, he s term limited, so he can t seek re-election this year. but they re a tale of two very different kinds of republicans. cox is the one who urged trump to seize voting machines, chartered buses to the capitol on january 6th, to the rally, and he also tweete