smuggling the precious resource back to russia to finance its invasion of ukraine. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . let s begin our coverage tonight on capitol hill with new details on the insurrection investigation. we have exclusive new information about when the inspector general over at the department of homeland security first learned of those missing secret service text messages. but first our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us with other news on the january 6th probe. manu, i understand you pressed gop leader mccarthy today on a key conversation with former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. what did he tell you? more importantly, maybe what didn t he tell you? reporter: he said he didn t recall. this is one of the key moments of that testimony that cassidy hutchinson whether she went before the january 6th committee about the concerns and the efforts to s
secret service. the most important secret service text messages since the invention of text messaging. they were deliberately erased by the secret service, according to the inspector general. the most important text message in the history of the secret service. we don t know if any of the text messages sent to and from vice president mike pence and secret service detail survived the deliberate erasure by the secret service. those text messages good show attempts by the secret service to move mike pence away from the capital against his well. those text messages to remove mike pence from the capital during the attack on the capitol. so that mike pence would not be able to continue to participate in the certifications of the electoral college vote. the secret service text messages on january 6th are the most important text messages secret service agents have ever sent or received on their phones. the most important ever, and now, they might all be erased. why? who would the s
inspector general of the apartment of homeland security, which has jurisdiction over the secret service. the most important secret service text messages since the invention of text messaging. they were deliberately erased by the secret service, according to the inspector general. the most important text messages in the history of the secret service. we don t know if any of the text messages sent to and from vice president mike pence s secret service detail survived the deliberate erasure by the secret service. those text messages could show attempts by the secret service to move mike pence away from the capital against his will. those text messages could show the efforts to remove mike pence from the capital during the attack on the capitol. so that mike pence would not be able to continue to participate in the certifications of the electoral college vote. the secret service text messages on january 6th are the most important text messages secret service agents have ever sent
service disputing the inspector general s claims saying a reset of the agency s mobile phones and a system migration where some data were lost began more than a month before the request to save them. those messages would be critical evidence about january 6th committee testimony that the president got physical with his protective detail for not letting him join the rioters at the capitol. moments ago, president biden and crown prince mohammed bin salman meeting each other with a fist bump after more than 18 months of tense negotiations and more than two years after then candidate biden said he would be making mbs and saudi leaders a pariah for their role in the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. i ll be joined by dr. ashish jha to learn more about the hypercontagious ba.5 covid variant sweeping the country, when the next booster shot is approved for people 50 years of age and whether monkeypox is a pandemic. we begin with pete williams. pete, the letter from the off
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