capitol. brittney was always a great teammate and that is why i m here. we miss her so much. translator: the shield which was my only protection, i was lying on the ground all covered in glass. i didn t know if i would survive that moment and you can take a look, the atm machine is completely destroyed. it is just past 11:00 a.m. on a very warm morning here in jeddah. u.s. president biden will be here later today, but right now, he is preparing to meet with the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas in bethlehem. no major breakthroughs are expected, although the u.s. is also announcing tens of millions of dollars for panhandle hospitals, refugees and internet upgrades. mr. biden reiterating his support for a two state solution to the israeli/palestinian conflict, yet no apparent plans for reviving the middle east peace process. meanwhile the white house confirms that president biden will meet one-on-one with saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman when he is here
is joining me from jerusalem. what in terms of the focus, what have we seen here for the president s visit? reporter: well, we just saw president biden arriving in bethlehem at the presidential compound where he was greeted by mahmoud abbas. this is the first visit by a u.s. president to meet with the palestinian authority president since president trump visited in 2017. and this comes as the u.s. is really trying to shift its policy towards the palestinians. we have watched the biden administration turn back on the spigot of humanitarian aid to the palestinian people that was cut off by the trump administration. we ve seen since president biden came into office about half a billion dollars of aid. and today we re expecting president biden to announce a total of $316 million of additional aid for palestinians including $100 million for the east jerusalem hospital network that serves palestinians. here is the president earlier this morning at one of those hospitals in east j
general in this letter we ve seen expresses some frustration in how difficult it has been to get records from the secret service, especially around that time, january 6, important time, and then the house select committee and other congressional committees are concerned as well partly because the house, too, they re trying to nail down on their own the details of january 6. that includes what secret service agents witnessed of donald trump that day, what they said about it afterward and that s a big part of what they re continuing to probe, especially now after the testimony of white house aide cassidy hutchinson which did highlight the secret service and what happened there. caitlin, cnn also has new reporting about a d.c. metropolitan police officer who is corroborating details of what cassidy hutchinson said. tell us about this. right. it wasn t just the secret service who witnessed that motorcade on january 6th that donald trump was in. when cassidy hutchinson testifi
lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not actually among those that disappeared. let s bring in former federal prosecutor and lead counsel in the first trump impeachment trial daniel goldman, he is now running for congress in new york. daniel, what do you see here? what we know is that a homeland security inspector general asked for these text messages and now we are learning from this homeland security inspector general, it s a letter from this person, saying that they were destroyed according to them after this request. what does that tell you? well, first of all, let s remember these letters are not written lightly to congress. i am sure that the inspector general notified the secret service that they would have to send this letter if they did not get better compliance and they didn t, but more importantly and to the point, there are a lot of questions that this raises. they claim that it was a phone migration system
angeles. and new day continues and new day continues right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the worldment of it s friday, july 15th and i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. the secret service denies doing anything malicious after a government watchdog report claimed the agency erased text messages from january 5th and january 6th and that it did so after oversight investigators had requested them. the secret service claims any lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not among those that disappeared. it s the latest example, though, of the agency assigned to protect the president coming under scrutiny for its actions on january 6th. joining me now is donald trump s former acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. he later served as special envoy to northern ireland but resigned from the post following the capitol attack. thank you so