hunt for missing secret service texts goes back more than a year, it seems. and it turns out investigators knew the texts were deleted in may. i don t mean may of this year. i mean may of last year. that s actually seven months earlier than what the secret service told congress. now, this is on top of reporting from the washington post, the text from acting homeland security chief are mia. dhs offering a similar excuse, that texts were lost in some sort of reset of government phones at the end of the trump administration. wolf is just the latest of trump cabinet level officials we re learning has actually talked to the house select committee. cnn has also learned that interview was several months ago. that s before investigators knew about the missing records. so, now we ve got missing homeland security records along with deleted secret service text messages. just add it to the list. along with missing white house call logs and the presidential daily diary, all silent on a
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we still don t know. however, tonight we do know more about when the agency s top watchdog knew the messages were missing. tonight multiple sources familiar with the matter tell cnn that the inspector general for the department of homeland security which oversees the secret service first learned of the missing messages in may of 2021. now, that s significant because that s not what secret service officials told congress. they told congress that the inspector general joseph kafari knew in december of 2021, and if he knew in may of 2021, that means it was more than a year before he told the house select committee that potentially crucial information might have been erased. now, the secret service as you know says the messages were lost during a scheduled data migration that began on january 27th, three weeks after the capitol attack. it s also a week after several house committees directed dhs to produce all documents or materials relevant to it so they knew congress wanted to
say, but you really do. thank you, anderson cooper. this is don lemon tonight. i m laura coates in for don. deleted documents and the hunt for missing secret service texts goes back more than a year it seems. and it turns out investigators knew the texts were deleted in may. i don t mean may of this year. i mean may of last year. that s actually seven months earlier than what the secret service told congress. now this is on top of reporting from the washington post, the text from donald trump s acting homeland security chief chad wolf and his top deputy ken cuccinelli apparently are also mia. dhs offering a similar excuse, that texts were lost in some sort of reset of government phones at the end of the trump administration. wolf is just the latest of trump cabinet level officials we re learning has actually talked to the house select committee. cnn has also learned that interview was several months ago. that s before investigators knew about the missing records. so, now
tonight there are new questions about missing secret service text messages around the january 6th insurrection. multiple sources telling cnn that the top watchdog at the homeland security department actually knew about those missing texts way back in may of 2021. that s more than a year before he alerted the select committee. i want to bring in cnn s kara scannell, former nixon white house counsel john dean and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. nice to see all of you this evening. also, he is the author of the threat how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. written by our guest here tonight andrew mccabe. kara, let me begin with you here. what are you learning about these missing text messages? good evening, laura. this is new reporting from my colleagues whitney wild back home. what sources tell them is the inspector general of the department of homeland security knew as early as may of 2021 that some of these secret service text messages were m