have been calling on president biden to take action may finally get their wish. but for some, this executive action won t go nearly far enough. we ll explain. plus, vladimir putin takes his first foreign trip since the invasion of ukraine as the russian president looks for an ally in a nation also isolated from the west. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 20th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. the secret service is now saying text messages that may have been able to corroborate some of the events of january 6th are likely gone forever. after being issued a subpoena by the house select committee investigating the attack, the agency had enough yesterday to turn over its records from january 5th and 6th of 2021 that it said had been accidentally erased. but after initially being hopeful that the data could be recovered, committee member stephanie murphy revealed otherwise on msnbc last night. we received a letter today that di
hopeful that the data could be recovered, committee member stephanie murphy revealed otherwise on msnbc last night. we received a letter today that did provide us with a lot of documents and some data. however, we did not receive the additional text messages that we were looking for. they received four requests from congressional committees on january 16th to preserve records. and they have this planned migration for the 25th, i believe, of january. and nobody along the way stopped and thought, well, maybe we shouldn t do the migration of data and of the devices until we are able to fulfill these full requests from congress. the requests for those records initially came from the department of homeland securities inspector general who told the house committee in a briefing last week that the secret service failed to provide all relevant material for dhs s own probe into the capitol