from the secret service. the secret service reportedly handed over one single text to the committee, despite a request for all of the text messages from two dozen secret service personnel concerning the four-week period around the capitol attack. and steve bannon is back in court for day three of his criminal contempt trial, and we ll tell you what witnesses are saying. we have all these angles covered. we begin in washington, a single text, that s all the secret service provided to the dhs inspector general. what happened here? reporter: well, that s what they re working to figure out. so what the secret service says now is that they are still going back through just to make sure that nothing was the collateral damage of a very we know now was an ill-timed data migration that wiped phones for several members of the secret service. so what we know is that they have already handed over to the house select committee per subpoena more than 10,000 documents. the secret serv
but it has another instrumental function that by don t talk about much that plays right into these text messages. so what is that? they are an investigating agency, much like the fbi, and their docket, they had come out of the treasury secretary the secret service had been part of the treasury department. they were looking and they investigate currency, technology, cyber crimes related to currency. in other words, they are experts in texts and in technology, and that s what they should be. so my point is if they were investigating an institution that came up with these excuses or these explanations, it just happens to be at the moment that we want this information or the texts that we want from this information, that they re all purged and we can t find them or any evidence of them, and isn t that a horrible coincidence, they wouldn t buy it, right? they would be as skeptical as you and i are about this