didn t know last week, at the beginning of last week, but these two words don t appear in almost all of the coverage of what is happening at the secret service. the two words are, james marie. james murray is the person who donald trump appointed director of the secret service, when donald trump knew he was going to need the secret service for a lot more then protecting him from death threats. when donald trump made james murray head of the secret service, donald trump knew he was going to need the secret service to help him hold on to the presidency. we will be talking about other things in this hour, you will hear from stacey amen, when she joins us, about the ban on abortion in georgia. which went into effect today. you will hear what happened in the steve bannon trial today. one federal prosecutors confidently rested their case after presenting just to technical witnesses, and you will see and hear, the mother of the mass murderer in uvalde texas, who was confronted by ot
going to be the secret service director and the next inauguration day, and that the secret service director might be asked to do things that no other secret service director in history ever had to do. someday, and that they may never, come out ask you to do a service for me. whatever the specific words were and donald trump s ten minute interview with james marie before making director of the secret service, the subtext of it was, that line from the godfather. someday, and that s a man never come, i will call upon you to do a service for me. did james murray do a service for donald trump by overseeing the deletion of all the secret service text messages on january six? the january six committee can answer all of these questions by issuing a specific personal subpoena to james murray for his under oath testimony, in a
wiped out. when usa today around a story with the headlines, secret service as going broke, protecting trump. donald trump blames the secret service director. donald trump fired him in april of 2019. in her book about the secret service, zero fail, the rise of the secret service. the rise and fall of the secret service, carol leonnig, tells us that james marie was not donald trump s top toys. for his next secret service director. trump wants it to promote tony ornato. the leader of his personal security detail, to director of the secret service. quote, trump wanted to make ornato director, but ornato said he had other plans and suggested to the president that he hire his good friend james marie, a 23 year old member of the service, trump height murray after an interview at lasting roughly ten minutes. the president soon after
technical witnesses, and you will see and hear, the mother of the mass murderer in uvalde texas, who was confronted by other mothers, today, mothers of the murdered children. telemundo captured that confrontation on video and we will present it later in the hour. but we begin tonight with james marie. the director of the secret service who has remained in that position during the biden administration, even though he was appointed by donald trump. the first director of the secret service appointed by donald trump was actually chosen by john kelly when kelly was the secretary of homeland security. the secret service is under the jurisdiction of homeland security, and kelly believed that is brand, a retired marine corps general, randolph alice, was the kind of outsider that the secret service needed to take a fresh look at the management of the secret service, which does much more than just protect the president with its three billion dollar
separate subpoena to dr. gee james murray for all of his secret service text messages, on january six. today, the secret service told the committee that they had found exactly one text, that is relevant, to the committee s investigation. out of the thousands more texts that the secret service now says we re deleted. the leading those text is a violation of law. james marie knew that when he allowed them to be deleted. the secret service is one of the most sophisticated cyber operations in the federal government. secret service pressurizes investigating financial cybercrimes. the secret service knows what s legal obligations are in keeping electronic records, and the secret service violated the law. attorney general merrick garland said today that the justice department investigation of the attack on the capitol, and they attempt to overturn the election, will not hesitate in bringing criminal charges against anyone who they can prove violated the