but this source says that it was january 27th, after the request. what do you think of that discrepancy? they clearly have some explaining to do here. the secret service certainly has nor explaining to do. and the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point, what they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is what are the steps that they are taking to determine first of all whether any of these messages are still recoverable. i think i am holding out, don, that there is still a possibility that this agency will be able to turn up more of these messages. let s not forget the secret service is a law enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency, and it has substantial forensic capabilities. so recovering messages, investigatin
you re live in the cnn newsroom, i m ryan nobles in washington. jim acosta is off today. and we re less than a week away from the january 6th committee s last planned hearing and new developments are coming fast and furious. on friday, the former ceo of overstock testified behind closed doors for nearly eight hours. he was part of that chaotic december 18th white house meeting in which outside advisers urged then president trump to seize voting machines. but those weren t the only outside advisers pushing extreme measures. new today, the new york times reports that a little known conservative lawyer talked to trump about declaring something akin to marshal law after the election. and also today, the secret service responds after the select committee issues a subpoena for a bunch of text messages that were erased by the agency. let s start there with cnn s senior crime and justice reporter kaitlyn poe lants. this hunt for the missing text message comes a day after the select
so recovering messages, investigating what happened here actually is something that they re quite capable of doing, and congress needs to really press in terms of what are the steps they re taking to try to recover first, and then second, i think is the explanation about how did they get to this point. they released a statement today, jonathan, and it says that they planned to do forensic examinations of agency phones. i mean, that sounds like they still have the phones. so should those phones be turned over to investigators for independent analysis? will they allow that? don, you re hitting on exactly what my questions were. we have to know what do they have, right? what items of evidentiary value do they still possess that they can work forensically to try to recover those text messages. but there are other pathways that members of the investigators from the january 6th committee and the inspector general s office, they can also
again, you alluded to earlier over close to 800,000 unredacted emails and other documents, so why these messages at this time, and i think the subpoena makes logical sense from an investigative standpoint from the committee, but now let s give the secret service time to give their side of the story here. yeah, and elie, i do think it s one thing to say we ve handed over thousands and thousands of documents if, you know, most of those thousands and thousands of documents aren t that interesting and you don t hand over the documents that are the most pertinent, right? i mean, the idea that it s this trove of documents from the 5th and the 6th that are an issue is what probably has the committee most concerned, right? yeah, ryan, i don t find the knew mer osty all that compelling given that the key dates are missing. they can give millions of documents that nobody cares about, if the 5th and 6th are missing, that s what matters. i think there are serious questions the secret service h
that briefing and decided to issue a subpoena to see what they could get, if they could recover these text messages and if there were any after action reports that could explain a little bit more. representative zoe lofgren yesterday talked about this a little bit. here s what she said. the secret service was aware this was one of the signature en e events of our country and that there would be a need to preserve all of the evidence because of that and also there s an obligation for federal agencies to retain records. so this is troubling, but they ve said they ve got the texts and the committee intends to get them all asap. so the secret service is an entity right now, the house select committee cares a great deal about. there s agents witnesses things on january 5th, january 6th right around the president,