difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three
the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three months system migration. in that process, data on some phones was lost. there s also new reporting that efforts to get testimony from the two most important figures on
here tonight. this is a very complicated trip. during his campaign, biden promised to make saudi arabia, a pariah. but you say this meeting was inevitable. well, i m not happy about it. i wish this meeting wasn t taking place. and look, i ve been in the white house, and what happens is, you are looking at a lot of problems coming at you. and they re thinking, we have a huge problem for inflation, if you can get the saudis and opec to do any more production, maybe that would help. we have a huge challenge for the war in ukraine, and we don t want the saudis and the emiratis, who ve been kind of been sitting on that war, to drift in the direction of russia and china. we ve got this abraham accords, it s a trump initiative in which the gulf states are trying to get closer to israel. that s a lot with iran, and offsetting iran. so there s all of these short term reasons, to compel president to say, it s easier to just make up with mbs and the saudis, get this over, with rip this band-aid
like, tony ornato, and bobby engle, directly, the two people that cassidy had reference to, and you have witnessed the former president s behavior during that time period. you saw on that last hearing, actually, that cassidy and tony had a pretty seemingly friendly relationship. after that seven minute montage that outlined the tumultuous, quote unquote, unhinged meeting on december 18th, in the oval office, with president trump, sydney, flynn, michael powell, that s a blown, the kushner meeting. the committee threw up a text message from cassidy to tony ornato, the two of them going back and forth, with cassidy urging toni to get to the white house asap. so clearly, it goes to they have a relationship, they had some record, and i think it just makes the notion that cassidy would sort of pull this anecdote out of there, that must be harder to believe. that said, i do want to add a word of caution here.
new york attorney general, letitia james, was held today at the tops supermarket, which is scheduled to be re-open for business for the first time since the mass murder, tomorrow. that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, secret service text messages from january 5th and sixth, deleted, as new details of the former guy s apparent attempts at witness intimidation emerge. and as more disturbing details surface from the january six committee, how much longer can republicans remain silent? plus, biden s first visit to the middle east as president, is underway. what can we expect from his difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in