subpoenaed the secret service over there missing text messages from january 6th and the day before. and today, all nine january six committee members met with the dhs inspector general. their focus, trying to retrieve that missing information. it s obviously an alarming thing to learn that there were secret service text messages from january 6th itself and the day before that were deleted as part of a device replacement program. we don t know what the facts are and we are going to get to the fact that as to why that happened and we will do everything we can to retrieve the substance of those texts. and earlier today, the panel made it official. thursday, 8 pm eastern, we will be their next hearing. that is when they will reveal when trump was and was not doing when his supporters were riding in the capital. the committee is keeping the possibility of future hearings still open and one panel member says that this thing is far from over. we are far from wrapping up our wo
stephanie ruhle. and we have breaking news from the january 6th committee this evening. just moments ago, the house analysts subpoenaed the secret service over there missing text messages from january 6th and the day before. and today, all nine january six committee members met with the dhs inspector general. their focus, trying to retrieve that missing information. it s obviously an alarming thing to learn that there were secret service text messages from january 6th itself and the day before that were deleted as part of a device replacement program. we don t know what the facts are and we are going to get to the fact that as to why that happened and we will do whatever we can to retrieve the substance of those texts. and earlier today, the panel made it official. thursday, 8 pm eastern, we ll be there next hearing. that is when they will reveal where trump was and wasn t doing when his supporters were rioting at the capitol. the committee is keeping the possibility of f
be held accountable to a mass minority of voters who are voting in primaries and deciding the outcomes of their elections. that is how we wind up where we are. republicans have never made this approach a secret. strategist carl rove wrote about the geo plea plan to take over state legislatures from the wall street journal back in 2010, saying, this, quote he who controls redistricting can control congress. so, let s discuss, eric holder, marc e. elias and sophia lin lakin still with us. eric, we mentioned it before, the impact of gerrymandering help us really understand the consequences, what they have been. with gerrymandering, as wendy davis said, you are in a safe seat and so your concerned not only about a general election, you are concerned about a primary challenge, which pushes you further and further to the right, and which helps explain
the very legitimacy of our elections. here is how own attorney general described it. they obviously were influencing a lot of people, members of the public, that there was this systemic corruption in this system, that their votes did not count, that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it, which was complete nonsense. so, for the remainder of this hour, we are going to discuss the ongoing threats to democracy, from the attacks on voting rights to revelations from the january 6th committee. and i want to bring in our panel of experts. top election lawyer marc e. elias, who founded democracy docket, a democratic party voting advocacy group. and sophia lin lakin, interim co-director for the aclu voting rights project, where she helped strategize voting rights litigation across the nation. and former attorney general eric holder, still with us. eric, we are going to talk about how our democracy is working or isn t working, how people vote and how our v
6th insurrection. and we will continue to fight back. and we have done this for centuries. and the fight will continue, it s going to take a lot of effort. but i hope that people aren t discouraged. but the rollback is quite large and the attacks are ugly, as they have been throughout history. but it s easy to get discouraged. marc, when you are fighting these voter suppression laws, how often do you hear the justification for trying to pass them is the big lie? the big lie that bill barr himself, trump s own attorney general, has said very clearly, it s a bunch of bullshit. we know that the big line motivated a lot of the litigation that we saw in the immediate aftermath of the november election. my team and i were involved in litigating 65 lawsuits. we won 64 of them. and we thought that that would have put to rest the notion