bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let s begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw donald trump try to do that s come out through the course of these hearings and before about how he tried to pressure vice president mike pence to overturn election results, pressure state officials to disregard the election, refuse to concede, claimed the election was stolen without any evidence of proof of widespread fraud. what this aims to do is make it very clear that a vice president s role in
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