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
marc e. elias, it s almost midnight, so how about carrying on a transition tradition for us and scaring the hell out of our audience? when it comes to actually voting and counting votes, a position that is getting a lot more attention, and it should, is the secretary of state. why? because they are usually the ones charged with running state elections and now you ve got a whole lot of states where candidates who want that job are people who support the big lie, who would ve pushed it, who would ve done what donald trump wanted secretaries of state in places like georgia and other places, to do that. how worried should we be with these people who could possibly get these jobs? we should be incredibly worried. before i was known for doing voting rights, i was known as a recount lawyer, and i ve done more recounts and post election litigation than probably any other lawyer alive today. and it is not just about the ability to vote, it s not just
tradition for us and scaring the hell out of our audience. when it comes to actually voting and counting votes, a position that is getting a lot more attention, and it should, is the secretary of state. why? because they are usually the ones charged with running state elections and now you ve got a whole lot of states where candidates who want that job are people who support the big lie, who would ve pushed it, who would ve done what donald trump wanted secretaries of state in places like georgia and other places, to do that. how worried should we be with these people who could possibly get these jobs? we should be incredibly worried. before i was known for doing voter waits, i was known as a recount lawyer, and i ve done more recounts and post election litigation than probably any other lawyer alive today. and, it is not just about the ability to vote, it s not just about the ability to have the vote counted, but it s the ability to have an accurate
senate rules, are there things that can be done at the state level short of just litigating every one of these cases that could in some systematic way provide the kind of protections you re talking about? or is this something for which there is only a federal remedy? so a federal remedy is best but if congress doesn t act in this area it is incumbent on all of us to take the necessary actions. that means in blue states, by the way, improving voting laws substantially from where they are in many states where democrats have the ability to make voting easier. it includes recruiting and training and making sure that good people are filling the slots of local election officials. there s been a lot of reporting recently about how good election officials are being driven out of their positions because trump crazies are driving them out. of course the courts have to be a piece of this. i started my career as a recount