six committee wants to hear from the secret service, and not just testimony, but documents. right? data. except, last week, we learned from the inspector general of the department of homeland security, which has oversight over the secret service, writing a memo that, whoops, the secret service had erased messages from january 5th and sixth. after this report, service responded to a statement denying wrongdoing, and bristling with a chip on it shoulder hostilities and police unions all the time, with a spokesman writing, quote, the insinuation the secret service maliciously the text messages, following the request, is false. the agency tried to blame a technical error for the failure to retain key documents saying, quote, tied to an effort to upgrade agent cell phones. undeterred, the january six committee issued a formal subpoena to the service to try to recover the documents. today, the agency said, too bad, gone forever. january six committee member, congresswoman stephanie murphy, e
violation of the subpoenas. but here is the thing, steve bannon would have to testify to make some of these arguments to the jury. and i have a feeling he will not fair all that well on cross examination. and i wasn t impugning the integrity of evan corcoran. i assume he s making his arguments a good faith. they are going to have some kind of evidence, even if only circumstantial, to back up with their promising for the jury. yeah, i mean, there would be something somewhat amusingly ironic where he would end up giving sworn testimony on the witness stand in his own trial that is about his refusal to give testimony to the january six committee. but it seems highly unlikely. right? highly unlikely. in most criminal cases, defendants do not take the stand. and that is for good, tactical reasons. i think it really is unlikely that we re gonna see steve bannon raise his right hand and begin to tell the truth.
to preserve documents, they thought were relevant. shockingly, it looks like none did. a lot, for an organization that insists, it has nothing to hide. congresswoman zoloft, one democrat of california, sits on the january six committee, which will hold its public hearing on thursday. joining me now. congresswoman, what is your response, reaction, to them coming back, pursuing the subpoena, and saying, sorry there is nothing there? well, we have a concern. the letter that was sent to the committee, i think, is going to be released shortly by the staff. i won t go into it. as stephanie murphy said earlier today, six committee chairmen, from the committees jurisdictions, before the
by bill barr. when he was working for donald trump. merrick garland has formally extended that guidance and told every employee of the justice department that it is still in effect. this garland memo reaffirmed suspicions and concerns of a lot of people. up to and including, clearly, members of the january six committee, that the select committee is essentially the only game in town. it may weigh well be the only entity approaching the investigation into what happened on january 6th with the kind of durable ferocity needed to save american democracy. and many are worried, and this is been a recurring might ve critique from adam schiff and others, understandably so, that will continue to be the case in the foreseeable future. certainly between now and when americans make their very faithful decision in the midterms. asha rangappa is a former fbi special agent also an editor of the justice security block. asha, first, i want to get your
and that could give him a defense, because it has to be a willful and intentional violation of the subpoenas. but here is the thing, steve bannon would have to testify to make some of these arguments to the jury. and i have a feeling he will not fair all that well on cross examination. and i wasn t impugning the integrity of evan corcoran. i assume he s making his arguments a good faith. they are going to have some kind of evidence, even if only circumstantial, to back up with their promising for the jury. yeah, i mean, there would be something somewhat amusingly ironic where he would end up giving sworn testimony on the witness stand in his own trial that is about his refusal to give testimony to the january six committee. but it seems highly unlikely. right? highly unlikely. in most criminal cases, defendants do not take the stand.