may have we may lose the ability to leave. the agents text each other afterwards about what they went through? were they texting before the fact about their concerns about what happened that day or what the president was saying or doing? we still don t know. however, tonight we do know more about when the agency s top watchdog knew the messages were missing. tonight, multiple sources familiar with the matter, tell cnn that the inspector general first learned of the missing messages back in may of 2021. now, that s significant because that s not what secret service officials told congress. they told congress that the inspector general, joseph ka far ri, knew in december of 2021. and if he knew in may of 2021, that means it was more than a year before he told the house select committee that potentially crucial information might have been erased. the secret service, as you know, says the messages were lost during a scheduled data migration that began on january 27th, three w
we still don t know. however, tonight we do know more about when the agency s top watchdog knew the messages were missing. tonight multiple sources familiar with the matter tell cnn that the inspector general for the department of homeland security which oversees the secret service first learned of the missing messages in may of 2021. now, that s significant because that s not what secret service officials told congress. they told congress that the inspector general joseph kafari knew in december of 2021, and if he knew in may of 2021, that means it was more than a year before he told the house select committee that potentially crucial information might have been erased. now, the secret service as you know says the messages were lost during a scheduled data migration that began on january 27th, three weeks after the capitol attack. it s also a week after several house committees directed dhs to produce all documents or materials relevant to it so they knew congress wanted to
already-devastating flooding. and, is taiwan on the itinerary? it s still a mystery as house speaker pelosi leaves for asia. putin makes his move. the kremlin s counter offer to bring brittney griner and paul whelan back home. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin with the humanitarian tragedy in the u.s. president biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state of kentucky, as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including six children. and that death toll is expected to rise. the raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods. scores of people are still missing. the kentucky governor andy beshear say it s hard to get a fix on the exact number since cell service is out this many areas, and he added that the state has never seen anything like this. here he is. there are still so many areas we still can t get to. the water hasn t crested in some parts of eastern kentucky. so we can t even get into some ho
and she broke barriers as the youngest woman in congress. now, almost three decades after she left public office, this fighter wants to get back in the political arena. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and another major development in what has been a monumental week for january 6th investigators. the latest twists, more missing text messages from the period leading up to the capitol attack. according to the washington post , texts from donald trump s acting homeland security chief, todd wolf, and ken cuccinelli, or m.i.a. department of homeland security said texts were lost in a reset of their government phones at the end of the trump administration. today a source tells cnn that the january 6th committee did interview chad wolf several months ago the same time they met with cuccinelli. that was before they learned of the possible deletion of records. these revelations come on the heels of exclusive cnn reporting that
i ll speak to kentucky governor. welcome to the viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with exclusive new reporting. multiple sources are telling cnn the top watchdog over department of homeland security learned about missing u.s. secret service text messages months earlier than previously known. let s get to ryan nobles. what are you learning about the missing texts? reporter: the timeline outlined by the inspector general of the department of homeland security just doesn t match up with exactly how it played out. that according to reporting. according to the reporters learned is that he was notified as early as may of 2021, a couple months after the text mebsz ands were deleted and did not inform members of the january 6 select committee and the other oversight committees. this raises serious questions about the timeline of events and when he took action to try to retrieve the messages.