hello, this is a beat, special report. inside the effort to stage a coup with new evidence tonight, showing this is far broader than prosecutors first thought. we are breaking down the path to a criminal conspiracy ny experts now think the most serious charges may be yet to come. why are we doing this now? the house insurrection hearing show the nation that january 6th was more organized than many realized. the committee devoted to investigating that they has revealed truths about that day. yet, the house probe has also underscored something new to many, trump s plot to overthrow the election was far broader than one date or prepping a one- day crime spree. it was an illegal coup conspiracy starting before the election and lasting months. with criminal plots that had nothing to do with even january 6th and the illegal orders by trump that were resisted. we will show this to you tonight and begin with things that were part of looking perfectly legal, like challenging results
and google searches local information another data could now be used as evidence of a crime in states that are banning abortion i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s begin with the news that dropped in the dead of night from the january six committee. chairman bennie thompson has issued a subpoena to the secret service, requesting text messages and other records related to the capitol insurrection. , that subpoena, issued days after the committee learned that the secret service might have erased texts, from the january 5th, and january 6th, of 2021. now, after those messages were requested by the department of homeland security s inspector general. the secret service, claiming the messages were lost in a data migration but the agency has for decades, now been accused of destroying evidence, and evading congressional investigations. we will have more on that in, just a moment. but news of the subpoena, following a jaw-dropping hearing from the committee, early
ayman. coming up, subpoenas for the secret service, and allegations of witness tampering. breaking down the new bombshells, from the january six committee. plus, safeguarding democracy, the team of experts pushing back on his lies. local information, another day, that could also be used as evidence of a crime, in states that are banning abortion. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s begin with the news from the dead of night in the january six committee. the chairman is issued the secret service, requesting text messages, and other records, related to the capitol insurrection. that subpoena, issued days after the committee learned that the secret service might have erased texts, from the january 5th, and january 6th, of 2021. now, after those messages were requested by the department of homeland security s inspector general. the secret service, claiming the, messages were lost in a date of migration, but the agency has, for decades now, been accused of destroying e
happens when there are too many passengers, not enough staff, not enough planes, and not enough air traffic controllers? add in some picket lines and you have the recipe for a holiday weekend travel nightmare. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. new insight into what the january 6th select committee believes is possible witness tampering by members of trump s orbit. sources telling cnn that cassidy hutchinson told the panel that she was contacted by someone attempting to influence her testimony before tuesday s hearing, and now the vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney, says the committee is considering making a criminal referral to the justice department. that s according to abc news. today, the committee is now trying to compel testimony from pat cipollone, issuing a subpoena to trump s former white house counsel. testimony revealed that cipollone expressed alarm leading up to and on january 6th about possible criminal behaviors by the presiden
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