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
the very legitimacy of our elections. here is how own attorney general described it. they obviously were influencing a lot of people, members of the public, that there was this systemic corruption in this system, that their votes did not count, that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it, which was complete nonsense. so, for the remainder of this hour, we are going to discuss the ongoing threats to democracy, from the attacks on voting rights to revelations from the january 6th committee. and i want to bring in our panel of experts. top election lawyer marc e. elias, who founded democracy docket, a democratic party voting advocacy group. and sophia lin lakin, interim co-director for the aclu voting rights project, where she helped strategize voting rights litigation across the nation. and former attorney general eric holder, still with us. eric, we are going to talk about how our democracy is working or isn t working, how people vote and how our v