but let s begin in saudi arabia where the president is set to land. nic robertson is joining us there from jeddah. so they are waiting obviously highly an takes pay thing this arrival. what is the sense there ahead of this meeting, one that clearly the saudis wanted not only to have but to have images for the world to see, really legitimizing the regime? reporter: yeah, there is a real sense here that this is a moment for the saudis to have to get through because they know the focus and international attention that will be on president biden casting them as a pariah for the murder of jamal khashoggi. they recognize that. but they really feel that this is a moment to sort of punch through that situation. they are very keen to have face-to-face with president biden. they believe the very fact that president biden is coming here kind of resets the relationship so that they can get to the things that they want to get to which are all the sort of economic development investmen
meeting face-to-face with the saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman, the very man the u.s. intelligence determined likely approved the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. while in israel president biden stopped short of saying that he would raise the killing with the crown prince though saying that he will as he always says he will raise human rights with the country. as a presidential, biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah for their atrocious human rights record. there is a lot at stake in this stop on his middle east tour. joining me now, wolf blitzer and kaitlan collins live in jeddah, saudi arabia. the president will be meeting with the crown prince shortly. he is leaving the plane and the meetings begin. this is the most complicated meeting of the entire trip. set the stage for everyone. it is the most complicated because the u.s. intelligence community concluded that mohammad bin salman the crown prince was directly involved in ordering for all practical purpos
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secret service. the most important secret service text messages since the invention of text messaging. they were deliberately erased by the secret service, according to the inspector general. the most important text message in the history of the secret service. we don t know if any of the text messages sent to and from vice president mike pence and secret service detail survived the deliberate erasure by the secret service. those text messages good show attempts by the secret service to move mike pence away from the capital against his well. those text messages to remove mike pence from the capital during the attack on the capitol. so that mike pence would not be able to continue to participate in the certifications of the electoral college vote. the secret service text messages on january 6th are the most important text messages secret service agents have ever sent or received on their phones. the most important ever, and now, they might all be erased. why? who would the s
difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three