secret service more than most, erasing tax messages? my first reaction upon reading the inspector general s letter, and our great crack team at the washington post getting a copy of, it was oh my gosh, not again. the secret service has had a s history of unpleasant, or unflattering records that disappear under the cover of night. they may contain answers to questions the don t look so good for the service, or don t look so good for the current president at the time. this happened in regards to john f. kennedy s assassination, and i ll get to that in a minute. after i made some calls, and did some digging, and after i getting on the horn. the secret service has, what they, view is a completely reasonable explanation for why this valuable evidence did, in fact, likely disappear into the
0 danya perry, matt miller, thank you both. that is all in on this thursday night. i m gonna be back here this weekend, with american voices at 6 pm eastern. msnbc prime starts right now with mehdi hassan. good evening, mehdi. e starts right now and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have breaking news about january the 6th, out tonight. news about one of the key law enforcement agencies that has been at the center of several january 6th hearings so far. tonight, we are learning that the u.s. secret service service erased text messages sent by secret service officials between january the 5th and sixth of last year. that is according to a letter sent by congress a government watchdog that oversees the secret service. importantly, the letter says that the text messages were erased after they were requested as part of an evaluation of what happened on january the 6th being conducted by that government watchdog. the letter notes that the secret service is claiming that
from cnn, and cnn has not confirmed this story, so i m just gonna tell you what they report without vouching for it, but they reported that the january 6th investigation has also subpoenaed the phone records of donald trump s son eric trump, and don jr. s fiancée, his other son wife for their phone records. they have issued a subpoena targeting a member of the trump family. the phone records obtained by the committee are part of a new round of these records to provide the committee with what that show incoming and outgoing calls, including the time and length of calls. it also shows tax messages. the newly-obtained records include the cell phone number used by acts eric trump.
spilling all these beans and a new memoir on mind him? it does have a stronger case then ban ended, but let s take a look at the case that prosecutors will have to weigh should the house refer him to the attorney s office here in washington for possible condemn charges. now they re gonna look at the fact that he did speak about many of these things publicly and book but they will also look at you can tell from the tax messages and the things that the committee wants to ask, they want to talk about things that had nothing to do with running the country. keep in mind, executive privilege, because is generally extended so that when you are not part of a process where you re trying to run the federal government, you re decisions the should be making is not scrutinized by people after you, as the privilege that extends so the people in good faith can make great decisions about had around the country. this is not about running the country. it s clear from the text messages, you are from th
with that whistleblower. we would like to, but i m sure the whistleblower has concerns that he has not been advised as the log requires by the inspector general or the director of national intelligence. just as to how he is to community with congress. so the risk of the whistleblower is retaliation. we just heard from the republicans who spoke to reporters on the break, and it s clear they are keying in on this issue. this sort of discrepancy between when the whistleblower came to the committee and what the chairman said publicly, harris. harris: catherine, first of all, thank you. i know that meeting is going on behind you or there is quite a bit of noise in there. he stayed focused. thank you, we appreciate the information. democrat jackie speier, who sits on house intel, says the text messages exchanged among the the presidents envoys show the president was trying to investigate a political rival. watch. the tax messages to a very good job of showing that there was quid pro qu