Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
relevant? this has been a rapidly developing internal investigation. they had been doing a very rigorous probe, according to a letter sent from the secret service to the house select committee. telling them all of the way thaz were trying to abide by the house select committee s subpoena on july 19th, the secret service told investigators they planned to conduct forensic examinations of available devices that were used by the identified individuals, additional follow-up interviews with the identified users to determine if messages were stored in locations that were not already searched by the secret service. the reality here is all of those efforts have to stop because as cnn first reported yesterday, the dhs inspector general has told the secret service, this is now a criminal probe. stop investigating yourself. so there s a member of the january 6th committee, zoe lofgren, democrat of california. she says tony ornoto, robert engle, and the driver of trump s presidential
lee zeldin shockingly attacked at a campaign rally by a man who tried to stab him, and the very brief stint in custody for the man arrested has zeldin and others sounding off. proceeding with caution. could the optimism in one american city inspire us all to think big and more positively about our inflated economy right now? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re going to start with our politics lead and a clear sign from the january 6th house committee they believe it is time for attorney general merrick garland to charge donald trump with a crime. this morning, republican congressman adam kinzinger from illinois, one of the republicans on the committee, told cnn that the timeline laid out by the committee is not just damning of the president but leaves trump with clear criminal culpability. we have proven different components of a criminal case against donald trump or people around him in every hearing. and i think taken in totality, this represents the greates
but this source says that it was january 27th, after the request. what do you think of that discrepancy? they clearly have some explaining to do here. the secret service certainly has nor explaining to do. and the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point, what they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is what are the steps that they are taking to determine first of all whether any of these messages are still recoverable. i think i am holding out, don, that there is still a possibility that this agency will be able to turn up more of these messages. let s not forget the secret service is a law enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency, and it has substantial forensic capabilities. so recovering messages, investigatin
from the secret service. the secret service reportedly handed over one single text to the committee, despite a request for all of the text messages from two dozen secret service personnel concerning the four-week period around the capitol attack. and steve bannon is back in court for day three of his criminal contempt trial, and we ll tell you what witnesses are saying. we have all these angles covered. we begin in washington, a single text, that s all the secret service provided to the dhs inspector general. what happened here? reporter: well, that s what they re working to figure out. so what the secret service says now is that they are still going back through just to make sure that nothing was the collateral damage of a very we know now was an ill-timed data migration that wiped phones for several members of the secret service. so what we know is that they have already handed over to the house select committee per subpoena more than 10,000 documents. the secret serv