so let s walk through what happened. three days ago, july 13th, the dhs, the inspector general which was looking into the secret service handling of january 6, they notified capitol hill to say that there were text messages that were erased as part of a data migration process that dhs was doing and that present there were missing text messages from secret service phones on january 5th and 6th. the dhs inspector general was clearly very frustrated with this and felt like they weren t getting the information they wanted out of the secret service for their investigation. told capitol hill then that watch dog, the chief there, did brief all nine members of house select committee about this yesterday for several hours. the committee members emerged from that meeting very concerned. here is what congresswoman zoe lofgren said afterwards. here she is. i will say that the explanation that you have to factory re-set and eliminate your data without backing up your data just seems i
nearly a decade in a russian prison. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. news from last night, senator kyrsten sinema has agreed to back democrats reconciliation bill. clearing the way for a vote later this week. her decision comes after days of fellow democrats lobbying her on the deal. in a statement last night, the senator said she would come on board after the carried interest tax provision was removed. lawmakers also agreed to combat droughts that plague her home state of arizona. democrats are now just waiting for the sign-off from the senate parliamentarian. majority leader chuck schumer says the final version of the bill will be introduced on saturday. the senate will take today off before a long day tomorrow a rare saturday. even rarer one in august. there will be up to 20 hours of debate after the first procedural vote. and then comes what is known as a voter-a-ra mr. a where senat
but we are so grateful to have you spending your morning with us. we re thrilled to have you with us. it is a bittersweet morning here at cnn. it is christi s last day with us at new day. we ll have a lot to say about that. share some good-byes later this hour. stick around for that. we do want to begin with the breaking news, what is happening in ukraine. yeah, because the war there is looming over a meeting of g7 leaders in europe right now. there were explosions that rocked the ukrainian capital of kyiv today. the ukrainian airport says between 4 and 6 missiles were launched at consekyiv. president biden is going to try to keep u.s. allies aligned against russia, even as he faces anger and frustration back home over inflation, the rising cost of food and gas and legitimate fears of a recession. he and other leaders will look for ways to punish russia, while also managing a global economy that has become shaky. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is expected t
number one finland borders with russia. then you have sweden, follow the waterways, a key access to the baltic sea. this is what vladimir putin did not want. he thought four years ago it would split nato. some might object. others might say we don t want to spend the time, the resources on this. this is a diplomatic victory for president biden, it is a snub at vladimir putin. putin didn t want nato expanded along russian borders. that is exactly what they re getting with this movement for finland and sweden. as you know it has an 800-mile border joining nato. it can t be overstated how significant that is when you look at what putin was trying to accomplish and what, in fact, he was getting right now. it is also significant as caitlin was noting that the biden administration, european officials didn t necessarily expect this was going to happen today. so the fact that they were able to pull this off is significant and president biden was engaged diplomatically on this. but
federal offenses, obviously the state did not and that explains how determination in this case. we re also on veterdict watc in texas. jurors are deliberating how much alex jones should pay the 6-year-old sandy hook victim for pushing his lies after the massacre of 20 first graders and six adults did not happen. the judge in the case denied jones request for a mistrial after it was revealed that his lawyer mistakenly sent two years of jones cell phone records and text messages to the parents legal team. the parents lawyer said multiple lawmaker groups are seeking those texts including the january 6 committee. i am under request from various federal agencies and lawmaker to provide that. absent a ruling from you saying can you not do that, mr. banks, i intend to do so immediately following this hearing. i believe there is nothing, nothing that he has done to fulfill his obligations to prevent his client from preventing him there doing that. who are you turning it ove