florida, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster unlike anything that anyone alive today has ever experienced. top of the hour. hello, everybody. i m cade ballian in for pamela brown and you re live in the cnn newsroom. tonight growing concerns and calls for more answers over what the fbi recovered during their search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. people want a congressional briefing and damage assessment now after the justice department remained eleven sets of classified documents including materials marked with one of the highest levels of classification. some of those document were marked top secret, sensitive compartmented information and that s among the heist designation in terms of the extremely grave damage to national security that could be done if it were to be disclosed so the fact that they are in an unsecure place, guarded with nothing more than a padlock or whatever security that they had in the hotel is deeply alarmin
plus president biden meets with the saudi crown prince and says he did raise the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. now the crown prince is firing back. plus more than half the country is seeing high community spread of coronavirus. and now some cities are reconsidering mask mandates. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, july 16th. i m kristin fisher. i can t believe it s already july 16th. we re halfway through the month. it s flowna by. this whole year has flown by. i m boris sanchez. we start with new revelations, the january 6th committee digging into reports that the secret service deleted text messages sent the day before and during the insurrection. the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service yesterday after meeting with the inspector general of the department of homeland security. we should note this is the first time the committee has subpoenaed an agency in the executive branch. and earlier this week a gov
january 5th and 6th, until 72 hours ago, when the inspector general over that agency announced in a letter to capitol hill that they had learned the texts were missing, that there was a data migration in process at dhs at the secret service to caused the erasure of some text messages from secret service phones. the inspector general announced that to capitol hill. the january 6th committee received a briefing from that watchdog agent on friday. all nine members sat for several hours, trying to figure out what happened here with the secret service, what was going on in this other investigation. and the committee members emerged from that briefing quite concerned. here is representative zoe lofgren yesterday after that briefing. i will say that the explanation that you have to factory reset and eliminate your data without backing up your data just seems i m skeptical. i mean, i wouldn t do that. the argument about when the request was made is largely irrelevant. the secret
you re live in the cnn newsroom, i m ryan nobles in washington. jim acosta is off today. and we re less than a week away from the january 6th committee s last planned hearing and new developments are coming fast and furious. on friday, the former ceo of overstock testified behind closed doors for nearly eight hours. he was part of that chaotic december 18th white house meeting in which outside advisers urged then president trump to seize voting machines. but those weren t the only outside advisers pushing extreme measures. new today, the new york times reports that a little known conservative lawyer talked to trump about declaring something akin to marshal law after the election. and also today, the secret service responds after the select committee issues a subpoena for a bunch of text messages that were erased by the agency. let s start there with cnn s senior crime and justice reporter kaitlyn poe lants. this hunt for the missing text message comes a day after the select
under executive privilege. meanwhile house democrats are also issuing demands. the chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees saying they want a full intelligence damage assessment after classified documents were seized from mar-a-lago. take a listen. some of those documents were marked top secret, that s the highest that could be done if it s disclosed so the fact that they were in an unsecure place with a padlock or whatever security at a hotel is deeply alarming and i have asked for along with chairman maloney a damage assessment by the intelligence community and a briefing to congress. the fbi seized 11 sets of documents marked classified from the mar-a-lago resort including 1 marked as top secret sci. this is coming as sources say that the doj received assurances from a trump attorney in june that the former president was in not possession of classified materials. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is with me now. we have members of congress d