the hour. thank you for being here. the single text exchange and the time line, cnn was first to report the secrets service provided only one text exchange to the attorney general though the watchdog had requested a month s worth of records from two dozen secret service employees. the agency is under more scrutiny now after it revealed that it has not been able to recover any data they say was lost during a phone migration. it is worth noting that congress sent the secret service a request to preserve records ten days after the capitol attack, that phone migration didn t begin until 11 days after that. the agency s credibility is now on the line ahead of tomorrow s primetime hearing for the january 6 committee. let s get started with whitney wildlife on which i will awhichi will. and capitol hill? what are you learning? reporter: this letter obtained by cnn and the test message was between the chief of the uniform division tom sullivan now retired and former capitol police
emails, 7600 teams chats. so if there was anything lost, there is a strong likelihood that the content of that or the idea in that would have been captured in the other major volumes of records. whitney, thank you very much. appreciate it. also flew this morning, georgia prosecutors have informed 16 trump supporters who informed an alternate slate of 2020 lectors that they are targets of an investigation into the election interference. jessica schneider is live for us. what does it mean? reporter: it means that the 16 people who formed that slate of fake electors in georgia, they could face charges. they are being told that now. and those 16 people includes the state republican chair david schaffer which we previously reported. so this district attorney in atlanta, willits, has been moving aggressively and looking to investigate and prosecute a number of election related crimes. and with these alleged fake
joining me is jeffrey toobin and also ryan nobles. jeffrey, let start with the secret service and what whitney w45 wild was flushing out there for us. what questions do you have with the reporting that the agency has turned over just one text message and may not be able to find the others? reporter: well, it seems like there are two possibilities. one is that the secret service was just totally incompetent and failed to turn to preserve and turnoff what was asked for. i always believe that incompetent is a always a good possibility when basically any human endeavors have involved. the other possibility is that there was something sinister went on here, that this was a coverup, this was an attempt to hide material from congress. but neither of those possibilities make the secret service look good and this all