meeting and i did not learn anything i couldn t learn from watching the news channel and reading the newspaper. president biden owes the american people an explanation. president biden should speak on camera directly to the american people today. ashley: lucas tomlinson has more on the outrage and the white house s silence. good morning, lucas. lucas: good morning, four objects shot out over north america in just eight days, unprecedented in u.s. history. that spycraft was the size of three buses, blasted out of the sky and mysterious three objects in alaska and lake huron. the white house says there are no ufoshgs, this is not invasion of ailen whys. john kirby says actually these are unidentified flying objects. these could be balloons of completely benign nature, perhaps commercial or scientific research focus there. lucas: officials tell fox it could be little timmy s science project. here is jacqui heinrich in the briefing room. will you be releasing to us or t
attempts. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, july 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we begin with tonight s eighth hearing from the house january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. it is set for 8:00 p.m. eastern and is expected to last about two hours. the committee says it is likely to be the final of this round of hearings. but more are likely to be scheduled around the release of two reports later this year. the committee chair bennie thompson will lead the hearing and he will do so remotely after testing positive for covid on tuesday. the hearing will focus on what the committee calls a former president trump s dereliction of duty. and a minute by minute account of what happened inside the white house between trump s rally at the ellipse and his tweet finally telling the capitol rioters to go home. the washington post is reporting this morning that the public could see outtakes from trump s january 7t
single text exchange is from the capitol police chief to the head of the secret service uniform division asking for help as the riot escalated. we got one text message. and i haven t seen it yet. it will be sent over to me. it is obviously this doesn t look good. and so, you know, coincidences can happen, but, you know, we really need to get to the bottom of this. the january 6 committee and inspector general aren t the only ones demanding answers from the secret service. more from jessica schneider. reporter: key secret service text messages from date before and the day of the capitol attack are still missing. the secret service under subpoena from the january 6 committee acknowledging they are still unable to uncover the texts after admitting that data was lost because of a routine phone replacement program. and now the national archives is demandingn ing answers sending letter laying out concerns about the unauthorized deletion of text messages and telling the secr
i m john berman. brianna is off. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. honored as always. a very busy morning. just one single text message, just one, a few minutes before midnight our jamie gangel broke the news that the secret service turned over just one text message in response to a request by the homeland security inspector general. this is about text messages sent before and around the attack on the capitol on january 6, 2021. according to a letter obtained by cnn from the inspector general to the january 6th committee, the ig asked for a month s worth of records from 24 secret service personnel and was provided with just one single text he is change about january 6th. this comes as the national archives has asked the secret service to investigate saying they are aware of the, quote, potential unauthorized deletion of agency text messages. committee member zo lofgren calls it problematic. the secret service has turned over thousands of pages of
also new this morning, surrounding new details surrounding former president trump s efforts to overturn the election, a georgia district attorney tells 16 so-called fake electors they are now targets of this ongoing criminal investigation in fulton county, georgia. it is a notable escalation. we ll explain why. and it comes as another election denier just secured the republican primary for governor in maryland. trump-backed candidate dan cox known for encouraging former president trump to seize voting machines will face off against the democratic nominee there in november. let s begin with the single text exchange that the secret service has provided to the january 6th committee, our justice correspondent jessica schneider is with us. just one back and forth, that s it? that s it. the committee members here continue to be dissatisfied with the secret service response. what we learned from this letter overnight, obtained by jamie gangel, the inspector general requested a m