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
joining us now. so what more could you tell us. reporter: well this story is fast moving. it is only 72 hours since we first learned there was a problem at the secret service where text messages from january 5th and 6th on agents phones were erased or lost because of a data migration tech process that that agency had ongoing around the 6th, this pivotal event. but here is the story of how this played out over the last couple of days. so the department of homeland security inspector general, a watch dog that would look into the secret service related to january 6 was frustrated about not getting information from them in this investigation. and that included the i.g. learning there were erased text messages. this i.g. at dhs notified capitol hill three days ago this was a problem, that is how the public and the news organizations covering the story first learned about it and then the inspector general went and briefed all nine members of the house select committee yesterday.
will comply swiftly and one committee member indicates the messages may have already been recovered. the texts could provide a crucial window into then president trump s movements and his plans and his heated exchange with secret service agents about going to the capitol on january 6th. according to explosive testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, she was told that trump even tried to lunge at a secret service agent. a d.c. police officer who was in the president s motorcade on that day corroborated details of her stunning account. and let s bring in former d.c. metropolitan police officer who defended the capitol on january 6th. he s a cnn law enforcement analyst, michael fanone. so michael, you were there at the capitol, obviously. what do you think would have happened if donald trump had gotten his way and actually made it to the capitol on that day? how much worse would that have made the situation? i think it would have made it considerably worse. i