yesterday and according to a source, he told the panel the secret service has not fully cooperated with his probe. the secret service denies deleting any texts maliciously. the subpoena is the first time the panel has publicly targeted an executive branch agency. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us now. what more do we know about 0 how this subpoena came about, the response, and what are the other things the secret service is saying? reporter: right, fred, so this is a very fast-moving story. we only learned there may be a problem or confusion around these secret service text messages from january 5th and 6th just three days ago, july 13th. that is when the department of homeland security inspector general which is an independent watchdog conducting its own look into the secret service handling of january 6th, they flagged for capitol hill that there were erased or missing text messages from the secret service and they were this inspector general was quite concerned that they
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
Hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. new this hour, the u.s. secret service is vowing to respond swiftly to a subpoena from the january 6 committee. on friday the house committee issued a subpoena to the secret service for text messages sent on january 5th and 6th of 2021 after the homeland security security inspector general accused the secret service of erasing the texts after his office requested them. the secret service denies deleting any texts maliciously. cnn s kaitlan pollance is joining us now. what more do we know about the subpoena and what the secret service is willing to say? reporter: well, fred, this story is very fast-moving. we just learned three days ago about this problem that there are lost text messages from the secret service on january 5th and 6th. what exactly that means, that is something that the house select committee and other entities are really trying to figure out.