difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three
the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three months system migration. in that process, data on some phones was lost. there s also new reporting that efforts to get testimony from the two most important figures on
Pushing. This is not inevitable. We can do better than this. Angela, thank you so much for being with us. Thank you so much. That wraps up the hour for me. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, manhunt. Suspect robert card, wanted in connection to the mass murder of 18 people in maine, still at large. State, local, federal Law Enforcement chasing down more than 500 tips. So far, none pan out. Including last nights dramatic search at his home and extensive property just 15 miles from the murder scenes. The safety of our Community Remains paraunt. I want to assure all that a tremendous amount of Law Enforcement manpower time and effort is being utilized around the clock in every effort to apprehend the suspect and safeguard this community. Every minute this goes on, we are more concerned because whats the next thing thats going to happen . One big focus today is on the river near where he abandon
prosecutors. so whether this was intentional from the outset, that seems very dubious to me. whether doj might benefit from it in the long run is an entirely different question. well, there is nothing unusual happening here. jacqueline alemany, dan goldman, joyce vance, thank you all so much for being here. before we have time for jackie to tell us what is in the cupcake tonight. you know what, jacqui, we re out of time. i m getting you to open it, photograph it, and tweet it for us. coming up, with so much damage information coming out about donald trump and january 6th, we are gonna go dig deep into what republicans are saying about it. and he was a quick spoiler alert, the answer is nothing. and later, biden is set to meet with saudi arabian leader, after once promising to make the country a pariah. and rhodes is here on the president s high stake middle east trip. the 11th hour, just getting underway on this busy thursday night. night.
it in the long run is an entirely different question. well, there is nothing unusual happening here. jacqueline alemany, dan goldman, joyce vance, thank you all so much for being here. before we have time for jackie to tell us what is in the cupcake tonight. you know what, jacqui, we re out of time. i m getting you to open it, photograph it, and tweet it for us. coming up, with so much damage information coming out about donald trump and january 6th, we are gonna go dig deep into what republicans are saying about it. and he was a quick spoiler alert, the answer is nothing. and later, biden is set to meet with saudi arabian leader, after once promising to make the country a pariah. and ben rhodes is here on the president s high stake middle east trip. the 11th hour, just getting underway on this busy thursday night.