never-before-seen video. plus, attorney general merrick garland is pressed about the justice department s response to the attack on the capitol. we ll show you his response to a question about prosecuting former president trump. and concerns about the next election have the senate taking rare, bipartisan action. there is promising progress on a bill to prevent future coup attempts. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 21st. big night tonight. with joe and me, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good to have you both. we begin with a new development surrounding those deleted texts from the secret service from the day before and the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. a senior secret service official tells nbc news that employees received at least three emails, including one before the insurrection wow.
about a starbucks order, you don t need to preserve that. otherwise, according to the national records act, you need to start preserving this. and as a federal employee, you re trained on what is important to keep. they get another email sometime in january. i m not told the date of that. i have to point that out. then they get another one february 4th that is specific to january 6th, saying, because we already have these requests in from congress remember, the dh aig request didn t come until december 26th and, obviously, as you point out, the significance of the day, january 6th, you need to preserve a all records, all communications, including text messages, specific to january 6th. what i m told is perhaps many of them had already been lost or deleted by that point, but if you look at the overall timeline, it looks like this migration happened from january to april. let s just look at that. is it possible that every text from that day was the very first