DHS investigator meets with January 6 committee about Secret Service texts

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Department of Homeland Security inspector general briefed the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol about the Secret Service erasing text messages from the day of the insurrection and the day before. Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren is a member of the committee. She tells Anderson Cooper if the explanation of the missing texts makes any more sense after the meeting. Plus, conservative attorney George Conway joins AC360 to discuss the possibility of Trump running for President again in 2024 and what will happen if he announces before midterms. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, a Russian new information tour,
0:02.8	Port tonight in the January 6th investigation,
0:04.8	starting with those missing secret service text messages
0:07.6	dating from January 6th and January 5th.
0:10.6	Now, we've learned the January 6th committee
0:12.4	now wants to meet with officials from the secret service.
0:15.4	Today, they were briefed by the Inspector General
0:17.7	whoever sees the agency in a source familiar with the briefing,
0:21.0	says the Inspector General made a number of allegations,
0:23.2	including, according to the source,
0:24.6	the Inspector General told the committee
0:26.2	that the secret service did not conduct it
0:28.4	to own after-action review about the January 6th attack.
0:31.8	Instead, the service was relying on the work
0:34.3	of the Inspector General's office.
0:36.1	Also, the source says the IG told the committee
0:38.5	that the secret service has not been fully cooperative
0:41.0	with his probe.
0:42.5	The source said the Inspector General's description
0:44.6	left the impression that the secret service
0:46.2	had been, quote, foot dragging.
0:48.3	Inspector General told the committee,
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