Secret Service January 6 text message mystery

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Secret Service insists records of the text messages sent by its staff on the day prior to, and on January 6, were lost during a phone migration program and that they are still working on recovering them. Were the texts improperly and purposely deleted? It’s a key question that several federal agencies, including the National Archives, want answered.Mick Mulvaney was Trump’s Acting White House Chief of Staff before being ousted in March 2020. He tells Laura what he knows about his successor Mark Meadow’s handling of the Capitol riot as it unfolded, the dynamic between Trump and advisers in the final days of his presidency, and if he would he support putting Trump back in the White House in 2024. Plus, Trump ally Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt trial begins, and Georgia prosecutors tell all 16 fake Trump electors they are targets in a criminal probe.Hosted by Laura Coates. 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	I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.
0:04.3	So guess what?
0:05.7	The missing text from Secret Service from January 5th and January 6th, they are still missing.
0:11.7	And no, they have not been handed over the January 6th Committee.
0:15.1	And now the National Archives wants answers about what they call the, quote unquote, potential
0:20.0	unauthorized deletion.
0:21.6	Now, forget about Trump's closest advisors.
0:25.5	Secret Service was omnipresent.
0:28.2	Full stop.
0:29.2	Those texts written by the agents who would have been by necessity in the rooms where
0:34.1	it happened could be the key to the investigation as the testimony, of course, of them themselves
0:39.3	as well.
0:40.6	Giving evidence about the coordination of Trump's plans leading up to and on the day of
0:45.0	the riot about who spoke to the president that day, who also was in the room where things
0:49.7	were happening and what the president might have told them.
0:53.6	Maybe communications about what exactly was happening inside of the White House over
0:58.2	those nearly 187 minutes, well over three hours, filling in the gaps, gaps between when Donald
1:05.7	Trump told his supporters to go to the Capitol.
1:08.7	And when he tweeted a video to the rioters telling them that he loved them and to go home.
1:14.4	Now, we know that's the very focus of Thursday's prime time hearing.
1:18.6	And we have someone tonight who knows the people who were in the White House with then President
1:22.9	Trump during those three hours.
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