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Good morning, guys.

Good morning, Steph.

Why did you say last night on the 11th hour just you said we were in a...

You know, I said that we are a nation adrift in unaddressed lawlessness.

You know, and I probably should have added that DOJ, how about you, lower some damn life-fold votes?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it feels that way.

In part of it, you feel like, oh my god, it's a lot of crime to keep up with DOJ, but holy crap, we better get going.

I mean, I, my first question, the Secret Service Text, are those recoverable?

I mean, obviously deleting texts after they've been requested legally, I assume is another crime, but talk to us about that first.

Yeah, so first of all, after there has been a request,

prosecutors will often put in what are called preservation orders to try to maintain the status quo until we can get our hands on potentially relevant information.

I think the OIG, the Inspector General's Office did, you know, what in substance is the same.

They said, we are requesting these texts.

And thereafter, they were destroyed, they were deleted.

That, I'm sorry, has the smell of nefarious conduct, doesn't prove that it's nefarious conduct, but here's the thing, ordinarily,

even when you're migrating service from, you know, one phone to another, from one provider to another, that doesn't mean everything that has gone before is forever deleted, wiped away.

So some of this stuff might be recoverable. The cell phone providers will retain the content of text messages for some period of time, but each company has its own internal guidelines.

Some will retain it 60 days, 90 days, 180 days, so we have no idea what's retrievable, but what I know, Steph, is this stinks to high heaven.

I mean, why would texts from January 5th and January 6th be deleted? When do we all knew the historic importance and evidentiary importance of those text messages?

Yeah, the secretaries said they were lost as a result of a device replacement program.

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