Lost to destroyed because of negligence or willfully we have yet to determine, but there's a very strong conflict between what we're hearing from the Inspector General, the Department of Homeland Security, and what the Secret Service is telling the public.

An extremely disappointing development for the January 6th Committee.

It will not get the new text messages from the Secret Service from the days leading up to

and the day of the January 6th Capitol attack.

And now the agency's explanation for the lost data sounds more suspicious based on a new timeline presented from lawmakers.

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as the Russian president looks for an ally in a nation also isolated from the West.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Wednesday, July 20th. I'm Jonathan Lemire.

Thanks for joining us. The Secret Service is now saying text messages that may have been able to corroborate

some of the events of January 6th are likely gone forever. After being issued a subpoena by the House

Select Committee investigating the attack,

the agency had until yesterday to turn over its records from January 5th and 6th of 2021

that it said had been accidentally erased. But after initially being hopeful that the data

could be recovered, committee member Stephanie Murphy revealed otherwise

on MSNBC last night.

We received a letter today that did provide us with a lot of documents and some data.

However, we did not receive the additional text messages that we were looking for.

They received four requests from congressional committees

on January 16th to preserve records. And they had this planned migration for the 25th, I believe,

of January. And nobody along the way stopped and thought, well, maybe we shouldn't do the migration of data and of the devices until we are able to fulfill these four requests from Congress.

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