a court to chris miller, even that said by the president in jest.and the pentagon has no record of trump giving them an order. so again why is kash patel the man of the hour to plead donald trump's case on tv? perhaps it is for his ability to spin fantasies of trump's interest. i don't mean that just as a trauma phrase, i mean i literally. just look at cash patel's children's book. yes, his children's picture book. titled, the plot against the king. the picture book uses characters such as king donald and hillary clinton to tell the story behind the steele dossier and the russian collusion narrative. i kid you not. that even makes himself a wizard, in the book. i was a two proclaims cling tunnels this and said the route. he says republicans wants banned books. donald trump this book should be in every school in america. but when patel is not writing very odd and there are, say very sycophantic children's book. he's back to his old tricks on right-wing, is running interference or trump. according to patel, the mar-a-lago rate happened because the fed

our watchdog group is seeking january 6th data from former acting secretary of defense chris miller, staff cash patel, and former secretary of the army ryan mccarthy among other pentagon officials. cnn is learning this from court filings. let's discuss now with cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe. andrew, what is up here? what is going on? >> well, don, apparently, what we have is an instance where, not one, not two, but three separate government agencies are all allowing senior officials to leave their post, walk out the door, and not preserving their communications, their records on their cell phones, in a way that is required by the federal records act. it is an extraordinary coincidence, maybe, maybe not, one that also speaks of, potentially, and intentional effort to destroy records of senior officials as they are walking out the door, we don't know what we have yet. >> andrew, there is no suggestion these officials themselves erased these records. when you look at, it look at the people here, miller, patel, mccarthy, crucial witnesses in the government's response t

says it had tried to get the records of officials, including former acting secretary of defense, chris miller secretary, ryan mccarthy. there is no suggestion the officials themselves erase the records. according to a joint filing by the government and american oversight, quote, d. o. d. and army conveyed the plaintiffs that when an employee separates from d. o. d. or army, he or she turns in the government issued phone and the phone is wiped. for those custodians no longer with the agency, the text messages were not preserved and therefore cannot be searched. >> the visit is, big but the potential republican -- -- joined now by cnn senior law enforcement analyst, andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi. i want to get your reaction is to this news, especially coming on the heels of similar revelations about the secret service, excuse me, yeah, the secret service and the department of homeland security. >> so anderson, you know, we i'm now looking at essentially the same coincidence that the department of secret service, at the department of homeland security, and now at the defense d

the data was reportedly deleted from the cell phones of former acting defense secretary chris miller, his chief of staff and the former army secretary. the pentagon claims its standard operating procedure to erase or wipe the phones but abc's jonathan karl says the law says otherwise. >> reporter: there is a federal law called the federal records act, which requires federal employees to preserve their communications, which are then stored in the national archives. it is unclear how text messages on government issued cell phones would not be included in that. >> the watchdog says it requested the text messages within days of the january 6th riot. >>> the other big story this morning, speaker nancy pelosi defying china meeting with the leaders of taiwan overnight and praising the values of self-government, a remark that could further escalate tensions with beijing. this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi meeting with the president of taiwan and key members of its government defying threats from china. >> we have three purposes, one is security, security for our people, global security.

chris miller is trump's final defense secretary. >> we will implement president trump's orders to continuef forces by january 15th, 2021. our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2,500 troops. >> president biden must decide whether to continue. all his national security advisors advise against pulling all u.s. troops out. april 14th, 2021 u.s. president joe biden announces u.s. forces will withdraw unconditionally by september 11th. july 2, 2021 u.s. troops pull out of bag gram air force base leaving in the middle of the night surprising afghan partners and leaving thousands of prisoners un-- the taliban take kabul and take over the presidential palace hours after the president fled the country. scenes of desperation at the airport ensue. u.s. troops are sent to secure the airport and the largest evacuation of civilians ever carried out by the u.s. military. august 26, 2021, 13 u.s. service members, 11 marines, soldiers and navy coreman are killed by a suicide bomber. then the 82nd airborne general boards the last aircraft as it leaves kabul. the united states has completed its withdr

it includes chris miller and former army secretary ryan mccarthy. i mean, i ask you the same questions, but when you talk to experts, can these deleted text messages be retrieved? can garland get to the bottom of this? >> it's kind of unclear whether these text messages can actually be retrieved. we saw in the court filings, actually, the search the government has made since march that once certain individuals leave government, their records are not retained. so the top pentagon officials at the center of the investigation, the former secretary and, also, army secretary mccarthy, right, they're not government anymore. it could be hard to get these messages. that being said, there have been investigations. some of the officials have been interviewed by investigators. we know that the january 6th committee talked to several of the people. we know that the department of defense's own watchdog talked to some of the individuals. even the messages are preserved, there might be sworn testimony from the officials that can speak to, you know, why these messa

it involves a number of these top officials, including the former acting secretary of defense, chris millerief of staff, kash patel and a number of officials in the army. the secretary ryan mccarthy, james mcpherson and two officials who still work there, the chief of staff james mec mcconville. doj has said they're policy is not to retain records when people leave. they write, dod and army co conveyed to american oversight that he or she turns in the government issued phone when they leave and the phone is wiped. the text messages were not preserved and could not be searched. they say it's possible some of the messages could have been memorialized by the email. and for the two officials still there, they're saying they're conducting a search on this. but it appears the policy doesn't appear to be to keep records when these people leave. we reached out to seven of the officials involved either they did not get back to us, former secretary miller declined to comment. so a lot of questions of why we're seeing these missing text messages. >> if it's possible it's less nefarious. but how will w

acting on their behalf from seven official, and that including the department of defense secretary chris millerpatel and paul nye or any text messages with members of the army and ryan mccarthy and james mcpherson and two current active members the chief of staff james mcconville and arthur piat, and this was laid out in the litigation, and in that, the department of defense says that the dod and the american department of army, and when a complainant leaves, they turn in the phone, and the phone is wipe and those custodians are no longer with the army, and those records can not be searched. it will be searched for those still there, and some of those may have been memorialized in emails or other matters, but it is still what this policy s and why the department of defense and other government agencies are not retaining the text message, and none of the individuals and no suspicion here or suggestion that they were involved in the deletion that seemed to have occurred after they left the government and retired the phone, and we have reached out to them, and cannot reach them, and one, secretary

any texts about the events surrounding january 6, a watchdog group is trying to get records from chris miller, kash patel and former secretary of the army ryan mccarthy, all three are seen as key witnesses for understanding trump's reaction and the government's response to the attack on the capitol. >>> a federal judge has denied a motion from donald trump to dismiss three lawsuits brought by police officers injured in the capitol riot. trump claims that he has immunity because his actions fell within his presidential duties, but the judge rejected that argument citing a ruling in a similar case from february. the officers allege trump is responsible for the capitol attack. >>> billions of u.s. military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits will soon be getting expanded health care benefits. the senate finally passed the p.a.c.t., act tuesday. jon stewart has listening been a staunch advocate for veterans. >> i'm not sure i've ever seen a situation where people who have already given so much had to fight so hard to get so little. and i hope we learn a lesson. >> senate democratic leader chuck s

deleted messages related to the january 6th include owes from former acting defense secretary chris miller. last week house investigators released audio of miller's sworn testimony refuting trump's claims that he put the national guard on standby prior to the insurrection. >> there was no order to put 10,000 troops to be already for january 6th? >> noah yeah that's correct there was no direct, there was no order from the president. >> meanwhile, the former president today is taking credit for the primary defeat of another of the committee's key witnesses. remember rusty bowers the arizona speaker for the arizona house to testify about efforts to get him to overturn the election results, will he lost his bid to senate seat to a trump backed opponent. we have a lot to cover tonight, so let's get smarter with the help of our lead off panel. jacqui anna-meni joins us, congressional investigations reporter for the washington base an msnbc contributor. professor alyssa murray she was a law clerk on the federal bench before her nomination to the supreme court and kurt wild is here, former fbi spe

acting defense secretary chris miller is trump's final defense secretary. >> we will implement president 2021, our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2,500 troops president biden must then decide whether to continue all of his national security advisers advise against pulling all u.s. troops out. april 14th, 2021, president joe biden announces u.s. forces will withdraw unconditionally by september 11th. >> i'm now the fourth united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan. i will will not pass this responsibility ton a fifth. >> july 2nd, 2021, u.s. troops pull out of bagram air base 40 miles north of kabul leaving in the middle of the night, surprising afghan partners and leaving thousands of taliban and isis prisoners unguarded. august 15th, 2021, the afghan government collapses. the taliban takes kabul and takes over the presidential palace hours after president ghani flees the country. the u.s. embassy, within ever the largest in the world, is shuttered. scenes of desperation at kabul airport ensue. u.s. troops are sent to secure the airport and

this news comes from court filings after a watchdog group requested texts from chris miller, former chiefer secretary of the army ryan mccarthy. the three are considered key witnesses to understanding the trump administration's response to the insurrection. there is no suggestion that the officials themselves erased the messages, but of course context is impossible to ignore here, right? it comes as the department of homeland security is under fire for the apparent loss of messages from the secret service on that same day. out front now, laurence tribe. house democrats consulted with them on their first trump impeachment over russia. and ty cobb, he was the lawyer in the investigation. two who know more about this than anyone. professor, let me start with you on this reporting about messages wiped from key department of defense officials phones from january 6th. is it possible that this is a random coincidence? >> no. i mean, i suppose anything is possible. it's possible that all of the air will get sucked out of the room, but when you look at what happened with the secret service and wit

now we know specifically secretary of defense chris miller, former chief of staff kash patel, and formerarmy ryan mccarthy, were among the officials whose phones were wiped. all are considered key witnesses to january 6th. dod is just the latest department unable to find text messages from that day. the texts of multiple secret service agents were also deleted. homeland security also can't seem to find texts of the acting secretary and his top deputy, in addition to a seven-hour gap in the white house call logs. same for the white house diary on january 6th. then there are the reports of documents being burned by the white house chief of staff. flushed documents found clogging the white house toilet or torn up so they had to be taped back together, preferably not after they were in the toilet because i feel bad for the person who had to do that. boxes of classified documents were also sent to mar-a-lago instead of where they're supposed to be sent. it's called the national archives. i'm joined now by a digital forensic investigator, gary kessler. gary, i'm so glad you're here, because wh

chris miller, the acting secretary -- >> lost or removed? >> deleted. right? chief of staff and secretary of the army ryan mccarthy. and what we know, the reason that we know this is because the group is trying to get access to the federal records in court and told during this litigation that dod and the army were wiping the phones of the officials as they were leaving the government at the end of the administration. now no one is saying the individuals themselves were deleted text messages. does it appear to be an institutional thing at this point. as you said, there is a pattern. what happened to dod appears to be exactly the same thing as what was happening at dhs where the secretary and his deputy at the end of the trump administration had phones wupd when they turned them in and then separate from the secret service issue where there is all these agents that had a data migration that lost their data too. >> laws about protective federal records. >> indeed. >> were they broke snn thank you so much. let's figure that out. let's talk to a lawyer. former fede

group, the group has been seeking january 6th related records for former acting defense secretary chris miller, former chief of staff cash patel and former secretary of the army ryan mccarthy, among others. the disclosure follows the news that some secret service text messages and those of former department of homeland security officials are also missing. late today, the senate passed the pact act, which expands medical care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in iraq and afghanistan, and this now heads to president biden's desk for his signature. that bill is among several that lawmakers are trying to get passed before the august recess. box news madeline rivera has more now from washington. with just days to go before august recess. the senate is working in overdrive intent on scoring a few legislative wins before the midterms kick into high gear top of mind for democrats as their reconciliation package. all eyes are on senator kirsten cinema to see whether she'll give the bill a green light to green deal. this is a red, white and blue deal, senator joe manchin, who worked on the agreeme

but are officials that were cited in this lawsuit, including former acting secretary of defense chris milleretary of the army, i mean, they're viewed as crucial witnesses to understanding the government's response on that day. >> so the effort to recover those messages is certainly worth undertaking. whether or not you could do it successfully really depends on the technology involved. you would have to recover those phones and then you would have to subject those phones to a pretty detailed forensic analysis. if they were simply deleted, you could probably recover them. if the phones were wiped and the memory was reconfigured in those phones in the process, you might never get them back. so it really depends what kind of action was taken on those devices. >> appreciate it as always, thank you. >>> nine and a half years of hell how a sandy hook parent describes the pain he endured because of conspiracy spreader and liar alex jones. the father says that jones tarnished the honor and legacy of his murdered son. more on his courtroom testimony today next. was so bad i would be in a lot of pain.

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chris john miller, head of the local utilities maintenance department, accompanies klaus arts and michelle bail out of the communities last remaining. well the also climate change has had a particularly bad impact in the dry years. 201320152018. 201920. 20 a. situation that nobody here had expected to escalate as dramatically as it has a suit. openness, summer. i can't remember us ever having had summer's as dry as the ones we've had over the last 5 or 10 years. and nobody here can remember a summer without any rain at oss, to skip the heroes and with the last well now also being shut down at toys, it will need to look elsewhere for its water is reduced completely strewn open. the climate change means our wealth. no longer yield what we need to see. we're now entirely dependent on a remote water supply looking for which we've noticed a huge change in recent years, right in there for a re, let's see order one. yes, it's been brutal to for i'm scared that one day the water here will run out here. oh excuse. yeah, that's a community like choice. it's no longer has its own water supply because

letter to president trump outlining the dangers of a full withdrawal, acting defense secretary chris millere will implement president trump's orders to continue our repositioning of forces by january 2021. 2,500 troops. >> president biden then must decide whether to continue all of his national security advisors advise against pulling out all u.s. troops out. april 14, 2021, joe biden announces u.s. forces will withdraw unconditional by september 11th. july 2, 2021, u.s. troops pulled out of bagram air force base, leaving thousands unguarded at the air base. august 15, 2021, the afghan government collapses. taliban take over the country. and scenes of desperation ensue, u.s. troops are sent to secure the airport and begin the largest evacuation of civilians ever carried out by the u.s. military. august 26, 2021, 13 u.s. service members, 11 marines, a soldier and navy corpsman are killed by a suicide bomber. four days later the last u.s. soldier, boards the last c-17 military aircraft as it leaves kabul. august 30, 2021, united states is completed the withdrawal from afghanistan. hoping to e

mobilizing the national guard to respond to the capitol attack including then-acting defense secretary chris millertary ryan mccarthy. in a court filing from march posted on the website of the watchdog group american oversight, defense department lawyers said government phones are turned in and wiped when an employee leaves the department and the text messages were not preserved, therefore, could not be searched. we are back with luke and joyce. so, joyce, "the washington post" reports that the deletions were standard process and nobody was trying to hide or conceal anything. that would be a false narrative. what do you think? is this really just standard policy or does this smell a little bit more like a cover-up? >> you know, it's possible that both of those can be true that there are standard policies about record retentions that perhaps they became more of a cover for taking action than they were following standard practice. the problem right now is that we don't know the truth. there is a lot of smoke. it is essential that we come to understand the truth both for the integrity of the investiga

acting secretary of defense, chris miller. . >> we need you to give us the ok so that we can go back inside and finish up the people's business. >> this is secretary senator schumer, it could take several days to secured the building, do you agree with that analysis? >> i'm not sure that i agree with that analysis. >> when is the earliest that we could safely resume our meeting in the senate house chamber? >> my assessment, we are looking at four or five hours. >> the vice president also worked the phones from his own secure evacuation location, including conversations with acting as secretary of defense miller and other leaders. let's look at some never before seen photographs of the vice president during this critical time and here the vice president's conversation with military leaders to secure the capital and ensure everyone is safe. >> vice president pence was very candid, he issued explicit, direct, under big u.s. orders. there is no question about that. i can get you quotes from some of our records somewhere. he was very animated. direct. firm. get the military down here, get

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. >> sandra: david lee miller outside trump tower in new york city. thank you. >> mike: bring in chrism, former assistant attorney general. welcome. tom, start with the clip from professor jonathan turley, fox news contributor last hour on this program. >> it's fairly common for former presidents to have disagreements as to what material can be removed when they finish their term in office. we've obviously never seen this type of escalation and i think that congress is going to look at that of how we went to 0 to 60 in such a short period of time. >> mike: your assessment of the raid and where do investigators go from here. >> what happened yesterday has no precedent in american history. idea of searching the home of a former president looking for documents, again, never happened before in our nation's history. i think the justice is going to have to explain what justfies this extraordinary law enforcement action. this is the sort of raid that you would execute on drug dealers and drug kingpins and that sort of thing, not on former presidents. i don't understand how they went from a wo

chris says desantis supporters have hate in their heart. number two biden calls republicans semi-fascist the results dangerous democrat rhetoric polarizing our country and inciting criminal behavior. stephen miller to donald trump. >> don't forget this is the party that locked people in their homes in blue states and blue cities. muriel bowser is depriving black students the right to attend school because they have not received a vaccination. this is an administration that has launched a political raid of its chief political opponents' home to seize and steal his property and his documents. so, what you are seeing is a classic technique of tyrants and authoritarians. where they use the methods of dictatorship while accusing their opponents of being fascists? this administration is violating our laws, including violating our immigration laws with impunity and helping murderous criminal cartels violate our sovereignty every single day. >> brian: ironically -- go ahead. >> ainsley: we heard the president speak in maryland to the dnc and that's when he said these fascist comments. semi-fascist comments. is he also going to be speaking in first of all on thursday during "primetime" he is going to hav