of mass destruction security act. the bill re- authorizes the newly created office of the security at the department of homeland security and clarifies the roles and responsibilities for both offices and adds important accountability and oversight measures. my question is for you can you discuss how this legislation will help you achieve your mission to protect against weapons of mass destruction and health threats? >> senator, thank you. for the last 18 months our team has served as a nerve center for everything publice health and medical for the department ranging from operation allies welcome, the medical and public health implication of those efforts, the implications of what we are seeing at the southwest border thinking about how to ensure the workforce in the midst of a pandemic and every critical issue they've engaged in the last couple of years has had a strong public health and medical nexus. our response while strong and robust in many respects forea ad hoc because we were working in a system that wasn't designed for the kind of threats we faced the last couple of years. the benefit of having face to those th

of health security. serving as a dual appointment as the assistant secretary for health security and reporting to the secretary of department of homeland security. office of health security. our bipartisan legislation more clearly defines the cwmds office's responsibilities eliminating ineffective or duplicative functions. institute a number of accountability and oversight measures and appoints the chief medical officer to lead the office of health security, serving as a dual appointment as the assistant secretary for health security and reporting to the secretary of the department of homeland security. all of these changes will ensure that our nation can develop a comprehensive national strategy to protect all of our communities from these dangerous materials and public health threats that can have absolutely catastrophic effects. in addition to strengthening our homeland security and our preparedness. these changes will also make these offices more accountable to congress and to the american people today. today i'm pleased to welcome a panel of experts witnesses who can discuss whether dhs is equipped with the necessary tools and the

we also heard from the department of defense and the department of homeland security's component officials. that capability gap analysis in the radiological and nuclear space are unique and of great value but no longer conducted by cwmd. in addition, we revisited the low employee morale the office has faced since its establishment five years ago. this type of change takes time and sustained attention to effectively manage it. we understand from acting assistant secretary rasicot that the office is actively working on implementing the recommendations from our april report to strengthen its efforts. the legislation this committee recently introduced to reauthorize cwmd should promise to help address these and other issues gao has previously identified. specifically, the emphasis placed on clarifying mission responsibilities and building in greater accountability are positive steps forward. we also hope that this legislation, along with cwmd's need -- continued efforts will increase the level of engagement and with greater mission understanding by its employees. finally, with yesterday's esta

people may not know is most people career secret service don't like to be a part of the department of homeland security, it used to be a part of the treasury department. there's been a lot of resentment that they were put into this bigger department. but how does, is there somebody else who received the text who might have their copy of it? the statement was pretty tough it said the insinuation that the secret service maliciously deleted text, following a request is false, the secret service has been fully cooperating with the oig. >> it's pretty rare to see the secret service in the spotlight like this. it's happened multiple times throughout the select committee's investigation. it's uncomfortable for them. they took a sworn oath to protect the president and now they find themselves ensnared in the middle of this political investigation but the secret service played such a key role on january 6th, not only in the heated conflict confrontation, they try to take mike pence away . >> one way to clear this up is to have the agents come up and answer questions whether public or private session if you don'

"the washington post" reporting that two key members of the homeland security administration the then acting secretary of department of homeland security and secretary had their text messaging deleted from the migration of old phones to new phones. chad wolf responded in a tweeter feed saying he never issued any mess ablgs and a loss of the information after he handed it back around the time to resign from the post january 11 shortly after the attacks. chad wolf among the many people that the january 6 committee is interested in talking to. i learned that they spoke to wolf several months ago before learning about the missing messages. he could be among the people to talk to once again. >> i suspect that's true. let me turn to new comments from gop leader mccarthy about a key conversation with cassidy hutchinson. manu raja pressed us today. what did he say? >> reporter: he doesn't appear to have a recollection and the content of the calls. hutchinson testified that mccarthy among the people that called her to try to encourage mark meadows to tell donald trump to tell the supporters to leave the capitol. >> reporter

in fact, the secret service has been fully cooperating with department of homeland security, and office of inspector general, in every respect, whether it be interviews, documents, emails, or texts. first, in january 2021, before any inspection was open by the office of inspector general on this subject, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones, to factory settings, as part of a preplanned, three-month system migration. in that process, data resonant on some phones was lost. the department of homeland security, the office of inspector general, requested a electronic communications for the first time on february 26th, 2021, after the migration was well underway. the secret service notified the inspector general of the loss, certain phones data and confirmed to the inspector general that none of the texts it was seeking had been lost in the migration. second, the inspector general's allegation, regarding the department of homeland security 's cooperation with this investigation, is neither correct nor new. to the contrary, the inspector general has previously alleged that its e

>> i agree, the department of homeland security agrees that drones have a variety of beneficial uses from emergency response, and more. we are focused on the malicious use of drones. the department of homeland security could not utilize its current authorities without incredibly close participation by our federal partners, including the faa, as we seek the secretaries authorization to designate it. we are coordinating every piece of that authorization with the faa, for example. when we get a request for cuas activities to protect an event, or a mass gathering at the request of the state executive, that goes into an inter-agency working group that reviews the risk, the threat and capabilities. we got a question earlier, and i will stop here, about tfr's, temporary flight restrictions. dhs works closely with the faa when dhs requests a tfr. and they are necessary to grant waivers to allow activity to allow that first amendment protected activity as well. >> mr. weidman? >> i think the counter drone business is very much a team sport. we work with uas, dhs, and faa whether we want to or

the department of homeland security and veterans affairs work to create something the imm vi immigrant military veterans initiative to assist immigrant veterans willful applications the department of veterans affairs mandy is to provide care and assistance to anyone served in the military regardless of citizenship status. is gets more difficult when noncitizen veterans are moved to country of origin. it is due to a conviction where a crime stemming from trauma that occurred from the military and as indicates approximately 30 percent of veterans experienced ptsd. they are 60 percent more likely to become involved in the criminal justice system than those who are not suffering from the tragic illness. and the crime of punishment does not include banishment from the country. and then to suffer long-lasting problems as a ls result to be to access the resources when they volunteer to serve. that is why i would chairman nadler with the veteran service recognition act for the immigrant servicemembers in a holistic way. i look forward to our discussion today and to hear a from all of our witne

we have reached out to the department of homeland security office of the inspector general but have not heard back. >> certainly troubling. evan, let's turn to you on the criminal investigation. what are you learning? >> we're looking at what the justice department is preparing to do, which is to try to get closer to the people who were interacting directly with the former president, and they confronted this issue recently, the issue of executive privilege, which, you know, a couple members of former vice president pence's staff, greg jacob and marc short, testified before the grand jury and declined to answer certain questions that they said was protected by executive privilege. the justice department believes that obviously this is something that they can get past and, really, as you pointed out, it really shows you how they are trying to get to the center of all of this issue, which is the pressure on mike pence to block the certification of the election results in 2020, as well as trying to get these fake electors to keep donald trump in office. who is at the center of that? donald

they were concerned it was taking the department of homeland security so long just to get this information said that in the letter that the department of homeland security had determined that in order for the inspector general to obtain the information that the lawyers had to look through each and every piece of information before it was handed over to the inspector general and that delayed the process even more. this when the inspector general was trying to sift through the information in a timely basis. it was over the course of this process that the text messages were deleted. that is a problem the inspector general is pointing to as well. as this point, the secret service doesn't have an explanation. they're not commenting on this information and this letter sent by the inspector general. >> in general, how cooperative has the u.s. secret service been in these investigations? >> reporter: jake, i think it's fair to say it's been uneven. they have allowed some members of the secret service to testify in front of the various committees that have asked for information. they have handed ov

the department of homeland security, the office of inspector general, requested a chronic obligations for the first time on february 26th, 2021, after the migration was well underway. the secret service notified the inspector general of the loss, certain phones, and confirmed to the inspector general that none of the texts it was seeking had been lost in the migration. second, the inspector general's allegation, regarding the department of homeland security's cooperation with this investigation, is neither correct nor knew. to the contrary, the inspector general has previously alleged that its employees were not granted appropriate and timely access to materials, due to attorney review. the department of homeland security debunked this allegation, including, and response to the inspector general's last two semiannual reports to congress. that inspector general's letter says that, that they've also been issues with lawyers, with the department personnel, who repeatedly told the inspector general that they were not permitted to provide records directly to the inspector general. and that

the president tasked the department of homeland security, and defense and justice to improve access to military naturalization. as part of this mandate, the department of homeland security and veterans affairs worked to create something called the immvi. the immigrant military members and veterans initiatives to assist immigrant -- to facilitate their access to va benefits. the department of veterans affairs mandated to prepare care assistance to anyone who served in our military, regardless of their citizenship status. this mission gets more difficult when non citizen veterans are removed to their country of origin. all too often, such removals are due to a conviction or a crime stemming from trauma that occurred during the veteran's service with our military. as was indicated, approximately 11 -- experience post-traumatic stress disorder, or ptsd. veterans with ptsd are 60% more likely to become involved in the criminal justice system than those not suffering from this tragic illness. once american citizen veterans are convicted of crimes, their punishments do not include banishment

we have exclusive new information about when the inspector general over at the department of homeland security first learned of those missing secret service text messages. but first our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us with other news on the january 6th probe. manu, i understand you pressed gop leader mccarthy today on a key conversation with former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. what did he tell you? more importantly, maybe what didn't he tell you? >> reporter: he said he didn't recall. this is one of the key moments of that testimony that cassidy hutchinson whether she went before the january 6th committee about the concerns and the efforts to stop donald trump from coming to the u.s. capitol on january 6th. when he gave that speech to supporters, he said we're going to go to the capitol. and the aftermath of that, cassidy hutchinson testified under oath saying she got a phone call from kevin mccarthy who was concerned and said they needed to put a stop to this. he said, according to hut hutchinson, she had reassured him through the course of the week that trum

department of homeland security. she served 11 years in the minnesota army national guard and it deployed in operation iraqi freedom earning a bronze star. she received her bachelor's degree from the college of saint benedict and her md from the university of minnesota and completed her residency at ucla. stephanie miller is the director of officers and enlisted personnel management and an advisor for senior officer matters in the offices of the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness. previously she served as the director of recession policy from 2015 until 2022. prior to that she was a special assistant to secretary of defense chuck hagel and ashton carter where she was responsible for a broad spectrum of programs including military and civilian personnel policies, military force readiness, defense health affairs, and, defense sexual assault prevention and response. ms. miller received her bachelor's degree from villanova university and holds a masters degree from george washington university. i would

is reporting on yet other missing documents, this time from top trump officials in the department of homeland securityary ken cuccinelli, according to the post the discovery of missing records for the heads of the department, that is in charge of protecting the home land, you know, the country from domestic terrorism and attack, like on january six, you know? increases the amount of potential evidence that has just, you know vanished about the insurrection. feels like a problem. we should also note that the department of homeland security is the agency that oversees the secret service, chad wulf responded to the report on twitter saying keep turned in his phone to dhs, and if any messages are missing, that is the responsibility of the department. ken cuccinelli likewise said he followed all the departments regulation in turning his government phone, and that it was dhs, not him, who raced messages as part of standard security procedures. as hillary clinton staffer said, my head will maybe explodes, maybe, on air, it will randomly explode. here is barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney, msnbc legal anal

let's start with what was the goal, what was the department of homeland security trying to do? >> well, the disinformation governance board was a body that was meant to advise the many parts of the department of homeland security that were working on disinformation. to bring best practices to bear, and to make sure that we were up with the latest research , the latest trends, in disinformation and countering it and make sure that work was being done in a way that protected freedom of speech, protected civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy. what the republicans and frankly some on the far left as well, spun, was that this disinformation governance board was going to be a ministry of truth. there is no absolutely no foundation for that, in fact, the disinformation governance board was never meant to police speech, it was not going to police speech and frankly, brian, i have written and researched about government efforts to do just that, i am against them just like many americans are, and if that were part of the job description, i wouldn't have taken the job. >> the sympathe

the department of homeland security. department of homeland security is a -- or the secret service is a subsidiary of the department of homeland security. what the ig is sake is they had asked the secret service to not only preserve but hand over text messages from agents on both january 5th and january 6th, and according to the ig, after that request was made, that the secret service underwent would they said was a device replacement program and over the course of that replacement program, all of these text messages were deleted. now, the committee finds that to be a problem. the homeland security committee, of which bennie thompson is the chairman of in addition to being the january 6th committee. we have a statement from gary peters, the senate chairman of the homeland security committee also concerned about it. secret service has pushed back on it a little bit. they have said not completely or on the record that the ig's perception of this is not 100% right but they have yet to back up their claims as to. why the issu

in the case of chad wolf and ken cuccinelli, top officials at the homeland security department, apparently the inspector general learned of this months ago, and only now are we learning about, brianna skand jen. >> cnn legal analyst, joey jackson, and dania perry. first to yo. if federal investigators are taking on executive privilege or preparing to, what does that tell you about where they are in this investigation? >> what's interesting about this move, as you said in the introduction, this is preemptive. usually, it's reactive. we saw that with the national archives fight that trump brought, where he claimed executive privilege, that went all the way up to the supreme court, in a matter of months, and they handedly decided that executive privilege does not apply in this case, and they ordered the production of the documents. here, the department of justice, after, arguably dragging their feet for some 18 months now seems to be moving with some haste, and they are getting out in front of this. and they know it could be months, perhaps, once again. so they seem now to be acting more swif

you know, i think they're in discussions with the department of homeland security inspector general toacquire forensic tools to do this, but it really perturbed the select committee of all of the messages that were flying around on january 6th they could only get one from the agency protecting the president. >> these were obviously a vital day, violence at capitol hill, the vice president his life was in danger that day. obviously the committee tried to figure out the actions of the president himself. this is raising all sorts of eyebrows. it smells like a coverup. >> yeah. and that's what i hear from select committee members all through last night they were talking about if this was really a pre-planned migration, does seem to be, why did no one pump the brakes? why was there no sort of effort to really back up this data? from january 6th to january 16th, you have this ten day period until congress first requested those communications then you have an extra period until the 25th of january when the migration still hasn't happened and secret service is telling its agents back up your d

of the notorious arms dealer biden already offering to russia. >>> plus, missing texts. from the secret service and top homeland security officials. cnn learning the department of homeland security inspector general knew of those missing secret service texts months earlier than previous known. in fact, for more than a year. >>> and the death toll is rising tonight in kentucky. homes completely under water. in just a matter of hours, we will speak to a pastor whose church was entirely washed away. let's go "outfront". good evening to you. i'm jim sciutto in for erin burnett. "outfront", breaking news. the white house responding here on "outfront" after putin ups the ante on a prisoner swap deal. cnn exclusively reporting that president vladimir putin is demanding even more when it comes to the swap. according to sources, not only does he want viktor bout in exchange for brittney griner and paul whelan, the russians also now want a convicted murderer to be released. he was sentenced to life in president there. you broke the story. what more can you tell us what about the russians are demanding here. >> reporter: yeah. what we are told is earlier this month aft

but my colleague, maria steady, and i learned was that the dhs, the department of homeland security, t of homeland security, notified a government watchdog in february that they did not, and could not, provide texts for there senior most leaders at the department that might have been exchanged in the walk up to the january 6th attack on the capitol, and president trump's rally outside the white house. the reason they notified the department of homeland security's watchdog that they did not have these texts, and that they had been erased, and deleted, was because that government watchdog was trying to obtain them. and several congressional committees were interested in them as well. they are pieces of evidence to figure out what happened, what conversations took place. but in this case, lawrence, these are the two people who are running the department that was responsible for monitoring domestic extremism, for protecting the homeland from people like the proud boys and the oath keepers. and now their texts are vanished. we >> the watchdog we are talking about here is joseph kafouri, he

at the department of homeland security, i'll say this. there has been reporting on some of the retaliation against other whistle-blowers, other sort of investigations going on in this office, and i would say that i would have serious concerns here if i were sitting in the committee or in congress in terms of this i.g.'s ability to actually conduct this very serious investigation when it comes to such a major event like january 6th and, also, it just raised a lot of concerns across homeland security in terms of in the leadup to events, what happened here, which is in my opinion not a failure of intelligence on that day because certainly all the trends were there, but it was a failure to act on the intelligence and secure the area for our country's leadership, which we saw as all of their lives were threatened that day. >> jennifer with more and more records seemingly unaccounted for, that's what we're getting from the government right now, we don't know if that's the case, but that's what they're saying. could there be legal ramifications?

rosen, did you ever tell the president that the department of homeland security could seize voting machines? >> no, certainly not. >> seizing voting machines. one of the remarkable, crazy, pick your word for it things that donald trump considered if his effort to block joe biden's inauguration from an evidence standpoint you're building a case. why does it matter? >> it does matter because of how central the point is. number one they have to get it as part of a criminal investigation but you know there's a few different problems with the department of homeland security going back to when i worked there back in 2009. i think number one congress ought to be taking a look at this. it is not just the january 6th committee, the committee on homeland security to take a look at what kind of management failures were going on even outside of possible criminal liability but the place is being managed badly and needs a better way of storing and retaining data that opened the door to this number one. number two then the justice department ought to take a look at it. so the place has been a bit of a dum

investigations and a criminal investigation by the department of justice, but on top of that in the course of our reporting we learned that the department of homeland securityessages of the very top leaders of the department of homeland security. keep in mind that the department of homeland security has the central responsibility for monitoring threat and protecting the homeland from that on the day of january 6th and the days leading up to it, they were responsible for monitoring chatter on white supremacist platforms and were -- [ indiscernible ] >> all right. carol, we're losing your shot just a little bit on the zoom. we will try to get that fixed. jonathan lemire, it's worth pointing out that chad wolf was at the center of the story, the head of homeland security resigned five days after the attack on the capitol. he was one that did not dispute the results of the election. his department was planning an orderly transition to president biden's team. these are figures whose text messages quite obviously need to be looked into as we figure out what happened in the days leading up to and during the attack. >> the draconian child separation policy at the b

in doing this, i received the support of the department of homeland security secretary. so, in the interest of transparency and accountability, today we are releasing the final report of the investigation into the border patrols forced patrol unit, hp you activity, that took place on september 19, 2021 and the events that were investigated occurred during a mass migration surge near the international bridge in dell rio last september when approximately 30,000 migrants entered or attempted to enter the united states. the investigative report will be available on our website, but i'm sharing the key findings with you today. i will also be sharing information about our investigative and disciplinary process, as well as the corrective actions we are taking, so we learn from this incident and do better in the future. now, before i discuss the results of the investigation, it's important that right up front the disciplinary process in this case is still ongoing. i have an obligation to enter privacy rights, so i won't be discussing any proposed disciplinary actions today. i rea

clearly it's interesting here, the department of homeland security never did seize any voting machines, but what happened after cuccinelli received that phone call? who did he contact? did he double back and check with the department of justice to see if they actually had authorized this? trump told him was of course false? certainly a lot of data to mine there with investigators. we do know that cuccinelli did meet with the house select committee several months ago. it's unclear if they got into any of these details, and if they had any other side of text messages he may have sent where some of this data could possibly be recovered. it's certainly something investigators will be interest instead. >> what's frustrated if you're interesting somebody as a prosecutor or an investigator more broadly, andrew, you're going to want to have the lay of the land. you don't want to really ask questions you don't have any idea of what they might say. you want to have them open ended. you also want to know if there's ways to test their credibility. you want to have information that could corroborat

of homeland security apologized for it. it destroyed that analyst's career within the department of homeland security and had a chilling effect on intelligence analysts for the next decade and a half. anybody who even thought about a career focused on domestic extremism and particularly far right ideological extremism and they thought twice about it, if you want to look at the dhs, fbi, stay away from the issue of domestic threats. fast forward to the trump administration, and in the very early days of the trump administration, dhs officials saw a trend that they found really disturbing and frightening. there was a spate of episodes of vandalism targeted jewish cemeteries around the country. i spoke with dhs officials who worked there at the time who said they saw this playing out. they were concerned. they can't realize, they didn't think too hard about the roles of what the department of homeland security might be and only a few months later, there was a violent attack at charlottesville and wrote the chronicle. at that point trump administration political officials within dhs realized that there was a met at that time sizi

boris and sara, we're learning more about the timeline when the inspector general of the department of homeland security may have first learned the text messages may have been deleted. it's much earlier than he may have told congress. they could have been gone as early as may of 2021. that's more than a year before he informed the congressional oversight committees that were interested in this information and also the january 6th select committee. i spoke on friday with jamie raskin, a member of the committee. he told me he is very suspicious about the way these text were deleted, and he believed the committee needs to know more about why they were deleted and if it's possible to retrieve these messages in any way, shape, or form. boris and sara? >> ryan nobles from capitol hill. thank you so much. >>> sara, have you checked your mega millions tickets? >> nope. >> i think part of the reason we're still here, we don't think anyone won. we're waiting to see if anyone took it home last night. they list the next jackpot size pending. the draw team is still waiting for results from some of its jurisdictions.

on the 5th and 6th of january, whether it's the secret service and the failure of the department of homeland security inspector general to alert to that. and now, apparently missing texts between chad wolf and ken cucinelli, what an amazing coincidence and again this whole thing needs to be looked into. i do think that -- this is my impression. that the committee has an abundance of information already. and i -- i think this would be critical corroboration, probably, of other information they already have. but i think it's very disturbing that we've suddenly become aware of these critical exchanges between the two top acting officials in the department of homeland security at the time and missing texts from the secret service. it's just -- it's really disturbing. >> as you said, an amazing coincidence if that's the case. as you know, i want to turn to another subject that's come up in the past week. because as you no know, the families of 9/11 victims are very upset with former president trump for hosting the saudi-based or saudi-backed liv golf tournament and the comment he made defending it. let me

according to the "washington post", texts from donald trump's acting homeland security chief, todd wolf, and ken cuccinelli, or m.i.a. department of homeland security said texts were lost in a reset of their government phones at the end of the trump administration. today a source tells cnn that the january 6th committee did interview chad wolf several months ago the same time they met with cuccinelli. that was before they learned of the possible deletion of records. these revelations come on the heels of exclusive cnn reporting that the justice department is preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about trump's conversations and his actions around january 6th. cnn's ryan nobles starts off our coverage from capitol hill with new details about even more witnesses from the trump white house cooperating with the january 6th committee. >>> the department of justice is inching closer and closer to former president donald trump. new cnn reporting reveals that prosecutors are tkpgirting for big fight to testify about the role trump may have played leading up to january 6th. >> when courts have consider

they sent a letter today to the department of homeland security which is the agency that oversees the this lack of text messages being available between the days of january 5th and january 6th. the national archives have given the department of homeland security and the secret service 30 days to come up with an explanation where they went. secret service has said they are ready to comply. there's a lot of weight behind this request by the national archives. it's against the law to delete or destroy federal records. the national archives could refer this to the department of justice if they aren't satisfied with the answers they are given by the department of homeland security or secret service. >> appreciate it. the national ar kchives putting the secret service on notice. asking for an explanation should the messages turn out to have been deleted. from this report, it must include a district of the records affects, a statement of the acts, circumstances surrounding the deletion, a statement of the safeguards established to prevent further loss of documentation and details of all agen

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happen to mention that he was notified in february that the senior most leaders of the department of homeland security, they're texts were also missing in a reset, surprise, surprise, a reset of phones. it sounds very similar to the secret service situation. chad wulf was the acting secretary of the department of homeland security under donald trump. can cuccinelli was the acting deputy secretary. both of them are under intense pressure from donald trump in the days leading up to january 6th, to help him claim that the election, falsely claim, the election was rigged, and in the case of cuccinelli, president trump called him on new year's eve to pressure him to seize voting machines in swing states. claiming falsely that it was his job to grab these voting machine so that the election could be, quote, unquote, re-run. so the records really could be important. >> so what, we don't know the source of this, right? but when i saw the wolf and cuccinelli news, i thought, well this can cut into directions. one is that, there was sort of a mass intentional purge because a lot of shady stuff was going around,

what is troubling to me is that the department of homeland security is supposed to be keeping a close eye on domestic and violent extremist groups, and domestic terrorist plots. and so, my first thought when i heard that these texts at the top of the department went missing was that we were going to lose a lot of evidence, that we would otherwise find about what the department was gathering in terms of information about the domestic violent extremist groups, and their attempts to storm the capital, smash our windows, assault our officers, drive the house and the senate out, go after the vice president, hang mike pence, and so on. but of course it's also possible that other things could surface on those texts. i mean, if anybody in the department knew about various plots in advance, that is something that also could be missing today on those texts. so we would really need to get to the bottom of that because we want to make sure that the department of homeland security and its leaders were doing their job. >> let me see if i can play for our viewers with the former acting chief of staf

that's according to the port department of homeland security inspector general. e erased after dhs investigators asked for them. and first on cnn, a d.c. police officer testified before the committee, backing up details of donald trump's heated exchange with his security detail on january 6th. when he was told he could not go to the capitol after the rally. plus, there's new reporting that the committee is discussing talking with both the former vice president and the former president. trade away from the member house select committee on january 6th congressman pete aguilar, welcome to the program. a lot has happened in the last few hours. we heard from the last hearing. i'm wondering first, what's your take on the idea that there are deleted secret service text messages? that's pretty stunning if they were taken away after they were asked for? what does that tell you? >> well i read the letter that was sent to homeland security committee committee, chairman bennie thompson chairs that committed the. and i trust that he will work through that. and seek answers to

the ina being largely ignored by the enforcement wing of the department of homeland security that is charged with carrying out the immigration enforcement activities of this country. what else they are doing and removal operations, i don't know but that is what they are supposed to be doing this memo is preventing them from doing that. then we have the final priority memo of september 30. issued by secretary mayorkas. finalizing the original interim priorities of border security again national security public safety. this creates in the narrow category of public safety where mainly aggravated felonies takes a narrow category of criminal aliens but also creates a nonexhaustive list of mitigating factors that ice has to used to consider when moving forward with an enforcement action. it's not just you have committed a crime therefore you are being placed into removal proceedings. we have to look at a litany of factors to determine whether you should be subject to removal proceedings. again that has to be reviewed by several levels of people. it is absolutely absurd. october 2021, texas