. >> reporter: one of the buyers of anna's art, patrick peters, the proud owner of "anna on ice." >>f see ourselves in her, right? if you look at "coming to new york city," you always have this fake it till you make it attitude. anna obviously took that a little bit too far. but i think a lot of people in new york city will look at that and say, wow, you know, i came close to that as well. you know, i wanted to get in those rooms, i wanted to do those things. it makes you look at yourself and say, how far would i go? >> reporter: at the end of the show, anna appearing by video link to save her supporters as the first big event of what she calls her reinvention came to a close. >> she was able to do what she did because she's a smooth operator, you know? >> reporter: you might believe her. or you might think her motives are still suspect. but to many, regardless of what they think, anna's hustle is simply undeniable. >> i don't think anna would have a problem with people saying this is her new hustle, right? it is. she's trying to get money out of us. she is. shears almost this cult t

patrick byrne, about that meeting for almost eight hours. tomorrow, they'll be talking to a guy named garrett ziegler. he is a former aide to peterro who is reporting to be the junior staffer who led those people into the oval office for that meeting. also late on friday, the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service, actually warned they reportedly erased text messages from january 5th and sixth, 2021, as part of the device replacement program after being directed to save those communications. here is how committee member adam kinzinger, republican in illinois, described that decision this week. >> we made the decision, as the committee, that we need to subpoena these records, the ig came in front of us and said look we've been working hard to get this. they claim it was this technological change, they removed everything. we lost these texts. and they also put up a statement that said we only lost some of the tax and everything relevant to this investigation has been turned over. so those are very conflicting statements, so we decided as a committee, let's request these by tuesday, and we can make a decision. >> now, all

patrick higginbotham on the united states court of appeals for the fifth circuit. mr. wiegmann, welcome to the committee. you may proceed with your opening comments. mr. wiegmann: thank you, chairman peters. thank you ranking member and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on behalf of the department of justice. we strongly support the administration's legislative proposal to allow us to continue to protect major national events and important department facilities from the threat posed by misuse of drones. this legislation would also enable us, as assistant secretary vinograd just said, to expand our counter drone efforts, both in respect to the types of facilities that we can protect and to empower our state and local partners to participate in this critical mission. so we understand at the doj that drones are bringing great benefits to our society and our economy, but like many advances in technology, drones also bring serious risks to the public when they're misused. as has been alluded to already in the opening statements, we're seeing an increase in the use of drones for a wide spectrum of criminal and other dangerous activities. they can be weapo