A Democratic member of the House select committee investigating last year’s riot at the U.S. Capitol said Sunday that the panel expects to receive sought-after Secret Service text messages within the coming days from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren said the panel expects to receive by Tuesday the text messages, which it subpoenaed after learning the Secret Service had deleted texts from around the time of the riot.
“You can imagine how shocked we were to get the letter from the [Department of Homeland Security] inspector general saying that he had been trying to get this information and that they had, in fact, been deleted after he asked for them,” the California Democrat told ABC’s “This Week.