aid dollars to Palestinian hospitals and refugees. They've announced hundreds of millions of U.S. And so in protest, Palestinian leaders cut ties with Trump, and Trump retaliated by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. Palestinians also have claims in Jerusalem. Trump recognized Israel's claims to Jerusalem. has a credibility problem with the Palestinians. What does Biden now say to Palestinians?ĮSTRIN: He's saying the U.S. That's been emphasized and reinforced in the last couple of days.
INSKEEP: OK, so Israel is clearly, as this Biden trip has emphasized, the big U.S. INSKEEP: NPR's Daniel Estrin is on the ground in Jerusalem. So today he's going there, meeting Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority. MARTIN: Yeah, he's been meeting Israeli officials in Jerusalem, and that put him within a few miles of Palestinian territory in the West Bank. President Biden makes a very short trip today. INSKEEP: And NPR's Claudia Grisales is a busy correspondent. So this will likely add a whole new line of investigation for the panel, which is looking to hold a hearing next week and issue a final report sometime in the fall. Thompson also chairs the January 6 committee. A spokesman for the House panel said they're also expecting such a meeting, and as it turns out, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson.
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Peters said the public deserves to have a full picture of what happened on January 6, and he'll be meeting with the inspector general, Cuffari. The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Panel, Gary Peters, said they need to get to the bottom of whether Secret Service destroyed federal records or the Department of Homeland Security obstructed oversight. What do the many investigators do now that they seem not to be able to get the messages?
However, that sparked discussion about new evidence of interest to the House Select January 6 committee, and these text messages may have been able to clear up that confusion. GRISALES: Anonymous sources around the Secret Service have reportedly disputed some of this testimony, which was given under oath.
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Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel. We're going back to the West Wing we're not going to the Capitol. Engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. GRISALES: Well, remember, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the January 6 committee, in a public hearing, the story of a standoff between Trump and his lead Secret Service agent, Bobby Engel, as Trump tried to join his supporters marching to the Capitol.ĬASSIDY HUTCHINSON: The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. INSKEEP: Well, what could these messages possibly have shown? They argue they didn't get that request for the messages until after they started deleting texts. INSKEEP: OK, so they only push back on the idea that they did it on purpose. And a spokesman also said there's a false insinuation these were maliciously deleted, and rather, the agency started to reset their mobile phones last January, losing this data as part of a monthslong migration plan, and added they have cooperated with this watchdog in every way possible. INSKEEP: Does the Secret Service admit they deleted these messages? This inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, said the department notified them that, quote, "many of these texts were erased as part of a device-replacement program." Cuffari said in a letter to congressional homeland security committees that the messages were deleted after the watchdog requested them as the inspector general's evaluation of events of January 6. They wrote a letter to Congress detailing a request for these messages for that two-day period on January 5 and 6 of last year. The House January 6 committee is a high-profile one, but this was the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the Secret Service.
GRISALES: This comes from one of many investigations into the attack. INSKEEP: OK, so what is the source for this statement that the Secret Service deleted, what sure sounds like evidence? Good morning.ĬLAUDIA GRISALES, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve. INSKEEP: NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales joins us now. Agents are part of the story of then-President Trump's movements on January 6. Investigators contend that after receiving that request, the Secret Service deleted the messages.
An inspector general requested text messages by agents who protect the president. Investigators have revealed a lot by obtaining text messages from January 6, 2021.īut they say they are not learning a thing from text messages by the Secret Service.
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