Jan. 6 committee meets with DHS watchdog over erased Secret Service texts

The House select Jan. 6 committee met Friday morning with DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari about erased Secret Service text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, multiple members of the panel told CBS News. 

Cuffari sent a letter to the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees earlier this week saying that the Secret Service had wiped text messages from those two days as part of a "device-replacement program" shortly after the inspector general's office requested the records.

He also told Congress in the letter that DHS personnel "repeatedly told OIG inspectors...