• The Secret Service erased texts from Jan. 6 and the inspector general is investigating.
• Anthony Ornato, a top White House and Secret Service official, retired abruptly since the hearings.
• Committee members are eager to explore how much Trump's Cabinet considered discussed removing him.

WASHINGTON – The House committee investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, hasn’t announced the subject of Thursday’s hearing, but they have plenty of options to discuss since a series of blockbuster hearings in June and July.

Over the last few months, a series of revelations about the Secret Service included the erasure of texts from Jan. 6 and the abrupt retirement of a key official.

Committee members have also called for more scrutiny of subjects the panel touched on in the past. The subjects include Cabinet member discussions about potentially removing then-President Donald Trump from office, the Trump campaign’s recruitment of fake electors for the 2020 election and Trump’s fundraising after the election.

Here are subjects the committee could explore:

• The Secret Service erased the texts from 24 members of the agency during a routine replacement of phones. But the phone migration began Jan. 26, 2021 – after four House committees requested texts and other documents Jan. 16.
• The Secret Service provided the committee with 800,000 pages of communications, although not the texts from the day of the riot, according to the panel’s vice chairwoman, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
• The ...

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