I think he quantified it as "some" of the messages.
Theory: The deleted texts implicate Mueller as complicit in the impeachment plot via Special Prosecuter investigation.
Thoughts ?
and the FakeNewsMSM is desperately preparing a narrative:
24 Jan: ABC: Exclusive: The full ‘secret society’ text between FBI agents: Was it meant in jest?
By Mike Levine
Meanwhile, Trump and his Republican allies are raising concerns over a five-month gap of text messages missing from the FBI’s systems.
They have described the missing texts as a major scandal. But according to the Justice Department, the five months’ worth of messages are missing due to a “technical” glitch and “misconfiguration issues” after the FBI tried to upgrade the devices used by its agents in the field.
The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, said he believes the Justice Department’s explanation and described the FBI as being cooperative in providing documents to his committee for its investigation looking at Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-full-secret-society-text-fbi-agents-meant/story?id=52592241
it’s just a farce, claims Dana:
24 Jan: WaPo: Inside the secret, sinister and very illegal cabal trying to destroy Trump
By Dana Milbank
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-secret-society-dedicated-to-making-trump-look-bad/2018/01/24/d0ba9d0e-0156-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html
If these missing texts were deleted, is it possible to tell when they were deleted, from where they were deleted, and who actually deleted them? I don’t text, and am basically ignorant as to how recovery of these things works.