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A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with repeatedly trying to pass secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign country in an espionage plot discovered by the FBI, according to court documents.

>> they have a court date. the navy engineer, jonathan toebbe, and his wife, have a court date later this week. hes charged in a criminal complaint, sort of the initial legal shot at him, and, you know, theres going to be an indictment down the road almost certainly. and that indictment will probably have more charges in it because this was a years-long investigation. but, you know, e v hes facing really serious jail time out of this, so, you know, you always have to look to what degree does som...

Into a peanut butter sandwich, for which he received a further $20,000. then, in august, a further drop off in eastern virginia involving a chewing gum package and a $70,000 payoff. finally, the fbi pounced during a third drop off in west virginia on saturday. the secrets were up for sale on these nuclear—powered warships weeks after america agreed to sell similar secrets to the australians in an attempt to counter chinese influence in the asia—pacific region. but no more, as this spy, who h...

A Senate report on President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election offers new details about an Oval Office confrontation between Trump and the Justice Department, revealing the extent to which government lawyers threatened to resign en masse if the president removed his attorney general.

Just to emphasize how odd this is, durham set out to find wrongdoing at the fbi. if he brings this charge against sussmann, he will basically filing a charge that portrays the fbi not as the perpetrator of a crime but the victim of a crime. it shows you the strange directions that this special counsel investigation has gone in, as everyone argues about 2016 and the russia investigation. >> devlin barrett, great to have you and your reporting on the show this morning. please keep us posted. i kno...

Donald trumps companies. it is always great to have you, especially on a day like today. lay it out for us, right? who is michael sussmann, how significant is it that durham may look for his indictment any day now is your reporting? >> reporter: good thing about this case is its very confusing and complicated. >> awesome for tv, devlin. thank you. >> reporter: you have to go back to 2016. what happens is this lawyer, michael sussmann, who works at a law firm, very closely aligned with democrats,...

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>> devlin, talk about the significance of this. this is something that is having a ripple effect that goes beyond just washington here. >> right. so it affects the u.s. relationship with the saudis, which is always tricky and complicated on terrorism and other fronts. it affects, you know, the sort of how we understand what happened on 9/11 because obviously, there is a lot of lingering suspicion and lingering concerns that maybe everyone who was responsible for that wasnt caught and punished, a...

Whether saudi arabia supported the 9/11 terror plot of president bidens calling for the review, declassification and documents on the investigation. i want to bring in national security reporter at the washington post. devlin, walk us through this and why we saw this investigation in the first place. >> one of the long unanswered or lingering questions from the 9/11 investigation was did any saudi government officials help the hijackers? they knowingly helped the hijackers and there has been a l...

Former President Donald Trumps last attorney general has told U.S. senators his boss was "persistent" in trying to pressure the Justice Department to