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he says his agency doesn't share information about ongoing matters. >> let's get right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. this tension between the lawmakers and the inspector general has been going on for a while, but it seems to be escalating. >> it's an ongoing battle. we're seeing this escalation, between two top democrats, bennie thompson, carolyn maloney, with the dhs ig and now they're cuesiaccusing the ig of obstruction. is this goes back to the claim that the ig failed to notify congress that these texts were gone from the secret service from that period around j...

country. i believe in the very soul of this nation. and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe it in my core, there isn't a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. just remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there's nothing beyond -- nothing beyond our capacity. that's why so many foreign companies decided to invest making chips in america. billions of dollars. we're the best. we have to believe in ourselves again. and now i'm going to take action that i have been looking forward to doing for 18 months. going to sign t...

>> much of this investigation played out over last year, when prosecutors say the toby couple, jonathan toby, a navy nuclear engineer, and his wife, reached out to a foreign embassy, a foreign country, to try to sell nuclear secrets. the agreement they were looking for was that they would steal nuclear secrets, according to prosecutors, and exchange them for tens of thousands of dollars of cryptocurrency. that country quickly reached out to the united states, which turned this investigation over to the fbi. and it was over the course of several months undercover fbi agents got the toby couple,...

The sentencing agreements. jonathan toby had agreed to 12 to 18 years in jail and his wife agreed to three years in jail. she made it clear she viewed that as too lenient. a short time later the defense lawyers and their clients came back and said they would withdraw their guilty pleas and instead it looks like this is heading to trial. so victor, where we thought we went into today heading for a sentencing for jonathan toby and his wife who have been accused of trying to hide the secrets and sell them to a third country including, as you point out, in a peanut butter sandwich, this is on a ve...

A sentencing hearing is being made for a naval engineer and his wife trying to sell nuclear secrets including inside a peanut butter sandwich. o orren lieberman is following the trial. the judge jektrejected an forev plea deal. >> the federal judge in this case rejected the plea agreements for jonathan toby, a navy nuclear engineer and his wife who both pleaded guilty to trying to sell u.s. nuclear secrets to a third country, a country that is not named publicly. she viewed the sentencing guidelines in the plea agreement as simply too lenient, viewing the crimes accused of committed and having...