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Testifying to. >> all right, thank you so much for breaking that all down for us. top house democrats are saying that the inspector general is obstructing their congressional investigations. they're referring to secret service text messages from around the time of the january 6th insurrection. jessica schneider has more details. the democratic chairs of these two committees, they're calling this unacceptable. >> yeah, and, you know, alex, this is the latest escalation in this constant battle between these two top democrats, it's bennie thompson and carolyn maloney. them versus the dhs ig. th...

Document out there? it purports to lay out probable cause that he committed or was involved in or mar-a-lago was the scene of at least these three federal crimes. >> okay. another investigation, norm. about the january 6th committee, the lawmakers there are saying that the inspector general of homeland security is obstructing their investigation. are they independent? do they operate independently? does the ig have a point that he doesn't have to share his information with the january 6th committee? >> alisyn, i agree with the january 6th committee here. when i was the ethics czar in the white...

Documents, they were heavily redacted. finally, the i.g. investigators said that the secret service wasn't totally up front with them about the totality of the text messages lost from the weeks leading up to the january 6th. so this is the issue we have been talking a lot about. the secret service said that they had this data migration a couple weeks after january 6th, which basically wiped text messages from several people's cell phones. the i.g. thought that was crucial information and they had been going back and forth for about a year to get those text messages. again, the i.g. saying secr...

Face and took all of these complaints directly to the hill. the secret service is saying that they did and they are cooperating with these investigations. sources within the agency i have spoken with for several weeks now have really pushed back on the idea that they were stalling the i.g. from getting records saying they can't just release internal records without first getting reviews for executive privilege and national security issues, john and brianna. >> all new reporting from you and your team, whitney. this really does create an intriguing time line here. on top of all this, we're lear...

Reporting concerning accusations that the secret service was impeding federal investigators, looking into the agency's actions surrounding the january 6th attack. and that those details were actually scrapped from a report to congress. cnn's whitney wild is live in washington with the latest on this. whitney, tell us what you've learned. >> reporter: well, the purpose of that congressional report is to alert lawmakers when the i.g. is running into significant challenges collecting information. this memo was obtained by the project on governmentover sight. it was shared with cnn and shows that ...