smuggling the precious resource back to russia to finance its invasion of ukraine. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . let s begin our coverage tonight on capitol hill with new details on the insurrection investigation. we have exclusive new information about when the inspector general over at the department of homeland security first learned of those missing secret service text messages. but first our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us with other news on the january 6th probe. manu, i understand you pressed gop leader mccarthy today on a key conversation with former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. what did he tell you? more importantly, maybe what didn t he tell you? reporter: he said he didn t recall. this is one of the key moments of that testimony that cassidy hutchinson whether she went before the january 6th committee about the concerns and the efforts to s
sudan after a cnn investigation revealed russia is plundering sue began s goal to help finance putt putt putin s war in ukraine. tell us more. we have known for some time about russia s project to buttress itself against the u.s. sanctions regime ptbut what we haven t been able to pin down is the mechanisms of the invasion and cost of it to the people on the ground. this is what we have uncovered. take a look. reporter: deep in sudan s gold country, miners toil in the searing heat. barely surviving in what should be one of africa s richest countries. providing gold for a war, a continent away. we investigate a force more powerful than sudan s government
as its people had successfully toppled one of the longest standing african dictators through peaceful street protests. the question is why? sudan is one of the world s biggest exporters of gold and russia has been illegally exploiting and smuggling this resource from sudan for years. nima al bagr and her team visited there to see how they manipulate the sudanese government and how they get around sanctions to hold on to the gold. reporter: deep in sudan s gold country, miners toil in the searing heat, barely surviving in what should be one of africa s richest countries, providing gold for a war a continent away. we investigate a force more powerful than sudan s government, controlling its gold. for many, sudan produced the most sought after gold in the
well, sudan is one of the biggest exporters of gold in the world, and russia has been illegally exploiting and smuggling this resource from sudan for years, manipulating vital government and non-government institutions to secure this golden financial pipeline. cnn s chief international investigative correspondent anymore ma alba gar and her team traveled to the north of sudan to show how russia leverages the sudanese government and how it s using front companies to circumnavigate u.s. sanctions to hold onto the gold moving from sudan s capital to russia. reporter: deep in sudan s gold country, miners toil in the searing heat barely surviving in what should be one of africa s richest countries providing gold for a war a continent away. we investigate a force more powerful than sudan s government, controlling its
standing african dictators through peaceful protests. sudan is one of the biggest exporters of gold. russia is controlling vital government and nongovernment institutions to secure this golden financial pipeline. this team travelled to the north of sudan to show how russia manipulates the sudanese military government and using front companies to hold on to the gold illegally moving from the sudan s capital to russia. reporter: deep in sudan s gold country, miners toil in the searing heat. barely surviving in what should be one of africa s richest countries. providing gold for a war, a continent away. we investigate a force more powerful than sudan s government