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tonight there are new questions about missing secret service text messages around the january 6th insurrection. multiple sources telling cnn that the top watchdog at the homeland security department actually knew about those missing texts way back in may of 2021. that's more than a year before he alerted the select committee. i want to bring in cnn's kara scannell, former nixon white house counsel john dean and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. nice to see all of you this evening. also, he is the author of the threat how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump...

two nations pointing fingers after an attack on a prison holding prisoner of war. we're live in kyiv with the latest. how russia is getting around sanctions by plundering sudan's gold. ♪ >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. it's 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding and will likely get worse. president joe biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including 6 children and that death toll is expected to rise. raging waters decimate...

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....

all 50 senate democrats supported the bill with vice president harris casting the tie-breaking vote. the bill will now head to the house to where democrats also hold a razor-in majority. what does this mean for the next steps? let's get right to chad pergram live on capitol hill with the details. >> reporter: arthel, a political high wire act. all 50 democrats sticking together and then leaning on vice president harris to break the tie to pass a touchstone of president biden's legislative agenda. >> the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice presiden...

so this is just into cnn, a source confirmed to cnn a federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed former white house counsel pat cipollone. abc news's first report that. cnn has now confirmed that as well. abby philip, david chalian, mark philip, david axelrod are all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what's say you, david chalian? >> i think we've seen over the last couple of weeks this escalation in this grandeur process, that is separate any part from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually storm the ca...