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Too terrified to go on the record about the ordeal. cnn has been working to bring more of these stories to light. we travel to libya to witness the true inhumanity forthemselves. men sold like commodities. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: a man addressing an unseen crowd. big, strong boys for farm work, he says. 400. 700. 700? 800. the numbers roll in. these men are sold for 1,200 libyan pounds, $400 apiece. you are watching an auction of human beings.

Big, strong boys for farm work, he says. 400. 700. 700. 800. the numbers roll in. these men are sold for 1,200 libyan pounds, $400 apiece. you are watching an auction of human beings. another man claiming to be a buyer, off camera someone asks what happened to the ones from niger? sold off, he's told. cnn was sent this footage by a contact. after months of working, we were able to verify the authenticity of what you see here. we decided to travel to libya to try and see for ourselves. we're now in tripoli. we're starting to get a little bit more of a sense of how this all works.

Beatings, kidnappings, even enslavement. those migrant who do make it to europe are often too terrified to go on the record about their ordeal. for the last year, cnn has been working to bring these stories to light. a cnn team comprising our producer and photojournalist were able to travel to libya to witness the true inhumanity for themselves. you got access to a migrant slave auction where men were sold like commodities. >> it is absolutely inexplicable, wolf, that this is happening ip2017. and yet it is. this is what we found. take a look. >> a man addressing an unseen crowd. big strong bo...

>> well, the theory would be it was getting to -- maybe it was too convoluted an answer. he once did a little bit of farm work for us. he may have gone on a little bit about some of oswald having done big things for the cia over the years. maybe they decided that would look undiscriminating. or maybe a plain out yes. the fact that it's not there allows all of us to fill in the blank and why so many people keep returning to the kennedy assassination. >> the fact that major officials in the intelligence committee knew how complicated this was going to be and how the answers would be so unsatisfy...

Deliver about 30 bull steen calves every day. maybe five or seven workers for that particular part. when it comes to feeding cattle, big feed lots in kansas as well. also very labor intensive. out in the general farm work, whether it's planting wheat or harvesting hay, we need lots of laborers as well. >> obviously we cover politics a lot on msnbc. the stuff i talked to kelly and garrett about, how this it playing out on capitol hill is intriguing. do you as a republican particularly care that this is something that's being worked out with both republicans and democrats, or that the president ...