and she broke barriers as the youngest woman in congress. now, almost three decades after she left public office, this fighter wants to get back in the political arena. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and another major development in what has been a monumental week for january 6th investigators. the latest twists, more missing text messages from the period leading up to the capitol attack. according to the washington post , texts from donald trump s acting homeland security chief, todd wolf, and ken cuccinelli, or m.i.a. department of homeland security said texts were lost in a reset of their government phones at the end of the trump administration. today a source tells cnn that the january 6th committee did interview chad wolf several months ago the same time they met with cuccinelli. that was before they learned of the possible deletion of records. these revelations come on the heels of exclusive cnn reporting that
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
Again at noon here on cnn. you can follow me on twitter@kasie or tweet the leadcnn. if you ever miss an episode, check out the podcast. you can listen to wherever you get your podcasts. don t go anywhere. our coverage continues now with womp blitzer in the situation room . happening now, house minority leader kevin mccarthy now claims he doesn t recall a january 6th conversation with cassidy hutchinson about preventing donald trump from going to the u.s. capitol. we have new details on the investigation. and we re also following catastrophic flooding right now in kentucky. at least 16 people are dead. and the governor is now warning that number could double in the coming days. also this hour, a cnn exclusive report on an illegal russian scheme to evade u.s. sanctions. moscow mining gold in sudan and
Morning at 9:00 eastern and again at noon here on cnn. you can follow me on twitter@kasie or tweet the leadcnn. if you ever miss an episode, check out the podcast. you can listen to wherever you get your podcasts. don t go anywhere. our coverage continues now with womp blitzer in the situation room . happening now, house minority leader kevin mccarthy now claims he doesn t recall a january 6th conversation with cassidy hutchinson about preventing donald trump from going to the u.s. capitol. we have new details on the investigation. and we re also following catastrophic flooding right now in kentucky. at least 16 people are dead. and the governor is now warning that number could double in the coming days. also this hour, a cnn exclusive report on an illegal russian scheme to evade u.s. sanctions.