bakhmut in ukraine. and the reason this matters, jake, is because the fight for bakhmut, as has become the case with much of the war in ukraine, has become a war of attrition that military and intelligence officials increasingly say is really likely to turn on access to artillery ammunition, which side is able to sustain its supply of artillery ammunition the longest. one senior western intelligence official that i spoke to earlier today said in bakhmut alone, the two sides are spending up to multiple thousands of rounds of ammunition a day, which is just staggering. so what north korea is doing here is really helping wagner, and by extension the russian side, perpetuate this fight in bakhmut that our sources say has left this part of ukraine looking like they re done. will the weapons and ammunition from north korea make a difference in ukraine? not necessarily from a broader strategic perspective. the fight in bakhmut specifically is not seen, even if russia is able to
so maybe 14. anyway, all move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days, we ve got mayors and lot enforcement officials who are getting a new warning, sadly, about election intimidation. we have extremists who are looking to disrupt the midterms, at the local level, targeting voters, targeting candidates, targeting election workers, all according to axios. let s bring in our panel, we have cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. new york democratic senator mondale jones, and political analyst ron brownstein. so this is so disturbing, guys, obviously when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th, the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally, there are all sorts of examples of people be unintimidated, and just awful things happening. here are a few examples, this comes from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties, election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment, and intimidation. in idaho, protesters and hung i
people, till midterm elections, really two weeks from today we ll know a lot more. anyway i ll move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days and you ve got mayors and law enforcement officials who are getting a new warning sadly about election intimidation. you ve got extremists looking to disrupt midterms at the local level targeting voters, candidates, election workers according to axios. let s bring in our panel. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, new york democratic congressman jones and senior political analyst ron brownstein. when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th , the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally there are all sorts of examples of people being intimidated and just awful things happening. here are a few examples coming from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment and intimidation. in idaho protesters hung an effigy at a republ
school libraries and reading lists in more districts and states, according to a new report. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. hurricane fiona wreaking havoc on several caribbean islands. the storm made landfall as a category 1, but expected to become a major hurricane after it hit puerto rico on sunday, knocking out the entire power grid there. puerto rico, still recoverining from hurricane maria in 2017, is suffering catastrophic flooding. you can see this bridge, which was rebuilt after hurricane maria, being swept away by the rushing waters. another river, rising to 29 feet, surpassing the record set in 2017. we re going to start our coverage with laila santiago, in part rico, where most communities are still struggling without power. reporter: almost the entire island of puerto rico remains in the dark after hurricane fiona slam into the southwestern coast of the island sunday afternoon. pounding rainfall causing catastrophic mud
slow, obviously, frustratingly slow, but positive outcomes. mat gaetz said this ends one of two ways. either mccarthy withdraws from the race, or we construct a straitjacket he s unable to evade. do you support some that support mccarthy that say he is an conceding too much? to arsonists in some c concessions. that s the question. that s very frustrating. i remind your viewers, and i know most of them, and you know this. we had an election. in november, all the republicans and all the democrats got together in their individual caucus or conference and they elected their leadership, and w anyone could run. you could stand up and campaign and lobby, and kevin was elected our speaker. it wasn t even close. 190 to 30, so there is that frustration. is kevin giving too much? i don t think he has to this point, but he s very, very close, and i think he knows that he s very close. in fact, some of these individuals said there s really nothing more he can give or us to ask for, an