vladimir putin showing an increasing reliance on drones that russia is said to be getting from iran. or clarissa ward the only reporter seeing what ukraine has shot out of the sky. plus, roe v economy? president biden s midterm pledge today, if democrats can keep control of congress. he will get an abortion rights law on the books. but the reality check on that may rely on what is on the minds of most voters. and hunting the injured. protesters shot and breaten in iran. fear of going to the hospital, where police could be waiting to capture them. the desperate mrlengths some demonstrators are going to to get treatment. welcome to the lead, i m john berman, in for jake tapper. and we start with our world lead. today, a top ukrainian intelligence official predicted an end to putin s war. quote, russia s loss is inev inevitable. by the summer, everything should be over. that despite putin s attacks on ukraine s power plants. nearly a third have been destroyed. some of th
security peiter zatko, alleging the social media giant s leadership misled its own board, and government regulators about security vulnerabilities that could potentially open the door for foreign spying, hacking and disinformation campaigns. those are stunning, serious claims sent to congress and several federal agencies last month. our very own cnn correspondent donie o sullivan sat down with him to talk about this. here s the story. reporter: ready? yes. reporter: why are you coming forward? all my life i ve been about finding places where i can go, and make a difference. reporter: this is peiter zatko, until january of this year he was head of security at twitter, but now he s a whistle-blower, and he says twitter security problems are so grave, they are a risk to national security and democracy. twitter is a critical resource to the entire world. i think it is an extremely important platform. reporter: he handed over information about the company to various
w audio of what republican lawmakers were saying just day after. i want you to hear kevin mccarthy describing what happened and how he called the then president to tell him to call off the eye rioter. on the phone call to the president telling him what was going on. asking him to tell these people to stop, to make a video and go out. i was very intense and very loud about it. he did put a tweet out and later a video out. i told him i didn t like the video out later. the second day i wish the video was first. what they are saying then and what they are saying now. then it goes onto kevin mccarthy calls for a bipartisan to investigate the circumstances around the attack and to insist we cannot just sweep this under the rug. we cannot just sweep this under the rug, he says. this is from arkansas congressman french hill pleading with his fellow republicans to get the then president to do the right thing. all of you have such a great, wonderful, warm relationship with dona
that same judge issued a landmark ruling earlier this year finding it was more likely than not that trump and a conservative lawyer committed a crime and strikeategizing to overturn the election. trump is not charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing. he continues to down play his involvement and bashing the committee s work as another quote witch hunt. january 6th. what a lot of crap, it s another con job like russia. reporter: committee members say trump was decar on his duty and republicans pleaded for trump to intervene and text messages to his white house chief of staff. i think mark meadows is the ms mvp for the committee. reporter: denver helped decode meadow s text among the 2300 messages obtained by cnn. donald trump junior texting he s got to condemn this shit asap. meadows responding, i am pushing it hard. i agree. it took trump over three hours to release this recorded video. so go home, we love you. you re very special. look at the totality of th
russian oil import. plus, a history making hurricane agatha slams into mexico as a category two storm. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for being with us. today marks one week since 21 innocent lives were cut short by a gunman who opened fire inside an elementary school in uvalde, texas. the first funeral will be held in the devastated community one day after grieving families gathered for visitations. more visitations and funerals are planned in the week ahead. 19 students and two teachers killed in the horrific shooting. ? the unimaginable heartbreak and grieving now mixed with growing anger as new details continue to emerge. lucy kavanof has more. reporter: a chaotic scene as police rushed to evacuate children. dispatch audio were aware that kids were still trapped inside. i am here. he s in a room. more devastating details from officials of at least two children calling 911 multiple times, pleading for help as the gunman