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
hearing that the president was refusing to send in troops. when the president didn t answer his calls, he phoned ivanka. he couldn t see any other reason it was taking so long for reinforcements to arrive. so, lindsey graham was mad. a moment possibly, there were discussions, and i learned this from the book, to try to impeach trump right then and there, but who stopped it? the democratic leaders. they were afraid of pushing that full force. basically. look, we have this moment where even the people who have shown themselves to be trump is bigget defenders, they were not thinking of the politics. they were feeling the rage in that moment. that night, a group of rank and file democrats in the house wrote impeachment articles and when the house and senate came back to actually finish certifying the results of the electoral college, they presented them, first going to steny hoyer, saying, let s do this tonight, while everybody s angry, while the moment is