Florida, get ready. This is going to be a big one. The lead starts right now.

Evacuations ordered. Hurricane Ian on track to become a monster category 4 storm,

with all eyes watching to see exactly where the system will hit.

And high level contact, who in Trump's White House called a January 6th rioter.

Plus, what new text messages from Mark Meadows reveal, and why a former congressman

pressed the January 6th committee to question the wife of a Supreme Court justice.

We're going to ask him live this hour. Also 10 straight days of protests in Iran for a woman

killed over a job. Now the regime is out with its own crowds pushing a different narrative.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Casey Hunt in for Jake Tapper. We start in our politics lead.

We are less than 48 hours away from the next public January 6th committee hearing.

And CNN is learning about text messages from then Trump Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows,

directly linking the White House with a pro-Trump operative who was trying to seize voting machines.

We're going to have more on this exchange in just a moment.

But we're also learning about new links between the White House and a rioter on January 6th.

Denver Rigelman, who was an advisor to the January 6th committee, is now telling CBS 60 minutes

about a phone call between the White House and a Capitol rioter, who CNN is identifying

as a 26-year-old Trump supporter, Anton Lunek. Rigelman will join us here on the lead in just a moment.

But first, CNN's Sarah Murray, who has been tracking all these developments and what we know about the high-level contacts.

As Donald Trump and his allies made a final push to overturn the 2020 election,

there is still plenty of time to certify the correct winner.

Retired Army colonel and election conspiracy promoter Phil Waldron.

The core of these voting systems are rife with vulnerabilities.

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