beaker, no member sworn in and the only agenda is the fight for leadership. where things stand right now. and then on the eve of the anniversary at the january 6th attack on democracy, a warning from the former capitol police chief that this could happen again. he will be here. and an incredible update on buffalo bills player damar hamlin and his remarkable improvement, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night . good evening, once again, i am stephanie it ruhle. or is the sound being less than an heard across the hour away from going province, as québec s scrape away the icy into day four without a speaker of the house aftermath of a winter. kevin mccarthy s cocktail. bid for the speakership i should probably go back to has now been bed. that was defeated a total my reaction. of but, here a 11 times in i am, outside a row and just in the cold. ice, the past three days. the house adjourned just a few hours ago and will be put back into session at into mauro.
good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you to all of us joining us at this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. that appears to be exactly where we are right now in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of times that he has failed to win the speakers gavel up to 11. that s the most failed elections for speaker and any congress and over 100 years. surpassing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker all the way back in the year 1923. throughout those failed votes, kevin mccarthy hasn t picked up one sin
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. a new poll shows republican support surging. independent women are abandoning the democrats in droves, turning a 14-point advantage for the party into an 18-point deficit in just four weeks. does it show that the democrats s multimillion dollar decision to focus on abortion instead of the economy might have been a pweus take? the former trump aide who said he was willing to go to jail to support donald trump may actually get his wish. the justice department recommending the maximum sentence for defying the january 6th subpoena. is that a warning to donald trump who is about to get a subpoena any day now. take a look at this video out of ukraine. police officers firing into the eras the capital comes under attack. they re not firing at soldiers. they re firing at kamikaze drones, trying to pick them off before she slam into targets and explode. a live report in just a minute. we start with the midte
conserative party said sunack won the race and prime minister. the first person of color ever to hold that position. he will succeed liz truss after 44 days in office because of a revolt over her economic policies. former prime minister boris johnson thought about a comeback but ended up pulling out of a race. nbc news correspondent and associate editor at the financial times. what can we expect him to take over as prime minister? reporter: jose, this has been a very fast moving forward days since liz truss stepped down. it will be a fast moving 24 hours. what we expect, and you mentioned in your in tree, not only the first person of color to walk through 10 downing, also the youngest prime minister in two centuries, really a historic day. so what we expect, and we can t confirm exact timing is liz truss, who is still prime minister technically, will have to go to king charles to resign. then we expect him to be asked to form a government. then what happens? he walks into
florida and texas where two controversial incumbents are leading in the polls. great britain has a new prime minister again. after boris johnson failed to meet the threshold to run for a comeback. despite rushing back from the caribbean vacation. i ll talk to brittney griner s russian lawyer on the eve of greiner s appeal of her nine-year prison sentence. good day. our poll reveals democrats are fired up, but republicans are even more enthusiastic about their efforts to take over the house and senate. joining me now, steve kornacki, our research partner, washington post political correspondent, ashley parker. there is so much to dig through here. let s start by where likely voters are leaning with two weeks to go. two weeks, one day, and early voting underway in a number of places. here you can see the generic ballot. this is among likely voters here in our new poll. 48% for the republicans. 47% for the democrats. a one-point advantage there for republicans. so obviou