the u.s. house of representatives still without a speaker after ten votes. good evening, i m wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is a special edition of the the situation room. good evening, wolf. i m erin burnett, tempers and frustration mounting, if you can say that, possibly at a peak. the last time the race for speaker has gone on this long was more than 160 years ago. here we are tonight, wolf. it s amazing what s going on. what s taking place is truly stunning. 21 republicans declining to vote for kevin mccarthy today, leaving the california congressman without the votes needed to finally grab the speaker s gavel. the humiliating losses comes despite him privately offering up even more concessions. and we re learning that the negotiators are pushing to strike a deal tonight, in an attempt to show progress. what will that progress look like? will it be enough to give mccarthy the supp
A recap of the days news. Would do. Right . Instead this white house put on a display today in the briefing room. A display intended to send a message to the American People. That message is to convince you that this administration actually takes russias attacks on our democracy seriously. So they trot it out one top official after another. Every one of them pointing the finger at russia, which is all well and good, but obviously there is one person missing. Want to guess who it is . President donald j. Trump who no matter what the members of his own administration say just cant seem to bring himself to blame russia for anything without walking it back in the same breath. Lets compare the director of national intelligence, what he said today to what President Trump said after that disastrous helsinki summit. Here it is. The Intelligence Community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming u. S. Elections. Both the midterms and the president ial elections of 2020. Dont. Wha
Quick answer of being prolife. Thank you for watching. Cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. There he is again. Great words right there. I think thats what i said before the break, right . You said it plays right into that. I have to tell you i was atten event this weekend with a friend who happens to be white. She turned to me and said do you ever does it do you notice or are you aware, does it make you uncomfortable that youre, like, one maybe the only person of color in the room . And i just people have asked me that before, and i said im not uncomfortable about it. I am aware of it, but it happens all the time. And she said well, i wasnt aware of it until i was invited to a Birthday Party where everyone was a person of color. Everyone was black and i was the only white person, and i said is this what its like. She said is this what its like for my friends of color all the time who even in most places yu go, restaurants, everywhere you
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and those numbers get more complicated. so, look, it will give kevin mccarthy an argument for why he shouldn t give up. but it s not enough to get the job done. that s the problem. kevin mccarthy is now essentially you have and his team. this is beat the clock. as we said, starting tomorrow, you start to lose members. and then the numbers shift all over again. so even if they feel like they may be gaining some momentum throughout this, the course of this vote, they re still running up against a very hard deadline of just not, again, the math. the math is not there. not formally, by the way. but we are appearing we are can formally say it appears that kevin mccarthy has lost the 11th round. yeah. that would be surprising. he lost the other ten. looks exactly like the others. but i think there are two aspects of this that we shouldn t lose sight of the other one. yes, it is still, i think john is right. the thing here is to keep him in the ring. just extend the boxing analo
you know my wife. all the friends feel the same way. dr. chrstine blasey ford was entirely credible. she was totally believable. her testimony was vivid and gut-wrenching. i have no doubt in my own mind unlike my theory about the conspiracy, i have no doubt in my own mind that the purported victim in this case sincerely believes that this happened to her and it was judge kavanaugh and his friends, his colleagues who did it to her. that doesn t make it true. it felt to me just watching her testimony by 12:00 noon today. i thought that the nomination of kavanaugh was going down the drain. to use a boxing analogy i thought he was on the ropes. he was getting beat up. even though he wasn t there and turns out wasn t even listening to her testimony. i think that is embarrassing. but i think he was on the ropes. someone talked to him or maybe it was his family or the president. i don t know who. but he came out and he gave his testimony he came out swinging. like a rocky movie. the trainer