good evening, everyone. i m laura coats, and this is cnn tonight. well, they re going to come back and do it all tomorrow. the house voting to adjourn until noon. that s congressional time for 9:00 a.m. and they barely got the votes to do that tomorrow, giving kevin mccarthy is few more hours to try to make a last-ditch deal that would give him the speakership. i think it s probably best that people work through some more. and i think i don t think the vote tonight will be any different but a vote in the future will. do you have a deal with those guys now? not yet but we re making a lot of progress. our reporting indicates that some members may actually be moving in mccarthy s direction, which maybe there is a break in the clouds for him. but there is no doubt the horse trading will go on well into the night, but it s been a long and chaotic and frankly embarrassing display so far. i mean, there were three votes yesterday. three more votes earlier today. no memb
they will go all the way to the matt. he s first of the establishment types to go, what if i wait, too, right? the one that says maybe embarrassment shouldn t be the thing that takes me out of this. maybe cable news chatter can t take me out of this. if you can withstand the storm, can you actually outwait these people? he could be stronger. when it is totally about learning the lessons of the last few years? now, can you govern the whole way like that? that seems hard if you have to horse trait all of the power of the office away to get it. that was the part that congressman made when he nominated mccarthy earlier today. he was talking about twitter and cable news and the idea of everybody rejoicing in how humiliating this looks. maybe that was a shifting of the narrative. i don t know if it is a successful one or not. i m saying that is not something that is enough to deter kevin mccarthy from
again, i keep talking about context. i keep going back to context because we see images coming on our screen every day. we have so much information coming at us 24-hours a day, sometimes we get overwhelmed by the twitter feed, by all the video, the 24/7 cable news chatter. let s just stop and take a deep breath here for a second and talk about what ambassador mcfaul brought up earlier this morning. you have joe biden, who has taken a shattered nato, a nato that donald trump, for four years, unsuccessfully tried to undermine. tried to finish off once and for all. you have a nato more united than any time since the early 1960s. from my best recounting. you have the most extraordinary list of economic sanctions levelled against any country in,
it s incredible that you could pronounce her name, too. i think we should say her name so people continue to know her. yes. marina ovsyannikova. it is a hard name so day. incredibly courageous young woman. editor at the largest state run television station there. her family, one of her parents is from ukraine, one is from russia. right before she did this, she explained on a video that they never fought. we don t understand what this war is. then facing 15 years in jail, did what she did. but there is another little tidbit that is interesting. this is a giant building. this is their television tower out there. thousands of people work there. you don t march on that screen unless a lot of people are passively allowing you to do that. i think that s something people need to think about. just like those 15,000 that you just mentioned that were arrested, that s incredible
or have. again, i couldn t agree more. i want to agree on several fronts. first of all, yes, the best and the brightest of russia are fleeing. many of them are my friends, joe. i have friends in azerbaijan, kazakhstan, georgia, armenia right now trying to get visas to get out of there because they re fleeing. number two, putin is shutting down. right, he is shutting down independent media, including me, by the way. i had a video on deutsche tv that had 2 million viewers in 4 hours. if you click on it now, it is shut down. he is shutting down the information just like you said. number three, to richard s point about the russian military, i completely agree. we look at numbers spent, right, and we measure that and compare that to numbers spent in the west. we don t think about corruption in the russian military industrial complex. i think there s been billions of dollars of corruption leading to