his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they re drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it s not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have one more house republican continues to join those four, he can only afford to lose four. kevin mccarthy will never wield the speaker s gavel. that is without help from democrats or changing the rules in some way. let s go straight to cnn chief correspondent who is live on capitol hill. we keep hearing progress is being made. progress is being made. kevin mccarthy is well on his way to breaking re
to ukraine, including a fresh new infusion of eight hundred i and twenty million dollars just this week, bringing the totalof commitment. are you guys ready toe fifty four billion dollarsyo, which is about a third ofis ukraine s entire gdp. but according to one biden adviser, we all must sacrifice so that the liberal world order is upheld. watch this .e the military analyst, the director of nationalal intelligence, they say that this could be a long war measured s in years. and ian think everybody understands why this is happening. but is it sustainable? what do you say to those families who say, listen, we can tto afford to pay forla eighty five a gallon for months, if not years? s this is just not sustainable. for which heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes. this is about the future of the liberal world order and we . so just how long will you be expected to suffer in silence for the liberal world order? well, according to joe biden,
there. basically, you have to keep going through this ballot xer sues which produces the same exercise that produces the same result. you can t get out of this mirror. do they have the votes to adjourn because they think they re close to a deal? you hear perry say there is no talk of a deal. chip royce says they re still talking. there is no votes to adjourn. the never kevins don t want to adjourn. they want to make him suffer this defeat after defeat after defeat. democrats aren t incentivized. why help? they don t want to help. to david s point, i touch on david s point. one thing that congress does, i was a chief of staff for a senator for a long time, five years. and one of the biggest things do you is constituents services. most people don t interact with their congressmen or senator on a legislative front. they go there because they have some issues. they re petitioning the government for regress grievances. they re going because social security check is screwed out o