hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and everywhere around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live from london. just ahead on cnn those opposed, no. no! no nominee having received the majority of the votes cast. a speaker has not been elected. dna evidence, a suspicious vehicle and a new witness account. critical information released publicly for the first time. now they want to use christmas as a cover to at least briefly stop the advance of our guys in donetsk. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, january 6th. 9 a.m. in london, 4 a.m. in washington where the house of representatives still doesn t have a speaker. we ve seen 11 votes over the last three days and each time publicly kevin mccarthy has fallen short despite his party s narrow majority in the chamber. no nominee having received the majority of the votes cast. a speaker has
only scares you is only bad if he s scared of it and he said he s not scared of it. we ve seen how it s wielded in the past. he should be scared of it. the reality is the concessions he s making will make him weaker and there s no way around that very crucial fact. not even talking about this vote to oust a potential speaker but also the fact that all of a sudden he has to put freedom caucus aligned members on committees like budget like appropriations, like the rules committee. those kinds of concessions really make a strong difference in how you can govern, legislate. the rules speaker is supposed to be the speaker s committee, they dictate how the bills come up. so he is looking at a weaker speakership if he can pull this off. manu said at the end, you ve been trying for two months to get the votes. i think it speaks to why wasn t there a bigger push like this a month ago to avoid a scene like this on the floor. i think it s remarkable he went to the floor k
a remarkable turnaround today for the republican leader. mccarthy promised progress, he promised it tuesday and promised it wednesday, promised it thursday. today we finally saw it. even as he failed on his 13th ballot. 15 rebel holdouts today switched their votes in favor of mccarthy, giving him for the first time this whole week more votes than the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, but despite this break in the republican resistance, six hardliners remain and congress people matt gaetz, bob good, andy harris, elle crane andy harris is not one of them. it s a different individual. in any case, the six are keeping mccarthy two votes short of the magic number needing needed to realize his dream of clinching the speaker s gavel. straight to chief congressional correspondent manu raju live on capitol hill. mccarthy won over much of the republican opposition today. he s still short of enough votes to win. how does he get the final two votes he nooesz? right now the top lea
christian mercy. can we say russia s war against ukraine is mercy? any talks of mercy from the aggressor are nothing but a lie. in ukraine, there is nothing christian about russia s bloody invasion. and, jake, the chair of the senate armed services committee, jack reed, was in kyiv just as the white house announced a new round of military aid which includes the bradley fighting vehicle. i asked reed whether sending those might lead to the u.s. sending actual tanks, which kyiv has also been requesting, but he said there is simply no connection there. thank you so much. coming up next, what to expect as house members head for a 14th ballot in attempts to find a house speaker. stay with us. 90% clearer skin a, after just 2 doses.. serious alallergic reactions and an increased riskk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to.
that went into effect a while ago. president vladimir putin ordered them to have a 36-hour cease-fire. ukrainian officials are saying this is pure propaganda and an attempt to buy time. the deputy of russia s security council said ukraine said no to the hand of christian mercy. meanwhile, these satellite images show months of fighting had done extensive damage to the eastern sea of bakhmut. russian fire pummelling the city which is still in ukrainian hands. 60% of bakhmut is now destroyed. ukraine is also getting more fire power foreground operations against russia. the u.s. and germany are pledging to deliver armored infantry vehicles as there is expected to be an uptick of fighting. the idea that putin is