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
members after cutting those deals? that still remains to be seen. the so if he does get this deal, he s got some more work to do which means a lot of people think this is going into next week at least to see if mccarthy can get the votes, if not maybe even beyond. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. cnn s political analyst ron brownstein joins us from los angeles. this is extremely unusual, isn t it, in terms of the situation. it s not unprecedented. it could go for months. in the 19th century it did go on for months and although as manu pointed out, we have not done this in exactly 100 years. this has been building a long time in the sense that there were similar concerns once john b b boehner and paul ryan departed
being told by our own republican leadership. it s 90% good. it s 90% tasty. there s only 10% poisons and toxins in it but drink it anyway. reporter: the group has been at the center of some of the biggest fights on capitol hill. at this point it looks like we could be in for a long-term shutdown. reporter: making the task of governing more challenging. i don t want us to become a faction allized majority. i share frustration. about 90% of our conference is for this bill to repeal and replace obamacare and about 10% are not. reporter: the freedom caucus was involved in former house speaker john boehner s ouster in 2015. in my case on any given day there were two or three dozen what i call knuckleheads who wanted chaos. they wanted it all their way or no way. reporter: he stepped down