coffin, in very yasmin vossoughian. it is now speaker kevin mccarthy, and we have learned he is at work to get today after an ugly week for where publicans and with a 15 ballot victory for mccarthy after last minute efforts that couldn t vince republicans to finally given. and even more chaotic than the beginning of this battle, even one near physical altercation between two members on the floor, now the question is how much did mccarthy give up to represent matt gates, and the other holdouts, and what will they deal with their almost limitless power over the speaker? preferably, you do this, the preference in politics is to always suffer indignities in private not in public. when you have a lower house of legislatures, anywhere in the world, it looks like trump s. i actually have newfound, i have new respect for people i knew. we have newfound respect for people. we do not engage in serious negotiations. i think that s good for policy. in a moment, i m gonna talk to co
reporting. thank you. now the ukraine, and tonight the pentagon confirming american-made cluster mu mission in additions are now being used on the battlefield there. james longman in ukraine. reporter: tonight, the pentagon confirming ukraine is using u.s. cluster munitions for the first time on the battlefield against entrenched russian forces. the controversial weapons rain and more weaponry is available for deployment. this is the u.s. made bradley. it s a piece of equipment that ukraine values really, really highly in this counter-offensive, because it keeps its men safe whilst being able to go on the attack. the armor much more effective, says the operator, than the soviet equivalent. if not for this type of vehicle, he says, i wouldn t be speaking to you right now. and there s more u.s. artillery here. this is a piece of precision artillery kit that can fire at targets up to 15 mile as way. u.s. cluster munitions now part of the supply. he s explaping on this piece of p
going to be there because, you know, danielle is right. he is being held hostage. he is a puppet. but he s being held a puppet by two different factions. the extreme conservatives, and the moderates who won t go along with him. this is a very difficult position to be in. the crystal ball we did not have, so we will definitely have to see how things play out. susan percio, and daniel moodie, thanks to both of you. a lot to be said about the rules package they re going to pass on monday as well. let s get to ukraine, all the biden administration announcing a new 3.8 billion dollar aid in security package for european allies. it is the largest aid package so far, which contains billions of in weaponry, including the american made bradley infantry fighting vehicle, that ukraine has long ask. for the news coming on a holy day for millions in the region, celebrating orthodox christmas.
man any pacquiao and timothy bradley fight in las vegas. reid, you may not know is former amateur boxer. he supports an investigation into the judges split decision that made bradley a winner. that was a big talker the other day. graceland first opened their doors to the public 30 years ago this month. since then nearly 18 million guests have visited elvis presley s former home. i m not one of them. i always have wanted to go to graceland. so maybe we have to plan a road trip. bill: love this elvis song. how about america s newsroom live at graceland? what do you think about that? . bill: we needed an injection of the king every day. that pacquiao fight, all bad. martha: they were talking about that before the show. bill: that thing in the same weekend that i ll have another dropped out of the belmont. to graceland we go. martha: i love that idea for the meeting after the show. bill: we ll let you viewers