welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we begin with continuing drama on capitol hill. day two for the chaotic and his tor historic fight for the speaker of the house. i ve never seen this. the house has adjourned until 8:00 p.m. after mccarthy failed on his attempt not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six, six attempts to win a majority of votes in the house to become speaker. a source says republicans believe there may be a path forward between the promccarthy and anti mccarthy republicans to negotiate, to choose a house speaker. let s go to manu raju on capitol hill. i am hearing as you are hearing from members of congress, you re hearing from them off the record i guess and hearing from them on camera, who are saying yeah, they think there actually might be a way forward. some are saying that too, on the record chip roy being one of them. others are suggesting there is not. there is still very little room for error for kevin mccarthy but mccarthy just le
lives that died by suicide afterwards. what is your message to them? do you apologize for anyway you fell short? so i think i d say i have two mes messages. i know my officers well. regularly and i truly do care about them and they know how much is this. they did the best they possibly could if it wasn t for the law enforcement, the agencies that came to assist and i called in 17 law enforcement officers that came in and assisted that day. if it wasn t for the law enforcement and quick response from the metropolitan police department, i think the rioters would have breached the capitol quicker and you d probably be dealing with dead members of congress. in the halls of congress. we need to know with the circumstances to get whatever resources we could. they need to change the security structure that o.
mes messages, we have seen tires on every street, street corners, it is all part of his plan, it seems to be, to set fire to them in the event that russian forces enter into the city, to create a confusing blanket of smoke. he asked everyone to not set fire to them until he gave his instruction, but, jim, that does raise the prospect, very ugly prospect of street to street fighting in mykolaiv. that s what the u.s. military expects russia to do after encircling these cities. nick paton walsh, thank you so much. let s go to cnn international correspondent scott mclean, he s here in lviv. russia and ukraine, they have agreed to a 12-hour cease-fire. russia s track record has not been great in recent days to say the least. explicitly using these cease-fires to advance their forces. what have we seen so far today? been a little hit and miss. we have seen success in places like sumy, where people were able to get out yesterday. that corridor is back open today. there is also some succ