i m on the floor of the house, but mccarthy has finally succeeded in winning the speakership of the house. let s go to alan fisher, his lifeless on capitol hill and allan. i think kevin mccarthy and all of us, so they breathing a huge sigh of relief the night that this is now over, talk us through the 15th and final vote. i m what it means. i m sure there are people who thought this or wasn t going to happen. and kevin mccarthy, me well, have been one of them cause 68 hours ago he was saying he had the votes to win on the 14th ballot and that didn t happen. he s just been tune over the top by a vote from a republican congressman because there was 5 votes of present, no votes for any others. that is enough to secure the majority of those who actually cast a vote. therefore, kevin mccarthy becomes at the speaker of the $180.00 congress of the united states house of reps and steve s at achieves essentially, a lifelong dream. he wasn t a physician to become speaker at some time a
in ukraine. as, according to russian state television, it coincides with the orthodox christmas holiday, but ukraine s leda has dismissed the 36 hour pools and fighting her accusations on both sides of continued strikes and shelling. charles stratford is in key with more . that is reported by the into fact, russian state media, they are quoting, the russian defense ministry is saying that russian positions of come under attack in various locations along the eastern front line in lou ganske, dawn exc. and in the upper is your of course, we have no way of independently verifying this information, but it would be consistent with what we know was a rejection of this cease fire by the ukrainians present zalinski. calling this a cynical ploy, giving the charity to russians, potentially to move men and equipment closer to the front lines. kevin mccarthy has been to become us. house speaker is now the longest voting process in a 164 years. after 3 days and 11 rounds, the republican h