thank you so much for letting us into your homes all weeklong during these extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber. it s friday, have you heard? i hope you have a great week, nicolle. you, too. welcome to the beat. this republican chaos is continuing on this friday night in the house, which just rejected kevin mccarthy for speaker again, the 13th time. that s two more defeats for mccarthy today. kevin mccarthy is pretty much stuck at this point. he can t even stop these votes from taking place and losing over and over again. house republicans now are on the verge of becoming a total clown show if they re not careful. what s it going to take to get over the top? we ll get it done tonight. it looks like he will lose on the 13th ballot. i have a couple members flying back. that s what it s been looking like as the weekend now looms on this friday evening on the east coast. it s clear this is one of the worst weeks for any party leade
flying back. that s what it s been looking like as the weekend now looms on this friday evening on the east coast. it s clear this is one of the worst weeks for any party leader in american history in the last century, and that includes past speakers who were famously ousted by their own members, like boehner or gingrich, but who had at least amassed a coalition first. the new york times reports how mccarthy has contorted himself, limped to the fourth day. a humiliating stretch of consecutive defeats in an election that s now the most protracted contest since 1859. with mccarthy offering concessions that could substantially weaken his own authority. the reporting shows those concessions include weakening the speaker s office by empowering a single member to force a vote to liquidate his rule and put even more of these rebels in powerful positions which, to many republicans,
we know how it ended. we note from history and putin s history. it is his record. that offering concessions, appeasement and demonstrating weakness provokes him towards escalation. we already, in world war iii. this war yet to involve open military conflict between nato and russian forces but the free world imposed economic sanctions aimed to ruin putin s regime and putin s fighting back. so there s no need to pretend that nato could keep avoiding this this confrontation. if america is ready to defend nato territory. like poland. that also involves military confrontation with russia. so it s question that s only, when it happens and sooner we do it, so better the chances that putin s generals and admirals will not have resolve to follow with this criminal order. so concessions? they are making actually the
was seen as relinquishing leverage, of offering concessions to the taliban, not least over their demand that 5000 taliban prisoners be released from jail throughout the country. there are those who say that he was facing an impossible task, being sandwiched between two american presidents, and an impossible situation with both those presidents are keen to withdraw american forces and to end america s longest war. but he has now resigned, stepped down from his post, just two months after the taliban ran amok and took control of the country and the capital, kabul. let s talk about what is happening in south korea where the military says pyongyang has fired a ballistic missile from the eastern port into the sea of japan. the eastern port into the sea ofjapan. north korea has embarked on a series of missile
comparative. and then also president putin is actually very skilled in bringing things up in a very subtle way and scoring points, and i think it s just something that biden at this point probably doesn t need and gives him an opportunity to talk about what he wants to, and also putin can do the same without interference or show from the other guy. there are some concerns whether this summit should even be happening. there s a worry biden might repeat the mistakes of some of his predecessors, offering concessions to the kremlin without getting much of anything in return. biden has made clear he wants to raise a number of contentious topics with putin like cyber attacks, human rights violations. ultimately, is there ground to be gained from having this meeting? is it worth sitting down with