starts now. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us, tragedy in ukraine today. a helicopter tumbling out of the sky in a kyiv suburb killing a child and the most senior member of ukraine s government to die in this war. ten hours ago a tragedy happened near kyiv. a helicopter crashed contemplating the lives of the minister of internal affairs of ukraine. plus, the new republican majority rewards misfits and liars with key policy roles. a swindler, firebrand and provocateur who defended kanye and serial election deniers get committee house assignments. cnn investigation found joe biden s son and brothers cashed in on the family name. a turbulent moment in ukraine s war of survival. just moments ago ukraine s president asking world leaders kong get gated in davos for a minute of silence to mark a he crashed rocking a kyiv suburb. the smoke and flames from that crash visible for miles. pieces of helicopt
hello, a very warm welcome to the programme. it is good to have you with us. kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow republicans come to blows. it took 15 rounds of voting for mr mccarthy to win the powerful role, even though his party has a majority in the chamber. no government business can be carried out unless a speaker is in place, as our washington correspondent gary o donoghue explains. it took them four days and 15 separate ballots before they finally got there. the honourable kevin mccarthy of the state of california, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. cheering not since the american civil war more than 160 years ago has it taken this long to elect a speaker. that was easy, huh? after multiple concessions and days of arm twisting, and at times tempers almost boiling over, kevin mccarthy finally persuaded enough on the r
good evening,. alex through the conversation, then you are having with david floofy. i like when i get a laugh. the idea that you just said, we re going to have a speaker and odds are the person will probably be a republican. that s where we are. i want to cover our bases, the fact that that s even a possibility, that it might not be somebody from kevin mccarthy s party tells you where we re at. thank you, my friend. thank you to all of you at home for joining us this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. and that appears to be exactly where we are right now. in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of time
good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you to all of us joining us at this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. that appears to be exactly where we are right now in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of times that he has failed to win the speakers gavel up to 11. that s the most failed elections for speaker and any congress and over 100 years. surpassing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker all the way back in the year 1923. throughout those failed votes, kevin mccarthy hasn t picked up one sin
the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow. still don t know why 9 am wasn t a possibility, more now with day three of trying to get speaker, that s fine. we re gonna go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, of course, republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has been enduring a c series of stinging defeats. now losing a total of six rounds of voting. in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight, well there s no deal yet, the emphasis on yet, there s a lot of progress that has been made in talks with some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. it s possibly now paved the way for him to become the speaker. of course, it seems to be far from certain, knowing that there seems to be at least 20 who have not budged in many a vote at this point. his most strident opponents are vowing again tonight, they are going to block his bid. i want to go now to cnn s melanie zanona who s on capitol hill