hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and everywhere around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live from london. just ahead on cnn those opposed, no. no! no nominee having received the majority of the votes cast. a speaker has not been elected. dna evidence, a suspicious vehicle and a new witness account. critical information released publicly for the first time. now they want to use christmas as a cover to at least briefly stop the advance of our guys in donetsk. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, january 6th. 9 a.m. in london, 4 a.m. in washington where the house of representatives still doesn t have a speaker. we ve seen 11 votes over the last three days and each time publicly kevin mccarthy has fallen short despite his party s narrow majority in the chamber. no nominee having received the majority of the votes cast. a speaker has
congress, 111 members, have to do that. mccarthy has gone down to one member about keeping the speakership stable, the stability of the speakership assuming he gets the job. mccarthy is speaking late after the final failed vote on thursday, was confident he would ultimately get there, he just didn t know when. the entire conference is going to have to learn how to work together so it s better that we go through this process right now so we can achieve the things we want to achieve for the american public. so if this takes a little longer and doesn t meet your deadline, that s okay because it s not it s not how you start, it s how you finish. reporter: but even if a deal is reached with some of those dissidents and mccarthy and his allies, that doesn t mean he s going to get the 218 votes right away. there are other members with different concerns trying to work out an agreement with those members with a different area of concern. can they get there with those