has ukrainian heritage. the war is far from their home here in bolton, but feels very close in their hearts and their minds. it s not easy at all because we spend most of the time checking the news and just following what s happening in ukraine. my grandma and my uncle are still there, so we do worry. it s been, like, a horrifying year. i ve heard terrible stories of what has happened to both where i ve been, where i ve stayed, my friends who live there, that they ve been spending time in bomb shelters. their children attend a ukrainian cultural school on saturdays. they have done ever since they were very young. but over the past year it s doubled in size, with children coming to the uk to escape danger. there s people in my class, there s a girl from mariupol and it sjust, like, she s seen this, she s lived through this.
there was a pitch that resonating and perhaps they would get something at noon. maybe something behind the scenes. but he didn t have the votes. they did it anyway. sat through it again, this is the fifth round. looks tedious. people are getting angry. victoria sparks has backed out now. i remember kevin mccarthy standing by her. she was of ukrainian heritage. tell your story. help tell america how important the war was. i don t know behind the scenes, she s like they don t have the votes. i m backing out. now i m a nonvote. to me, worst negotiation ever. it s not clear what they want. number,2 it s got to be embarrassing to the republican party. martha: the house clerk is about to read the final tally. let s listen in and we ll be back with our guests.
0 relentless in the face of this gridlock happening in washington. the dow is up today. the reason for that, the longer this goes on, there s likely to be gridlock in congress the next two weeks and wall street likes gridlock because nothing changes. sandra: see you tomorrow, john. thanks for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: we ll see you tomorrow. i m john roberts. the story with martha starts right now. martha: all right. breaking news. continuing coverage this afternoon of a cliff-hanger in the house of representatives. republicans battle over who will be the speaker in the majority that they will hold for the next two years. house republican leader kevin mccarthy failing falling short on the fifth ballot to become speaker. blocked by another challenger from his own party. byron donalds of florida. he joined john sandra last hour after he also blocked mccarthy in the fourth vote. watch this. what we want to see is that leadership actually reflects where the american
she survived the attacks and that she died years later from a battle with cancer. there s also an obituary that shows she actually died on december 23rd, 2016, more than 15 years after the terrorist attacks. now, obviously a lot of first responders have developed health conditions after 9/11, so we asked santos for comment to clarify these discrepancies. we have not heard back. but our k-file team has uncovered a number of other false claims and fabrications that santos made. that includes that he went to a fancy private school in new york and was forced to drop out when his family fell on hard times. the school says no record of him actually attending the school. another claim he made was that his mother had a historically jewish last name. he used that same last name to set up some gofundme accounts. but genealogists working with cnn found there s no evidence of that last name in his family tree, in fact no evidence whatsoever of jewish or ukrainian heritage. this is all coming of co
contradicted by family trees compiled by genealogy websites, records on jewish refugees, and interviews with multiple genealogists. one professional genealogist who spoke with cnn said there is no sign of jewish and/or ukrainian heritage, and no indication of name changes along the way. santos now saying he never claimed to be jewish. i always joked i m catholic, but i m also jew-ish, as in ish. and i ve made that joke because growing up, i grew up fully aware that my grandparents were jewish. reporter: but cnn learning that santos described himself as a proud american jew in a document he shared with prominent jewish groups. shalom to everybody. reporter: santos now drawing the ire of the republican jewish coalition, who says they were deceived. santos will no longer be welcome at our jc events. i m not a fraud. i m not a cartoon character. i m not some mythical creature that was invented.