i am laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. well, here we go again. they will come back and do it all over again a couple of hours. you know exactly what i am talking about because the house voted to adjourn until noon tomorrow, a vote that kevin mccarthy won by a skin of his teeth. and coming back to vote again, because there has not yet been a speaker of the house elected. it s all right now about buying time for more negotiations behind closed doors, so the fact that the motion to adjourn even past, that s a little bit of good news for kevin mccarthy. he did speak to manu raju just a little while ago saying that he still believes that he will become the next speaker of the house, but he would not commit to when that would actually take place or even getting it wrapped up by tomorrow. wrapped up by tomorrow night? no, i am not putting timeline on it. i think we have progress going on, members talking. i think we have a little movement, so we will see. we will have mor
raju in a moment, kevin mccarthy has suffered what many are calling five humiliating defeats. that was just today, and you can add that to what happened in the past several days. his own party has told him, no, that comes from congressman laura boebert, that we don t want you. a total of 11 times this week. this frankly is nothing like any of us have seen, at least in our lifetimes. we ve heard about it, may have read about it, known that it could ve happened, but this is the longest speaker contests in 164 years. i don t want to scare you all the way but back in 1855, the contest respeaker at that time, it went for 132 bouts. right now, we are in the small potato category law of this. but here we are tonight, 11 votes, and there is still not a speaker of the house, and this, frankly, all of this dysfunction, what is known as a dispersing display by capitol hill right now, the seemingly complete inability to get the job done or even be able to