watching us here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead right here on cnn newsroom plenty of action on the house floor, but still no one has been elected speaker. what concessions will kevin mccarthy now have to make to win the 12th ballot? vladimir putin is calling for a temporary ceasefire in ukraine, ahead, why many are skeptical of his proposal. and later more details about what s in prince harry s upcoming memoir spare including begging his father not to marry camilla. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. the house of representatives will convene today at noon for a 12th vote to elect a new speaker or at least try to and get on with the business of governing. republican leader kevin mccarthy is making major concessions to conservative holdouts, but he hasn t swayed a single member of the so- called never kevins. the streak of 11 failed votes over the past three days is now the longest in 164 years. democrats say if the gop
we ll see whether kevin mccarthy can show some momentum. melanie zanona, cnn, capitol hill. the chaos on the hill is more than a major embarrassment for republicans. lawmakers say it s a serious threat to national security. members cannot be sworn in without a speaker and that means no national security briefings or access to classified material. members of congress are unable to authorize or stop a war and a number of key national security committees including intelligence and armed services are on hold. here s u.s. state department spokesperson ned bryce. the first few days of any congressional term is usually spent on procedural elements, but if this continues on, there will be concerns. the hill has an indispensable function, oversight role, authorization role. we want to hear their voice in
a chance to sit down with state department spokesman ned bryce on the ongoing efforts to assist ukraine. joining me now, state department spokesman ned price. welcome back to the sunday show. good morning, jonathan. thanks for having me. as we have seen the devastating pictures out of bucha, ukraine s foreign ministry is calling the civilian. killings a massacre. your response to that. the pictures we are seeing are just heartwrenching, and these are the latest series and just devastating images that have emerged from this conflict. a couple things on this. we have known for some time that the russians had these kinds of atrocities in mind. in fact, before the russian aggression began against ukraine, we warned of this very type of occurrence. and now we re seeing it in vivid color. when it comes to our sanctions, we ve always said that we will continue applying pressure on
set of financial sanctions, of export controls, of other economic measureser, that together with our international partners around the world, that we ve enacted. you see the kind of account thablt we re talking about. you can measure that in any number of ways. most estimates show that the russian economy will contract by 10%. you see international companies fleeing russia by the day, wanting nothing to do with this market, wanting nothing do with this war effort. you look at the russian stock market. you look at the value of the ruble. you look at inflation. you look at any number of metrics, and you see the toll of the sanctions. but, look, sanctions are a means to an end. they re not an end in and of themselves. the end we re after is bringing this war to a close, diminishing the violence, saving lives. that s why we re holding russia to account with these measures, but it s also why we are providing unprecedented amount of security assistance to our ukrainian partners. $2.3 billion