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the media kept touting each ballot as a crushing defeat for ken mccash think -- kevin mccarthy, although he was winning 95% of house republicans. that was especially true late friday night when after flipping most of his opponents to his side, mccarthy lost by one vote. you could see he was stunned as he walks away there, and one ally, mike rogers, made a beeline for matt gaetz who had taken a half step by voting present. not until the early morning our hours yesterday did mccarthy win. some of the talking heads predicted mccarthy would drop out. >> i suspect that when they come back...

the contentious weeklong battle for speaker. kevin mccarthy's rocky road to the gavel including sessions made to the far-right's holdouts is raising fresh questions about how a republican-led house will govern. earlier today, house republicans getting their take. >> sometimes democracy is messy, but i would argue that's exactly how the founders intended it. they wanted real debate, real input from all people, and then you get a decision. >> it is positive, not negative. it is not weakening kevin mccarthy it is providing the speaker with the tools he needs for republicans to go to the...

i was writing a murder mystery and it just seemed that every sri lankan atrocity, we never deal with it, we kind ofjust move on. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the british prime minister liz truss has apologised for mistakes in the government's financial strategy — a strategy that she set in motion. the majority of measures in her so—called mini budget have been reversed by her new finance ministerjeremy hunt. he was in parliament to explain why the economic policy was being scrapped. the prime minister herself was keeping a low profile. our politi...

that should motivate you. >> will you sue him for us? >> we're going to sue him. we're going to be a real pain in the [bleep]. >> president trump cannot avoid justice in the great state of new york. since i've been in office the past two years, my office has either led or joined to 68 lawsuits against this administration. >> martha: okay. you get the idea. after three years of investigating real estate properties on their books, a high profile announcement that she's suing all of the working trump family mens. andy mccarthy is here on developments this hour. but first, this huge stor...

tonight on "the reidout" -- >> we have got to get to proceedings. >> there has to be somewhere we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some confidence that government can function and that we can elect a president of the united states. >> it's been exactly two years since the january 6th insurrection. and watching nancy pelosi's leadership in a crisis is a stark contrast to how we currently have no speaker of the house at all. and while kevin mccarthy may have gained votes today, he has now lost the speaker's race 13 times. not exactly inspiring conf...