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that began way back on tuesday. along the way, we were treated to an important at times chaotic civics lesson including near fisticuffs live and on camera. friday the fourth day of voefting we saw 15 holdouts switch their allegiance during the 12th and 13th rounds of balloting, and then after an adjournment mccarthy thought he had the needed votes and at 11:00 came to a 14th vote yet one vote shy of a majority. for the first time all week he couldn't hide being visibly angry. lauren boebert and matt gaetz voted present while four other anti-mccarthy holdouts remained steadfast. it wa...

at his disposal to defend the now annexed territories. president biden responding with a stern warning of his own. >> mr. putin, don't misunderstand what i'm saying. >> ukraine's president zelenskyy is now pushing for accelerated admission into nato in the wake of putin's move today. rhetorical back and forth has ratcheted the threat of expansion of the war in ukraine to a new level. retired general jack keane with analysis of the situation. jacqui heinrich with the biden administration's response but we begin tonight with correspondent trey yingst from kyiv with vladimir putin's thr...

432 elected congressmen or calling them congressmen-elect. he needs three more to close the deal. republicans are hoping at 10:00 p.m. time when they reconvene, he will have the three. that is a stubborn six that is left over. let's get the details from chad pergram with the very latest. chad? >> neil, the speakership is a game of inches. today for the first time since tuesday, kevin mccarthy finally showed he was gaining ground towards securing the votes to become speaker. >> i think you saw we made very good progress. we'll come back tonight and i believe tonight we'll have the vot...

>> good evening, chris. >> what a ride. >> i mean -- >> history, day three, we hadn't today three of history. >> they, as rebecca saying on friday, big british parliament energy without the intelligence and the phone. she did say that part, but i will. >> i do love british parliament energy. >> i -- >> i like the rockets this. i'm into it. >> there's something into the rockets in this, although this is just uncontrolled chaos. nobody is driving the bus. and here we are. thank you, as always. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it is 9 pm on the east coast and there is sti...

set to hold the seventh vote for speaker of the house, but within the past, hour the house voted to adjourn, to close up shop for the night and come back tomorrow, because why not check this thing out another day. now that vote to adjourn was on par with the rest of the chaos and confusion that as characterized this entire speaker debacle. majority of republicans voted to end the session and wait until tomorrow, while all democrats voted to keep the session going. but since right now neither party controls the house voting process, the whole vote turned into what might politely be ca...