Well, good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Cotes, and this is CNN Tonight. And while here we go again,

they're going to come back and do it all over again in a couple of hours. You know exactly what I'm

talking about because the house voted to adjourn until noon tomorrow, a vote that Kevin McCarthy won

by really the skin of his teeth. And coming back to vote again because there has not yet been a

speaker of the house elected. And it's all right now, seemingly about buying time for more

negotiations behind closed doors. So the fact that the motion to adjourn even passed, well,

that's a little bit of good news for Kevin McCarthy. He did speak to Commander Raju just a little

while ago saying that he still believes that he will become the next speaker of the house,

but he wouldn't commit to when that would actually take place or even getting it wrapped up by tomorrow.

We're after a play tomorrow, then. No, no, I'm not putting any time on it. I just think we've got

some progress going on. We've got members talking. I think we've got a little movement. So we'll see.

We're going to have more for Mono Raju in just a moment. Kevin McCarthy has suffered what many

are calling five humiliating defeats. Well, that was just today. And you can add that to what

happened in the past over the past several days. His own party has told him, nope, that comes from,

of course, Congressman Lauren 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 may have heard about

it. We may have read about it, know that it could happen. But this is the longest speaker contest

in 164 years. Now, I don't want to scare you all the way, but back in 1855, the contest for speaker

at that time, it went for 133 ballots. So right now, we are in the small potatoes category of all 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, this what's known as an embarrassing display by so many who are

talking about what's happening on Capitol Hill right now, this seeming complete inability to get

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