funding, and also republicans are readying those investigations that they ve promised into the various facets of the biden administration ranging from probes into the president s son, hunter biden, to the administration s handling of the withdrawal from afghanistan. but the president, as he is now entering this era of divided government, he s trying to argue that bipartisanship needs to be the way in trying to show that he is willing to put that first even as he s expected expecting this resistance from house republicans all along the way. arlette at the white house. thank you so much. through all of this week s voting, c-span was there to capture all of the drama unfolding on the house floor. and in so doing offered a rare glimpse of democracy in action. lawmakers negotiating in ways not usually seen by most americans. multiple cameras in the house chamber giving the public a front row view of the high-stakes talks between
open dispute over the course of a week. democrats say this really illustrates that republicans are not ready to govern. fred? all right. eva on capitol hill. thank you so much. so with the speaker now in place, a new republican majority will finally get to work ushering a new era for the biden administration. we were we have more from the white house. arlette, what is the president saying about this new house majority, the few speaker, and their expressed missions? reporter: fred, president biden congratulated kevin mccarthy for winning that speaker s race just days after he called that chaos up in the house embarrassing for the country. as republicans have reached this resolution, president biden now says s time for democrats and republicans to find ways to work together. he said in a statement last night, quote, as i said after the midterms, i am prepared to work with republicans when i can, and voters made clear that they expect republicans to be prepared to work with me, as
has a new speaker. the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [ cheers ] kevin mccarthy grabbing the gavel right there after 15 rounds of voting. it was the longest speaker contest in 164 years. and despite the sometimes contentious days of negotiations with a narrow faction of his conference, republicans in the end rallied around mccarthy and his vision for america. i make this promise i ll never give up for you, the american people. and i will never give up on keeping our commitment to america. our nation is worth fighting for. our rights are worth fighting for. our dreams are worth fighting for. our future is worth fighting
for. [ applause ] cnn has more live from capitol hill. eva, what finally pushed mccarthy over the edge? he was very confident just ahead of that 15th vote. reporter: fred, in the words of one of mccarthy s key opponents, congressman matt gaetz, essentially this group of detractors were running out of things to ask for. ultimately enough of those never-kevin lawmakers voted present. that isn t a ringing endorsement of mccarthy, but it lowered the threshold necessary for mccarthy to secure the speakership. mccarthy also, though, made some other key concessions. for instance, will require only one member to force a vote that could potentially oust the speaker. so that weakens the speakership in a sense. also, something we hear from both democrats and republicans, real frustration that there isn t enough time to read bills.
their fingers, esticulating mad low. it left viewers trying to lip read, and when aoc chatted with archenemy republicans it inspired nonsensical bad lip readings. heard of the pied piper? in my dream, pied piper had toilet paper. one sheet of the cheap kind. reporter: democrats groaned when matt gaetz voted for a certain ex-president for speaker of the house. donald john trump. reporter: even hard-core republicans couldn t keep a straight face. and check out the face of the newly elected congressman who got caught in a web of lies about himself, george santos. santos reporter: he didn t recognize his own name during one roll call. santos. reporter: george who? one commentator wrote the poor house clerk is dangerously close to running out of pencil. but one thing that wasn t out of order this kid s hair.