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. . temperatures the longest speaker contest in 164 years, but before it ended, the house floor turned into a stage for some stunning political drama, the 14th vote should have been the clincher as mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes in the bag, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the very end of the balloting process to vote present, even though mccarthy needed just one more yes vote to win. mccarthy appeared stunned and walked up the house floor to confront matt gaetz himself. mccarthy walked away dejected. it almost came to blows. armed services committee chairman mike rogers appears to suddenly lunge at gaetz and had to be physically restrained by a fellow republican. this looked like the end of the line for mccarthy. in those final moments, kevin mccarthy found a breakthrough with matt gaetz. republicans quickly changed the vote to adjourn and then held the decisive 15th vote for speaker and gavel in hand, mccarthy administered the oath ....
Mccarthy administered the oath of office to the 118th congress. cnn s eva mccann is up on capitol hill. it s exhausting just going over everything that happened last night. i guess everybody s glad to get a break today. this was a riveting and historic scene. so tell us what did kevin mccarthy have to give up to these holdouts in order to finally win this battle. he was saying it s not how you star start, it s how you finish. a lot of critics are saying he finished as a weakened speaker. he does very lily. any one member can call for a vote to oust the speaker. that is one of the concessions he made. he has to put some of these far right members, the members that gave him the most trouble perhaps on the house rules committee. this place, capitol hill really operates on rules. that is a pivotal committee, and of course they will vote on the house rules package on monday. and then of course he also ....