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Well after midnight and ended with speaker mccarthy being handed the gavel. he was met with a standing ovation. >> usa! usa! [applause] >> from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] >> that was easy, huh? of. [laughter] i never thought wed get up here. >> reporter: speaker mccarthy squeezed by with 216 votes, 212 democrats backedman hakeem jeffries. six republicans in total voted present, since they werent nos, the thresho...

Mccarthy inched through with just 216 votes. 212 democrats backed congressman hakeem jeffries. six republicans in total including lauren boebert and matt gaetz voted present in the 15th round rather than no which lored the threshold voted -- needed to 215. >> there will be times we agree and many times we will differ. i promise our debates will be passionate, but they will never be personal. this chamber is now fully open for all americans to visit. [cheers and applause] i want to give all ameri...

Of the state of california has received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheering] [applause] >> alright heres how the vote finally broke down. mccarthy with 216, hakeem jeffries got 212. and six voted present which help mccarthy clinch the gavel by reducing the number of votes he needed for the majority. ♪ usa too. >> in the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. hooks ultimately the past sev...

To be adjourning for the weekend there was more arm twisting. suddenly mccarthy was smiling again. they undertook a 15th vote. andy biggs changed his vote to another candidate to present, got a standing ovation. then representative elect eli crane changed his vote to present. the calendar turned over from the second anniversary of january 6th to now january 7th. in the end, mccarthy had 216 votes, hakeem jeffries maintained his partys 212, the last six holdouts all voted present. the uniqueness ...

Up a dramatic night and early morning on capitol hill. >> reporter: out took 14 failed votes, intense negotiations to flip more than a dozen holdouts in a final tally that took place well after mid might. it ended with speaker mccarthy being handed the gavel. he was met with a standing to ovation. >> from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] >> that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought wed get up here. ing. >> report...

Impression here for the last few days this week that the government of the united states consists mainly of the republicans in the house of representatives. actually, you may have noticed there were 212 democrats sitting in that chamber the entire time. they might have something to say about all of this. the democrats control the senate, and they control the oval office a, the white house. so any governing that the republicans attempt to do is going to have to go through that process. bear in mi...

>> that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought wed get up here. >> reporter: speaker mccarthy squeezed by with 216 votes. 212 democrats backed congressman hakeem jeffries. six republicans many total votedded present. the threshold for majority was lowered to 215. now, one moment showed just how impassioned things had become. right after the 14th vote failure, congressman-elect at the time mike rogers of alabama was physically restrained by other members after attempting to confront congressma...

0 [applause] >> buck has voted for mccarthy as expected. >> gaetz? >> president. >> present. [applause] >> gosar. >> [inaudible] [applause] >> mccarthy. >> mccarthy. graves of louisiana? >> mccarthy. >> mccarthy. >> you can see, -- matt gaetz voting present. that means two of the six republican holdouts voted present. we had goals are coming through for mccarthy again. this is not enough for kevin mccarthy. this is as close as you can be with being there without actually being there. three prese...

0 >> now theyre going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. lets listen in. >> gaetz. >> present. >> present. >> he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed -- present votes dont hurt. its at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. lets listen in. gosar v...

Seriously? where do we go with this? -- who is at 20 coming into the day, is now a 12. so all this hoopla around, we have the opportunity to like the first black speaker the house. well, if the republicans wanted to do that, youve got 200 votes you can give him. >> or six. the reality is, when we when you make it, this does what i was talking about a minute ago. the gambit of the opposition to mccarthy. theyve had a plan and its very clear that their plan was to put up byron donalds to match jef...