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Work. reporter: speaker mccarthy squeezed by with 216 votes since republicans bobart and gates voted present instead of no and he needed 215 for majority and democrats unanimously backed hakeem jeffreys and six republicans in total voted present. just to illustrate how contentious things became last night after the 14th vote failure, congressman-elect mike rogers of alabama had to be physically restrained and appeared to lunge at gates and still victory for mccarthy took one more round and with ...

All members-elect will raise their right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm youll support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of which you are about to enter so help you god? congratulations. you are now members of the 1...

Mr. valadao. miss barragan. mr. carbajal. mr. korea. mr. connolly. mr. panetta. mr. gomez. mr. harder. mr. levin. miss porter. mr. my garcia. mrs. kim. mr. open lte. mrs. feel. mr. doula. mister robert garcia. mr. calm like a dove. mr. keighley. mr. mullin. the committee will retire from the chamber to escort the speaker elect to the chair. [inaudible]

Foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of which youre about to enter so help you god? >> yes, i do. >> congratulations and godspeed. [ applause ] >> according to the president the chair will swear in the members-elect en masse. the members-elect will rise. the chair will now administer the oath...

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...

De-escalation. that guy still is spending away. they did their job. >> i think that everyone, i think across the country should be grateful for the work of capitol police officers on january 6th. and the days after january 6th, i remember the then president elect joe biden then president elect, kamala harris, they spoke and they were in delaware. they spoke and talked about what unfolded. and their remarks, they both made mention to the fact that they propose january six to summer 2021 activists...

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...

The minds of people here. peter bowes. i will take you back to washington to take a look at our the scenes in that chamber are unfolding. it looks likely that the decision to adjourn will go ahead. when we can listen into what is being said we will do that for you but this has been a real reflection of the division in us politics, notjust between the two main parties but also in the republican party itself because of the infighting that. some of the analysis we have been reporting has been sayin...

Congress? >> thank you for stopping. >> one of the reasons why this is going to take a little bit longer, even if there is a deal that is reached and it appears there is one to be reached with a handful of the holdouts, that does not get him the magic number of 218 votes. perhaps it can bring along maybe ten republican members, but certainly not all of them, which is why behind the scenes there is going to be a furious effort to get those other remaining holdouts to resolve their concerns. and t...

About whether member elect can even hear that information. its a pretty scary thought. >> simone, you want to weigh in on the? >> i think that this is the chief concern that everyone should have, and it is why what is happening having in the house is ridiculous. currently, there is not a speaker in the house of representatives, because kevin mccarthy -- literally, we are here because kevin mccarthy -- while that is happening, there are real things happening in the united states of america and ac...