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>> the gentleman from the state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [ cheers and applause ] >> kevin mccarthy grabbing the gavel after 15 rounds of voting. it was the longest speaker contest in 164 years. despite sometimes contentions and negotiations with the narrow faction of his conference, republicans in the end rallied around mccarthy and his vision for america. >> i make this promise -- ill never give up for you, the american people. and i wi...

>> david scott. >> effries. >> so heres the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime lets bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. >> thats right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because...

good evening from new york, im chris hayes, youre looking at a live image of the well of the house of representatives, the nations capital, where theyre set to reconvene out there about three and a half hours pm journey, when they do reconvene, theyll be setting about the business of electing a speaker of the house, for the 118th congress, something they have failed to do for the first time in 100 years. today, kevin mccarthy, the house leader of the republican party, long expected to ...

than the country. . >> i appreciate your time. dateline white house picks up with nicole right now. its 4:00 in new york and yes, its groundhog day, the crisis in the house of representatives and the united states of america is in its third day. there still no speaker of the house of representatives which means there are no members of the house of representatives. that despite and evening of negations. kevin mccarthy has lost eight votes to be speaker and is on track right now to los...

Because it was only hours ago matt gaetz was saying if you want to drain the swamp the last thing you want to do is put the biggest alligator back in there all week. we interviewed him on our show and he said no. no, no, no, im not going to vote mccarthy. he voted present. i want to go through these bret to find out any surprises. we had ken buck a question mark he voted for mccarthy. we had matt gaetz who voted present, lauren boebert voted present. andy biggs voted for jordan, bob goode voted ...

These two years as kevin mccarthy is going to have to deal with a very strong intransigent group of republicans. >> so this is just the first test for mccarthy, for the party, i mean, for everyone on capitol hill. i wonder, andrew, did mccarthy just demonstrate that he can be a leader? >> look, i mean, you know, it was ironic in the end that the people that were critical to him securing the speakership were the people who were in the never-kevin crowd, right? so a lot of the republicans who had ...

End, so it wont. what do we do about that? >> they are, and understand they been trying for a long time to be in charge so they will not let it go easily because as soon as they let this moment ago, and regular order, even with some of these concessions, they still arent going to have the same control. a french philosopher said, in the face of an impossible or immovable object, stubbornness is stupid. that is being tested by both sides. mccarthy needed to demonstrate that he could move voters, a...