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Jubilation, patrick mchenry, his top vote counter, honestly the man who can count the votes in the house better than anyone gave the speech that sounded in many ways like a wedding toast like we were discussing, telling stories, cracking jokes about mccarthy only to see it fall apart because they clearly did not understand what was going on with these hard liners. and unlike all the other votes we have seen where over and over again hes said stubbornly were going to figure it out, were going to ...

Here in the united states and around the world, im paula newton and you are watching cnn "newsroom." u.s. house republican kevin mccarthy now wields the speakers gavel following days and days of failed votes. he finally secured the speakership on the 15th ballot early saturday. the final vote coming after mccarthy confronted key holdout matt gaetz on the floor. the hard liners holding up the process were ultimately swayed by phone calls apparently from former president donald trump and a series ...

Here that not many of them voice publicly but is a concern of theirs, which is that kevin mccarthy basically gave away all or most of his power to the freedom caucus, to these hard liners whose goal is to throw sand in the gears of the federal government and to, you know, basically use any and all of their leverage possible to enact conservative policies and conservative principles. now, obviously most republicans agree policy-wise on what they want to do, but where they disagree is on the tacti...

Long ago, but these hard-liners were really sticking to their guns and not moving. and, you know, that is where why we saw rogers actually who i have seen for many years here on capitol hill. i believe he has been up here over 20 years. this seemed really uncharacteristic of him. but it really speaks to the frustration, i think many people were just at their boiling point. >> that is not a picture im sure that anyone will be proud of. and on the second anniversary of the january 6th insurrection...

Mccarthy with the procedural concessions he had to make to these hard liners in his conference can face a referendum vote, basically a vote of no-confidence where he can lose that speakership at any time. he has to work every day and perhaps make different concessions along the line. i think matt gaetz might be right. they might have run out of things to negotiate at this point. if he angers a certain number of members of his conference, thats whats going to make it so hard for governing to get ...

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...

And sadly, its going to be part of our process for a while. i think we have to come to a compromise that accommodates everyone. >> how difficult do you think governor is going to be with this group of 20 hard liners and a slim majority? >> the slim majority is going to be a more difficult issue than the hard liners, personally. theyre going to have needs for their districts. they also have to produce for their constituents. and for them to be able to do that, they have to negotiate not just with...

Hear me, thank you anyway. lauren fox joins us now. run us through what kevin mccarthy is thinking about giving away even further to these hard-liners if theres anything left to give. >> reporter: he made it clear on this call just a little over an hour ago that there wasnt an agreement yet with those hard-liners, jake. thats significant. we do know what hes already given up and it is so significant in terms of the power the speaker would have in the future. one of those thing, of course, loweri...

An effective speaker, maybe not a powerful one though like we saw with pelosi. >> well, thats the question at hand. i think thats the real test for mccarthy today. i mean you said hes living on a prayer. i feel like im really having to resist asking if hes halfway there. but, you know, i think the idea is to show a little bit of movement with some of these hard-liners and theres some real questions about what the hard-liners have been up to for the last 24 hours and whos involved in those conver...

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