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Reporting and found even more evidence of false claims. but now hes been sworn in as a member of congress because he had not violated the constitutions only requirements -- age, citizenship, state residency. how long he can remain in office, well, thats an open question. he will now likely face ethics inquiry in congress and officials in brazil say theyll reinstate fraud charges against santos now that theyve found out where he is. the federal election commission has flagged issues with contribu...

Centrist members were just goin to vote no because they are so mad about how this has gone on and that is going to create a whole other fight because you cant do the business of the house of representatives withou the rules package in place. >> but you had this fascinating even the body language, you loo at the body language and you watch people walk up to matt gaetz you see people walking up till lauren boebert and it is kind of amazing. when kevin mccarthy walked in i talked to matt gaetz for ...

Dont think that thats the case that these concessions are okay? >> i think that the agreement that we have now on the motion to vacate, specifically is what youre talking about. neil: right, right. >> this idea that one person can call a motion to vacate and we all have to vote again on who the speaker is. okay, as scott said, thats actually been the rule for a very long time. pelosi changed it. she changed it to a threshold of 100. a week ago mccarthy agreed to five and then got down to one. i ...

Conservatives, members of the house freedom caucus that were pushing kevin mccarthy to makec give them more power in the he lowered the threshold from five to one. only one vote now needed to oust the speaker. that is something that he previously said he would never do. and he negotiated and compromised in the end. 72 hours to review bills, for example, more house freedom caucus members on the important house rules committee. also he agreed that any efforts to raise the national debt ceiling wou...

Of you are new. but i hope one thing is clear after this week, i never give up. >> kevin mccarthy when the majority of just 216 votes. 212 democrats that congressman hakeem jeffries but six republicans and turtles including matt jakes and lauren voted present in the 15th round rather than note which is lower the threshold needed for majority 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. >> things...

Like around midnight, i was watching, that mccarthy would get the gavel. the 14th vote was a tie with gaetz and boebert voting present and then gaetz comes to mccarthy and there was a deal struck and reporting that donald trump was working the phones to boebert and gaetz stood up and pressuring him to change his vote and walked down to mccarthy and it was clear they were going to change the way he voted and they all rushed to vote again. it was a motion to adjourn meaning not vote again that had...

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...

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 ...

The 15th vote of course is when he notched that win, getting 216 votes to become the next speaker. he got there because in the end matt gaetz did vote present along with five other holdouts, that key group of conservative house republicans that had been voting against kevin mccarthy all week, all of the previous votes. they ultimately voted present, which lowered that threshold for kevin mccarthy to score this major historic and at times very ugly victory. >> so, in the end, gaetz and company, w...

For. [ applause ] >> cnn has more live from capitol hill. eva, what finally pushed mccarthy over the edge? he was very confident just ahead of that 15th vote. >> reporter: fred, in the words of one of mccarthys key opponents, congressman matt gaetz, essentially this group of detractors were running out of things to ask for. ultimately enough of those never-kevin lawmakers voted present. that isnt a ringing endorsement of mccarthy, but it lowered the threshold necessary for mccarthy to secure the...