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conservative or chaotic members of their conference who have put us in this position, but they honestly can't afford to wait around, let this come out and potentially risk not being able to get a set of rules to govern the conference going forward. >> speaking of transparency, jamie gangel, what about the fact we've had so much transparency we haven't been in legislative business so the c-span cameramen and women have been able to shoot anything they want as opposed to the government seizing what they have. are they going to allow the c-span cameramen and women to continue to show wh...

>> the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. >> newly elected speaker of the house kevin mccarthy grabbing the gavel there after four days of voting, the longest speaker contest in 164 years. but despite the sometimes contentious days of negotiations, with the narrow faction of his conference, republicans in the end rallied around mccarthy and his vision for america. >> i make this promise -- i'll never give up for you, the american people. and i will never give up on keeping our commitment to america. our nation is w...

rolodex. he clenched the record for the longest speaker contest in 164 years. this was the scene after four days and 15 rounds of voting. [ cheering and applause ] >> mccarthy's journey to the speakership was fraught with drama. it got a little intense. it almost came to blows last night. the 14th vote should have been the clencher as mccarthy and allies thought they had the vote in the bag. but matt gaetz thought they had it in the bag. he waited to the end to vote present even though mccarthy needed just one vote to win. mccarthy appeared stunned and walked up to confront gaetz him...

house. president biden's chief of staff ron klain stepping down. departure comes at a challenging time with a special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents and possible re-election campaign. right to the arlette saenz joining us from delaware where president biden is spending the white house. a little bit of news at the white house this saturday afternoon. tell us more. >> reporter: jim, marking a significant change in leadership apartment the white house as cnn confirmed white house chief of staff ron klain is expected to step down from his post in the coming w...

alexandria hoff live on the late-night session. hey, alex. alex: late night, indeed, 14 failed vote over 4 days and tense negotiations to flip more than a dozen holdouts in final tally that took place well after midnight and ended up with speaker mccarthy handed the gavel and met with standing ovation. >> from the great state of california and next speaker of 118th congress kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] >> that was easy, huh? i never thought we would get up here. >> squeezedded by 216 votes, democrats backed ha ha hakeem jeffries. right after the 14th vote failure congressman...