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speaker after four days and 15 rounds of voting. this was the moment that the longest speaker contest in 164 years came to a close. [ cheers ] but before the house selected its new speaker, the cameras captured a stunning political soap opera playing out on the house floor just before midnight. mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes locked up in round 14, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the end of the ballot process to vote present even though mccarthy needed just one more yes vote to win. a stunned mccarthy walked up the house floor to confront gaetz. as ...

That we were able to pass. >> but what was going through your mind when you saw congressman rogers being restrained? just being there at this moment? >> yeah. well, you can see one of the earlier pictures where i'd actually stiff armed him, and i knew he'd lost his cool. it's the second time he'd done that that week. he'd done it earlier in a conference meeting and made some similar demands toward some of us. and it was unfortunate. one of those regrettable things. but it's something that will be -- it will be remembered. i don't think it should take away anything from leader -- then leader, n...

It is called the people's house for a reason. and that thing was in place since the '20s. and we never had a problem with it up until then, and there have been very tight -- tight majorities and minorities, first the republicans, then democrats. jim, i think it puts the people more in charge of their house, which it should. you don't have a bully -- go ahead. >> yeah. let me ask you this -- when it was all over, the speaker, kevin mccarthy, thanked former president donald trump for playation role in this. -- playing a role in this. let's take a listen. >> i do want to especially thank presiden...

Everything. and that's what we needed. >> reporter: fans everywhere need that, too, right, jim? like tony spina, born and raised in buffalo, lives near where the mass shooting took place, was in the heart of the deadly storm, and was in cincinnati seeing damar hamlin go down. he's here now showing support for cincinnati and their medical workers, and, of course, his buffalo bills. listen. >> coy, you played in buffalo, so you know it. the bills are more than a football team to this city. after the uncertainty monday night, this is going to be maybe the loudest a stadium has ever been in the en...

Eva, i woke up this morning and asked myself did that really happen? and i guess yes it did. this is a top five episode of "as the gavel turns" i think. what about kevin mccarthy, what did he have to give up to get these holdouts in order to finally win this speaker battle? and will that come back to haunt him? >> reporter: well, jim, you are certainly right. it has been quite the week up here on capitol hill. listen, it will now only require one vote, one member to trigger a vote to potentially oust the speakership. that was a key demand of some of these far-right members. that is something t...