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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 ...

To be well served, i honestly do. >> all right. congressman tim burchett, hopefully there aren't too many more of those knock down drag-outs. in full disclosure i was once a local reporter at wbir-tv. that's what the former mayor and now congressman is referring to. thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you, brother. always a pleasure. >> thank you. and speaking of everything we've been discussing there, republican congressman chip roy originally voted against mccarthy for speaker but later supported him. tomorrow in his first interview since the speaker's vote, congres...