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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 ...

Straightjacket. do you think it's going to be impossible to govern, impossible to preside over the house for the upcoming speaker, the incoming speaker, because of some of these concessions? i mean, all it takes is one member to go to the house floor -- >> sure -- >> right. couldn't matt gaetz do this next week? start it all over again? >> he -- he could do it every day, but it's just a vote of confidence is what it is. and it would be a simple majority. so i thinking about in leadership and being able to control the floor vote is a key thing, and of course the whip, our new whip who was steve...