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continuing coverage of the speaker of. kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in as speaker after winning on a historic 15th ballot. >> it is now my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel to a son of bakersfield, a former -- of a firefighter's household. the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] >> that was easy. i never thought we would get up. here you know my father was told me, it is not how you start, it is how you finish. and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leaders ...

finally official. kevin mccarthy is the new speaker of the house after 15 hard-fought ballots and some serious late night drama. and a good saturday morning to you, i'm katie fang, let's begin today's show getting caught up on how we got here. it started with the 14th vote late last night >> mccarthy managed to flip more of the hard-line republicans needed to win the speakership. but came up short one matt gates voted present. that led to a tense conversation on the house floor between the two men, and our show of visible frustration from mccarthy. and watch this. republican congress...

>> i always had a few questions about it. >> reporter: the campaign, pretending to be your chief of staff. >> you know, i didn't know about that. it happened -- i was not notified about that until a later date. >> reporter: did you speak to him about it at all? >> yeah, i didn't know about it until a later date unfortunately. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy thought george santos' resume was questionable before revelations about his lies were discovered and there are so many lies. >> some of them. others, like the fact that his political person pretended to be mccarthy's chief of staf...

right? it also buys time for more negotiations to take place behind closed doors after kevin mccarthy suffered five more defeats today for a total now of 11. so, what's gonna happen in just a few hours? how will that change things, he hasn't seen the progress yet? plus, we have new news on the buffalo bills damar hamlin. he is awake and making remarkable progress just three days after he collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest during monday night football. the nfl has officially canceled that game, and cnn has newly-obtained audio from the moment hamlin collapsed. >> i don't like ho...

>> john, thank you very much. and you guys, everyone is not going to want to miss this. new cnn original series, giuliani, what happened to america's mayor, premiers this sunday, back to back episodes. cnn this morning continues now. >> i would love to know, but we're working through it and made progress today. >> three days into this, the longest since the 1850s. >> well, i have the longest speech on the floor so i like to make history. >> another round, but the question is, is it the last call for kevin mccarthy? good morning, everyone. caitlyn live in washington, d.c. at capitol h...