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>> i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. >> i rise for election into the speaker of the house of representatives, the esteemed and leader of house democrats, mr. hakeem jeffries. >> the honorable kevin mccarthy from the state of california votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheers and applause] . neil: it's over. our long national nightmare is over. all right, which wasn't a national nightmare, i mean, it wasn't that long in the scheme of things, a few days, it just seemed like a few centuries, but it is over. kevin mccarthy at 1...

up a dramatic night and early morning on capitol hill. >> reporter: out took 14 failed votes, intense negotiations to flip more than a dozen holdouts in a final tally that took place well after mid might. it ended with speaker mccarthy being handed the gavel. he was met with a standing to ovation. >> from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] >> that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought we'd get up here. ing. >> reporter: speaker mccarthy squeezed by with 216 votes, 212 democrats backed congressman hakeem ...

crisis overwhelms communities there and is felt nationwide. will his visit really help stop flow? and the nfl plans a league-wide tribute to buffalo bills' safety damar hamlin who is recovering as the owner of the new orleans saints and pelicans takes measures in her community to address medical emergencies like damar's. saints' owner gayle benson will join us in just a few moments on that. ♪ ♪ eric: but first, parents who lost their children to fentanyl poisoning are speaking out about the huge amounts of deadly narcotics flooding across the southern border as the toll is contin...

one after the other. this truly catastrophic biden regime along with the carbon copies around the country. there they go shooting themselves in the foot and then on a daily basis they create a crisis and make it worse and then call it progress. we saw that thursday when the committee investigated in the capital riots trying to bring the country together to restore our faith in democracy but what do they do? and i should never have been allowed to happen. they did not even ask how or what might be done to stop it from happening again but on tuesday we saw them in california and the pr...

one after the other. this truly catastrophic biden regime along with the carbon copies around the country. there they go shooting themselves in the foot and then on a daily basis they create a crisis and make it worse and then call it progress. we saw that thursday when the committee investigated in the capital riots trying to bring the country together to restore our faith in democracy but what do they do? and i should never have been allowed to happen. they did not even ask how or what might be done to stop it from happening again but on tuesday we saw them in california and the pr...