And it's about Kevin McCarthy's pursuit of the speakership, including the times he failed or withdrew or pulled back, but particularly focusing on those dramatic 15 ballots. The first time in 100 years we had had a multiple ballot speakers race. and the longest since before the Civil War. Very. And nobody in living memory literally had ever gone through this. Most people still don't realize how significant that that was. (24:51–24:57)
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