Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I am Kristen Welker in Washington, where we are following multiple breaking news stories at this hour.

After some dramatic moments on the House floor this afternoon, Mike Johnson was

re-elected as the Speaker of the House and the 119th Congress is now open for business.

Johnson technically won the election on the first ballot after receiving 218 votes, the bare

majority necessary to be elected speaker. Now, we are also expecting an update

from Las Vegas. Officials any minute now from authorities in Las Vegas as they work to determine

the motive behind a cyber truck explosion outside a Trump hotel on the Vegas strip on New Year's Day.

We will bring you that press conference as soon as it happens. But we are going

to begin on Capitol Hill, where as we said, there is now a new House Speaker. In the end,

218 Republicans voted for Johnson. But to get it done, Johnson needed to twist some arms after

the clerk called the roll Johnson came up short. Three Republicans did not vote for him,

and he could only afford to lose one. But the vote wasn't officially gaveled clothes, and after some

wrangling, two holdout Republicans changed their votes. Therefore, the Honorable Mike Johnson

of the state of Louisiana, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 119th Congress.

We're going to have more on that in just a moment, but we want to get right to Las Vegas, where officials there are holding a news conference to update us on that cyber truck explosion on your state.

The first one of those priorities was to confirm that there's no further threat. I think we've completed that. The second was to positively identify the suspect. We've also done that today. I can confirm that that is Matthew

Littelsberger. We also wanted to confirm that there were no other actors involved in

this incident. I believe we've done that and you'll hear much more about that as we move

forward today. We've also, today I'm going to be able to share with you some of what we

believe to be his plans and motives as to why he conducted

this attack. Now before we go on, I want to just address a couple of things before we get too far

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