From CNN coverage on October 25, 2023

JOHN KING (CNN ANCHOR): Out of three weeks of chaos comes very important history. A man even many Republican senators knew nothing about this morning. And I would believe most Americans knew nothing about this moming.

He's about to be third in line to the presidency once he is sworn in as speaker of the House. Mike Johnson will be third in line to the presidency of the United States after the president and the vice president. He'll now be the leader of a very fractious Republican conference.

And we were talking earlier, the Democrats believe they can use him and Trump to run in the 2024 campaign. That will be a challenge. That's a huge difference between him and the Democrats.

But we're going to see the president in the Rose Garden in a few minutes. He's never negotiated with Joe Biden. He's going to have to now negotiate with the president of the United States. He's also never negotiated with Mitch McConnell.

This will also exacerbate because of the wing of the party he comes from. The differences we have seen play out in the last couple of years between House Republicans and Senate Republicans.

So it's a new face. It's a new leader. He's a blank slate. That is an enormous opportunity. The challenges are so many for a person who has zero experience at this level – doesn't mean he can't do it, but he has zero experience at what he inherits in just a matter of minutes, they'll tally the votes. He'll be sworn in as speaker. He will get the gavel and then, wow, we move into a next very big chapter.