my lover, freda, she said i always knew you had a user cup. >>speaker: jewish mind. >> yeah, cup. so that was my first stop as far as my immediate community found my relatives in texas and i started communicating with them and a huge family reunion and brought in all the cousins i never known and funny because southern jews are half southern and hospitality bags from those outside of town. a hybrid culture. >> what is a hospitality bag? see, you don't know. this is so interesting. they pride themselves southerners as being hospitable and all goodies and barbecue sauce and treats that were from texas inside. inside the bag for all the relatives for out of town for this reunion. i mean, it was such an interesting history and they had collected all this archival material. so i found out all about the family history. and they are very proud of it. the community for me -- my community has a lot to do with my ancestors that i reclaimed my ancestors that i never knew about and very proud of them. they started the first synagogue in austin. and they are down-to-earth ethical people and ha

there are three models to be speaker: you can beat vito corleone, michael corleone, or freda corleone godfather reference. >> johnson is on his way to fred oh, because he is barely hanging on. i'm not saying that he deserves it, he is a smart guy and good guy, but this is teetering. this is a problem. >> other republicans like representative michael lawler, slamming his fellow republicans that are opposing johnson. wasn't here. >> the fact is that these folks are playing with fire. if they think they are somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, they are kidding themselves. we can't get anything done unless we have a speaker, including certifying president trump's election on january 6th. to waste time over a nonsensical intramural food fight is a joke. >> jessica, you are basically saying as much. now, you've got michael lawler saying his. we know if you look back to the last time we had this speaker fight, it was four days, 15 votes. really derailed things. how do republicans avoid that? >> by having the conversation today. president trump laid the framework by coming out wi

its lead by a woman named freda mitchell, who was instrumental in trump's bid to overturn the 2020 electionporting in the months leading up to the election was their effort to get ready to contest a trump loss, should that have happened, and this meeting was part of that effort to discuss what would happen if their candidate or candidates they didn't favor did not win or they did not have election results that they were satisfied with or believed in. >> i want to play, from your piece here, jim womack, who reportedly called the effort voter suppression, is disputing the accuracy and existence of this transcript recording. womack also says the recording of the group's calls are prohibited and in violate our internal policies and whatever bootleg recording you may have unauthorized and may well be altered. pro-public eye has seen a video recording of the call and verified portions of it with some participants. talk a little bit about how confident you are in this work and also how your reporting aligns with other things we heard about these kinds of activists in previous elections. >> we are

turn back to retired army colonel jack jacobs, a medal of honor recipient and msnbc military analyst fredaeah, very significant. don't forget that israel weekend hamas, weakened hezbollah, the houthis are the last really strong proxy of iran in the region. they have been very aggressive in attacking israel. israel now can focus its attention on eliminating command and control facilities, ports, ammunition storage, and manufacturing capabilities of the houthis with the expectation that they will be able to reduce the houthis to a very low level of capability, ayman. >> colonel, when you think about, as you just outlined, hamas weakened hezbollah, the syrian regime toppled, the houthis now in the crosshairs, the last remaining piece on the board, if you will, is iran. >> yeah, that's the big piece. >> there is no question, i'm just saying it like that, you can take it however you want, sir. >> yeah, you know, the interesting thing here is that as iran's proxies have been weakened, iran has been weakened, and iran has got lots of internal problems, economic diplomatic, and also internal polit