Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with House Republicans meeting behind closed doors once again to try and decide on their next nominee for speaker as they reach 20 days without one. The presumed leading candidate is Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, who is just one of two potential candidates who upheld the 2020 election. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, two more hostages were released by Hamas Monday as an Israeli ground assault on Gaza looms. Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes and MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin join Joy to discuss this and the fear of a broader conflict brewing in the region with reverberations spreading throughout the world. Joy and her guests also discuss the issue of misinformation on social media sparked by the Israel-Hamas war. 

Joy leads this episode of The ReidOut with breaking news that the Republican party finally elected a new House speaker Wednesday, 22 days after Kevin McCarthy was deposed. Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana is a leading 2020 election denier, right-wing religious ideologue, and America's newest speaker of the House of Representatives. Also, Joy and her legal experts discuss the contentious second day in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial, with Trump and Michael Cohen meeting face-to-face for the first time since Cohen cut a deal with federal prosecutors in the hush money case. Then, Officer Harry Dunn sits down with Joy to discuss his new book and why accountability is critically important for those responsible for January 6th. Plus, Joy and her guests discuss the increasingly dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.