Leader Jeffries Discusses Midterm Elections

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And you've got Maga Republicans cutting ads against Donald Trump. passion. shown he breaks deals. He rips them apart quite frequently. So how do you how do you think about that? Because I think people are saying, I mean, we want all these things addressed, but, you know, you can't Trump's not a good faith actor. And, you know, we want we want oversight right now. How do you how do you balance that? And how do you think? Yeah, it's a great question. And it's one that we're going to continue to navigate, both in terms of making clear we have to fight for an affordable America, like the cost of living is way too high. It's out of control. People are drowning in this failed Trump economy. And we have a responsibility. And I hear this, Ben, everywhere I go across the country to provide immediate relief whenever and wherever possible, because you got far too many people. They're working hard. They're paying by playing by the rules, but they can't keep up. And so. It shouldn't be stressful every time someone has to pay the rent. It is for millions of Americans. It shouldn't be stressful every time someone has to go to the grocery store to try to put food on the table for themselves and their families. But it is. It shouldn't be stressful. People stress the F out every time they have to put gas in the tank. But it is. And so it is the case. In fact, it's a very real thing. That people want the Congress and their government to provide economic relief, give them breathing room so they can live a good life, a comfortable life and an affordable life. So we're going to continue to make clear to the American people that we are fighting hard and will to lower the high cost of groceries, lower the high cost of gas, lower the high cost of housing and fight to make health care affordable. For every single American. But at the same time. We also have to deliver aggressive accountability. That is unrelenting. And we've made clear that if anyone out there is screwing over the American people, shortchanging the American people or stealing from the American people, beginning on day one, House Democrats are going to hold the crooks accountable and no one connected to the Trump cartel is going to get a pass. So talk to us what that looks like. I mean, people should think about it. I mean, we know the House Oversight Committee and the great work that Ranking Member Garcia has done. We know about the Judiciary Committee and the great work that Ranking Member Raskin has done. But we have all these committees, you know, everything from agriculture. Just think about how farmers are being treated right to armed services to foreign relations to, you know, there's a lot of things that require critical oversight right now health. And we need to get to the bottom of this and perhaps explain, you know, right now, when you have these hearings, Democrats are limited to like, it's like five minutes go and then the then the Trump people filibuster. So when Democrats take control, what changes subpoena power longer hearings, explain that to people as well because i think that that's people are wondering sometimes now well could we be doing more why do the hearings last so short and it's a control of house thing part of it right so talk to us about that yeah it's a great point so there's a big difference between being in the majority and being in the minority in the minority basically we're put in the position of only being responsive to the subjects that the majority wants to discuss largely the witnesses that appear at these hearings generally if there are four witnesses three are called by the majority only one is called by the party that is out of power the length of the hearings is also determined by the majority and what we are seeing often is that the administration when they are compelled to come up to capitol hill often say well their schedule only permits an hour or two of hearing and then when they are compelled to come up to capitol hill or two or at most just a few hours of testimony and then they scurry off capitol hill as fast as they can and while they are testifying under oath they spend a lot of time filibustering as if they were in the senate and just talking talking talking and trying to evade the type of accountability that comes from aggressive questioning relentless questioning now i will say that even in the minority i think democrats have done a really good job of pressing the case on behalf of the american people for instance we have run pam bondy out of town in the minority as she presided over a massive epstein cover-up and we're going to continue to press our case on behalf of the epstein survivors so that they get the accountability and transparency that they deserve and that the american people deserve we ran christie noem out of town in the minority because she was failing and of course of all of the corruption uh that was ongoing while at the same time using taxpayer dollars to unleash mass and untrained ice agents to brutalize and kill american citizens or violently target law-abiding immigrant families that's in the minority the majority of course uh we will be able to go on offense on behalf of the american people decide the topics of these hearings determine the overwhelming majority of witnesses use subpoena power whenever and wherever necessary to make sure that the american people are actually hearing from folks who have been visiting harm upon them and continuing that process until we are able to get to the bottom of the massive corruption that has been unleashed on the american people one of the things that we've seen also though is now mega republicans cutting ads uh against trump and trying to act like they didn't support him right now and so you have congresswoman salazar who said that trump supports the dignity act he'll only go after immigrants who are violent criminals and then she is now saying donald you are getting bad advice from your advisors and it was like he's had bad advice from his advisors and she told her people i mean in her district which has a lot of cuban venezuelan immigrant population that they were going to be fine and that not only that there would be pathways to citizenship with their dignity act and you know her district has suffered so now she's cutting ads in front of the white house and she's all like donald i'm looking at you and it's just it's phony and it's um it's dangerous because it's just scandalous scammy it's like look this is what you did i mean and and have take some accountability for your actions huh it's fake phony and it's false and you're absolutely correct maria elvira salazar like the rest of them voted for the one big ugly bill that gave the department of homeland security an additional 175 billion dollars or so including about 75 billion dollars in money given over to ice that was designed to fuel donald trump's violent mass deportation machine and now she's acting like she had nothing to do with it you had everything to do with it you gave ice the money to violently target law-abiding immigrant families in your community cubans and venezuelans and nicaraguanas raguans and others haitian americans and so they can run from their extremism we're not going to let them hide from their track record of aiding and abetting the carnage that has been visited upon the american people it's also interesting ben that maga inc which is now investing in all of these races you know trying to hold on to the house and hold on to the senate but they're not doing it in their name maga inc because if they were to do so on all of these ads and they're spending tens of millions of dollars now trying to distort their record maga inc is not front and center as a sponsor of these ads because they know the maga brand is a disaster and democrats now have an advantage on every single issue of meaning to the american people we saw that in the time sienna poll survey which is consistent with everything else that we're seeing democrats have an advantage with the american people trusted more on the economy trusted more on the cost of living trusted even more on health care trusted more on the war and this reckless war of choice that donald trump has gotten us into that only democrats know democrats will be able to get us out of when we take back power we're trusted more even on the deficit and on What was also interesting is that when the American people are now looking at Democrats as compared with Republicans, they view Republicans correctly as more extreme, more corrupt, and more elite. Because we have connected with everyday Americans, and we know that continuing to do that is going to require us to lean in aggressively on our affordability agenda, but also lean in aggressively on our accountability agenda. That will be led by House Judiciary Committee Democrats and Jamie Raskin, and House Oversight Committee Democrats, led by Robert Garcia, who will continue to work on this agenda. I'm going to press the case on ending the Department of Justice's cover-up with respect to the Epstein files. Leader Jeffries, we're going to be following everything that's going on. It's a sprint now to the midterms. It's finally here. Anything else you wanted to say before we go? Well, it's definitely a sprint. It's no longer a slog, no longer a marathon. MAGA extremists tried to break America. They have failed. Together. All of us haven't let that happen. But now we have an opportunity in November to begin to break MAGA extremism by voting every single one of them out of office and taking back control of the House and the Senate so we can begin the process of ending this national nightmare. Leader Jeffries, thank you for your time. Appreciate it. And we will be watching. We'll be seeing these developments as we get closer to Election Day, and it's right around the corner. So thanks for your time. Thanks for everything. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Before you go, our book, WTF America, is available for preorder now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To preorder, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this. Hey, our ride's almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. 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