Leader Jeffries Discusses Midterm Elections

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3:03and whenever the hell that was regarding cash, Patel, it's important folks oversight. It's a real thing. And when we got to see it one day, boy was it illuminating. And so you've got Maga leadership freaking out across the country. They're seeing polling data everywhere from Texas to Kansas to Ohio, and Michigan to Iowa and Florida. You name it. There is no safe Maga district. You've got Maga Republicans cutting ads against Donald Trump right now, like Congresswoman Salazar and what was believed to be a safe seat in Southern Florida. She was saying, Donald, your advisors led you astray on immigration. When we all know Congresswoman Salazar aided and embedded Donald Trump's cruel and unusual torture of her own constituent. So let's take a look at what's going down right here. You've got Maga Republican Senator Ted Cruz panicking on air. Let's play this clip.

4:03There is a time for every season. We're in the season of the midterms. And so my focus politically right now is election day in November that we are at real risk of losing both the House and Senate. So I am devoting every waking hour to raising money to campaigning, to fighting, to keep the Senate Republican, to keep the House Republican. If the Democrats take the Congress, they will use it to fight with everything they can to stop President Trump's agenda. And so I'm doing everything I can to stop that. Then you have Tom Emmer in leadership, Maga Republican Congress member from Minnesota. And he's like, yeah, gasch, mash, who cares? Well, we have a great record here play this clip. Spending is up 6% from last year. I think people are going to do that emotional thing. Like somebody just sent me a meme that said $4 gas in $6 diesel, not acceptable. But it's not going to get me to vote for a communist.

5:03This thing was in the title. That was good. Majority whip, Tom Emmer. What a pleasure. Come and see us again. More from Congress member Emmer right here. Let's play this clip. I think you got a problem. $4 gas, $6 diesel, 7% mortgages. It's hard to argue that you're better than them when it comes to the economy. Well, we do have a lot to sell. I understand where Senator Kennedy is coming from on the Senate side. And you'll notice the chat was just interviewing senators. If you talk to Republicans on the House side, Stuart, we have accomplished a ton. I mean, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on tip. We raise the childcare tax credit. The list goes on and on. You can buy an American-made car, and you can deduct your interest on that loan. There are so many things to work on that the House actually has accomplished. You've got to just go back to it because yes, there are headwinds that are created by $6 diesel, $4 gas, groceries.

6:04I mean, these are headwinds that you got to deal with. But the beauty of the U.S. House of Representatives, which people are missing, is we are not just a monolith. We are 435 pieces of geography. Each one has unique demographics to that geography. I need to go. I want to bring in the Democratic leader, Hot Keem Jeffries, an interview I just did with him. I want to ask him about the oversight that the American people are demanding right now, if and when Democrats take control of the House. Let's bring in that interview. I want to bring in Democratic leader, Hot Keem Jeffries, leader Jeffries. Great to see you as always. So you have mega running scared again, mag and mic Johnson said they were going to stay in session for a lot longer. I mean, I think they worked, I guess you all worked, because the mag and mic, what, 15 legislative days in the past four months. So we got a taste of what oversight could actually look like. The one day everybody was back where we saw a Besent being grilled,

7:04and on the Senate we saw a cash patell being grilled. And it was like, finally, people getting asked questions. And so I think they said enough of that, enough with the Hegsith impeachment resolution that was on the floor, they want to keep covering up the Epstein file. So first they run, they're running away, man, they're running away scared. And there's, and it's, it's just pathetic as I watch it. They're just pathetic. What do you make of it all? Yeah, you know, listen, mega is running scared. They can run, but they can't hide because the clock is ticking. 46 days until there's going to be accountability visited upon them by the American people from the fact that they have completely failed, the economic policies have been a disaster. They're hurting the American people. This reckless and costly war of choice in Iran has been a disaster. Iran is stronger, and the American people are economically weaker as a result of what's going on in the Middle East,

8:04including as a result of gas prices, skyrocketing through the roof. We know that Donald Trump's own hand picked head of the Federal Reserve Board, concluded that Donald Trump's economy is failing so badly that he had to raise interest rates over the objection of Donald Trump. So, you're absolutely right. I think Mike Johnson concluded, we better get out of town before sundown, because this is not going well for us. You know, I think as the American people are looking to these midterms, what I hear over and over again is we need to restore checks and balances. Something that I hear is just ruthless or relentless accountability and oversight. I think people are skeptical that if and when Democrats take power, you can do a deal with Donald Trump. I think it was a war and Buffett quote, you can't do a good deal with a bad person,

9:05and Trump has shown he breaks deals, he rips them apart quite frequently. So, 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 we want oversight right now. How do you balance that? How do you think about that? 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 playing by the rules, but they can't keep up. And so, it shouldn't be stressful every time

10:05someone 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 costs of groceries, lower the high costs of gas, lower the high costs of housing, and fight to make healthcare affordable for every single American. But at the same time, we also have to deliver

11:07aggressive accountability. That is unrelenting. And we've made clear that if anyone out there is screwing over the American people, short-changing 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. People should think about it. I mean, we know that 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. 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

12:08that 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 ago, and then the Trump people fill a buster. 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, what could we be doing more? Why did 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 putting a position of only being responsive to the subjects that the majority wants to discuss. Largely, the witnesses that appear at these hearings, generally, if they're four witnesses, three are called by the majority, only one,

13:09is 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, 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 talk and talk and talk and try to evade the type of accountability that comes from a group 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

14:12in the minority as she presided over a massive Epstein cover-up, and we are 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 Knome out of town in the minority because she was failing, and of course, of all of the corruption 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. In the majority, of course, we will be able to go on offense on behalf of the American people beside the topics of these hearings, determining the overwhelming majority of witnesses, use subpoena power whenever and wherever necessary

15:16to 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, so though, is now, Maga Republicans cutting ads against Trump and trying to act like they didn't support him right now. So you have Congresswoman Salazar, who said that Trump supports the Dignity Act, alone to 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 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 not only that, there would be pathways to citizenship with their Dignity Act, and her district is offered.

16:17So 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 dangerous because it just scam me. It's like, look, this is what you did. I mean, and 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

17:19law abiding immigrant families in your community. Cubans and Venezuelans, and Nicaraguaans 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 abiding the carnage that has been visited upon the American people. It's also an interesting thing, 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 it's been in tens of millions of dollars now, trying to distort their record, Maga Inc. is not front and center as a sponsor of these ads,

18:20because they know that 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 Poles 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 will be able to get us out of when we take back power, with trusted more, even on the deficit and on immigration. 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,

19:21more 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 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. Magga extremists tried to break America.

20:22They have failed. Together, all of us haven't let that happen, but now we have an opportunity in November to begin to break Magga 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, 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 pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.