Hakeem Jeffries Asked How Dems Would Respond To Protests At UCLA, Columbia If They Were In Power

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held a press briefing on Wednesday where he was asked about college protests.

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00:00 I'll go to the back and then we'll come back up.

00:02 Um, to follow up on the on some of the comments on anti-Semitism, House Republicans yesterday

00:09 announced they're going to be expanding their investigations on campus anti-Semitism.

00:13 Obviously, there's the vote today.

00:15 If Democrats were in the majority, what steps would you all be taking in response to what's

00:21 been happening on campuses?

00:22 It's a great question.

00:24 The Biden administration put forth a comprehensive report and series of recommendations in May

00:32 of 2023 designed to aggressively combat the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States

00:39 of America.

00:39 Representative Kathy Manning has introduced bipartisan legislation that is designed to

00:47 bring many of those recommendations to life in order to get to a better place in the United

00:56 States of America.

00:57 And it is my hope that Representative Manning's legislation will receive an up or down vote

01:05 in the next few weeks before we leave town in advance of Memorial Day.

01:13 It's bipartisan legislation. Kathy Manning's legislation has the support of the Anti-Defamation

01:21 League.

01:21 It has the support of AJC.

01:25 It has the support of a variety of different Jewish organizations.

01:29 And no one has been more of a leader throughout her professional career in dealing with these

01:36 challenges than Representative Manning.

01:39 And so I'd like to see her legislation brought to the floor.

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Hakeem Jeffries Asked How Dems Would Respond To Protests At UCLA, Columbia If They Were In Power

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