'Shameful': Hakeem Jeffries Torches GOP For Welcoming 'Insurrectionest In Chief' Back To The Capitol

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held his weekly press briefing on Friday where he spoke about former President Donald Trump returning to Capitol Hill.

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00:00Yesterday, former President Trump returned, had his meetings with House Republicans and

00:10Senate Republicans.

00:11You were there on January 6th.

00:14You were huddled, as was all of them who were in the chamber at the time, in safety from

00:21the insurrectionists.

00:22What was it like for you personally to see some of these people that you saw that day

00:28come back and greet Trump as a conquering hero on the way back?

00:36It was shameful and a complete embarrassment that my three Republican colleagues decided

00:41to welcome the insurrectionist in chief back to the Capitol as a conquering hero, not someone

00:53We lied about the 2020 presidential election and incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol

01:00in order to halt the peaceful transfer of power.

01:07The Republican Party no longer exists in its traditional form.

01:13This is the Trump Party, and it's not focused on solving problems for the American people.

01:23It is focused singularly on doing the bidding of Donald Trump.

01:34And there is no bottom.

01:37There is no low.

01:42There is no value that the extreme right-wing Republicans aren't willing to abandon in service

01:52of Donald Trump, and that's very unfortunate, but they're going to have to defend this approach

02:00that they've taken over the next several months in advance of November before the American

02:09people.

02:11The fate of this country and the fate of our democracy, the fate of reproductive freedom,

02:15the fate of Social Security, the fate of Medicare, the fate of the Affordable Care Act are in

02:23the hands of the American people.

'Shameful': Hakeem Jeffries Torches GOP For Welcoming 'Insurrectionest In Chief' Back To The Capitol

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