Hakeem Jeffries Asked Point Blank About Speaker Johnson Coming To New York City To Fundraise

  • 4 months ago
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held his weekly press briefing on Friday where he spoke about House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) coming to New York to fundraise.

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00:00Kind of along those lines, Speaker Johnson's headed back up to your city and the suburbs very soon for a series of fundraisers for those moderate Republicans, they call themselves moderates.
00:11Is there any drag, getting along the lines you just expressed, on those Republicans with ties to Speaker Johnson?
00:22The drag on the so-called moderate Republicans in New York will be the anchor of the extremism with respect to reproductive freedom.
00:36Donald Trump and the other right-wing votes that they continue to take here in Washington will try to hide from the American people and the electorate they are supposed to serve in New York.
00:54Is Speaker Johnson a drag himself on them?
00:57That's a question that New Yorkers will have to decide and I'm certain that that's going to be litigated.

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