At his weekly press briefing on Thursday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) spoke about President Biden's press conference.
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00:00Could you just talk a little bit about what advice you have for lawmakers right now, as they're weighing this sort of moment for the party and for the president, and they're deciding what to say and what should happen.
00:17I imagine many of them we hear are hearing from their constituents. What should they tell their constituents, and what advice do you have for them as they weigh their own personal decisions on what they believe is the best path forward?
00:48On any issue, this is representative democracy, and the House is the institution that the framers designed to be the closest to the American people, to reflect the hopes, the dreams, the aspirations, the fears, the concerns, the anxieties, and in the words of the framers, the passions of the American people.
01:07That requires intimate engagement with the people back home that we're privileged to represent on any matter, but certainly on matters of consequence.
01:22Thank you, Leader. If President Biden fails to deliver tonight at tonight's press conference, how will Democrats move forward?
01:29That's a speculative question, and as I indicated, we're involved in an internal process that we take seriously, and until that process is concluded, I'm not really in a position to comment on external events.
01:44How much is at stake?
01:48I'm sorry, first row.
01:50Among your front-line members of the caucus, the ones who have called on the President to withdraw, do they confer with you, try to get your blessing, notify you in advance?
02:00As you can imagine, there have been a lot of conversations that have taken place over the last several weeks, and those conversations are private until front-line members or other members of the caucus decide to make them public.