Hakeem Jeffries
speaker
4,605 appearances
294 recordings
39 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Hakeem Jeffries’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It'd be interesting to see what the reaction is there, Don.
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In terms of uh Kushner, I think what is clear, what everybody understands, uh, is that he is a senior advisor to Donald Trump and one of the most influential people in the Trump orbit.
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And I think anyone following the dynamics in Washington, DC, understand that.
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Of course, uh, in his
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first term, Donald Trump's first term, you know, Jarrett was officially part of the White House.
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And it was in that context that I first sat down with him, actually around criminal justice reform.
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To try to see what was possible.
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And you know, as a result of the leadership of many people in the Congress, Cedric Richmond.
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Of course, Doug Collins on the other side of the aisle, I was strongly involved in the effort.
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We actually were able to get something meaningful done in terms of striking back against mass incarceration in the United States of America.
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That effort eventually resulted in the First Step Act, the most significant criminal justice reform.
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legislation enacted by Congress this century.
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And we actually were able to get that done eventually bringing together the left and the right, progressives and conservatives, uh Republicans, of course, and Democrats, the ACLU and the Koch brothers, the NAACP and the Heritage Foundation, and eventually
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Jarrett was of course involved in this effort, got it signed into law by Donald Trump.
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So I I think the I think I think things can be possible.
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Even if they seem
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questionable in terms of whether you could ever reach an accommodation.
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with folks who you strongly disagree with on the overwhelming majority of issues.
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Yeah, no, the only issue that we actually discussed relative to the Middle East was the fact that listen, this war has to end.
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It's a reckless and costly war of choice.
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