HOT TOPICS | DON LIVE ON THE SCENE: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries EXCLUSIVE! - September 4th, 2025
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What does Hakeem Jeffries say about the upcoming government funding fight and the 'big ugly bill'?
here hello good morning everybody welcome to the Don Lemon show hot topics we're on time can you believe hey check us out we are in this is what's called the Rayburn room inside of the Capitol look at that beautiful picture here the president to the legislation to the uh The Legation of the United States at Madrid by Richard W. Meade at Philadelphia, December 11, 1818. It's a really beautiful room. You see the flags here and all this. This is what they usually, this is Julius who works with Hakeem Jeffries. By the way, we're here. We have an exclusive. We have Hakeem Jeffries this morning. Do you want to be on or no? No. You don't want to be on. All right, what about just your voice? Tell, you said this room is used for?
It's the Rayburn room. It's controlled by the Speaker's office, and they hold events here. But any member can come in here with their constituents and have conversations off the floor. Can we show a little bit out here? You can show the hallway. Yeah, that's it. We just want to come. We'll show until the... Leader is going to be out in just a minute, but this is, and he has votes in a couple minutes, so we only have a little bit, but you can see this is just, take a look here and go that way. This is the hall. We're not going to go too far down, but there we go. Folks are in the Capitol. You see the Capitol Police there. Yeah. And so we're here. We're waiting for Hakeem Jeffries, who should be out in just moments.
Look, here he comes. He's walking through. Here comes a leader out of the office. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, as you see his office right there. So this is live independent media in action. When do you see this? Not much. What do you guys want me to ask him? What do you want to know? He's been in the news lately. He has been outspoken. He's trying to really ramp up the Democratic response to Republicans. to get folks to realize that the Democrats are in this to win it. And I want to know if he's concerned about what happens in 2026 for the midterms. I want to know what he thinks about redistricting and what he thinks about gerrymandering. He's got a vote this morning, what he's going to vote on. I want to know what he has to say about the Jeffrey Epstein victims, the White House yesterday calling it a hoax.
And I want to know, they've got less than 30 days really to fund the government. And the Speaker of the House sent them home early. And when I spoke to other Democrats, they said, we had business that was ready to go that we needed to get done because we knew we'd have a short time when we got back. And for some reason, Mike Johnson sent us home early and we could have gotten some of that stuff done so that we wouldn't have so much to accomplish. When we got back. So they really have. It says 30 days. It's not real 30 days because they don't work all of those 30 days. As a matter of fact, they're going to go home, I believe, later on today. So it's going to be a short week. So, man, it's a short timeline.
Is there going to this time going to be a CR? I think here comes a leader. Jeffries. Let's see if he's coming. We'll see if he's coming. Oh, we can come back? Oh, we can come back. I thought he was coming out here. Oh, so we were just in the holding room. Look, we get to go in the office. How about that? Good morning. How y'all doing? Good to see you. Thank you so much. Good morning. How are you guys? Show their staff over there. Wave. Hi, guys. How are you? We're on live. Oh, this is great. Good morning, sir. Thank you for doing this. Good to see you. How you been? Good, good. All things considered. I see you got on C-SPAN. You're waiting for a vote, right? Yeah, well, they just called the first vote, but we've got... You know, we've got about 200 or something.
Oh, 400 or something people not voting, it looks like. 200 or something people not voting. What's this a vote for? This is a vote on an amendment to an appropriations bill. It's just an extreme amendment that Republicans... I'm going to continue to try to put for every single Democrat will oppose it. You guys came back, you hit the ground running.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Hakeem Jeffries say about the upcoming government funding fight and the 'big ugly bill'?
0:18–15:53
2
How does Jeffries respond to questions about AIPAC donations and his fundraising model?
15:53–33:18
3
What did lawmakers say about Epstein files, vaccine policy, and the New York mayoral endorsement?
33:18–1:28:10
4
How could California’s redistricting fight influence national politics and Democratic strategy?
1:28:10–1:29:58
5
What atrocities did Congresswoman describe after visiting ICE detention centers in Arizona?
1:29:58–1:33:36
6
What new revelations and reactions are unfolding around the Jeffrey Epstein files on Capitol Hill?
1:33:36–2:36:07
7
What do survivors say and why should the Epstein files be released?
2:36:07–2:38:02
8
How can gun violence be treated as a public health crisis and what causes shootings?
2:38:02–3:54:01
Speakers
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