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I'm joined by House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Congressman, yesterday Donald Trump held a press conference while he was once again on vacation. He threatened President Zelensky of Ukraine and he called Zelensky a dictator. I want to play the clip and I want to get your response to it. Let's play it first.
Like a fiddle. He played him like a fiddle. That's an expression we use, yes sir, to say that he's pretty easy, pretty easy. A dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. Got to move. Got to move fast.
What's your response, Congressman? Zelensky is not a dictator. He was a duly elected president of Ukraine. It's just stunning that Donald Trump continues to just lie so effortlessly to the American people. We know that President Zelensky is a champion for democracy, freedom, and truth, and an important ally to the United States of America.
It's shocking, but I guess not surprising, that Donald Trump continues to play footsie with Vladimir Putin, a sworn enemy of the United States of America.
What's going on with your Republican colleagues, though? They pretend that they support Zelensky, but then when it comes down to it, they're spineless and they're supporting Donald Trump, who's, you know, doing what you just saw there. I mean, is there a way to what can we do? Is there a way to shame these Republicans? How do we call them out whenever they're asked about it?
They're always like, oh, we never heard what he said.
Part of the problem is that we're dealing with a group of people in the House Republican Conference. and over in the Senate, where for far too many of them, facts don't matter. Hypocrisy is not a constraint to their behavior. They'll say one thing and then do something entirely different. And many of them have actually come to the conclusion that their shamelessness is a superpower.
So from my vantage point, we can't let them get away with it. We have to hold them accountable. It's one of the reasons why we've been trying to make the point in the House that on any given issue,
It only takes three House Republicans to break with the MAGA extremists and join all 215 House Democrats to stop bad things from happening and get some good things to happen for the American people, individuals all across the country, in every community, in every corner of America. It only takes three House Republicans. What I'm asking for a mass example of profiles in courage. Only three.
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