Massive Drama Caught On Camera: Loud-Heckling Interrupts Hakeem Jeffries As Dem Conference

So I was on air and it was demonstrably better than 2024 and the house gets called in the eight o'clock hour and then we start to realize it's going to be a massive majority as it ticks on. You know, how does it feel to know that you're not only going to be the first black speaker of the house, but that you're going to have a majority of this size, the biggest of the 21st century to work with? Well, good morning, everyone. It was an incredible night. It was just two seconds. For the American people last Tuesday, when the results started to come in, I was sort of a dude headed into election night that nothing for me was going to be able to top the feeling that I had when the Knicks won the championship for the first time in 53 years. But that feeling was topped because it was such a decisive repudiation of MAGA extremism. And we now have this incredible opportunity as Democrats. To deliver upon the type of dramatic change that the American people are demanding. Life is way too expensive. We know there are far too many people who are working hard, playing by the rules, but they can't thrive and they can barely survive. That's unacceptable in this country, the wealthiest country in the history of the world. And so we have this opportunity in the House and the Senate, all across the country, the governorships that we've won, The state legislative bodies that we flipped to get to work because we run to win. But we win to govern, and we govern to get big things done for the American people. I'm going to skip ahead since you brought up New York and fellow New Yorker and the Knicks. So I wanted to bring up SNL. Did you see it last weekend? Well, actually, I've been waiting for seven terms to make my SNL debut. Yeah. And it finally happened. So I didn't see it as it was unfolding. But, of course, a friend of mine was the first. To send a clip and said, Hakeem, do you know you're on Saturday Live? And so I did get a chance to see the clip. So Kenan Thompson was portraying you and he was getting to the heart of some of the criticism, which we just saw with the young voters that were speaking out about their priorities, that perhaps your leadership is too timid for the moment and that this mandate is enormous, especially with these kinds of numbers. What do you... What's your response to that criticism? Well, I think, you know, as House Democrats, we're honored by the trust that the American people have placed in us to get the job done. And so we've got to work hard to deliver. Now, when it comes to getting to a historic number, 260 Democrats, we're going to have the largest majority that any party has had this century. And that comes from all across the country. In the last two years, We've worked hard to battle Republicans on every issue. So we battle them on the one big ugly bill in-house. In the House, we battled them on the Medicaid cuts, battled them on the Affordable Care Act tax credits, battled them on ICE funding, battled them on the tariffs, battled them on Epstein transparency, battled them on the reckless and costly war of choice in Iran, battled them on gerrymandering. They thought we would back down and not fight back, but of course we did. And we decimated their gerrymandering scheme all across the United States of America. Thank you very much. Thank you. We've been working hard collectively across the House Democratic Caucus to do what was necessary to aggressively push back against MAGA extremism, and now we'll have the collective responsibility to really get to work fighting for an affordable America, working hard to drive down the high cost of all the things, because life is way too expensive, drive down Down the high cost of groceries. High cost of gas, high cost of housing. Certainly, we believe that in this great country of ours, we've got to make health care affordable for every single American and ensure that everyone can afford to go see a doctor when they need one. Yeah. You know, what people are after right now is a marriage between the affordability and the accountability agendas. And I know that, you know, we're... Tight on time in this kind of forum. So I wanted to tick through some priorities, either the first hundred hours, which you've been talking about, the first hundred days, you know, just something that we need to know is top of mind for you when you get the gaggle. Expanding the child tax credit, yes or no? Absolutely. We did it in the context of the American Rescue Plan. And in six months, it cut child poverty in half. In the United States of America, and we need to build upon that in the new Congress. All right. Universal health care. Yes, no, absolutely. So what we have to do is that we have to fix our broken health care system. And what we've said is House Democrats in the face of the largest assault. On health care in American history, they've assaulted Medicaid and Medicare and the Affordable Care Act and medical research and the Centers for Disease Control and vaccine availability and the National Institute of Health. We've got to fix what's been broken and we're going to begin very early on in the new Congress working to reverse the Medicaid cuts and working to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. And then we've got to go further to make sure that we don't just fix what's broken, but that builds upon what we need to do moving from there. And I think... Impeachment! 90% of Democrats who do pretend to be... Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the OneIndia app now.