reporter: well, hakeem jeffries is -- [inaudible] -- democratic caucus. i think that's really the right way to view this race between jeffries and barbara lee. both are progressive members. they have similar voting records. they're both key members of the congressional black caucus. the biggest difference is their age. barbara lee is in her 70's. i believe she's 72. hakeem jeffries is 48. and at a time when, you know, the congress really has been clamoring for generational change in their leadership, it was clear they did not want to vote for another. they already have three in the top echelons of leadership with nancy pelosi, steny hoyer and james clyburn. so i think because this vote was so close, there are a number of factors involved. in fact, barbara lee said, ageism certainly was a factor in this race. and a number of alights saying the same thing -- allies saying the same thing. including jackie speier. so that's going to be a discussion i think in the debate that's going to be seen going forward. was ageism involved in the outcome of this race? was

hakeem jeffries represents brooklyn. the eighth district in new york. more elections happening on capitol hill this afternoon. especially the speaker election for the democratic choice for speaker. that's happening later. we'll have the results as they're available. let's go live now to the house floor here on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by e guest chaplain, minister lashawn worrell, new osama bin ladenist baptist church, baltimore, maryland. the chaplain: let us pray. may we ask only what accords with your will. incline your ear, almighty god, and grant us the wisdom to make forward-moving decisions without compromising your integrity. grant us the discerning insight to maintain our finger on the pulse of justice and the power of restraint. that we may uphold our liberty in oicordance with your gracious will. -- in accordance with your will. we ask you send your grace and peace across the aisle and unite the voices of these great leaders of our nation, that we may stand on the promises that rest in our co

host: on hakeem jeffries winning that post 123-113 over barbara lee of california. one tweeting this. some of his comments there before the microphones after the earlier session of the vote wrapped up, nola tweeting this -- jeffries says democrats are dealing with the trump administration, quote, mitch mcconnell and the boys in the senate and some of trump's co-conspirators in the house. quote, why in the world would pelosi or anyone lame-duck themselves as we're approaching some tough negotiations? the other elections are under way. we understand the election now, the voting happening for the speaker designee. the final -- the full house will vote on the speaker in january, on january 3, and the other democratic elections, leadership posts will be voted on this afternoon, we expect as well. let's hear from valerie in tampa, florida. go ahead. caller: hi. host: you're on the air. go ahead. caller: valerie from tampa. host: you're on the air. go ahead. caller: yes, -- host: go ahead with your comment. go ahead. caller: yes. i think nancy has been a great leader. she h

>> that's between hakeem jeffries and barbara lee of california. we will bring you results as warranted. comments from members as warranted and any comments before the microphone, obviously, swrl, will be up there throughout the day. in the meantime, we will take you back to just after the election, a week after the election when congress returned for starting the lame duck, the democratic leader nancy pelosi spoke to reporters about her plan for the 116th congress. we'll show you as much of this as we can. the house is coming in for noon eastern what we expect to be a short session of speeches. they have four bills to take up later today. let's hear from nancy pelosi and be back with any news as it develops. ms. pelosi: good morning. it's snowing here, we have great sadness in my state of california. just unprecedented number of people dead in the high 50's and many missing. it's just -- we had these fires again and again but these seem to be particularly deadly. o our thoughts and prayers and resources need to be with california at this very sad

i congratulate them both but especially hakeem jeffries. thank you all and thank you for being so good to me these past five months. i appreciate it. ms. pelosi: good afternoon everyone. and i believe it is a good afternoon. we had a most unifying session just now in the >> good afternoon and i do believe it is a good afternoon. caucus ever and it was so inspiring to hear my colleagues place my name in nomination once again for speaker of the house. how moving it was to hear joe kennedy place the name in nomination to be seconded bill kathy castor, a colleague who has been a leader on climate change and of course, joe, a friend for many years, but a leader in the congress making his own mark. and then to have joyce beatty quoting president obama, it was very moving. the emotions demonstrated by my colleagues, adam schiff, when he talks about leadership and the challenges facing our nation was a joy to behold. d have the new members speak ut, veronica veronica escobar, one of the new embers, who spoke out. she's also a returning member. ann

. >> hakeem jeffries has been elected to be the next democratic caucus chair, and he talked about the race for speaker. >> i support leader pelosi, i think every member will have to do what they feel is the best interest of their district. once we get through all of this we are going to need to come together because there are real issues we have to tackle on behalf of the american people and hopefully we will do that sooner rather than later. >> with so many democrats during the campaign cycle running against pelosi for speaker, there's been a lot of concern about whether house democrats could unify. >> harris: it's so interesting with hakeem jeffries of new york, one of those people that was in line four may be speakership to run against her and he ended up being in leadership in another way but obviously in the wings. mike emanuel, thank you very much. let's bring in california congressman eric swalwell, he supports pelosi's bid for speaker, my goodness, doesn't everybody? even the people who said they wouldn't. what do you do if you ran on no, i am completely against nancy pelosi b

hakeem jeffries. he is from new york, a personal friend, incredible talented. he is a hope for the future of the party. we have other races going on today where a lot of young people are involved in the future. we are going to see katherine clark is going to be the vice chair of the democratic party. another young, vibrant person in our party. we are seeing a lot of up-and-coming leaders. ben ray lujan is going to be the assistant majority leader. we will see other races related to the d triple c -- more vibrant faces. host: the votes for nancy pelosi -- you think that indicates further problems, come january, and cohesiveness? guest: i think she will be the next speaker and will have support. the democrats will come together to lead this country, working together and working across party lines, to solve the problems our country faces. host: tomwe will take those cals throughout the course of this program today. , a formers representative from south carolina. guest: good to be with you. host: a little about your organization? republickeye in.org. we're talking

guest: you know, we have a new chair of the democratic caucus, hakeem jeffries. he is from new york, a personal friend, incredible talented. he is a hope for the future of the party. we have other races going on today where a lot of young people are involved in the future. we are going to see katherine clark is going to be the vice chair of the democratic party. another young, vibrant person in our party. we are seeing a lot of up-and-coming leaders. ben ray lujan is going to be the assistant majority leader. we will see other races related to the d triple c -- more vibrant faces. host: the votes for nancy pelosi -- you think that indicates further problems, come january, and cohesiveness? guest: i think she will be the next speaker and will have support. the democrats will come together to lead this country, working together and working across party lines, to solve the problems our country faces. host: tom

member hakeem jeffries who some say the future speaker in the making. this race will be close. jeffries received big applause after his speech but lee had a bunch of people on stage with her. and that's so far what we know, they're working on conference chair. report they're waiting outside the room. we can tell you one more update. both on the republican and democratic side, the various caucuses and groups are setting their leadership for the 116th congress. this is for the house blue dogs, the moderate democratic caucus. they had their meeting yesterday and jim costa of california in that caucus tweeting this -- saying with our new leaders, representative stephanie murphy, representative o'halleran, we the house blue dogs stand ready and strong to lead our country with the fiscally -- host: on c-span, we will get details meanwhile by social media. from our producer, craig kaplan weighing results and we'll be back as events warrant. , john ses the chair of the democracy reform task force. good morning. guest: great to be here. host: you recently wrote an op-ed alongside speake

hakeem jeffries out of new york. >> what about clybourn?me interesting names who are definitely vying to be leaders in the party and who the caucus sees as leaders and i would be remiss if i didn't mention the one and only barbara lee. >> trish: i think they have to reinvent themselves. unfortunately for nancy pelosi she represents the party of -- how do i say this. i'm afraid to use the term liberalism nowadays because of samantha bee, but that kind of global elite. and that was what hillary clinton symbolized and i think that pelosi is so aligned with that -- i would say you should take a stand on this and the stand should be to have nancy pelosi go gracefully off into the sunset and move some new blood and new people into that position of leadership. >> only if they want future. i think that's why the president came out and endorsed nancy pelosi because she is the perfect foil for him. and if it goes south, and it will end it will happen quickly, she's the perfect person for him to pin all of this blame on. >> richard: i hear you but you

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earlier, i asked democratic congressman hakeem jeffries of new york about the president's comments on mcraven. here's his reaction. >> again, you know, it's sort of a shameful statement made by the president of the united states, who always sees things through the lens of his own personal ego as opposed to what's good for the united states of america. clearly, we have a system of government separate and co-equal branches of government, checks and balances, the free and fair press, the independent judiciary. at given moments in time, the president has attacked all of those values and all of those institutions. in this particular instance, the fact that he's willing to criticize a decorated veteran, a military hero, someone who's made america a much safer place, is quite unfortunate. >> in that same interview, here's what the president said about the mueller investigation and his new acting attorney general. >> did you know before you appointed him that he had that record and was so critical of robert mueller? >> i did not know that. i did not know he took views on the mueller investiga

democratic congressman, hakeem jeffries of new york is joining us, a member of the judiciary committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. let's get right to the substance, do you think this push to protect robert mueller by this small coalition in the senate stands any chance of surviving? >> i certainly hope so, because the congress as a separate and coequal branch of government has to make sure that the integrity of this investigation remains intact, our democracy was attacked in the context of the 2016 presidential election. and we need to get to the bottom of what happened and allow the mueller investigation to proceed in a calm, dispassionate, fact-based fashion within an erratic white house that may be prepared to try to jettison him. we can't allow that to happen. >> this comes after the appointment of the acting attorney general, matt whitaker, who has publicly denigrated the russia probe. now arguing that his appointment was, in fact, constitutional. how do you see it? >> well, we have an independent article 3 judiciary that ultimately will have to resolve that quest

a young rising star out of new york congressman hakeem jeffries prevailed with 10 more votes to becomeee claims ageism and sexism played a role in her loss. her office released a statement congratulating jeffries. >>> the chinese scientist finding he's created the world's first genetically edited babies is publicly defending his work. the scientist who also says another woman is possibly pregnant through research.>> reporter: audience members applauded as scientists he jiankui took the stage at the international gene editing summit in hong kong wednesday. but soon after he was peppered with questions. >> the genotype make quite affect their upbringing. >> reporter: and videos posted this week, he jiankui claim t edited the genetic code of twin girls as embryos. he said to use the gene editing tool called crisper to delete a gene that makes people vulnerable to hiv. a coinventor of the crisper gene editing tool watched him speak. >> we still need to understand the motivation for the study and what the process was for informed consent. >> reporter: all the couples involved in the study c

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she was defeated today by four-term congressman hakeem jeffries of new yo the democratic house. after the vote, lee tweeted, i hope my candidacy will inspire other women of color to run for office and seek leadership positions. we need your voices. >> temporary housing could be on the way to butte county to help survivors of the camp fire. fema says around 2000 trailers could be in the bay area by the end of the week. swift moving fire wiped out more than 90% of the town of paradise, destroying some 14,000 homes and businesses and displacing 26,000 people. officials say the road to rebuilding is off to a rock i start, though, with limited road space and difficult terrain. >> butte county is going to pose some long-term challenges, not for lack of trying and all the people here that are working and on scene, but just the logistics of moving debris in and out. >> 88 people died in the camp fire, and 158 are still unaccounted for. now we have to sincerely thank our viewers for stepping up to help the victims of california wildfires. yesterday nbc bay area and telemundo hosted a wil

and just last week, along with yvette clarke and hakeem jeffries -- and you should know that hakeem jeffries from new york is running for one of the top positions in the democratic party which is caucus chairman. so you know any members of congress, ask them to vote for him. i'm supporting him. we hope he wins. but we introduced a bill to give to shirley chisholm the highest award that this congress can give to anyone and that is the congressional gold medal. and she was an inspiration to me and there's also an effort to name a battle ship after her. i think it's appropriate. don't you think? let's have a battle ship named after shirley. but she was a great advocate for the equal rights amendment, and she was part of the reason why t passed congress in 1972. they worked for ratification. they never achieved it. they got 35 votes. recently nevada ratified it. illinois ratified it. the next state is going to be virginia. and i just want to share with you that last weekend, i joined the women members of the state legislature on a bus for the e.r.a. running around virginia. what's interesting, a

when i ask people around what are some -- you hear hakeem jeffries and cheri bustos and adam schiff,all kinds of people. obviously clyburn over here, you have a big mix of people. i tend to think if nancy pelosi gets pushed out, it will be generational change. whoever they get will be on the younger side of 60, 65, maybe even 55. you know, i think there is still some doubt there, but i noticed last night, i couldn't hear it, but i was in front of a computer. they had a monitor up. i saw nancy pelosi and steny hoyer and jim clyburn on the stage at the dccc victory party. she was positively euphoric. steny hoyer, who i like a lot, looked at he was at a funeral. i mean, not that he wasn't happy, really happy about democrats picking up a bunch of seeds. -- seats. he had been in districts and worked hard, but you know, i am not sure he enjoyed her taking a victory lap like that. we will have to kind of weight -- wait and see. one of the cornerstones of our democracy is the faith and trust we have any process. when you use the words that are boils down to security or -- suppression, i'm wo

host: again, hakeem jeffries, congressman from new york, three-term congressman, elected by the democratic caucus as the chair of that caucus for the 116th congress. but his job begins this afternoon, within a half an hour, as they resume deliberations and take up the speaker designee nomination and that is likely to be the likely outcome is nancy pelosi winning that. we'll have coverage of that as results are available and more once they resume their discussions this afternoon. all of the other leadership positions to be elected as well. we'll stay on top of that. with the house returning this afternoon, later at 4:30 eastern. we'll have live coverage of that too. we have covered a number of events through the years with nancy pelosi obviously. going back to before she became speaker. in 2008 there was a conversation with her on our q&a program. >> why did you call your book know your power? ms. pelosi: know your power is a phrase that a great congresswoman used to me long before i came to congress. i was telling her that i had all these honors. i was chair of the host committee of the 19

the house selected new york hakeem jeffries. lee and jeffries are both members of the congressional black caucus. lee tweeted her congratulations and said that she hopes to inspire other women to run for office and leadership positions. >>> still ahead tonight, a woman cited after telling rangers she was rescuing fish. >> we are actually really happy that we caught her sooner rather than later. >> the damage her actions could have caused if she had not been caught. >> and the stanford women's basketball program lands the top recruit in the country. she is a bay area product. there she is right there. mark will have her story in sports. >> and a bay area restaurant voted the best new spot in the nation. we'll tell you which spot got the top honors. top honors. >>> supporters of assisted suicide got a technical and overturned lower court ruling that found the state's assisted suicide law unconstitutional. the judges ruled that the doctors who are suing have no legal standing because they can choose not to help the terminally ill w

hakeem jeffries is in his 40's. joe is in his 30's from colorado. diverse, young leadership team. transformational leadership is happening. we are ready to lead on issues like infrastructure, health care, background checks, prescription drug reform. david: thank you for your time today. democratic congressman from california, eric swalwell. time for a company in the crosshairs, marriott. chain falling the most in two and half years. emma chandra has more. this is really about a data hack. emma: the company says it is investigating a hack at its starwood unit guest reservation database, and the hack could affect 500 million customers. of that, two thirds of them will have had data taken including passport numbers, mailing addresses, and credit card information could also be included. david: what is the company saying about the hack and how they are fixing it? lookingey say they are into it. investors are voting with their feet today with the stock down over 6%. take a look at this chart. you can see the way it is performing. the white line, versus what analysts think of the company

. >> you would look at him, hakeem jeffries from new york city, ben ray lujan, the chairman of the congressional campaign committee. he announced he was going to run for assistant leader, but at the end of the day, nancy pelosi is a pretty good vote counter, and she is liberal, represents san francisco, she commanded about 85% of the vote in her re-election bid, there but keep in mind, a lot of the seats they flipped, kennedy, and the reason that would block her is not because there are members that are too liberal, trying to force her to the left, it's that you have more moderate democrat coming to the house of representatives and they don't like nancy pelosi or have been on record as saying we can't support her and by the same token how this plays in the jeff sessions and robert mueller, they represent districts where president trump is popular. they might have to temper what their checks and balances are as they go after the administration. kennedy: and she mistakes her own identity politics with populism which is very different, and that's what you're talk about with the democrat moderates,

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in the first election of the day, new york congressman hakeem jeffries won democratic caucus chair by vote of 123-113 over his colleague barbara lee of california. following the vote, he spoke to reporters. rep. jeffries: good afternoon, everyone. let me first just thank barbara lee again for her tremendous service to this nation, for all that she is, all that she does, all that she represents. from the very beginning through the very end, this was a friendly contest of ideas. and now that the race is over, i look forward to working closely with her on behalf of all of the people in the united states of america.

it makes sense for her to create room for rising stars in the party like hakeem jeffries, who is suchar. so i think she's going to be totally fine in the speakership. i know she's being challenged -- >> how do you get past the people they promised their voters they're going to vote against pelosi and they go on the floor and they say "present." that doesn't sound like voting against pelosi. >> i'm not a vote counter. >> how about 218. >> i think she will ultimately get there and she should get there. >> you're not answering my question. how do you say to your voters for months i'm going to vote against pelosi in an ad campaign and then get a picture on c-span of you voting present? >> i think she's going to make concessions. clearly there needs to be new blood in the party. in the end she may have to make the concession she'll just serve these two years. we're about to embark on an epic fight for the next two years. we don't have the luxury of having a speaker who needs on-the-job training. >> that's a normative argument, a political argument. your democratic freshman, the first vote

barbara lee versus young rising star new york congressman hakeem jeffries. thank you for being here. how do you feel about leadership staying the same in the top three positions? >> they've done a phenomenal job and they're the right group to lead us into the next two years and battles we're going to face with the trump administration on behalf of the american people, but there will be opportunities for the next generation of democrats to rise up into leadership ranks in a blended capacity. i think that's what many of us are hoping to see. >> what do you mean by that, and does that mean you think you should be the caucus chair? >> i have nothing but respect for barbara lee. this is a friendly contest of ideas. i do think at this moment of time, i'm in position to help the caucus maintain its message, discipline, operational unity, get things done on behalf of the american people. i was pleased to be involved in crafting the closing argument to the american people where we indicated we're going to fight to lower health care costs, fight to increase pay, fight

congressman hakeem jeffries will be in the building talking about the blue wave and what democrats areheir new power. and on the other side, former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski has a new book and he's out to settle some scores and i'll be asking him the tough questions. that does it for me. "hardball" with chris mathews is up next. /s >> devastating, let's play "hardball." ♪ ♪ good evening, i'm chris mathews from washington. we have some breaking news tonight. according to a court filing, special counsel robert mueller's office says former trump campaign chairman manafort lied to the fbi and to the special counsel in a breach of his plea agreement. and that's according to a filing intended to update the court on manafort's cooperation. meanwhile, harvard law professor alan dershowitz who has been an ally of president trump predicts the impact of mueller's report will be, quote, d

. >> joining me right now, democratic congressman hakeem jeffries who was just elected the new head ofhe house democratic caucus and sits on the judiciary committee we're talking about. thanks for coming in. >> good morning. thanks for having me on. >> jerry nadler says he wants to investigate cohen's misstatem t misstatements to congress. should that be the first order of business for the committee in january? >> i think we have constituti constitutional responsibility as a separate and coequal branch of government to insure we conduct meaningful insight of an out of control executive branch. that hasn't happened in the last two years and we have to look alt some of the things that have been done as it relates to the undermining of our democracy. overall, house democrats are going to remained focused on kitchen table pocketbook issues anchored in our for the people agenda, increasing pay for everyday americans, a real infrastructure plan, and cle cleaning up corruption and the mess in washington, d.c. >> but if you do have -- if you say you want to look into these things, and they sho

hakeem jeffries, the democrat, doug collins from georgia, the republican who pushed the first step act. that's a good first step forward. not just on the issue but on bipartisanship. i have long thought that donald trump is in a unique position to cut deals that no other republican would be able to cut, say a president jeb bush or president scott walker on guns or immigration. that may be a taller order, but if issues come up where that needs to be done, trump is in the umeek position to do it if he seizes that moment. then people would be surprised that he is the great negotiator he's always told us he is. >> one caveat, there has been talk on gun control. we saw that in the last session. didn't go anywhere. we'll see. >> patti, on nancy pelosi, you have these 17 democrats who have put their name down on this letter saying we're not going to vote for her. cnn's reporting is there are five more who haven't signed it but are in that camp as well, which would mean she doesn't have the 218 number she needs to be speaker and cnn polling shows when you look at all americans, only 3 in 5 say

. >> joining me right now is michael schmidt from "the new york times," hakeem jeffries from new york, mimi roca a former federal prosecutor. i want to all get your thoughts and a huge day we thought would be a morning after. it's a dramatic step. how far is this strategic he's going to find a way to stop mueller and much of this is instinctive revenge? >> well, this is something trump has wanted to do since the second month he was in office, march of 2017. me believes that sessions' decision to recuse was the original sin that allowed mueller to be appointed. you have to understand the president sees the position of attorney general as someone who should be most loyal to hill. that is more important than the law and following the facts. that is what he sees. he sees it as a personal attorney to him. he's expressed this in private. he has said publicly he never would have made sessions his attorney general if he knew he was going to recuse himself. he saw the recusal a disloyal thing. finally today he did something he'd wanted to do for a very long time. the first biggest national rep

we speak it to be pelosi as speaker, hoyer as majority leader, clyburn to be the chip and hakeem jeffries to the number four position. he was asked if pelosi should single the democrats who ran on new leadership when she intends to step down. >> she is not going to lame duck herself, particularly because we're dealing with the trump administration. we're dealing with mitch mcconnell and the boys in the senate and we're dealing with some of trump's friendly co-conspirators in the house of representatives. why in the world would she or anyone lame duck themselves? >> reporter: secret ballot today so house democrats will vote yes or to on pelosi for speaker. >> dana: if she speaks this our, we'll bring it to you live. there was some drama on the senate floor as a group of senators tried to force a vote on protection for special counsel robert mueller. >> reporter: you're right. you had a bipartisan small group of senators trying to force a vote on a matter that would make sure the special counsel is allowed to finish his work. >> i'm confident if allowed to vote this bill would pass with mor

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i would assume you mean 70 like hakeem jeffries? >> him, certainly. the caucus, kathleen rice -- excuse me, not kathleen rice, but the advice chairperson and then you go down to the list. ben gray, . they are new people in line for the next change that will clear. when will it occur? we don't know. we do know that the next two years we cannot have a lame duck. pelosi is going to stand strong and she is going to lead us, together with the rest of her leadership team and the committee chairs which will be taking hold of the various committees on january the third. >> harris: you know, i can see that you fully support her. you've got what we call the "problem solvers," about nine to 12 people. we have seen some of them switch their stance paid some of them can't. some of these people that ran on voting against nancy pelosi are going to need to have political space to do that. otherwise, they will lose their seats the next time around because they will be proven to be not honest. >> that's true. the speed when she knows she has to do with that. the number

. >> dagen: hakeem jeffries in new york, joe kennedy -- >> harris: he's running for caucus. >> dagen:are a lot of people who can potentially be great leaders. i think nancy pelosi probably quietly uses her gender to her advantage. >> chris: white males. >> dagen: if you go against the lady, you are sexist to be a democrat. number one. number two, she is money bags. these democratic candidates raised approximately $1 billion the cycle. that's almost 60% more than the republicans race. at the end of the day, she brings the box and they can't say no to that. >> harris: yesterday, i interviewed somebody in the house of the time, carolyn maloney of new york. >> melissa: she's my representative. >> harris: she's good friends of nancy pelosi. i asked her, "what happens if somebody comes against nancy pelosi?" "that would be great." i said "really question work alexandria ocasio-cortez, how does that work out? ""i don't think she reports nancy, close without's house he put it. not the center pelosi. it's ideological. >> melissa: it is, that's a great point. they are different ends of the spec

what she have needs to do -- what the entire leadership team needs to do is look to people like hakeem jeffriesn a position so come 2020 they can take over this. >> it has to be done in a way that doesn't alienate a lot of people. that cab -- that can be -- remember, house fights can be really rough. what can happen is a whole generation of members are marred by a fight in the leadership. >> so far at least there isn't even a candidate taking on nancy pelosi. >> the person who was going to be the speaker was joe crowley. i think they're finding a way to find their voice knowing nancy pelosi is going to be in charge. will the first bill begun violence? the great new deal will ultimately be become a part of a democratic platform and something that someone campaigns on in 2020. >> hr1 is going to be the democracy reform bill. >> that's in some ways to aye piece marcia fudge who might have possibly run against her. you mentioned investigations. i wonder if the discussion of overreach is overdone. if the democrats choose to look at how matt whitaker got his job and if they chose to look at the presi

i had help from hakeem jeffries, doug collins, a lot of democrats saying to congressman jeffries, you'reg this. this is something that trump says he's for, how can you be working with him? or this doesn't go far enough. he said, no, no, this policy is virtuous. this policy is right. we had somebody send him a letter that basically had all of these pages saying why the bill was racist and doing all of these things. he said, no, no, i want to respond to it. i can summarize this. you should read the bill before you criticize. >> everybody doesn't like this bill. it passed huge in the house but there's still people on the right who say you're letting out drug dealers in an opioid crisis. quick response to those critics? >> so the way we were able to overcome that in the house is that, yes, people have the ability to earn marginal, you know, decrease in their sentences, but the operative word there is earn. so if you have somebody in prison for ten years, you can say would you rather them go back after ten years of no programming to the streets or would you rather leave after 9, 9 1/2 years a

if you get hoyer, cliburn, let's say you got hakeem jeffries who's trying to be democratic caucus chairen ray lieu han who wants to be the assistant majority leader, that's a lot of guys, a lot of dudes on that list, right? and pelosi's the only one, and particularly there's no woman of color on that list, and you've got all these women of color stepping up, ocasio-cortez, presley, it would be pretty remarkable if it was nancy pelosi and four or five guys in the leadership team. i'm not sure that's a number that really can hold. >> i still think that one of the bigger headlines and, again, i'm not an ageist, but you look at the average age of the democratic leadership team, and it would seem to be off by about 20, 25 years when compared to your beto o'rourkes or your andrew gillums or your other, you know, rising stars. >> stacey abrams, right. >> thank you, thank you, jamal. >> thanks for having me. it was great. we've got more to talk about on this one. >> yes, sir, we'll have you back j . >>> on this giving tuesday, a cause that's near and dear to my heart. in a study with ozempic®,

in the first election, new york congressman hakeem jeffries won democratic caucus chair by 123-113 overhis colleague barbara lee of california. following the vote, he spoke to reporters. rep. jeffries: good afternoon, everyone. let me first just thank barbara lee again for her tremendous service to this nation, for all that she is, all that she does, all that she represents. from the very beginning through the very end, this was a friendly contest of ideas. and now that the race is over, i look forward to working closely with her on behalf of all of the people in the united states of america.

does that mean someone like hakeem jeffries will be challenging steny hoyer for the majority positionr is somebody in your caucus going to challenge nancy pelosi? >> katy, that's not what the caucus said. the letter from chairman cedric richmond said simply we want -- if there is a change at the top of our leadership, we will vie for one of the top two slots. that's what it said. if there is no change, nancy remains number one, dozeny remains number two, then jim clyburn is going to make a run to remain number three. >> got it. so let me ask you this. if nancy pelosi does not get enough votes to be speaker of the house, will you step up and throw your hat in the ring to be speaker of the house? >> well, that could be. that's a possibility. we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. as it stands now, i'm running for whip and i fully expect for the leadership to stay in place as it currently is. >> all right. that's good to know. one last question. you talked about following the president down rabbit holes. mitch mcconnell, you just heard him a moment ago in the lead-in to this conversa

guest: you know, we have a new chair of the democratic caucus, hakeem jeffries.is from new york, a personal friend, incredible talented. he is a hope for the future of the party. we have other races going on today where a lot of young people are involved in the future. we are going to see katherine clark is going to be the vice chair of the democratic party. another young, vibrant person in our party. we are seeing a lot of up-and-coming leaders. ben ray lujan is going to be the assistant majority leader. we will see other races related to the d triple c -- more vibrant faces. host: the votes for nancy pelosi -- you think that indicates further problems, come january, and cohesiveness? guest: i think she will be the next speaker and will have support. the democrats will come together to lead this country, working together and working across party lines, to solve the problems our country faces. suozzi, democrat from long island, part of the climate solutions caucus. thank you for your time. back to your phone calls. we will hear from doug, nevada. thanks for waiti

people, -- you hear hakeem jeffries and all kinds of people.eople, i big mix of tend to think if nancy pelosi gets pushed out there will be generational change. will be on thet younger side of 60, 65, a be even 55. think there is still some doubt there. i noticed last night, i couldn't hear it because i was in front of a computer, but they had a monitor up and i saw nancy pelosi and jim clyburn up on the , she at the victory party was positively euphoric. lot, hoyer, who i like a looked like he was at a funeral. , really he wasn't happy happy about democrats picking up a bunch of seats, and he had been in a lot of those districts and worked very hard, i am not sure he enjoyed her taking a victory lap like that. we will have to wait and see. >> thank you for taking my question. this is a question about some thoughts when you referenced voting. one of the cornerstones of democracy is the faith and trust we have in the process. about accessords and security and suppression. i wonder if you have any thoughts on the long-term effect on things like -