please welcome congressman hakeem jeffries!welcome to the show. >> great to be here. >> trevor: so cool. you're just down the road. you just pop up. this is nice. >> yeah. >> trevor: let's talk about what the democrats are dealing with these days, the mueller report that came out. attorney general barr says it proves no collusion, but the democrats are saying you want to see the full report. do you believe that there's something else in the report that will further suspicions about trump or is it just about being open with the public? >> well, i think first and foremost, transparency is important in terms of openness as relates to the government. 420 members of house of representatives voted to release the report, zero voted against it. more than 80% of the american people have said we should see the report. the president himself said we should see the report. so transparency in a democracy is critical and it wants not clear to me what the president is hiding in terms of the failure to release it to date. we'll see what happens

telling us you're lucky to be in las vegas, the democrat from the state and city of new york hakeem jeffries, thank you very much for being on with us tonight from las vegas. >>> and coming up our next guest says russia conspiracy or not donald trump still poses a threat to this nation. but he says robert mueller offered a road map on how to defend this nation. we'll talk with the author and journalist andrew sullivan after this. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! monitor their blood glucose every day. which means they have to stop. and stick their fingers. repeatedly. today, life-changing technology from abbott makes it possible to track glucose levels. without drawing a drop of blood, again and again. the

our next guest is one of those democrats and a proud product of brooklyn, new york, congressman hakeem jeffries. sits on the house judiciary committee and more importantly these days he's the party guy on the house majority. he's the chairman of the democratic house caucus. thank you for coming on. how do you think you're going to decide whether or not to pursue impeachment and is one way just to proceed with hearings that are except for the title, impeachment hearings in name only? >> well, speaker nancy pelosi has laid out a clear standard for how to proceed and it's a standard that the overall majority of the house democratic caucus embraces. that is that the case for impeachment must be compelling. the evidence must be overwhelming and public sentiment around impeachment must be bipartisan in nature. so we're going to go down the course where we will gather the necessary evidence so that we can then evaluate it and present it to the american people. first, we want access to the entire mueller report, not the redacted version because the attorney general cannot be trusted to provide an accur

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. >>> i'll speak with congressman hakeem jeffries of the judiciary committee. and our correspondents and analysts, they will have full coverage of today's top stories. let's begin with our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, the p lawyers play defense back home over his tax returns. >> that's right, wolf. president trump is down at the border to promote his call for a wall, and he's using some extremely incendiary language on the issue of immigration saying today, quote, and you just said it a few moments ago, quote, our country is full. the white house is also gearing up for battle over democratic demands for mr. trump's tax returns with one administration official telling me, aides to the president are willing to take this fight all the way to the supreme court. >> reporter: touting his administration's effort to secure the border, president trump lobbed new rhetorical hand grenades on immigration. >> our country is full, our area is full, the sector is full. can't take anymore, sorry. can't happen. so turn around, that's the way it is. i look a

we saw congressman hakeem jeffries there, member of the judiciary committee and chair of the house caucusangled him and asked him to come to the studio to talk about some of this breaking news tonight. congressman jeffries joins us. thank you for being here. we did just get breaking news i want to ask you about, and this happened since the press conference. the chairs of all of the key committees on these topics in the house, the jish carry chairman, intelligence chairman, adam schiff, the oversight committee, the shs maxine water, foreign affairs eliot engel, they all released a joint statement calling on william barr to cancel his presence conference on mueller's report which is set to take place before congress is set to receive the report tomorrow morning. i'll just read you in part of it, quote, these new actions by the attorney general reinforce our concern that he is acting to protect president trump. the attorney general previously stated i don't believe it would be in the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or release it in serial or piecemeal action.

and conference room in here who have saluted thefor me, being here leadership of our chairman, hakeem jeffries, and katherine clark for bringing us together in a very substantive unifying, energizing way of this conference. really a series of workshops where we engaged with each other. and again, for the people. it is nice to be in the majority because of what it means to the electorate. what it means for the people. and for the majority, majority, majority, for the people means lower health care costs by reducing the cost of prescription drugs and saving the pre-existing condition method of the majority. for the people means building the infrastructure of america and making bigger paychecks, lower health costs. the majority for the people means cleaner government. we talked about those issues and how we can be more specific in terms of legislation, more effective in terms of connecting with the american people on all of those scores because the outside mobilization is what gives us hope. 10,000 events to save the affordable care act in the last term of office when the assaults were made to el

colleagues who have saluted the leadership of our german hakeem jeffries and vice-chairman to bring us together in a unifying and energizing way at this conference. a series of workshops where we engaged with each other. and again, for the people. it is nice to be in the majority because of what it means for the electorate, for the people, majority, majority, majority, for the people mean lower health-care costs by reducing the cost of prescription drugs and saving the pre-existing for the people means building infrastructure of america in a green way, to make bigger paychecks and lower health-care costs, the majority for the people means cleaner government and we talked about those issues and how we can be more specific in terms of more affected in terms of connecting with the american people on all of those because the outside mobilization is what gives us hope, 10,000 events to save the affordable care act in the last term of office when the assaults were made to eliminate the affordable care act. we will fight it in the courts and congress and the court of public opinion. , this wa

my thanks to hakeem jeffries, congressman from new york, who had to depart to go back to work. obviously a busy night on the hill. natasha, take a listen to one of congressman jeffries' colleagues, congresswoman alexandra ocasio-cortez cross examining mr. cohen on an issue. >> i want to ask about an issue about the president avoiding taxes. >> it is identical to what he did at trump national golf club at briar cliff manor. >> do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns in order to compare them? >> yes. >> natasha, it was the mueller probe that started the shift in michael cohen's allegiance to donald trump and ultimately the furnishing of evidence, financial and otherwise, the checks, et cetera. we don't have any belief that he had the tax returns in his role as counsel at trump oerg. he certainly didn't fork those over in public. walk us through that case how it relates to other potential financial matters in new york and has been handed off and is open as far as we know in new york, relates to all of this so to what the democrats are doing tonig

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hakeem jeffries made a comment about the so-called emergency that isn't really the emergency and he blames one person. let's watch. >> well, the president unfortunately continues to pedal -- we have a broken immigration system. it is clear we need comprehensive immigration reform. >> laura: okay, the same old amnesty argument. we'll start enforcing the border when you give us amnesty. that's predictable. your reaction. >> there is definitely a crisis on the border and not something president trump made. we've had this problem for decades. a lot of our congressmen and members of congress and our past presidents have ignored the situation on the border. finally we have a president that has a will to be able to make a difference on the border. now he is being stopped in any way that he tries. and unfortunately the members of congress to r to blame on both sides of the aisle. >> laura: the president needs to stick with his instincts. he is getting a lot of advice from a lot of people who want to take him away from his instincts. >> he was down there at the border talking to border patrol agent

congressional reaction to the report with the chairman of the house mocratic caucus, representative hakeem jeffriesnew york. he's also a mber of the judiciary committee. congressman jeffries, thank you very much for talk wogs. president trump says this proves, agai that he is exonerated. >> wels the president i completely clueless and, once again, he's lying to the american people. if anything, the mueller report is exactly the opposite. it is incredibly, deeply troubling, the information contained in the report. the president pursuedt to the untates constitution is charged with faithfully executing the laws of the united states of america. the information in the mueller report revet,als tha in at least ten instances, the preside likely engaged in obstruction of justice. that is aserious crime. what we need to do now is hear from bob mueller so thaert the an people can make a determination for themselves as to how we proceed to bring about some accountability. >> woodruff: i want to ask you about what the congress' role is next, but, at this point, do you accept the special counsel's finding that t

in the mall, and the early bird catches the syphilis." ( laughter ) and new york congressman hakeem jeffriesthis way. he said, "donald trump is like the wizard of oz: he creates all this imagery-- this chaos, this crisis, this confusion." he's right. trump is actually every character in "the wizard of oz." his bone spurs make him a cowardly lion. kids in cages proves he doesn't have a heart. his spelling shows he doesn't have a brain, and he is actually the subject of a "witch hunt." ( cheers and applause ) (as trump) "there's no place like mar-a-lago. there's no place like mar-a- lago. and my thighs won't let me click my heels. "i don't-- i don't-- just-- i'll take a mulligan there." but trump is ready for a fight-- and not just metaphorically. here's what he said in a recent interview with the "breitbart." "you know, the left plays a tougher game. it's very funny. i actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don't play it tougher. okay? i can tell you i have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the bikers for trump. i have the tough

earlier on this network house judiciary committee member hakeem jeffries who like nadler is a new york democrat, offered this critique of the attorney general. >> the mueller report should speak for itself, period, full stop. no misdirection, no manipulation, no misinformation coming from the so-called attorney general. it's not acceptable. he's acting more like a house counsel to an organized crime boss as opposed to the peoples attorney. >> here for our lead off discussion on this consequential wednesday night susan page, veteran of washington bureau chief for usa today who just recently became the biographer of "former first lady barbara bush who died a year ago today. annie carny also returns to our broadcast, white house reporter for "the new york times." ditto samstein, politics editor for the daily beast. and harry litman. he also happens to be the creator and executive producer of the new podcast "talking feds." good evening and welcome to all of you. susan, we welcome you to our studios here in new york. how unprecedented is what we're watching tonight into tomorrow morning? >

those who are coming behind my generation and you see people like stacey, you see people like hakeem jeffriesm, they are dealing with an america that in 20 years will look at things differently but it's how we get there and whether we get more equal whether or not they will have the same kind of issues or not, and therefore their vision will be based on where they're looking from. >> and part of that equality is something stacey abrams and andrew gillum now are fighting for, which are voting rights and making sure more people of color are registered to vote. and that might seem like a simple goal or project for someone who's not running for office. but that combination with stacey abrams was something that shook up the main stream democrats who thought after 2016 we will only win in places like georgia by focusing on white working class voters. but she outperformed everyone's expectations by doing that. >> i keep hearing the term authenticity, and we're getting into a age in politics where people want to know you are who you are. i think that's what stacey represents. james brown was like a f

hakeem jeffries responding. chuck schumer tweeted the american people deserve the truth.on't need any predamage control or spin from donald trump's hand picked attorney general, william barr. he is act more like an independent campaign spokesman than the law. >> peter baker, you are laughing. i love the way hakeem says things. it would be normally considered crude to say shut up. we heard nothing from the guy who wrote the report, robert mueller. nothing. audibly. >> you are absolutely right. attorney general set the barlow for what we can expect from him going forward. he is just acting like the attorney general for donald trump and not for the united states. just the other day, he talked about the law enforcement community spying on the trump campaign without any evidence of anything to back up what he is saying. somehow he is equating spying with warrants issued for probable cause in connection with criminal wrong-doing. that was the source of surveillance that led to the mueller investigation. he is eroding his credibility every single day and we will hear from mr. mu

they're both right and you just gave donald trump credit for criminal justice reform, actually hakeem jeffries, van jones and i really worked hard on that but we accomplished that. >> i didn't say that, i said who's getting the credit for it, you don't think the trump administration is getting the credit for it? >> we don't say that -- >> happened under the trump administration. did it not? >> it did. they came along -- >> go get some credit -- i'll give you and hakeem a bunch of credit as with el. >> go ahead. go ahead. i'm sorry. >> and -- and van. but here's the thing. i think he can do both. i think he can bring the midwest, but i also think that if he actually gets it so when we talk about criminal justice reform now, you'll see his policies are going to focus on prosecutorial discretion. all these prosecutors who thought it was nice and popular to be hard on crime, overcharge african-americans and then you find the disparity in the criminal justice system so i think he's going to be able to do both and the one conversation i keep hearing that people say african-americans stayed home last

i asked hakeem jeffries about that at the beginning of this retreat. he said that oversight is something they must do as a separate and coequal branch of government. but he said the democrats did not run on impeachment. they did not run on would have skills or chaos. they run on health care, infrastructure, and that's what they were trying to stay focused on during this retreat and what they are hoping to deliver on moving ahead. harris? >> harris: it's interesting, when parts of the party -- the more progressive -- do want to talk about impeachment. how do you stay on message? ellison barber, thank you very much. let's give it to all of it. the top of public and in the house, minority leader kevin mccarthy's with me now. good to see you. >> thank you for having you back on. >> harris: absolutely. this lot of news developing on this friday. let's jump in with william barr. why don't democrats, from what you are learning on the hill? , believe that he's doing his job honorably? >> because from the moment president trump was elected they wanted to impeac

. >> shannon: i want to read a tweet from hakeem jeffries saying "so-called attorney general is presiding over a dog and pony show. here's a thought. release the mueller report more money and keep your mouth shut. you have zero credibility." there's a huge list of have come forward to say that barr needs to cancel this thing, just give us a report and let the american people decide. your response. >> two thoughts. the first is the last time i checked, the constitution has three branches of government. an executive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch. the executive branch may attorney general can do whatever he wants to do. it's not for the legislative branch to tell them what to do or how to conduct themselves. he can have one press conference or ten press conferences. the second thing i would say is that the irony in the hypocrisy of these people talking about a dog and pony show, they put us through a dog and pony show for two and half years. they said they had evidence of russians colluding with trump, and the reality is nearly thing we found were russians colluding with the cl

. >> harris: house democratic caucus chairman hakeem jeffries said this about impeachment just yesterdaytch and listen. >> we didn't run on impeachment. we didn't run on obstruction of justice. we didn't run on a scandal or the chaos, crisis, and confusion that comes out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue every day. we ran on health care. we ran on infrastructure. we ran on bringing our democracy to life. those are the promises we made to the american people. those are the promises we are executing on. >> harris: i have to say, majority whip clyburn told me the same thing on this program. but this is coming from inside your own party. how difficult is it to pull everybody together and keep some factions of your party from wanting to put this on the floor with or without the mueller report? some of them weren't even wearing dog willing to wait, al green >> we are a big tent party paid we are represented of government. we represent lots of different viewpoints. but the fact of the matter is the majority of us, even those who talk about it, know that we've got to deliver for what the american peop

. >> that was congressman hakeem jeffries who chairs the democratic caucus, weighing in on the allegationstime for the lid. anne, matthew, and daniella are back. you haven't had your shot at the biden story. daniella, i'm going to start with you. you heard this debate. it's obviously creating, i would say, midlevel angst inside the democratic party, how to deal with this biden allegation. people uncomfortable on both sides of this issue. how does he get through this? >> i thought molly had some really good points about centering this conversation not so much about what his intentions are but around how it makes people feel. and you know, you have to take the totality of joe biden, right, when you have those conversations. you do with everybody. you look at his history and all the good things he's done. at the end of the day, you had people who felt uncomfortable by his actions. i think it's incumbent upon him to sit with that and internalize that. i thought his i think it's incumbent on him to sit with that, internalize that, i think his statements are more, there needs to be an audiencein

. >> hakeem jeffries of new york who is the chairman of the democratic caucus. the attorney general appears to be waging a media campaign on behalf of president trump. the very subject of the investigation at the heart of the mueller report. rather than letting the facts of the report speak for themselves, the attorney general is taking unprecedented steps to spin mueller's nearly two-year investigation. one, he summarized the report and cherry picked findings in his march 24th letter to congress. two, he with held summaries written by the special counsel sbe intended for public consumption. three he briefed the white house before providing congress a copy that helped them prepare a rebuttal response for the president. and now the evening before the report's scheduled release, the department of justice informed the committee that it will receive a copy between 11:00 and noon, well after the attorney general's 9:30 a.m. press conference. this is wrong. it is contrary to the attorney general's own words to the committee. "i do not believe it would be in the public

members of the committee, madeline dean, ted deutsche of florida, val demmings of florida and hakeem jeffries of new york who is chairman of the democratic caucus. the attorney general appears to be waging a media campaign on behalf of president trump. the very subject of the investigation at the heart of the mueller report. rather than letting the facts of the report speak for themselves, the attorney general has taken unprecedented steps to spin mueller's nearly two-year investigation. one, he summarized the report and cherry-picked findings in his march 24th letter to congress. two, he withheld summaries written by the special counsel that were intended for public consumption. three, he has briefed the white house on the report before providing congress a copy, which has helped them prepare a rebuttal response for the president. and now the evening before the report's scheduled release, the department of justice has informed the committee that it will receive a copy between 11:00 a.m. and noon, well after the attorney general's 9:30 a.m. press conference. this is wrong. it is contrary to t

saying presiding over a dog-and-pony show, hakeem jeffries democratic lead another house.stigation for two years, we put our faith in bob mueller as democrats. he found there is no collusion. >> we're glad our president is not colluding. ed: we're glad america did not collude with the russians. they're attacking the attorney general. they're attacking his personal credibility. ainsley: which they didn't do until the summary came out. ed: this gives him a chance to push back, lay out this painstaking detail what the process has been. so he can restore the credibility. brian: justice department officials had numerous conversations with white house lawyers about conclusions by mueller. people told "the new york times" that they said the president's legal team is preparing a rebuttal to the report and stratguys where it goes from here. the other part of the strategy, jay sekulow, rudy giuliani will be everywhere over the next few days. that is great. that shows you have nothing to hide. meanwhile the media up in arms about the fact we're going to get information prior to getti