ret it hakeem jeffries said show up and be strong and do what you have to do but show up.ust because you don't like the results of the elections, you can't challenge the election, maybe you don't like the ukraine policy. so show up, do interviews after but be there. >> ainsley: be respectful, listen to the president. you know, this is about coming together as a country. there are wars in the middle east, we're worried about china, we're worried about russia. let's come together as a country. democrats and republicans. hopefully his message will bring everyone together. >> steve: this is going to be the largest tv audience he had. probably bigger than the inauguration. people are busy during the middle of the day. this is going to be at 9:00 at night. people want to know, you know, that he probable missed, when he was running, that he was going to fix america. that's why they are calling it the renewal of the united states. for the most part. the one thing that i think he needs to address as well is the tariffs. they went into effect six hours and seven minutes ago. wall st

house minority leader hakeem jeffries is begging them to stop. he says no props.says don't create a spectacle that could be seized upon by the g.o.p. we will see who listens. the party has a 36% approval rating, a record low. they are out of touch and their priorities are out of whack and they haven't even laid a glove on trump since he's been sworn in. they can't even decide what to wear tonight. the women's caucus is wearing pink, the ukrainian hawks are wearing blue and yellow, and the congressional black caucus is wearing black. democrats used to have a well-oiled machine fighting for their propaganda. now they've collapsed and they've been reduced to this... >> when i win i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one. >> that's not true. that's what you just heard. since day one of donald trump's presidency truck -- prices are not down, they are up. >> since day one of donald trump's presidency, prices are up, not down. >> that's what you just heard. >> since day one of donald trump's presidency. >> prices are up, not down. >> and that is the truth

that's why under leadership of hakeem jeffries, we are fighting back and we will prevail. [applause] it's now my honor to introduce our amazing caucus chair, pete aguilar. mr. aguilar: i want to thank ted lieu for his service to the country and we are here in the halls of congress. house democrats are focused on the american people that are being harmed which slashes medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires that hurts the v.a. health care system. an air force veteran who was deputy director in s.b.a. gets caught up in elon musk to line his pockets. thank you so much, chris for sharing your story. a mother of foyer who are puts food on the table and keep and through republican betrayed by voting to take away her health care. and eric, an army veteran and front line worker at the v.a. hospital, we will not get distracted by the lies that you heard last night. we are going to keep the focus on where it deserves and the focus on what the president does, not what he says. these stories are happening all over the country. and sadly, it's only going to get worse. it didn't h

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we will begin with mike johnson and hakeem jeffries. does that square with his campaign promise? >> he's already proven that it is a tool to level the playing field with our international trading partners. the speech went overwhelmingly wealthy or not for the mainstream media about the american people appeared i saw a poll that said 76% of viewers viewed it favorably. it was very well-received in the house except by the democrats of course he resorted to the sort of pettiness and i even had to eject a member from the chamber. i think that was the first time in history. pretty sad reflection of things. >> george: you bring that up. in past state of the union address of the congress, republicans have taunted democratic presidents, yet they were not thrown out. why did you throw out congressman green? >> the only example i can think of is the famous joe wilson where he uttered something during barack obama's speech but quieted down immediately and was quiet for the rest of the night. al green was trying to interrupt the entire proceeding.

. >> taking things further than what leader hakeem jeffries has called for. >> there is decorum from our side. >> 2018 democrats booed trump. >> we focus on. >> in 2020 then speaker nancy pelosi famously tore his speech in half this year year some on the left want to be more strategic, taking into account trump's decisive victory. republicans must also decide if they will cheer on federal layoffs as the house g.o.p.'s campaign arm announced today no more in person town halls amid protests over doge. speaker mike johnson accusing democrats of sending in paid activists. >> i saw my friend hakeem jeffries decrying that i have said that but we know that that is a fact. >> still, is he bringing in elon musk to the hill tomorrow for a face-to-face chat. >> and, bret, democrats have chosen first term senator from michigan elissa slotkin to deliver their rebuttal tonight to president trump's speech. it's an interesting choice as they look for a unifying message. a unifying voice. the 48-year-old former cia analyst won her seat back in november by openly courting trump voters. bret? >> bret:

in fact, hakeem jeffries counseled his members. he said no signs, no props, nothing like that. that happened in a closed door meeting earlier today. but we're told about me and my colleague sarah ferris telling us, say, that one congressman, mark pocan of wisconsin, progressive democrats, said, quote, i'm effing. he was channeling the anger. he later told me of his constituents. they want to show that they are fighting donald trump, and they want to do that on the floor of the united states house. so what will ultimately happen here remains to be seen. the democratic leaders are concerned because they believe those kind of outbursts will be seized upon by the republicans, could be used to go after them in the in the hours ahead. but we'll see what they ultimately decide to do here. >> that's really fascinating reporting. i was talking to jake, a few democrats who were saying that there are text chains going on. really, it's sort of blowing up everybody's phones. and one congresswoman said to me, we're democrats, so we don't really know exactly how it's going to play out, jake.

that is why the leadership of hakeem jeffries and the democrat members here, we are fighting back and we will prevail. it is now my honor to introduce our amazing caucus chair. >> i want to thank ted lieu, vice chair of the democratic caucus for the service to the country in uniform in the halls of congress. house democrats are focused on the american people to be harmed by the republican budget, which slashes medicaid to help pay for tax cuts to billionaires that hurts the v.a. health care system. an air force veteran who continued his life and public service as a director of sba, gets caught up in the chaos and the dysfunction of elon musk's crusade to line his pockets with even more taxpayer dollars. thank you so much, chris, for sharing your story. the navy matter in and mother of four to put food on the table to keep children healthy who republican -- of -- eighth congressional district trade by voting to take away for health care. thank you. and to erik, an army veteran and a front-line worker at the va hospital. we want to tell you we will not get distracted by the lies that yo

and it looks like he's got the support of hakeem jeffries. >> i think you would be a candidate that a very interested. >> judge jeanine: jesse, how desperate are the democrats to actually think andrew cuomo, a man who was forced out of office because of sexual harassment claims, not to mention the covid problem where ill covid patients were brought into nursing homes where people died, to actually think that he should run for president in 2028? >> jesse: let's be clear, he's not perverted, he's just italian. that was his excuse. >> judge jeanine: speak for yourself! >> jesse: politics is simple. it is really math. i know democrats aren't really good at it, but what they decided to do was take the most irrelevant constituency, trans, less than 1% of the nation, and go all in. or migrants, 0% of the voting population, and go all in. meanwhile, the top issues, the border and inflation, were issues that they caused, then ignored, and offered no plan to fix. look at right now, they are talking about egg prices. what is their plan to lower egg prices? what is their plan to do anything? greg

and together with hakeem jeffries, and democrats stood against it to save america's health care. i'll yield to hakeem jeffries for an opening statements. >> and we thank debbie wasserman schultz and others for convening this incredibly important hearing. let me also thank the witnesses who are going to be present here today and presenting for your participation, for your courage, your strength, your insight and your wisdom. secretary kinsley, chris dunham, christina, as well as nancy who happens to be from brooklyn. president trump promised on day one that he would lower the high cost the living in the united states of america. they have failed to keep that promise. costs aren't going down, they're going up. inflation is going up and not a single thing has been done to drive down the high cost of living in the united states of america. not one executive order, not one administrative action, not a single bill has been introduced, let alone presented on the house floor and passed to address the affordability crisis in the united states of america. under donald trump and house repub

. >> to hakeem jeffries the next time you. >> see him? >> y'all cannot beat up on my leader. >> what did the budget resolution that was passed this week say about medicaid? >> medicaid is for losers. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> it said absolutely nothing. watch. >> do a word search for medicaid on the on the resolution that we passed last night. you will not find. >> it now americans might need their medicaid soon because earlier this week, elon musk delivered some exciting medical news at trump's first official cabinet meeting. musk admitted that at least one doge cut was a mistake. >> so, for example, with usaid, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola. ebola prevention. i think we all want ebola prevention. >> now, that's the accent i hear. and i start running. >> yeah. >> turns out everybody should be very concerned about ebola, because even though musk says ebola prevention has been restored, officials say that's not true. usaid said that, quote, the teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight an ebola

also tonight, the leader of the democrats in the house, hakeem jeffries, is holding what they're callingto action after trump's speech to congress last night. that's happening right now as we speak online, hakeem jeffries and a number of other democrats, including the newly elected chair of the democratic party on planet republican, things are a little different. yesterday, republican members of congress were told explicitly by their leadership that they should stop having town halls with their constituents, stop meeting with the people who voted for you. this isn't a good time. democrats are getting no such advice. quite the opposite. and democrats have been holding huge town halls, for example. look at this. this is oregon. this weekend, more than 1000 people showed up for a town hall in gresham, oregon, hosted by congresswoman maxine dexter, a democrat. there were so many people who turned up for her town hall. they had to pull out extra bleachers. there were people sitting on the gym floor because they still couldn't get into the bleachers. a lot of people were there just to cheer he

>> well, speaker johnson has a good relationship with house democratic leader hakeem jeffries. but when i asked leader schumer over on the senate side just two days ago if or actually yesterday, oh my gosh, this week feels like 20 years. if there have been any lines of communication about the continuing resolution about government funding, he said that nobody's reached out to him or leader jeffries about the path forward. now, we do know that the four corners, as we call them, basically the top republicans and democrats in charge of the budget and appropriations process have been talking. i already told you how rosa delauro, the top appropriator on the democratic side in the house, feels about this entire process. but it is definitely no secret that president trump wants to ice democrats out of this equation, especially given the fact that republicans, however narrow, do control the house. they do control the senate. and, of course, he's in the white house. that's why you saw his ambitious plans on those reconciliation packages that would basically avoid the need for democrats

so hakeem jeffries gave a press conference today. he held up two signs, and one of them says elon musk is making $8 million a day in government contracts. the average medicaid recipient gets $65 a day. and we know in the new spending bill that speaker johnson has put forward in that narrowly passed the house that you're going to. why are you. this actually matters. >> to this great new message. >> i got here. >> you got bored the. second i opened my mouth. no, but it it does matter to say that somebody who is running the government in a serious capacity is supposed to be rooting out waste, fraud and abuse is making $8 million a day, and they want to cut your medicaid. and you know how serious the threat is, because josh hawley, of all people, is saying that he will not allow that spending bill to go through the senate. he says 21% of the people who live in his state are on medicaid. >> all right. greg, okay. >> they're only going after medicaid and medicare for fraud. everybody knows that that is true. >> everybody knows. >> everybod

into the speech, i reported how hakeem jeffries and other democratic leaders. >> had encouraged their. >> members not to disrupt, not to make a scene and to be on their best behavior. >> but that is not. >> exactly what happened. right out of the gates, there were some. >> disruptions and. >> fireworks. >> and perhaps the most memorable moment of the night. >> came from. >> al green. >> a. >> democrat from texas. >> he stood up early on, was waving his cane around and said, president trump, you do not have a mandate. >> to. >> cut medicaid. and after refusing. >> to sit. >> down. >> he was kicked out of the chamber. let's watch. >> that moment. >> that's your warning. >> mr. green. >> take your seat. >> take your seat, sir. >> take your seat. >> finding that members continue to engage in. >> willful and. >> concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant at arms to restore order. remove this gentleman from the. >> chamber. >> so just a very. >> extraordinary moment there. and al. >> green, we should remind. >> people. >> is one of the leading democrats. >> w

you see hakeem jeffries talking about how this is really terrible for the united states and how putinhe winner and how j.d. vance and donald trump are doing putin's bidding. so you have this kind of entrenched partisan warfare around this, but i think what we're missing is that we are in the middle of a global realliance. we're having a resorting with russia, iran, and china gaining dominance. so you see this outpouring of european countries in support of zelenskyy because they understand the stakes of this. they understand that the war in ukraine is a proxy war and when zelenskyy brought that up that it might reach american shores, only time will tell, but the winner tonight is absolutely putin. he is celebrating this moment with this chaos that we have never seen in the oval office. >> i have heard that a lot today. so public opinion on support for ukraine, military support coming from the u.s., has been split somewhat. there was a new pew research study that showed 30% of americans say we have given too much support. 22% say we aren't doing enough. obviously trump ran on this ameri

you see hakeem jeffries talking about how this is really terrible for the united states and how putin is the winner and how j.d. vance and donald trump are doing putin's bidding. so you have this kind of entrenched partisan warfare around this, but i think what we're missing is that we are in the middle of a global realliance. we're having a resorting with russia, iran, and china gaining dominance. so you see this outpouring of european countries in support of zelenskyy because they understand the stakes of this. they understand that the war in ukraine is a proxy war and when zelenskyy brought that up that it might reach american shores, only time will tell, but the winner tonight is absolutely putin. he is celebrating this moment with this chaos that we have never seen in the oval office. >> i have heard that a lot today. so public opinion on support for ukraine, military support coming from the u.s., has been split somewhat. there was a new pew research study that showed 30% of americans say we have given too much support. 22% say we aren't doing enough. obviously trump ran on this

it says from democrats again it's two democrats from house minority leader hakeem jeffries. the first notable thing here is the decision to attend the joint session is a personal one, and we understand that members will come to different conclusions. however, it's important to have a strong, determined and dignified democratic presence in the chamber. and then next he goes on to note, throughout the week, there is a series of events planned in connection with president trump's speech. beyond the traditional democratic response, jeffries says the democrats will be engaging media all day tomorrow. congresswoman, what was the conversation inside the caucus meeting? take us in there, because i just just tell us what tell us what you can, because it strikes me that there are some folks that are saying, look, we must go and attend because this is what we do, and we can't have a strong presence and a strong, forceful pushback if we're not in the chamber. but then there are other members who are saying, what do you mean they are? if we're saying that they are raiding the federal gov

. >> including congressman hakeem jeffries and senator chuck schumer are encouraging their members to attend and to bring guests that have been hurt by. >> trump's first. >> weeks in office. we're going to talk to a lawmaker in one of his guests later in the show. schumer, for example, though, is bringing five guests, including those impacted by budget cuts and potentially medicaid cuts through the upcoming republican budget. and then there's the response. democratic senator elissa slotkin of michigan will be delivering the democratic response to president trump's joint address to congress. slotkin was narrowly elected to the senate this past november after serving three terms as a congresswoman for this swing district. the senator is expected to deliver her remarks from a detroit suburb where both her and president trump won. a source tells nbc news that her speech is expected to draw heavily from her experience as a former cia officer. the senator is expected to focus on democrats economic vision, while honing in on slotkin's view that a healthy middle class is a national security p

movie before george soros offender groups and others literally paid protesters i saw my friend hakeem jeffriesthat i've said that but we know that is effective. democrat activists who do not live in the district very often will show up for the town hall events and go in an hour early and fill all the seats of the constituents of the people from the community that are actually represented don't even get a seat not saying everyone all the democrats in these town halls you've seen on television were not from the local area. there are people who do this as a profession. they are professional protesters so why would give them a form to do that right now? the best thing our members to do is communicate directly, frequently with their constituents there's other avenues to do that than just going and to try to get the other side soundbites. they are doing this for the cameras appeared we don't know it and it's wise not to play into it right now that is my conversation. >> should have gone through. [inaudible] what do you hope to hear? >> think we'll have some was imt information on that tonight. from

hakeem jeffries is the democratic leader. if he sent out a letter i would pay attention. >> so his strategies are investigations, litigation, legislation and protesting. guest: leader jeffrey sent a dear colleague letter last week enumerating 10 ways to respond but the main ones are legislating and using leverage. mid-march is a very important juncture where democrats apply leverage. excuse me, republicans control the house and senate, elon musk is shutting down the government so if there is a total shutdown it would be because of republican failure to get members in line to fund the government. imagine four years ago if we had shut down the government, no one would be saying it's because of republicans. if they can't do basic functions of government i think the other part of the strategy, legislation is one. number two is litigation and so far the court orders whether a republican or democrat unanimously trump wins in the courts. the final piece is globalization. it's very important that those who are concerned about what is

liz: we have hakeem jeffries, getting mocked on social mia, he posted a video insisting "the american people are with democrats" and did it all alone standing outside of capitol hill. >> the american people are with us. all across the country people are rising up to push back against the assault on the economy, the assault on hard working families, the assault on our democracy and the assault on medicaid. we don't need paid protesters and the american people are with us. liz: are with us? where were they? they're not in the video. larry, back up. how come americans are not with democrats? back up. they can't read the room. rephrase. that's going to hit working and middle class voters and push to shut down everybody's businesses during the pandemic and push social justice riots and de-fund the police and destroyed the businesses and properties. biden did a smothering pillow mandates going on about electric and going to blow spending for them and going for corrupted waste and accountable >> the only one not above ma jordy seizure disorders was renaming the gulf of mexico gulf of america

are who reserving to lisa slotkin to deliver the rebuttal from democrats house minority leader hakeem jeffries protect medicare, medicaid, republicans cutting taxes for elon musk how do you see it? >> they don't get it, the fact is country believes government is too big the country believes, one gallup poll almost 50% federal spending is waste, the country believes that system is corrupt, and certainly look at some things learning from doge, there is no question, that even i have been very shocked at some things we were paying for pure waste i think when you talk about medicaid, there is a substantial amount of fraud, here the same level of fraud in medicaid, that you have with visa mastercard american express you would save hurpz of billions if democrats want to be party insists on paying crooks insists on supporting waste that is her prerogative american people do not want to be told government so is wonderful cannot be retermed not be touched i think democrats are walking into a blind canyon, where they are going to end up look being like they don't understand the average american at all. m

hakeem jeffries begged his party to ditch the props and act cool and they blocked them. -- bucked.esse: democrats think they are brave to bring signs to a speech by a president who got shot and popped back up. some of them walked out and took selfies. look at this. we just walked out of the state of the union, my shirt showed trump an important message. noah king lives here. i'm sure he saw that shirt. and a woman in a wheelchair was brought as a guest and then ditched. >> i just came off the house floor. i could not stand one more second of this man with his hateful rhetoric and even more harmful policies. i went because i wanted to honor my state of the union. because clear is also a wheelchair user and navigated a lot of spaces to come here today, i wanted to take a seat and take up space and honor her but there is no way that i could stay there. >> jesse: we send these politicians to washington to work for us and they are walking off the job. we don't pay them to walk out of the job. if you don't like something your boss says, do you just walk out of the office and snap a selfi

the members that want to go, their directive from leadership from hakeem jeffries, minority l le leader chuck schumer is clear, bring a guest, have them in gallery and drive a separate narrative. you might see people dismissed or affected by healthcare cuts. whole challenge and strategy from leaders is to focus on gallery and not what the president is saying. as you played there, there are a lot of lawmakers defying leaders and don't want to go on the democratic side. >> steve: it is very unfortunate, a lot of people are losing their jobs with doj cuts. when you look at public opinion polls, majority of americans like what is happening to make federal government more efficient. same thing on the southern border, tightening national security, two things the president will talk about and two things that are very popular and if the democrats start b booing, that is going to be bad for them. >> so what the view from the hig highest echelon is, leave border aside, there is acknowledgement they are losing on that issue. they need to change policies, which they have in some cases. there is qui

axios reports house minority leader hakeem jeffries and senate if minority leader chuck schumer do wanto attend with a plus one. a congressional a memo obtained by axios asks house democrats bring a guest who has been harmed by the trump administration's early a actions. if party reeders are en-- leaders are encouraging members to stay focused on kitchen table issues and protecting programs like medicaid. they're hoping that approach resonates more with voters instead of simply interrupting the president's speech. but there are democrats who believe not showing up at all sends a better message. per axios, senators bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, ed markey are some considering not going. senator chris murphy is reportedly also considering not attending telling axios with when president trump does a speech, it's not a serious event. carly, rachel and peter. -- charlie. peter: thanks, maddie. i think part of the reason nancy pelosi doesn't want anyone doing anything dramatic, two reasons. one, what if somebody comes up with something more iconic than ripping a piece of paper? it's possib

it's not an official appointment, but he's going to do a lot to help elect speaker of the house hakeem jeffries doing. griff: why? >> in less than two years, the midterms coming up. a third of the senate and entire house of representatives getting reelected and they have to stand reelection. there's a reason members elected members article one members the people who are protectors of the purse are worried about this. you've got 6,000 veterans and veterans families losing their jobs. you've got charge numbers of americans who don't live in the beltway, about 80% of federal programs and these employees are outside the washington district, the washington dc, maryland, virginia district. so, when you go to georgia, where congressman mccormick is from, when you go to my home district in southern california when you go to a lot of districts, democratic or republican, a republican party that's got a three or four-member majority in the house of representatives razor thin is going to have to worry about how people are going to react and people are going to lose their jobs and lose a lot of their benefi

. >> as democrats struggled to come up with a strategy house minority leader hakeem jeffries and chuckumer they want members to attend and bring special guest who they say have been negatively affected by the administration. >> the crypto is surging after trump announced a crypto reserve any idea how that will work. >> we don't have any of the details yet but the news of the crypto world be been waiting for since donald trump won the white house the president announcing untrue social platform the names of five digital assets that he expects to include in a new strategic reserve saying over the weekend and corrupt attacks by the body to administration and they directed the presidential working group to move forward on a crypto that includes xrt, sol. i will make sure the u.s. is a crypto capital of the world making america great again. that was followed an hour later by another post i read btc and eth another valuable currency will be at the heart of the reserve. also love bitcoin and ethereum they have responded with big gains nearly $300 billion worth in the global cryptic market afte

hakeem jeffries was talking about yesterday that they are with the american people. the majority of the american people want what the democrats want. watch here. >> the american people are with us all across the country. people a rising up to push back against the assault on the economy. the assault on hard working families. the assault on our democracy and the assault on medicaid. we don't need paid protestors. the american people are with us. >> dana: i know he is the leader of the opposition right now along with chuck schumer. it does seem they're struggling to figure out a way to contrast with president trump. >> the assault on the economy, it's comical. where do i even begin? i'm not sure why they are always playing the victim card. it doesn't speak to america. we're patriots, what president trump has done is cut waste. get rid of fraud. the only people screaming and upset are the ones whose pockets aren't being lubricated through federal government ngos. if they want to come tonight. we heard they will bring people who lost their jobs, yeah, you get fired. you

by the house republican budget michigan senator elissa slotkin will deliver the rebuttal and hakeem jeffriesemocrats are fighting to protect social security and medicaid while republicans are cutting taxes for billionaires and elon musk. texas congressman randy weber, good to see you what you make of the results from the other side what is your reaction to the resist. >> this is employed to say that they can confuse americans. i was listening to mark malik earlier when consumption is two thirds of gdp and what we saw november the fifth was americans voted for trump in a new agenda, the democrats may not like that they may resist that. that is fine, this is what americans voted for in the speaker exactly correct. you can see us come together and put together for dated the bill that benefits americans in the democrats if i can be so bold i think they've lost their way. maria: president trump is gearing up for all the terrors. he said the 25% tariffs on mexico and canada and another 10% on china are set to take effect tomorrow. one official told fox business, the dire fentanyl situation on both

noah, hakeem jeffries is the democratic leader. he had a lot of things to say on this. watch. >> trump administration is not focused on solving the problems of everyday americans. we have to drive down the high cost of living. we have to secure the border. we have to keep communities safe. protect our dreamers, farm workers and families. these things matter as opposed to creating crisis-like moments. >> bill: okay. here are the numbers from february at the border. 8,326. here are the numbers from a border a year ago, 189,000, 913. he said we have to secure the border. let's talk about credibility on immigration. >> not a lot. not coming from minority leader jeffries or his party. he has it right. those are the priorities and there is a glimmer of an opening for democrats in polling suggests voters say the president doesn't necessarily have his priorities right. our pry or tifs are the border. not on consumer prices. don't see him devoting a ton of attention to it. people are noticing. democrats are picking up on that and trying to capital eyes on it. how? they will only

axios reports house minority leader hakeem jeffries do want members to attend the speech with a plusngressional memo obtained by axios asks house democrats bring a guest who has been harmed by the trump administration's early alaska as. but other democrats -- actions. other democrats are reportedly weighing not attending. lawmakers who are leaning against or are undecided about a going include vermont senator bernie sanders, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and massachusetts if senator ed markey among others. if per "the washington post," former house speaker nancy pelosi who notably tore apart the president's state of the union address back in 020 the is now encouraging members to, quote, let the president stew in his own juice. pelosi, who's still widely respected within the democratic conference, reportedly wants democrats to focus on the republicans' budgets framework, that gop blueprint that would enact the president's agenda and also call for spending cuts which democrats argue would slash programs like medicaid. that, in pelosi's view, would be a much more effective way

what is interesting also is that for example one of the blurbs in the back of my book, i have hakeem jeffries, but also have [indiscernible] norquist, i want to balance this out, i don't want this book to be looked at as liberal or conservative, but rather that it motivates people to think about what we are all about. he supports this because we have this enormous economic burden, $80 billion a year to support the prison system. so he gave me a nice blurb on spoke about the fact that this is -- we waste a lot of money and we really should take a hard look at if we are doing the right thing from all perspectives. peter: "a second chance: a federal judge decides who deserves it." judge frederic block of the eastern district of new york's fourth book. a fifth book is coming, on the judicial system. thank you for spending one hour with us on c-span. judge block: thank you for having me. i hope this was effective. ♪ >> all q&a programs are available on our website, or as a podcast on c-span now. dr. ewing it is an honor to be conversing with you today, to be interviewing you about your latest book

he's got vision like no president we've seen in our lifetime.en >> dana: there's a report that hakeem jeffriesing with everyone and said i want everybody to behave, no props, no placards, just be normal.t be and that's not what happen so you have to kind of wonder whatn kind of leadership he's going to exercise over these folk. >> jessica: it was thef le distraction no one needed and it was ineffective. it's one thing if you do somethinit wg outlandish and you andieed at it. it's quite another thing if you subecome a central meme of social media no matter the sidee you are on. if you are hanging on blue skyef or x last night. in terms of al green getting up, i'm not an enormous al green enperson but i don't want to her this from the party of marjorie taylor greene or joe wilson when he stood up there and screamedoe "you lie" at barack obama. don't lecture me about decorum,l but i still thought that it was again a distraction from this. i think there should be a rule for all future joint sessions of congress, everybody applauds every guest. i can't think of a person that a democratic president

this time hakeem jeffries is urging his party to bring guests affected by the president's policies. pelosi ripped up a copy of trump's 2020 state of the union speech. now she says democrats should stay out of the spotlight. others say they simply won't show up. >> every democrat needs to make up their own mind. i think that speech will be a farce, i think it will be a maga pep rally, not a serious talk to the nation. i am not going to be a part of that. >> i hope they respect the decorum of the institution. it is really important. we should respect the president. everyone should stand and give him an ovation for what he has been able to accomplish in the first few weeks. it is incredible what the new trump administration is doing. it is good for all americans and everyone will see that very soon. >> harris: alease slotkin from michigan will deliver their rebuttal to his address and the moderate who won her swing state last year despite trump's victory there. in "focus" now ari fleischer former white house press secretary and fox news contributor. tell me about elise slotkin and what

i don't think hakeem jeffries set everyone sit down and ignore kids with cancer, really?ou are ignoring kids with cancer? you are ignoring the survivors of a murdered teen? you can't clap for the naming of a park? it was astounding, i think it was embarrassing but also sad a group of people not going to do anything for four years. you saw them walk away from girls in sports bill three days ago. they didn't show up half of them. 14 walked out. look, 14 walked out. >> ainsley: 17 boycott. 14 walked out. ted cruz says i have never seen such a disgraceful display as the democrats have put on. i have been to 13 state of the union addresses. i have been to every one. i never missed one. every time joe biden walked into the chamber i stood up and clapped. >> this is a radical party that is full of rage and hatred. >> lawrence: somewhere down the line the democrats lost their way. the things that were discussed, i understand. some of them were -- had political messages. but when you have a kid that survived cancer, they didn't even -- maybe they did, but, from the view of the cam

you have to kind of wonder what kind of leadership he's going to exercise over these folks -- hakeem jeffriesor it was the distraction no one needed and it was an effective. it's one thing if you do something outlandish and you succeed and it. it's quite another thing if you become a central meme of social media no matter the side you are on. if you are hanging on blue sky or x last night. in terms of al green getting up, i'm not an enormous al green person but i don't want to hear this from the party of marjorie taylor greene or joe wilson when he stood up there and screamed okay -- "you lie" at barack obama. don't lecture me about the quorum but i still thought that it was again a distraction from this. i think there should be a rule for all future joint sessions of congress, everybody applauds every guest. i can't think of a person that a democratic president or republican president who has brought to one of these that did not deserve your praise, or at least -- >> jesse: rush limbaugh. >> jessica: i forgot about rush limbaugh. no, kidding. don't look at your phone, clap for kids with canc

elissa slotkin will deliver rebuttal from the direct house minority leader hakeem jeffries social explainty and medicaid all republicans are cutting taxes for billionaires and elon musk. near congresswoman claudia tenney. great to see you, thank you for being here. with all of that set up, what is your assessment and expectation for tomorrow night. >> i think the president is going to give an incredible speech. i've never seen donald trump so serene and so motivated and focused he is a democrats resistance is minimal and i remember going through this in the first term the insanity they dressed in white and would not stand for anything the president had to say even when he recognized victims of ms 13, parents in the audience all the stuff people want to see what president trump is doing. were going after fraud abuse and waste in government. he's talking about keeping the tax cuts permanent as you heard the speaker say nothing's done work for upstate new york and the tax cut in jobs and empowered small businesses and entrepreneurs and helped us grow and reinvest in our jobs and get a relief

a spokesperson for hakeem jeffries told me it speaks for itself. we will show you other moments throughout the speech tonight by the president. how democrats were reacting in the chamber. and of course, getting our viewers' reaction as well. peter: in about a minute, alyssa slacken, freshman stash senator slotkin from michigan will be -- senator slotkin from michigan will be giving the democratic response. she was elected this past election cycle in 24, served in the house from 2019 to 2025. former acting assistant defense secretary in the obama administration and a forme cia analyst. a going to put the numbers back up on the screen. dial in. we will take those calls after senator slotkin speaks. 202 is the area code for all of our numbers and here is senator slotkin. sen. slotkin: hi, everyone. i am honored to have the opportunity to speak tonight. it is late so i promised to be a lot shorter than what you just watched. i won't take it personally if you never heard of me. i am the new senator from the great state of michigan, where i grew up. i ha