Your unfiltered view of government. Created as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Chairse Democratic Caucus effriesakeem j pramilaesentative jayapal sit down with the Washington Post. Who better to give us a kick off viewpoint and a curtain raiser at the convention but also the priorities of the Democratic Party than one of its rising stars . I ressman hakeem jeff yor m jeffries of new k. There is a lot to talk about. I want to jump right in and say, lets go to the post office. It is great to be with you and certainly, the post office and the attacks we have seen five President Trump and his henchmen have been heinous and part of a continuing criminal conspiracy in my view to undermine our free and Fair Elections. It started in 2016 when russia interfered in our election. As bob mueller documented, that interference was welcomed knowingly by the Trump Campaign as part of russias effort to artificially place him at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Trump abus
And, on the other hand, there is the president of the United States. Who, just one month ago, today, said, americans just be calm about the growing pandemic. We are prepared and we are doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away. But everybody has to be vigilant and has to be careful. But be calm. Its really working out and a lot of good things are going to happen. Just stay calm. Fast forward to today. More than three weeks in social distancing to stop the spread and trump is now doing this performance where he weighs when to relax those guidelines. Even though his own Health Experts acknowledge the virus hasnt peaked in many areas. And theres that small matter of the constitution and a little thing called federalism, which lets state officials make this call. But, no, no, no, trump says its his decision. Somebody said its totally up to the president. I saw this morning. Its totally up and it is. I will say this. I want to get it open as soon as we