next week, i havvee to stay home now to work something out here, members of the cabinet leaders, our military chief justice, associate justice and retired justice, supreme courtjustic. and to you, my fellow americans, you know, startlating tonight by congratulating one hundred eighteen congresths. the new speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, speaker. i don t want to ruin your reputation, but i look forward to working with you. o o and i want to congratulateamc the new leader of the housane democrats, the first african-american minority leader i leader in history, hakeem jeffries. akeem he won in spite of thed
what to tell us how jeffrey will move as minority leader. well just further confirmation that he is the rhetoric. i ve been a supportive hakeem s for several years now and it s because he s a unifier. behind closed doors, on the individual member level, and then what the public, he s a very cool under pressure, and a great communicator as you can see. the thing that i think is going to be very important is that akeem has a sense of humor. he also knows how to keep things light in times that are going to be very tough, and that s part of what our caucus has been through a lot in the last two years since january six, especially. the unity that you see is a product of that, and hakeem has been a big product of putting that unity together, and keeping it together. that s why think he s going to be an effective leader, i think he s going to be someone people can look to for the next two years and get a sense of reassurance. mark, as we look ahead, what you think is next for this republi
agent. lots of members of congress were being paid in various ways to take part in the. in the agent day even working with was not part of this massive indictment by the justice department. well, one that akeem together implicated members of congress, some decidedly non justice department to high bought that investigation. basically, to save themselves. in fact, a senator name burton k wheeler a democratic senator from montana actually threatened the justice department. that unless a pop through of he was gonna launch congressional restorations of the whole justice department over their prosecutions of these. alleged seditionist s. so that is political pressure on the justice department to scare them out of pursuing those prosecutions. to make it seem like those prosecutions themselves were a scandal. which is exactly what the republicans are promising to do
what part of this do we need to unpack right now?n t know. i mean, i don t know.nose couldv knowe been gs have been growings point because it was likeell, pinnacle situation. other demo well, hakeem, like all theseoni other democrats are auditioning to replacepeaker speaker pelosiy who s whose end is coming veryba soon on election night, two weeks from tonight, it will beo. a red wave election. e majo republicans will win back the a house majority. and we we will retire nancyto t pelosi. frether that retirement leads her to the beaches of italy or back to san francisco, wherever that might be .ssage because he so akeem is sounding that that message because he, like so many others, adam schiff, sors,t many others, want to lea to dupi the minority party, the democrat party, after this upcoming election. buying it, laura. the american peopl nobody s buying it, laura . i mean, the american people areg hungry for change. all they are going to fire these the democrats because they focus on a