Hakeem Jeffries Asked Point Blank About DHS Possibly Arresting Dem Lawmakers

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At a press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked about the possibility for Democratic lawmakers who protested at a DHS site in New Jersey to be arrested.

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00:00Mr. Leader, good afternoon. What would you, your statement the other day after

00:06there was this incident in Newark, you said they better not touch our members.

00:09Correct. What happens if they were to go and arrest these members or if they

00:14were to try to sanction them here in the House of Representatives? They'll find out.

00:16What would you do? They'll find out. I mean, doesn't that broach a... They'll find out.

00:21Doesn't that go across... That's a red line. What's the, what's the red line though? I mean,

00:25I know we have... It's a red line. It's very clear. First of all, I think that the so-called

00:31Homeland Security spokesperson is a joke. It's a joke. They know better than to go down that

00:41road, and it's been made loudly and abundantly clear to the Trump administration. We're not

00:50going to be intimidated by their tactics to try to force principled opposition from not

01:01standing up to their extremism. It hasn't happened during the entirety of this failed term. It

01:10didn't happen when Donald Trump temporarily was sitting high in the immediate aftermath of

01:17the election. Do you think it's going to happen now, when he's the most unpopular president

01:23in American history after his first 100 days? Give me a break. No one's intimidated by this

01:29dude. No one. And so there are clear lines that they just dare not cross.

01:40Mm-hmm.

01:42Haw行了.

01:43Haw行了.

01:45Improved.

01:46Haw行了.

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