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Speaker 1: That's one of the things I got to get into.
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Speaker 2: got the House minority leader in the House coming on
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Speaker 2: even want to go to the White House. But that
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Speaker 2: the cold Open, So let's get right to it. We're
Speaker 2: gonna get started with the National Basketball Association, or.
Speaker 1: As they say, the Association, where.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about a few teams that made
Speaker 2: moves before the trading deadline.
Speaker 1: And their chances of making a deep run in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We'll start with the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Who snapped a nine game losing streak to the Denver
Speaker 2: Nuggets on Saturday, beating them one twenty three to one hundred.
Speaker 1: Luka Doncic dropped thirty two points.
Speaker 2: On the Nugget's home floor, putting up his best game
Speaker 2: by far as a Laker. And on top of that,
Speaker 2: Los Angeles never trailed, winning in Denver for the first
Speaker 2: time since April of twenty twenty two. In case you forgot,
Speaker 2: the Lakers have lost thirteen to their previous fourteen games
Speaker 2: against the Nuggets. So let's not forget that. There's two
Speaker 2: things that I'm noticing. Number One, Lebron James. Listen, Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan is my.
Speaker 1: Goal, but I will openly confess with.
Speaker 2: The kind of stuff that you're seeing from Lebron James
Speaker 2: at age forty, his twenty second season in the National
Speaker 2: Basketball Association, the brother's just phenomenal. Okay, you got to
Speaker 2: give it up where it's due, and considering how he
Speaker 2: looks his physical prowess, the speed, the athleticism, the agility
Speaker 2: and everything that comes with it, there's no denying his
Speaker 2: greatness and what he brings to the table. And that's
Speaker 2: the reason why I can say what I'm about to say,
Speaker 2: and that is that the Lakers are not a team
Speaker 2: to ignore.
Speaker 1: In this championship equation.
Speaker 2: Because now that they got Luka Dunic, we assumed that
Speaker 2: they were gonna be potent offensively. We assumed that ultimately
Speaker 2: Luca would get loose. We assumed that with those things
Speaker 2: going on, that the Lakers would win more than they
Speaker 2: lost because of what they're doing offensively. Here's what we
Speaker 2: didn't assume. We didn't assume that they would elevate defensively.
Speaker 2: We thought they were undersized with their front line. And
Speaker 2: you see, whether it's hatchamor whether it's at Austin Reeves,
Speaker 2: whether it's Dorian Finney Smith or anybody else. They've got
Speaker 2: size on the wing. So they got enough big bodies
Speaker 2: the front opposing big bodies, okay, or to at least
Speaker 2: create some kind of impediment along with the speed and
Speaker 2: athleticism and agility to get out to defend against perimeter
Speaker 2: and three point shooters as quickly as possible. It's made
Speaker 2: to one of the top defenses in the game over
Speaker 2: the last ten games and that's the team that showed
Speaker 2: up against Denver on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: If that team.
Speaker 2: Shows up for the rest of this regular season into
Speaker 2: the playoffs, the Lakers are gonna be a top four
Speaker 2: seed in the West. They're gonna have home court advantage
Speaker 2: in the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a shot to advance to the conference finals. There.
Speaker 2: I say, ladies, gentm we gotta pay attention to Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers because with the ball being in Lucas hands
Speaker 2: as it was Saturday night in Denver, Lebron James was
Speaker 2: freeing the room, freeing the cut, free to cut, free
Speaker 2: to roam, free to do a lot of different things
Speaker 2: that his athleticism and his superior talents would allow.
Speaker 1: He can be off the ball and do major, major damage.
Speaker 1: And Luca is better with the ball in hands because
Speaker 1: we know.
Speaker 2: He ain't cut into the basket. We know he's not
Speaker 2: gonna have a lot of moving without the basketball. So
Speaker 2: if they found that formula, and that's something that Lebron
Speaker 2: James is willing to embrace like he did Saturday night,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, the Lakers are officially a problem. A
Speaker 2: problem which brings me to the other team that I
Speaker 2: didn't think was gonna be a problem at all. And
Speaker 2: you know who that is. That's the Golden State Warriors.
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Speaker 1: the Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Hornets, LaMelo Ball score more or less than twenty four
Speaker 2: and a half points. The brothers got the ball in
Speaker 2: his hands. He's a point guard that's looking to shoot.
Speaker 2: He's got free reign. Charlotte Hornets ain't winning much. He's
Speaker 2: the only entertainment they got. Even though Bridges can ball
Speaker 2: and all of this other stuff, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: more on this because we're talking about LaMelo ball.
Speaker 1: Next up with the Charlotte Hornets, Miles.
Speaker 2: Bridges score more or less than twenty three and a
Speaker 2: half points.
Speaker 1: This brother can play. He's not a scrub.
Speaker 2: Okay, you kind of wonder when they're gonna get things
Speaker 2: going in the right direction. I mean, they lose three
Speaker 2: times more than they win. We get that part. But
Speaker 2: they got brothers that can put the ball in the hole,
Speaker 2: specifically two of them. This is the other brother, Miles
Speaker 2: Bridges right there. I'm gonna go with more on this
Speaker 2: one as well. Next up, well, the Sacramento Kings. DeMar
Speaker 2: DeRozan scored more or less than twenty one and a
Speaker 2: half points. He's missed the mid range himself. We keep
Speaker 2: forgetting that this brother is an all Star caliber player.
Speaker 2: He's a professional scorer, not a big time three point shooter.
Speaker 2: But he gets to the hole, gets to the free
Speaker 2: throw line, and put the ball on the court, can
Speaker 2: create his own shot. He could play with his back
Speaker 2: to the basket, play face in the basket. He can
Speaker 2: score twenty one and a half points against anybody, especially
Speaker 2: to Charlotte Hordens.
Speaker 1: We're going with more on this one as well.
Speaker 2: Finally, well, Sacramento Kings, the Montes Sabonis score more or
Speaker 2: less than eighteen and a half. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: more as well, primarily because he's playing against the Hornets.
Speaker 2: It's really that simple. There's no intrigue here. It's the
Speaker 2: Kings versus the Hornets. By the way, there's urgent. See
Speaker 2: the Kings are trying to make the postseason. We'll see
Speaker 2: what they do. They gotta win games like this, Okay,
Speaker 2: they can't be like the Lakers the other day losing
Speaker 2: to the Hornets, even though they came back and beat
Speaker 2: the Nuggets.
Speaker 1: But that's a different story for another day.
Speaker 2: That's what you got when you're talking about prospects. You
Speaker 2: see it, LaMelo Ball, Damar Deroz and Miles Bridges, Demanta Sabonis.
Speaker 1: More and more and more and more.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Now, let's get to the Golden State Warriors, who acquired
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler before the trading deadline. The Warriors beat the
Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks last night one six to one oh two
Speaker 2: and are now five and one since trading for Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2: By the way, Butler made his home debut in that game,
Speaker 2: scoring eighteen points. He continues to make a difference for
Speaker 2: the Warriors with his ability to get to the free
Speaker 2: throw line. Butler was eight for eight from the line
Speaker 2: and has attempted fifty five foul shots.
Speaker 1: Through his first six games with the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2: See that's the key element right there, Because listen, y'all
Speaker 2: think about this. Steph Curry is the greatest shoot of
Speaker 2: God ever created. He can dance on you and create
Speaker 2: his own shout off to dribble and launch from thirty
Speaker 2: forty feet with ease. This is who we're talking about,
Speaker 2: the great Steph Curry. Having said all of that, is
Speaker 2: very very important to point this out. One of the
Speaker 2: greatest attributes he has is his conditioning. You've had people
Speaker 2: that have had to go to the hospital after games
Speaker 2: just to get some oxygen because of having to defend
Speaker 2: against his brother, because he got them running around all
Speaker 2: day every day. Here's the difference. He is approaching thirty
Speaker 2: seven years of age. He's not the youngest spring chicken anymore.
Speaker 2: And so when you take that into consideration, you have
Speaker 2: to understand that you need to give him a break
Speaker 2: any chance you get. Well, guess what Sometimes that means
Speaker 2: going out and getting another body and getting the other
Speaker 2: body that could sell for him so you can bring
Speaker 2: him on a bench and give him some rest. Well,
Speaker 2: guess what the Golden State Warriors did they want up
Speaker 2: that because by getting somebody like Jimmy Butler and making
Speaker 2: him the second most used offensive player, his usage rate
Speaker 2: is at twenty three percent. Compare the Curry's usage rate,
Speaker 2: which is at twenty nine percent. Because it's like that,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler's in the situation where he's getting his looks
Speaker 2: as the secondary offensive option, but he gets to the
Speaker 2: free throw line and so you talk about sixty to
Speaker 2: ninety seconds, it may take you to finish your free
Speaker 2: throws if you're Jimmy Butler, and when that happens, that's
Speaker 2: exactly the kind of break that Steph Curry needs to
Speaker 2: stay in a game without coming out of the game,
Speaker 2: which means that the Warriors are able to utilize him
Speaker 2: even more so as a threat. That's what Jimmy Butler
Speaker 2: does for them.
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons they're five and one. That's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons you have to.
Speaker 2: Look at them. With the other teams in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: Maybe not okay, see, maybe not.
Speaker 1: Demver because of your kitchen, but you got La, Yeah
Speaker 1: you got the Clippers. Yeah you got Dallas.
Speaker 2: When Dallas comes back with Anthony Davis healthy and Daniel
Speaker 2: Gafford healthy, look out for Dallas.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget them.
Speaker 2: But if you're Memphis, if Houston, if you're Phoenix, Sacramento,
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Can you get interesting, You can get interesting.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be real interesting to see what Golden State
Speaker 2: is gonna do, especially since Draymond Green said.
Speaker 1: We are going to win the NBA Championship.
Speaker 2: Everybody's gonna hold him to that. At the very least.
Speaker 2: All he has to do is make it interesting.
Speaker 1: Make sure they don't get bounced out in the play
Speaker 1: in or the first round. Golden State worth the look.
Speaker 1: Somebody I thought was worth a look.
Speaker 2: May not necessarily be so it might not even get
Speaker 2: as far as they got last year.
Speaker 1: Take a guess who the hell I'm talking about. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you who that is.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I got to talk about my New York Knicks,
Speaker 2: who lost yesterday to the Boston Celtics. Final scores one
Speaker 2: eighteen to one oh five. Look y'all, this team doesn't
Speaker 2: have a chance to make a deep run in the playoffs. Yes,
Speaker 2: the New York Knicks are the third best team in
Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference and they don't have a chance of.
Speaker 1: What should I say?
Speaker 2: They're not gonna be bought to the Cleveland Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna admit it.
Speaker 1: They're just not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Cleveland kicked there. It's Friday night. It's pretty damn bad.
Speaker 2: I mean, they busted a living as Us just romped them,
Speaker 2: and that was without I mean, I'm just looking at
Speaker 2: the miss Donovan Mitchell just doing what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: And they picked up DeAndre Hunting.
Speaker 2: They still got Mobley, and Mobley and Allen are so
Speaker 2: formidable defensively, and then you could take Hunty and put
Speaker 2: them out on the wing.
Speaker 1: They still got Max Strews.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have Darius Garland, who is out over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, here's the interesting thing to say about
Speaker 2: the New York Knicks. The New York Knicks from a
Speaker 2: talent respective is better than him.
Speaker 1: What they were last year.
Speaker 2: They don't have the same grit, they don't have the
Speaker 2: same dog in them.
Speaker 1: They don't have that. Carl Anthony town is the best
Speaker 1: shooter shooting big man in basketball, without question.
Speaker 2: I hate seeing the brother put the ball on the
Speaker 2: floor because his knees are high and every time he
Speaker 2: jumps he comes down and it's awkward and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you see those knees hurting. I just
Speaker 2: don't trust it.
Speaker 1: He needs to be in the.
Speaker 2: Post with his back to the basket or away from
Speaker 2: the basket.
Speaker 1: Catching and shooting. He does not need to.
Speaker 2: Be putting the ball on the floor because he's six eleven.
Speaker 2: He's putting the ball on the floor, all of those
Speaker 2: legs being exposed, and he's gonna get They're gonna low
Speaker 2: bridge and they gonna.
Speaker 1: Cut up under him.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get hurt and we don't need that problem somebody.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he wants me to tell y'all
Speaker 2: list he's a superstar. He's very famous person in America,
Speaker 2: in Hollywood, and I won't tell you who he is,
Speaker 2: but I want to say he hurt my feelings. And
Speaker 2: when I tell you what he said, he knows who
Speaker 2: he is when I repeat it, because he knows what
Speaker 2: the hell he said to me this morning. It really
Speaker 2: hurt my feelings. It really made me want to question
Speaker 2: our friendship, considering the fact that he knows how much
Speaker 2: of a diehard Knicks fan I am, and he would
Speaker 2: say something like this to me because it really hurt me.
Speaker 1: It hurt my heart. You know what he.
Speaker 2: Said when a New York Knicks traded Julius Randall and
Speaker 2: Dante Divencenzo, even though they ain't doing so great with
Speaker 2: that trade either, my friend said to me, the New
Speaker 2: York Knicks traded two dogs for a cat. That shit hurt.
Speaker 2: Because Karl Anthony Towns is a bad brother. He can play,
Speaker 2: and I'm happy to have him as a New York Knick,
Speaker 2: But when I see the person that transplant the grit
Speaker 2: that was there last year that there was no longer there.
Speaker 2: See the New York Knicks last year, don't get blown
Speaker 2: out like they did this weekend.
Speaker 1: Dun Brothers were scrappy, Knicks are talented, and you know
Speaker 1: how you know that's true.
Speaker 2: When did we ever think we would see a Tom
Speaker 2: Thibodeaux team have one of the worst defenses in basketball
Speaker 2: and the absolute worst against the three point shot? When
Speaker 2: did we ever believe we would see that. I'm just
Speaker 2: asking a legitimate question. There's no way around it. We
Speaker 2: have to pay attention to that. Okay, we just do.
Speaker 2: Coming up, He's a native New Yorker, a Knicks fan,
Speaker 2: and he happens to be the House Minority Leader of
Speaker 2: the United States of America. So what is the democratic
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Stephen A. Smith Show.
Speaker 2: My guest represents the eighth Congressional District in the Great
Speaker 2: State of New York and is serving his seventh term
Speaker 2: in the United States Congress. I'm honored he's taking time
Speaker 2: out of his very busy schedule to come on this show.
Speaker 2: Please welcome Democratic House Minority Leader, the one and only
Speaker 2: Hakim Jefferies. Good afternoon, sir, How are you. How's everything?
Speaker 3: Good afternoon? Great to be with you.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: First of all, I'm in a bad mood. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you why. We'll get to it later. My next I
Speaker 2: have to watch them this week and a very upset
Speaker 2: about that the Yankees, they're having press conferences over facial here.
Speaker 1: I'm very upset about that.
Speaker 2: There's a lot about New York sports that's getting on
Speaker 2: my nerves right now. We'll get to all of that
Speaker 2: stuff later, because I know that's something that you want
Speaker 2: to talk about as well, and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: talk to you about it. But the first question for me,
Speaker 2: obviously was so much going on in the nation's capital
Speaker 2: right now. How do you feel about where things are
Speaker 2: specifically overall and just as important with the Democratic Party
Speaker 2: at this moment in time, Well.
Speaker 4: This is a moment for the country. What we've seen
Speaker 4: over the last several weeks is a flood of extremism
Speaker 4: unleashed on the country coming out of the White House
Speaker 4: and from the Trump administration. In many ways, the Parade
Speaker 4: of Horribles is really designed to try to orient and
Speaker 4: discourage and depress people. And we're going to have to
Speaker 4: show a level of resilience to get the country through
Speaker 4: this very tough moment. That's exactly what we as House Democrats,
Speaker 4: partnering with Senate Democrats, partnering with governors and attorney generals
Speaker 4: all across the country need to do.
Speaker 3: The American people want.
Speaker 4: Us to solve problems on their behalf, particularly the core
Speaker 4: challenge of unaffordability in the United States of America.
Speaker 3: The cost of living is too high.
Speaker 4: The American people clearly in November indicated that they want
Speaker 4: us to do something about it. We're prepared as House
Speaker 4: Democrats to address that issue to lower housing costs, lower
Speaker 4: childcare costs, lower grocery costs, lower insurance cast and lower
Speaker 4: utility costs. Unfortunately, President Trump has been more of a
Speaker 4: chaos agent over the last few weeks and not shown
Speaker 4: any interest whatsoever in dealing with the unaffordability that many
Speaker 4: everyday Americans are confronting all across the country.
Speaker 2: When when you call them a chaos agent, be specific
Speaker 2: about what you think he is doing that's creating chaos.
Speaker 2: I want to know from one of the leading voices
Speaker 2: in the Democratic Party, when you utter the word chaos,
Speaker 2: be specific about exactly what you believe he's doing to
Speaker 2: cause chaos.
Speaker 4: Well, we've seen more than forty or so different executive
Speaker 4: orders that have been issued as it relates to things
Speaker 4: that are clearly either unlawful or unconstitutional, designed to be disruptive.
Speaker 4: You have hard working federal employees who are being targeted
Speaker 4: in ways that it's creating a lot of trauma for them,
Speaker 4: their children, and for their families. We've seen statements made
Speaker 4: by President Trump related to President Zelenski, who's not a dictator,
Speaker 4: he's actually a champion for democracy, for freedom, and for truth.
Speaker 4: And instead you see the Trump administration playing foot set
Speaker 4: with Vladimir Putin and Russia, their sworn enemies of the
Speaker 4: United States of America. That is actually not helpful to
Speaker 4: our national security.
Speaker 3: It's chaotic.
Speaker 4: And what we've seen in connection with all of these
Speaker 4: unlawful and unconstitutional executive orders is lawsuit after lawsuit filed,
Speaker 4: actually more than seventy five at this tickler point in
Speaker 4: time against these unlawful and on constitutional executive orders, and
Speaker 4: the courts are siding with America and the Constitution over
Speaker 4: and over and over again, not the Trump administration. So
Speaker 4: instead of advancing legislation designed to actually solve problems, I
Speaker 4: think it's fair to say what we've seen is chaos
Speaker 4: being unleashed on the American people.
Speaker 2: What about those out there who would say the Democrats
Speaker 2: have contributed to the chaos because you had President Joe
Speaker 2: Biden in office over the previous four years with Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: the Democratic nominee as his VP. Obviously, there are things
Speaker 2: that were going on over the last four years. When
Speaker 2: we talk about inflation, when we talk about the borders
Speaker 2: and how open borders obviously was something that was problematic
Speaker 2: for this nation. So many of those things contributed to
Speaker 2: the demise or dare I say the chaos that you're
Speaker 2: alluding to? Now people would look in the face of
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party and say, what about you guys, You
Speaker 2: guys had everything to do with this.
Speaker 1: How do you answer that?
Speaker 4: Well, certainly, I think Joe Biden and his administration was
Speaker 4: anything but chaotic. It dealt with a lot of different
Speaker 4: challenges that he had to confront upon taking office. In fact,
Speaker 4: if you look back on it, in January of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one, President Biden inherited both a public health crisis
Speaker 4: around COVID nineteen, an economic crisis connected to the shutdown
Speaker 4: of the economy, a democracy crisis related to the violent
Speaker 4: attack on the capitol that had occurred on January sixth,
Speaker 4: and then shortly thereafter, an international crisis related to Russia's
Speaker 4: unprecedented brutal attack on the people of Ukraine. So he
Speaker 4: was trying to manage a lot, doing the best job
Speaker 4: that he could over that particular period of time. Now
Speaker 4: there's certainly it is certainly the case that there are
Speaker 4: issues that the American people are asking us to decisively
Speaker 4: tackle that we need to figure out a way to
Speaker 4: do common ground where possible around driving down the high
Speaker 4: cost of living, and as you mentioned, stephen A, as
Speaker 4: it relates to the border, Look, we have to secure
Speaker 4: the border period full stop. We have a broken immigration
Speaker 4: system and it needs to be fixed, and we should
Speaker 4: do it in a bipartisan, in a comprehensive way, So
Speaker 4: there's some permanence to the resolution. But at the same
Speaker 4: period of time, we have to protect dreamers, protect farm workers,
Speaker 4: and protect families, people who are contributing to the American
Speaker 4: way of life in community after community after community. And lastly,
Speaker 4: i'd say that we can all agree that we have
Speaker 4: to keep our communities safe and certainly some of the
Speaker 4: actions that we've seen.
Speaker 3: You referenced my concern with the chaos.
Speaker 4: It's chaotic to pardon more than fifteen hundred violent criminals,
Speaker 4: many of whom attacked police officers on January sixth, and
Speaker 4: brually beat them and then unleash those folks into the
Speaker 4: community to go back home and at least threaten some
Speaker 4: with harm.
Speaker 3: That's problematic.
Speaker 4: That doesn't make America safer, it actually undermines public.
Speaker 2: Say so many Republicans, and I'm sure you've seen me
Speaker 2: on a political circuit talking a little bit. Let me
Speaker 2: say state right here with you on the record, I
Speaker 2: am no politician. I have no desire to be a politician.
Speaker 2: I'm not on a level of a King Jeffreys.
Speaker 1: I'm not on a.
Speaker 2: Level of Joshapiro, who I've interviewed. I'm not on the
Speaker 2: level of a Westmore. It'll be a snowballs chance in
Speaker 2: hell that I ever get to that point. For crying
Speaker 2: out loud, I've actually called the pathetic that I'm a
Speaker 2: candidate in people's eyes for some president for the presidency
Speaker 2: because I'm not qualified. But I feel the frustration of
Speaker 2: the American people when they're talking about the state of
Speaker 2: affairs that exist in this country and the role both
Speaker 2: parties have played in it. So I would ask you
Speaker 2: right now, speaking specifically about the Democratic Party, how do
Speaker 2: you feel about where the Democratic Party is right now
Speaker 2: in the eyes of the American people? Particularly when the
Speaker 2: latest polls, I think it's Quinnipiac polls showed that congressional
Speaker 2: favor in terms of representatives in Congress from the Democratic Party,
Speaker 2: it's like a twenty percent if I remember correct, The
Speaker 2: Republicans are at forty for CEP for Crime out Loud,
Speaker 2: You guys are twenty percent.
Speaker 1: How concerned are you about the Democratic Party?
Speaker 2: How are you feeling about where the Democratic Party is
Speaker 2: right now in the eyes of the American people.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, when it comes to the presidential
Speaker 4: aspirations that are being ascribed to you, certainly you're doing
Speaker 4: a height in the polls, and that's a testament, uh
Speaker 4: to how you keep it real and connect with the
Speaker 4: American people. That said, in terms of where the congressional
Speaker 4: Democrats are at, listen polls all over the place. You're
Speaker 4: correcting what you just mentioned as it relates to one
Speaker 4: particular poll. There was a Washington Post pole that just
Speaker 4: came out earlier today and it asked the American people,
Speaker 4: who would you prefer is in charge in the next Congress,
Speaker 4: House Democrats to serve as a check in balance on
Speaker 4: Donald Trump or House Republicans who you know are going
Speaker 4: to continue you to just go along to get along,
Speaker 4: and by thirteen points the American people said, How'smocrats.
Speaker 3: I think it was fifty four to forty one.
Speaker 4: We clearly have work to do, but I also think
Speaker 4: that the American people are increasingly starting to recognize that
Speaker 4: in this country that we have you need common sense
Speaker 4: public servants who are willing to try to solve problems
Speaker 4: to make life better for hardworking American families. And that's
Speaker 4: our commitment, and we're going to have to do a
Speaker 4: better job of convincing the American people that that is
Speaker 4: what drives us to make life better for every American
Speaker 4: and every single community in every corner of the country.
Speaker 2: Well, what's the impediment to the Democratic Party doing a
Speaker 2: better job?
Speaker 1: Let's speak specifically about that.
Speaker 2: Because you're the House Minority leader, you're one of the
Speaker 2: top two Democrats in the country, and I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the party and I'm seeing these protests for DEI and
Speaker 2: other things, and I got to tell you something right now,
Speaker 2: I didn't have an.
Speaker 1: Issue with the protest.
Speaker 2: I had an issue with the behavior that I saw
Speaker 2: during the protest, people screaming, screaming expletives at the president
Speaker 2: at Republican officials, etc. I'm saying they sound like they're
Speaker 2: on a campaign, sir. The sounding like the same way
Speaker 2: they sounded during the campaign, and clearly the election showed
Speaker 2: that's not going to work. Why are they continuously doing it?
Speaker 2: It's not only getting in.
Speaker 1: The way of the party itself.
Speaker 2: I think it's getting in the way of somebody like
Speaker 2: you doing the best job that you could possibly.
Speaker 1: Do, having to deal with this nonsense. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about that and what do you say about it?
Speaker 4: Well, I think if we can take a step back, Okay,
Speaker 4: So it relates to what the fundamental challenge is in
Speaker 4: America for people all across the country.
Speaker 3: People, whether you're on the left.
Speaker 4: And the center or on the right, all points in between,
Speaker 4: the system is broken befar too long.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: We've seen everyday Americans unable to get ahead, and many
Speaker 4: can barely get by. This was exacerbated, of course by
Speaker 4: inflation and the high cost of living, but that's not
Speaker 4: a final on just from the last year or two.
Speaker 4: That's been the case for decades.
Speaker 3: We've seen our jobs go in the wrong direction.
Speaker 4: We've seen the ability for people to provide a comfortable
Speaker 4: living for themselves and for their families be eroded. What
Speaker 4: we've seen, of course, are you know Americans who no
Speaker 4: longer believe in many instances that their children or grandchildren
Speaker 4: will be able to do better than them. When you
Speaker 4: and I were coming up, that was basically a core
Speaker 4: principle of the American dream. We had to struggle, had
Speaker 4: to work hard, but there was that sense that that
Speaker 4: opportunity would be available for all of us. And that's
Speaker 4: gone in many instances, and so as a result, you
Speaker 4: see frustration, you see concern, You've see anger from people
Speaker 4: all across the land.
Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons why Stephen A.
Speaker 4: I think that the political pendulum continues to swing.
Speaker 3: You go from George H. W.
Speaker 4: Bush to Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton and George W.
Speaker 3: Bush, George W.
Speaker 4: Bush, Barack Obama, Barack Obama to Trump, Trump to Biden,
Speaker 4: Biden back to Trump, and the likelihood is it may
Speaker 4: swing again in twenty twenty eight. Why Because there's an
Speaker 4: underlying frustration with Washington's core and ability to make life
Speaker 4: better for everyday Americans, to bring the American Dream to life.
Speaker 3: And that is real. That's something that we have to tackle.
Speaker 4: We have to convince the American teachers that we're all
Speaker 4: in on improving their lives.
Speaker 1: Representative Jeffrey Isaac.
Speaker 2: I just have to ask, how could you possibly pull
Speaker 2: that off if both sides of the hour refuse to
Speaker 2: get things done, to compromise to some degree. I've said
Speaker 2: this often, you could go on the campaign trail. That's
Speaker 2: where the real work is. I do certainly don't need
Speaker 2: to diminish what you're doing. Please don't take don't get
Speaker 2: it wrong. I'm saying literally, if I'm a Democrat, once
Speaker 2: I'm elected, what what did the other side do? I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do the opposite. I'm a Republican, what did the
Speaker 2: other side do? I'm gonna do the opposite. That's the
Speaker 2: impression that the American people have received over the last
Speaker 2: decade plus, if not considerably longer, and the way folks
Speaker 2: talk about one another, it's clearly a diminist level of
Speaker 2: interest in possibly working together. So when you say what
Speaker 2: you just said, how can anybody possibly believe that is
Speaker 2: possible to happen, that people are going to work together
Speaker 2: to get what's done in the best interest to the
Speaker 2: American people.
Speaker 4: Well, listen, I certainly get that the impression that comes
Speaker 4: out of Washington that the clear perception is that everybody's
Speaker 4: fighting all day, every day and no one's actually trying
Speaker 4: to get anything done for the American people. If you
Speaker 4: take a step back and look at President Biden's track record,
Speaker 4: certainly during his first couple of years in office, before
Speaker 4: we got into a more polarizing campaign season, he got
Speaker 4: a lot done.
Speaker 3: And many of.
Speaker 4: That that he accomplished was actually bipartisan. Right the infrastructure
Speaker 4: investment and jobs at creating millions of good pain jobs
Speaker 4: for people all across the country and blue states and
Speaker 4: red states and in purple states, that was actually bipartisan.
Speaker 3: We were able to get the.
Speaker 4: Chips and Science Act done to bring our domestic manufacturing
Speaker 4: jobs back home to the country, stand up a semiconductor
Speaker 4: industry so that America is more competitive, so that we
Speaker 4: can actually make things once again in the United States
Speaker 4: of America.
Speaker 3: That was bipartisan.
Speaker 4: We passed gun safety legislation for the first time in
Speaker 4: thirty years. That was bipartisan, And we actually stood up
Speaker 4: for our veterans who were dealing with painful exposure to
Speaker 4: toxic substances burn pits, agent orange, and that was bipartisan
Speaker 4: as well, strongly led by Democrats in each and every instance.
Speaker 4: So there's actually bipartisan work that can be done. In
Speaker 4: the first term of Donald Trump's presidency, I was both
Speaker 4: an impeachment manager and the lead Democratic sponsor of the
Speaker 4: First Step Act, the most sweeping criminal justice reform legislation
Speaker 4: that the Congress has passed in a generation, and it
Speaker 4: was supported by Democrats, Republicans, the House, the Senate, that
Speaker 4: left the right, the NAACP, and the Koch Brothers, and
Speaker 4: ultimately signed into law by Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: So is that your way of saying, since We've got
Speaker 2: so much stuff done across the aisle, donald Trump's presidency
Speaker 2: poses a different problem because you're apprehensive that folks on
Speaker 2: the right would be as willing to work with the
Speaker 2: Democrats on the other side.
Speaker 1: Because Donald Trump is back in office. Is that your
Speaker 1: way of saying that?
Speaker 4: No, No, what I'm saying is that this particular presidency
Speaker 4: does threaten to upend that.
Speaker 3: Because that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: There's so much outrageous stuff, so much extremism, and a
Speaker 4: lack of willingness to actually try to solve core problems
Speaker 4: for the American people. Listen, Donald Trump's biggest strength. On
Speaker 4: the first Tuesday of November last year, was the American
Speaker 4: people thought that he would be able to deal with
Speaker 4: the economy and to actually bank life more affordable for
Speaker 4: everyday Americans. What did the polls say right now? It's
Speaker 4: his biggest weakness. His poll numbers aren't going up, they're
Speaker 4: going down. Why because the American people can see he's
Speaker 4: actually not focused on driving down the high cost of living.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, what if Trump defies these
Speaker 2: federal orders that is possible?
Speaker 1: What if he does that? What's the what recourse do
Speaker 1: you have available to you?
Speaker 4: Well, actually, so one of the things, it's a very
Speaker 4: important question. And actually we've launched a Rapid Response Task
Speaker 4: Force and Litigation working Group in part for this very reason.
Speaker 4: And so I've asked the best lawyers in the House
Speaker 4: Democratic Caucus, led by Congressman Joanan Goose who's from Colorado,
Speaker 4: great young brother, does this thing?
Speaker 3: Brilliant lawyer?
Speaker 4: And Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee,
Speaker 4: who's helping to lead this effort along with Jerry Connley
Speaker 4: and others, to actually continue to map out the litigation strategy.
Speaker 3: And that has been important.
Speaker 4: We're pushing back against all of these unlawful and unconstitutional
Speaker 4: executive orders. But to understand, this is the early part
Speaker 4: of the process.
Speaker 3: There'll be appeals.
Speaker 4: Ultimately we'll get to the Supreme Court, and then ultimately
Speaker 4: we have to figure out how do we ensure compliance with.
Speaker 3: The rule of law. That's what the American people want.
Speaker 4: To see, right But we've got to have a strategy
Speaker 4: an the A Litigation Working Group is working that out
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: I think one of the best ways to pull that
Speaker 2: office to have a voice attached to it, a very loud, loquacious,
Speaker 2: vaciferous voice that that that's just combat of as.
Speaker 1: Hell and ready to fight.
Speaker 2: Which is why I was surprised that Alexandria Ocassio Cortez AOC,
Speaker 2: as she's affectionately called, is not.
Speaker 1: Leading one of these committees.
Speaker 2: I didn't disagree with the decision because I happen to
Speaker 2: think as bright as she is, as accomplished as she is,
Speaker 2: as feisty as she is, and as conscientious as she is,
Speaker 2: sometimes I don't think that's needed. Her style is needed necessar,
Speaker 2: But based on what you described, why isn't a voice
Speaker 2: like that more prominent on these committees? As far as
Speaker 2: Democrats are concerned. How do you answer that question.
Speaker 3: Well, she has a big role to play, no doubt
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: Alex has she's smart, she's thoughtful, she's got a great
Speaker 4: capacity to connect with everyday Americans, and she'll continue to
Speaker 4: be prominently featured in a wide variety of ways. You know,
Speaker 4: she was just put on one of the most powerful
Speaker 4: committees in the Congress, the Energy and Commerce Committee, which
Speaker 4: has jurisdiction over one of the core issues that we're
Speaker 4: going to be battling about over the next few days,
Speaker 4: in the next few weeks, Medicaid.
Speaker 3: You have a situation, for instance, and Alex.
Speaker 4: Will be a big part of this committee is led
Speaker 4: by Frank Plone. On our side, you have a budget
Speaker 4: that we're going to take up tomorrow where Republicans want
Speaker 4: to authorize four point five trillion dollars worth of cuts
Speaker 4: in taxes for their billionaire and wealthy and well connected
Speaker 4: corporations and at the same period of time, stick everyday
Speaker 4: Americans with the bill by slashing and burning things like medicaid.
Speaker 3: Actually, the bill.
Speaker 4: Authorizes about eight hundred and eighty billion dollars impossible cuts
Speaker 4: to Medicaid that will be devastating for people all across
Speaker 4: the country close, rural hospitals, shut down, nursing homes, hurt children,
Speaker 4: hurt families, hurt people with disabilities. The American people don't
Speaker 4: support it. Republicans are trying to jam down down the
Speaker 4: throat to the American people, and we'll have a variety
Speaker 4: of members across the ideological spectrum, across the Democratic Caucus
Speaker 4: being able to push back.
Speaker 1: I get with that.
Speaker 2: American people might not necessarily want Medicaid Medicare compromise.
Speaker 1: In any way. I get that. Don't get me started
Speaker 1: with Social Security. I understand that part.
Speaker 2: I guess what I'm wondering about is that I know
Speaker 2: there's no way in hell that the American the people
Speaker 2: are against identifying waste and excessive spending. So when DOGE exists,
Speaker 2: you know government efficiency and we know that whole story
Speaker 2: with Elon Musk in theory, I haven't met any Americans
Speaker 2: that have a problem with that idea in theory. They
Speaker 2: might have a problem with him overseeing it, but they
Speaker 2: don't have a problem with that in theory. Where do
Speaker 2: you fall with as a Democratic party fall as it
Speaker 2: pertains to the existence of DOGE and how Elon Musk
Speaker 2: has behaved since Trump arrived in office on January twentieth.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not a serious effort. It's an erratic effort.
Speaker 4: And what you see is the targeting of hard working
Speaker 4: federal employees.
Speaker 3: Who helped make this country run.
Speaker 4: And he's not just targeting them, he's targeting their children
Speaker 4: and targeting their families. Now, with respect to waste fraud
Speaker 4: and abuse, you can find it in any organization in
Speaker 4: the country, and so we're all in generally as it
Speaker 4: relates to a thoughtful, responsible, reasonable effort to try to
Speaker 4: identify waste fraud and abuse so we can save taxpayer
Speaker 4: money and make sure that it's spent effectively, efficiently, and equitably.
Speaker 4: We're all in on that effort. That's not what this
Speaker 4: has turned into right now. In fact, when you go after,
Speaker 4: for instance, waste fraud abuse, here's the thing. The average
Speaker 4: person on Social Security receives sixty five dollars a day
Speaker 4: and benefits the average person grandma, grandpa sixty five dollars
Speaker 4: a day. Elon Musk right now has eight million dollars
Speaker 4: a day in federal contracts. But ain't nobody looking into
Speaker 4: that in terms.
Speaker 3: Of the DOGE effort.
Speaker 4: And so how are we to take this particular thing
Speaker 4: seriously and see it as an effort to actually meaningfully
Speaker 4: root out waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 1: That's a fair point.
Speaker 2: Let me move on from there, because your time is valuable,
Speaker 2: and I thank you for the time that you've given
Speaker 2: me already, sir. Let me ask you this. I want
Speaker 2: to know two things from the Democratic Party. Number One,
Speaker 2: when we gonna let go of January sixth, we gonna
Speaker 2: let that go because he I mean, the man was
Speaker 2: impeached twice, convicted on thirty four felony accounts, and still reelected.
Speaker 2: I mean, at some point in time, somebody like Senator
Speaker 2: Derbin and others who was asking Pam Bondy about you know,
Speaker 2: or were you willing.
Speaker 1: To admit he lost the election? It's like enough of that.
Speaker 2: Because the American people clearly have spoke. At least seventy
Speaker 2: seven plus million of them has spoken. He won the
Speaker 2: electoral college vote, he won the popular vote, he won.
Speaker 1: The swing states, et cetera. They've said what they've had
Speaker 1: to say. When are y'all gonna let that go?
Speaker 2: And number two, how are you going to go about
Speaker 2: not coming across as being at the mercy of the
Speaker 2: progressive left and I'm asking you that question specifically because
Speaker 2: in a lot of American people's eyes, you're seeing as
Speaker 2: somebody who centered left, more of a centrist, more reasonable
Speaker 2: than some of the folks that have been the most
Speaker 2: outspoke for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4: Well, I think in terms of January sixth, look, it's
Speaker 4: not something that the American people should ever forget because
Speaker 4: it was an extraordinary event. I was there when we
Speaker 4: were debating, as Congress does the certification of the election,
Speaker 4: and we were told that a mob has breached the Capitol.
Speaker 3: They are on the second floor.
Speaker 4: There are a few steps outside of the House chamber,
Speaker 4: and hit the ground and be prepared to secure the
Speaker 4: gas masks that are underneath your seats, because they were
Speaker 4: people who were trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 4: And this is the greatest democracy in the history of
Speaker 4: the world. So we can't forget January sixth. I'm not
Speaker 4: suggesting that it's a core issue moving forward in terms
Speaker 4: of how we are making our case to the American people.
Speaker 3: But we also can't ignore.
Speaker 4: The fact that in one of his first acts, President
Speaker 4: Trump chose to pardon violent fells who brutally assaulted and
Speaker 4: beat police officers are they the party of law and order?
Speaker 4: That's actually lawlessness and disorder. We can't ignore it. I
Speaker 4: know they want us to. And actually the American people,
Speaker 4: as I travel the country all across America, are appalled
Speaker 4: that that actually could happen. Why because they know it
Speaker 4: doesn't make them safer when you are partning people and
Speaker 4: sending a signal that that kind of violence is all right.
Speaker 4: But you are correct that the core issues that we
Speaker 4: have to connect with the American people on relate to
Speaker 4: making their life better.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 4: I think that the American people simply want to live
Speaker 4: in a country where when you work hard and play
Speaker 4: by the rules, you can live a comfortable life. You
Speaker 4: can provide a comfortable life for yourself, for your family,
Speaker 4: educate your children, purchase a home, go on vacation every
Speaker 4: now and then, have access to healthcare that's affordable, and
Speaker 4: one day retire with grace and dignity, which means protecting
Speaker 4: Social Security and Medicare.
Speaker 3: That's not too much to ask.
Speaker 4: And I think there is a lot of frustration in
Speaker 4: America because for far too many people it's struggling to
Speaker 4: live paycheck to paycheck, can't get by, can barely can
Speaker 4: barely provide or that lifestyle that's consistent with the American dream.
Speaker 4: Now in terms of you know, center, the left, the right,
Speaker 4: I think what the American people want type of leader
Speaker 4: that that I'm trying to be is a common sense leader.
Speaker 4: Solve problems, get things done, make life better for the
Speaker 4: American people, and defend the constitution, defend democracy, defend the
Speaker 4: American way of life. At the same time, which does
Speaker 4: mean aggressively pushing back against the far right extremism that's
Speaker 4: coming from the administration, in the Congress, in the courts,
Speaker 4: and in the community.
Speaker 2: What about aggressively pushing back for the far left because
Speaker 2: they lost.
Speaker 1: You the election.
Speaker 2: See, I'm thinking about winning representat Jeff, I'm thinking about winning.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, how do I mean? The midterm is
Speaker 2: incredibly important. We got musked that some people think is
Speaker 2: running the damn country. And I'll get back to him
Speaker 2: in a second with some of the stuff that he's
Speaker 2: doing that you've alluded to earlier, Right, But I'm also
Speaker 2: thinking about what lost you the election. I'm going to
Speaker 2: repeat seventy seven million votes. He beat Kamala Harris Ball
Speaker 2: over two and a half million votes. He won the
Speaker 2: electoral College vote, the popular vote, all of swing states.
Speaker 2: I mean, he gave a run for money in New York,
Speaker 2: they gained ground in California.
Speaker 1: Anybody worth their sort will tell.
Speaker 2: You the extreme left had a lot to do with
Speaker 2: pulling y'all back.
Speaker 1: From the momentum.
Speaker 2: One would argue you had obviously in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: What about pushing back against your own party.
Speaker 4: Well, listen, extreme left protest me more than they protest
Speaker 4: Donald Trump, because they I mean literally wherever I go.
Speaker 4: So I think in part because I've declined, I've refused.
Speaker 4: I've chosen not to bend the knee to either people
Speaker 4: on the far left, and certainly not to Donald Trump
Speaker 4: and the far right. We all have a responsibility to
Speaker 4: serve the people we were elected to represent.
Speaker 3: And the country and the constitution.
Speaker 4: And I certainly have not been bashful and will not
Speaker 4: be bashful and disagreeing with people who are trying to
Speaker 4: take this country in a direction that doesn't lift everybody up,
Speaker 4: whether that comes from the right, whether that comes from
Speaker 4: the far left.
Speaker 1: Who's the face of the Democratic Party?
Speaker 2: Does it need a face? I look at West Wall,
Speaker 2: look at Josh Shapiro, I look at you. I can
Speaker 2: ask you the same question about yourself. But it's really
Speaker 2: all I see because with the cult like following Donald
Speaker 2: Trump has I mean, if the Democrats don't do something
Speaker 2: about it, you're gonna lose in the midterms potentially, and
Speaker 2: Lord help us. If you're gonna win, you're gonna lose
Speaker 2: again in four years. What's the plan. Who's the voice,
Speaker 2: who's the face of the Democratic Party?
Speaker 3: Listen, we're gonna win in the midterms.
Speaker 1: You're gonna win.
Speaker 4: We're gonna win, and we have no choice but to
Speaker 4: be successful in the midterms. But we've got to get
Speaker 4: through the first one hundred days, then the first year,
Speaker 4: and then of course get to the midterm elections. And
Speaker 4: we've got to stop bad things from happening governmentally, like
Speaker 4: the reckless Republican budget that will be debating on the
Speaker 4: floor this week. Slash and burn medicaid, that's what they
Speaker 4: want to do. Slash and burn you know, nutritional assistance
Speaker 4: for children and families, Slash and burn veterans benefits. Do
Speaker 4: nothing to actually address the afordability crisis in America. We
Speaker 4: got to stop bad things from happening and then articulate
Speaker 4: our affirmative vision. Of course, for making life better for
Speaker 4: the American people, which is what will continue to do,
Speaker 4: particularly as we get through these first one hundred days
Speaker 4: or so in the flood of extremism that is directed
Speaker 4: at the American people. What I would say about the
Speaker 4: Democratic Party is that it's all hands on deck. That's
Speaker 4: what the moment requires, because you've got a Republican president,
Speaker 4: a Republican House, and a Republican Senate, and so it's
Speaker 4: going to take all of us. That's Democrats in the House.
Speaker 4: It's my honor to be the House Democratic leader and
Speaker 4: a critical voice in Washington and hopefully across America as
Speaker 4: it relates to what we're all about, what we're trying
Speaker 4: to do, and what we're pushing back against. Working with
Speaker 4: my colleagues in the Senate, and then of course, you know,
Speaker 4: working with democratic governors all across the country, and as
Speaker 4: you mentioned, there are many people who are doing their
Speaker 4: thing in state after state. I was just communicating with
Speaker 4: Wes Moore a little earlier today. We got democratic governors,
Speaker 4: of course in battleground states throughout the Midwest. We got
Speaker 4: democratic governors in red states like in Arizona, for instance,
Speaker 4: or a Kansas, a Kentucky we got a Democratic governor
Speaker 4: that's new in North Carolina. Our governor in New York,
Speaker 4: Kathy Hochel, is fighting hard for the people of New York.
Speaker 4: And we got a Democratic Attorney General, Tis James. Shout
Speaker 4: out to Brooklyn. She's doing her thing in defense of democracy.
Speaker 4: We got a lot of folks on the battlefield right now.
Speaker 3: Now, we do.
Speaker 4: Have to make sure we're all coordinated, right that we're
Speaker 4: huddled up, we come out of that huddle and we're
Speaker 4: executing plays seamlessly and together on behalf of the American people.
Speaker 4: And I look forward to continuing to play a leading
Speaker 4: role in helping to orchestrate that.
Speaker 2: And my last question of that would be because I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about the Republican Party and they've got a quarterback.
Speaker 2: His name is Donald Trump. In twenty fifteen, he came
Speaker 2: stroll down the escalators and the next thing you know,
Speaker 2: he's dominated the Republican Party for the last decade. They
Speaker 2: don't even want to see anybody else unless it's Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So much so that you have representatives.
Speaker 2: All over the Capitol Hill that capitulate to his every
Speaker 2: win because they're scared their careers are going to be
Speaker 2: over if they don't. The Democrats don't seem to have
Speaker 2: anyone that has that kind of impact that can affect
Speaker 2: the party and make sure everyone falls in line. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how you're going to alleviate that concern.
Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, I mean you pointed out correctly that Donald
Speaker 4: Trump has engineered a hostile takeover the Republican Party. These
Speaker 4: people on the other side of the AIH, they're running scared.
Speaker 4: They're not actually upholding their constitutional oath in many instances
Speaker 4: serve as a check in balance or independent voice as
Speaker 4: relates to the people that they represent. They just take
Speaker 4: orders from Donald Trump. And now Donald Trump and Eli Musk.
Speaker 3: Now on our side, listen, we're a coalition.
Speaker 4: We're a big tent party that of course has its
Speaker 4: challenges because you got a lot of voices, a lot
Speaker 4: of enthusiasms within the Democratic tank. But it also represents
Speaker 4: the gorgeous mosaic of America. And what is clear is
Speaker 4: that we of course have to make sure that we're
Speaker 4: connecting with voters of every race, of every religion, of
Speaker 4: every gender, of different sexual orientation right across the spectrum
Speaker 4: in a way that people feel comfortable that we're fighting
Speaker 4: to address their core issues, their core challenges.
Speaker 2: May I suggest the way to go about doing that,
Speaker 2: because I'm certainly not rooting against y'all, is to get
Speaker 2: folks to stop complaining about twenty twenty, stop complaining about
Speaker 2: Trump in the past, and their policies are predated with
Speaker 2: anti Trump stuff all the time. The American people, in
Speaker 2: their eyes, have already spoken and they're ready to move on.
Speaker 2: So let him try to do what he's gonna do
Speaker 2: and expose every little thing he's gonna do along the way,
Speaker 2: and perhaps you will in the midterm. That's just where
Speaker 2: I'm coming from.
Speaker 1: But what do I know. First of all, thank you
Speaker 1: for your time.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go, I got to switch to
Speaker 2: sports while I've got the minority leader of the House
Speaker 2: here with me, a New York native right here. My
Speaker 2: next got their butts with not once but twice this week,
Speaker 2: and it hurt my feelings to watch what they happened
Speaker 2: to them against Cleveland on Friday night Boston yesterday. And
Speaker 2: even though they're the third best team in the East,
Speaker 2: I look at them as having no chance of getting
Speaker 2: to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: It depresses me, how about you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a rough weekend in terms of the
Speaker 4: next and seeing what happened with Cleveland and Boston, although
Speaker 4: I will say that it looked like they were out
Speaker 4: of it and then they made a little run in
Speaker 4: the third quarter, right, I think they closed it to four.
Speaker 3: Showed a little heart.
Speaker 2: Seventh seventh, Yeah, closest, Yes, it was the seventh, yep.
Speaker 4: But the big challenge I thing is the lack of
Speaker 4: defensive prowess, which is strange because Tibbs is known for
Speaker 4: being a great defensive coach. And the hope, of course,
Speaker 4: as you've pointed out stephen A, is that when Robinson
Speaker 4: comes back, if he could stay on the court, that
Speaker 4: that will actually enhance the ability OG is back.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Now of course, Bridges is known as a defensive stop
Speaker 4: or three and D person. So you know, I ride
Speaker 4: with the next look the city. The city is in
Speaker 4: a better mood when the Knicks are good. And it
Speaker 4: certainly hasn't been you know, a great run over the
Speaker 4: last twenty or twenty five years, but it's been a
Speaker 4: pretty good run over the last four or five, uh,
Speaker 4: And I'm still riding with them. I look forward to
Speaker 4: the playoffs and hopefully we'll see you know, a better
Speaker 4: capacity to deal with teams like Boston and Cleveland, which
Speaker 4: are the ones that are in front of them. Another
Speaker 4: thing I will say, though, is that Saint John's is
Speaker 4: doing its thing.
Speaker 2: I was going there the Knicks, I said April, and
Speaker 2: may might not be for but March, Mike, with the
Speaker 2: way Rick Potino's got Saint John's looking at twenty four
Speaker 2: and for this year, they're doing their thing, I'm quite surprised.
Speaker 1: I didn't expect that from them. But they're doing well.
Speaker 3: They're doing real well.
Speaker 4: Patino's a bad boy, uh in terms of his coaching capacity.
Speaker 4: And you know, to watch that game against Yukon, I
Speaker 4: was able to catch the second half Dari Richmond again
Speaker 4: shout out Brooklyn actually started out at Midwood High School,
Speaker 4: high school that I graduated from.
Speaker 3: He's doing this thing in Zoobie and r J.
Speaker 4: It's a fun team to watch and I'm excited for
Speaker 4: what's to come in terms of the Big East Tournament
Speaker 4: in March Madness.
Speaker 3: You know, these are.
Speaker 4: Things that everybody's got to lean into, whether it's sports
Speaker 4: or other forms of entertainment. Family, of course, church, as
Speaker 4: we navigate what are challenging times here in Washington, DC,
Speaker 4: across the country and throughout the world, and so I
Speaker 4: appreciate what you do in that regard because you know,
Speaker 4: it's an important part of just living everyday life, every week,
Speaker 4: every month, getting through the year.
Speaker 3: It's gotta be more than politics.
Speaker 1: Listen, man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get into the Yankees because I'm pretty
Speaker 2: ticked off that, you know, the ownership had a press
Speaker 2: conference to discuss facial here. I mean, we ain't won
Speaker 2: a World Series since two thousand and nine, and that's
Speaker 2: what he's having a press conference, law, even though they
Speaker 2: got a pretty good team coming in this year and
Speaker 2: maybe they could get back to the World Series. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put you on the spot before I let you
Speaker 2: get on out of here. You're usually on the spot
Speaker 2: for politics. Let me put you on the spot for
Speaker 2: basketball right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna test your knowledge here.
Speaker 2: Top five point guards in the history of New York City.
Speaker 2: NARDI leader Hakim Jeffrees. The floor is yours. I'm testing
Speaker 2: you right now.
Speaker 1: Top five point guards in the history of New York City.
Speaker 1: Give them to me, all right.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go Mark Jackson, okay, because I'm rocking
Speaker 4: with Saint John.
Speaker 3: He went to Bushop Blacklands. Assist God, that's my brother.
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead, I'm gonna go Kenny to jet Smith,
Speaker 4: Kenny jet Smith.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna go Rod Strickland.
Speaker 1: Oh God, keep going.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, there's there's a good list.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I might challenge you, but go ahead, go.
Speaker 4: Ahead, give me to give me to I think I
Speaker 4: gotta I gotta represent c I and Stephan Marberry.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, and right, one more, one more.
Speaker 4: And in terms of the top five, you know that fifth,
Speaker 4: that fifth. God, you know I'm tempting to throw it up.
Speaker 1: You're the minity leader. I mean the hesitation. I need more,
Speaker 1: I need I come on, because it's two names that
Speaker 1: you're missing. I can't believe you ever mentioned him yet.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you a chance.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, yeah, tiny Archiball.
Speaker 1: Oh see you went way back. I can't I get you.
Speaker 1: I get you.
Speaker 2: I got Nate, Tiny Archiball. You gotta throw them in there.
Speaker 2: Let me throw two other names for you that you
Speaker 2: left out. All right, Kenny Anderson, did you forget about him?
Speaker 2: Same spot as Kenny Smith Archbishop with Lloyd That brother
Speaker 2: was something special. Most people will put him on the
Speaker 2: list ahead of Kenny to Jet Smith.
Speaker 4: I was listen, I was thinking about it. Okay, he's
Speaker 4: the lefty, right, Georgia Tech. That's right, he did his thing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: play for the net.
Speaker 3: Yes, but you know, Kenny Smith did win two championships.
Speaker 3: So listen, at the end.
Speaker 4: Of the day with Houston and at the end of
Speaker 4: the day NBA Championships, we're told, well.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the overall resume.
Speaker 2: I was talking about the greatness that it was Stephan
Speaker 2: believe it or not, steph On Marlbury to me probably
Speaker 2: number one, considering how phenomenal he was. The name is
Speaker 2: the greatest show in the history of college basketball.
Speaker 1: Pearl Washing, Wayne Pearl Washington. See, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. All right, So I mean now
Speaker 1: I might have to move Rod Strickland out, I know,
Speaker 1: and then DePaul and all of that. Kenny, the Jet,
Speaker 1: Rod Strickland right.
Speaker 2: There, but the Wayne Pearl, Washington, Kenny Anderson, Steph R.
Speaker 1: Marlbury, Nate Tiny Archiball. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Not bad now what you said.
Speaker 4: Now, if you would have said best high school point cards,
Speaker 4: I think Pearl Washington, boom right at the top of
Speaker 4: the list. Even I give you best college point guards.
Speaker 4: He was killing it in Syracuse.
Speaker 3: That's true. Uh, you're right.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get grief when I get back home to
Speaker 4: Bedford Stuyvesant that i left the Wayne Pearl Washington.
Speaker 1: And I'm leaving that in. I'm not cutting it out.
Speaker 2: I'm not cutting I'm leaving that in so everybody can
Speaker 2: see that you missed that one Menardie House Leader, the
Speaker 2: one and only are King Jeffrey's honored and privilege to
Speaker 2: have you said, thank you and feel free to come
Speaker 2: back anytime. You always got a voice on this show.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you man.
Speaker 2: All right, coming up, I'll share my thoughts on the
Speaker 2: conversation you just heard. Plus, the Eagles will reportedly decline
Speaker 2: a trip to the White House and people have.
Speaker 1: An opinion on it. Trust me, they do, including me.
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Speaker 1: Going back to Steven A. Smith show.
Speaker 2: Before we get to a few other headlines, I want
Speaker 2: to give you my thoughts on the conversation I just
Speaker 2: had with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. First of all,
Speaker 2: impressive man. Obviously knows what the hell he's talking about.
Speaker 2: He's been around for quite a wait while, an individual
Speaker 2: that was endorsed by Nancy Pelosi. If you're somebody on
Speaker 2: the left, you're perfectly comfortable with that. If you're somebody
Speaker 2: that's center left, Okay, you'll tolerate it.
Speaker 1: Let's see how it goes.
Speaker 2: But in the aftermath of what transpired with this election,
Speaker 2: I just think that even though I was impressed with him,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot that he had to say, it's
Speaker 2: important to point out that the Democratic Party looks a
Speaker 2: bit discombobulated. Yes, you want to get on Trump. You
Speaker 2: want to point out Elon Musk and what he's doing
Speaker 2: with those You want to point out Trump and how
Speaker 2: a radicky appears at times.
Speaker 1: You saw.
Speaker 2: Leader Jeffries bringing up everything from the economy and inflation
Speaker 2: and the course of living, to Trump's relationship with Putin,
Speaker 2: to Trump taking the position that he's taken against the Lensky, etc.
Speaker 2: You've seen and heard all of this stuff. You heard
Speaker 2: his concerns about Medicare and Medicaid along.
Speaker 1: With a bevy of other things.
Speaker 2: If you are the Democrats, stick to those issues and
Speaker 2: stick to attacking Trump on the issues as opposed to
Speaker 2: bringing up the twenty twenty election, as opposed to bringing
Speaker 2: up you know, comments about you know, being a king
Speaker 2: and all of this other stuff that you're trying to use.
Speaker 2: It falls in line with the same old stuff you're
Speaker 2: abloviating about during the campaign.
Speaker 1: It's not going to work. What you're going to have
Speaker 1: to do is.
Speaker 2: Show, is illustrate in very very conspicuous fashion, the flaws
Speaker 2: in his plans for America, how it works against your interests,
Speaker 2: and how what you're proposing will work for your interest
Speaker 2: It's not enough anymore to engage in demagogery about the
Speaker 2: other side. What are you going to do and how
Speaker 2: are you going to convince us to believe you? You first
Speaker 2: gotta find somebody that's worth believing.
Speaker 1: And I'm not denigrating Leader Jeffries in any way.
Speaker 2: But when you think about a national voice for the party,
Speaker 2: who is that person? It's non existent right now, mister Carville.
Speaker 2: I said it again, it's non existing right now.
Speaker 1: Not the talent. You might have talent, but who's gonna
Speaker 1: resonate you.
Speaker 2: Better find somebody. You better find somebody soon. Now I
Speaker 2: want to transition, and I'm talking way way way left
Speaker 2: to touch on a delicate subject that's blowing up on
Speaker 2: the internet. That's the only reason I'm talking about it.
Speaker 2: Former All Pro wide receiver Steve Smith Senior was accused
Speaker 2: of having an affair with an unnamed woman who's a
Speaker 2: member of the Marching Ravens, the Baltimore Ravens marching band,
Speaker 2: that is. The accusation came from a social media user
Speaker 2: with the handle Tony Martinez, who posted and then deleted
Speaker 2: the accusations on x The post also included screenshots of
Speaker 2: alleged text between Smith and the woman. Again, this is
Speaker 2: blowing up all over social media.
Speaker 1: The only reason we're touching it.
Speaker 2: Martinez also posted a video which showed him confronting a
Speaker 2: man believed to be Smith over the phone. The individual
Speaker 2: recording the video accused a man of having sex with
Speaker 2: his wife and asked, what do you have to say
Speaker 2: for yourself? The man on the phone replied, quote sorry,
Speaker 2: end quote.
Speaker 1: Now I know y'all expect me to comment.
Speaker 2: Steve Smith cool brother does work for the NFL network.
Speaker 2: Got a chance to be in the Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: as a wide receiver with this year's starring for the
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: Before he went to Baltimore. Ravens let me be very
Speaker 1: very clear. I have no comment.
Speaker 2: About his situation, a legend situation with whomever. My comment
Speaker 2: is about the husband. What the hell you calling him for?
Speaker 2: Whether that was really the smith, seen you or somebody else,
Speaker 2: What the hell are you calling him for?
Speaker 1: He ain't your wife, He ain't.
Speaker 2: The one married to you. He ain't the one that
Speaker 2: allegedly did something that violated his vows to you.
Speaker 1: What calling him for?
Speaker 2: See, Once again, I'm touching on something from a generic
Speaker 2: and general perspective, and I want everybody to be clear
Speaker 2: about where I'm going with this because it was not
Speaker 2: similar in actual incidents, but along the lines of what
Speaker 2: I was trying to do.
Speaker 1: When I was joking around.
Speaker 2: About Serena Williams dancing on stage, and I was saying
Speaker 2: about the husband, not even about him, about any man,
Speaker 2: How do you feel if your wife is showing energy
Speaker 2: towards the ex even if it's negative energy, you'd be like, yo,
Speaker 2: what's that about?
Speaker 1: Forget him?
Speaker 3: You with me?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: I was trying to say, but we were joking about
Speaker 2: that because there's no crime and that is no big deal.
Speaker 2: We're not joking about this, fellas, ladies, if you.
Speaker 1: Have a spouse.
Speaker 2: That's cheating on you, it's kind of weak to show
Speaker 2: more energy towards the person they were doing it with
Speaker 2: that didn't espouse marital vows to you handle home first,
Speaker 2: handle home, period because in the end, she's the one
Speaker 2: or he's the one. Meaning if you're a woman and
Speaker 2: your man's did it in this case, is a man and.
Speaker 1: His wife did it, that's your business.
Speaker 2: And one last thing, why everything got to be put
Speaker 2: on social media? Why it's none of anybody's business, so respectfully,
Speaker 2: and I won't get into the things that was said
Speaker 2: on that phone via text or voice. I won't get
Speaker 2: into the text you read and how graphic that was.
Speaker 2: But based on that, she don't really want you, you
Speaker 2: feel me? Just think about that. That's all I want
Speaker 2: to say. Now, let me get to the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 2: the reigning Super Bowl champs, are apparently going to skip
Speaker 2: a trip to the White House. Donald Trump was the
Speaker 2: first president to attend the game, where he supported the
Speaker 2: Chiefs to win. However, Kansas City was blown out forty
Speaker 2: to twenty two by the Philadelphia Eagles. Now I missed
Speaker 2: the speculation of the Eagles not going to DC. A
Speaker 2: White House spokesperson says an invitation was never extended to
Speaker 2: the team. Meanwhile, Meghan Kelly took the X to express
Speaker 2: her dissatisfaction with the Philadelphia Eagles. The former Fox host
Speaker 2: reacted to a post from a user that sided a
Speaker 2: report about the snub that read quote, wish I had
Speaker 2: known this before the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have wasted
Speaker 2: my time rooting for them. Eagles fans, your team sucks
Speaker 2: end quote. As for Kelly, she wrote quote saying, go
Speaker 2: f yourselves Eagles end quote.
Speaker 1: I like Megan Kelly.
Speaker 2: I think she's and our standing journalist. I think she's
Speaker 2: very capable. She's got a show on Serious Sex Sam
Speaker 2: every weekday from twelve to two pm ri airs on
Speaker 2: YouTube is and another platform. I've been a guest on
Speaker 2: her show. I'm schareduled to be a guest so much
Speaker 2: I don't even know when's my next guest of parents,
Speaker 2: I mean, she asked me to be a guest next
Speaker 2: week because we had a scheduling conflict coming back from
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I am a fan of Megan Kelly's.
Speaker 1: Was that necessary though?
Speaker 2: I mean, really, you know, they ain't feeling Trump, so
Speaker 2: was seventy four million plus people wasn't feeling Trump? F
Speaker 2: them too? Come on, Megan, you don't need to do that.
Speaker 2: You don't need to do that, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just not necessary. Eagles ain't feeling them. And by
Speaker 2: the way, if there is any team that's justified not
Speaker 2: to go to the White House to see Trump, even
Speaker 2: though his team said the White House said they didn't
Speaker 2: extend an invitation, that's a different story. Well, why wouldn't
Speaker 2: you extend an invitation? That's what usually is supposed to
Speaker 2: happen when you win the Super Bowl, the White House
Speaker 2: to send you an invitation. Why would you not extend
Speaker 2: the invitation?
Speaker 1: White House? What's that about?
Speaker 2: But in the case of the Philadelphia Eagles, Megan Kelly
Speaker 2: and all you folks on the right that want to
Speaker 2: get be up in arms about.
Speaker 1: This, excuse me.
Speaker 2: If any team was justified in not wanting to show
Speaker 2: up to the White House, it would be the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2: Do you know why, because when as a president openly
Speaker 2: rooted against the team for the Super Bowl, he was
Speaker 2: openly rooting against the Eagles, and he uninvited them last
Speaker 2: time they won. I mean, damn if any team was
Speaker 2: justified and saying, nah, we'll pass on the White House,
Speaker 2: it would be them and Megan Kelly. If it's gonna
Speaker 2: be f the Eagles, could it come from someone other
Speaker 2: than you?
Speaker 1: I mean, you're great. I'm not gonna lie. I learned
Speaker 1: some things from watching Megan Kelly. I mean, she she
Speaker 1: knows us tough, and she's very compelling and very interesting.
Speaker 1: I enjoy talking to her. I enjoy listening to her.
Speaker 1: I enjoy watching her. But was that necessary?
Speaker 2: Don't let people bring you down to their level.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have gone to that level before. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna front. I'm not gonna be APO critical here,
Speaker 1: but damn it, they deserved it. The Eagles, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, Megan. They didn't deserve that. They didn't deserve that.
Speaker 1: They got uninvited before and he was rooting against them.
Speaker 2: Now, you weren't ruling for Taylor Swift, but he was
Speaker 2: rooting for the teams all day every day. That's why
Speaker 2: he came to the Super Bowl to watch them win
Speaker 2: and for the Eagles to lose.
Speaker 1: Usually presidents are.
Speaker 2: Quiet about that unless it's their home team.
Speaker 1: Trump ain't from Kansas City. So I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: Respectfully in a very very nice way, because I am
Speaker 2: a fan Megan Kelly, be nice, be nice, and see
Speaker 2: soon on yes show. By the way, you owe me
Speaker 2: a visit on mine too. You forgot about that. You
Speaker 2: forgot about that, but you do owe me. Before I
Speaker 2: get on out of here, I wanted to take a
Speaker 2: moment to bring up a new soap opera that's coming
Speaker 2: out courtesy of CBS, and it's called Beyond the Gates.
Speaker 1: Now why would I bring this up? For several reasons.
Speaker 2: Number One, as you know, I'm a soap opera guy.
Speaker 2: Someone says soap opera star, but I mean I would
Speaker 2: never say that about myself. Bricks General Hospital, That's what
Speaker 2: That's who I am, you know. But again, no start,
Speaker 2: I'm attached. I leave that to others to judge. That
Speaker 2: would be number one, because I love my soap operas.
Speaker 2: Number two, one of my dearest friends is the star
Speaker 2: for Young and the Restless, mister Eric Braden. So that's
Speaker 2: another reason I'm connected to the soap opera world. Because
Speaker 2: Maurice Minard plays Sunny Carinthus or General Hospital. Steve Burton
Speaker 2: plays Jason Morgan. That's my dog right there. Laura Wright
Speaker 2: plays Carley. I mean, I love these people General Hospital.
Speaker 2: I love Eric braden On Young and Arresteds. That's to
Speaker 2: be another reason.
Speaker 1: Another reason beyond the gates is being mentioned is because
Speaker 1: it's a black lead soap opera.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm quite sure there will be others that are
Speaker 2: on the soap opera.
Speaker 1: But to see a soap opera.
Speaker 2: With black folks in prominent leading roles on network television,
Speaker 2: let's just say that's a damn aberration. So it's gonna
Speaker 2: be really interesting to see how this goes. And that's
Speaker 2: a special thing. But last, but not least, person who
Speaker 2: played the role in its creation.
Speaker 1: There's a producer on the show.
Speaker 2: She said, wonderful lady by the name of Sheila Duxworth.
Speaker 2: She happens to be a very dear personal friend of mine,
Speaker 2: a phenomenal producer, incredibly talented young lady who's been around
Speaker 2: for quite a while doing big things, and this is
Speaker 2: just the latest. Just want to say congratulations, that I
Speaker 2: love you dearly, and then I'm wishing you all the best. Girl,
Speaker 2: do your thing, do your thing, and I will see
Speaker 2: you soon. That's it for this edition the stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show.
Speaker 2: I'll higher at y'all in a couple of days. Until then,
Speaker 2: a piece of love everybody, God bless