Speaker 1: Democrats are melting down over a report that House Minority
Speaker 1: Leader Hakeem Jeffries met with President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
Speaker 1: to discuss potential areas of common ground with the White House.
Speaker 2: Do you see places where Democrats could work with this
Speaker 2: White House and find some common ground on some policy issues, Senator?
Speaker 3: I wish I could say yes. This has been a
Speaker 3: lawless Trump administration. They've been out of control.
Speaker 2: Do you support the fact that Leader Jeffries met with
Speaker 2: Jared Kushner?
Speaker 3: Look, I'm in favor of people meeting with whoever they
Speaker 3: want you to discuss ideas. But it's one thing to
Speaker 3: have a meeting. It's another thing to see something real
Speaker 3: come out of that.
Speaker 1: And the far left is even more outraged. They're slamming
Speaker 1: Jeffries for betraying the party. The freakout that happened after
Speaker 1: this meeting occurred, I thought, was notable. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not unlike the president to meet with just about anybody
Speaker 1: and talk to just about anybody, talk with anyone about anything.
Speaker 1: So it didn't shock me that they met, but the
Speaker 1: reaction on the far left was interesting.
Speaker 4: Well, if Democrats do win the House, to govern the country,
Speaker 4: they are going to have to speak publicly. with the
Speaker 4: White House. They're going to have to speak with maybe
Speaker 4: Senate Republicans. If they win the Senate, it's a different argument,
Speaker 4: different conversation. But this is what adults do when they
Speaker 4: have to govern. Now, there is plenty of heated rhetoric.
Speaker 4: We're in the middle of a midterm campaign. And maybe
Speaker 4: some of the rhetoric we're seeing right now, this is
Speaker 4: simply to fire up the base But for too long
Speaker 4: in Washington, and this has been a problem with both parties,
Speaker 4: it's a waiting game of getting control of the House,
Speaker 4: the White House and the Senate. And if you don't
Speaker 4: have that, then you think your job is to simply
Speaker 4: just resist and, you know, gum up the works.
Speaker 1: But no.
Speaker 4: You need to govern the country. You have to pass
Speaker 4: appropriations bills. You have to pass these things every year
Speaker 4: that are required are the basic requirements of Congress. So,
Speaker 4: the fact that Jeffries is meeting with the son-in-law of
Speaker 4: the president, who is obviously one of his most trusted
Speaker 4: aides— he' s around the world— negotiating deals all over.
Speaker 1: Dealing with the Iranians.
Speaker 4: Dealing with the Iranians, for God's sakes. I mean, this is,
Speaker 4: you know, you would think that the line of communication
Speaker 4: is open. So maybe he committed a political sin, but
Speaker 4: this is like, these are the things like you kind
Speaker 4: of have to do when you govern a country.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Tommy, there are folks in MAGA who become very
Speaker 1: upset when Republicans have worked with Democrats in the past too.
Speaker 1: So should they have met? What do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, President Trump met with Mamdani, right? This is not
Speaker 2: a new thing. You can still meet and talk with people.
Speaker 2: I would also say it's pretty rich for Van Hollen
Speaker 2: to talk about meeting with somebody when I think he
Speaker 2: was having some margaritas with Kilmar Abrego Garcia outside of Seacott.
Speaker 2: So for him to say don't meet with somebody coming
Speaker 2: from Van Hollen is really something. I'd just like to
Speaker 2: point that out. Listen, I think that it's just anything
Speaker 2: that these DSA people do. and these people that are
Speaker 2: obviously ferocious in their pursuit of their socialist candidates and
Speaker 2: their socialist rule, they're going to be upset with anybody
Speaker 2: that's establishment. They've decided that Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer
Speaker 2: are establishment. I happen to think that most Democrats are
Speaker 2: socialists slash communists. I don't think that there's actually that
Speaker 2: much daylight between a Hakeem Jeffries and an Abdul El-Sayed.
Speaker 2: I really don't. But for these people who are wanting
Speaker 2: to push their socialist candidates and they want to get
Speaker 2: these victories— They're going to be upset with any time
Speaker 2: somebody from the administration meets with someone with a D
Speaker 2: behind their name, and they're going to use it to
Speaker 2: fuel social media outrage. Nothing new.
Speaker 1: You know, Joey, some saw this meeting as an acknowledgment
Speaker 1: by the White House that Republicans are not going to
Speaker 1: retake the House in November.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they've met twice, actually. They met a while
Speaker 5: ago as well. So they had an established relationship of
Speaker 5: some sort. A couple things here. Off the very top,
Speaker 5: Jared Kushner, Jewish, all the things going on in Israel,
Speaker 5: that's going to set the entire far left afire to
Speaker 5: begin with through their anti-Semitism and their overall, this like
Speaker 5: of Israel in general. So that's going to set some
Speaker 5: things on fire. The New York Times had five sources
Speaker 5: supposedly read in on this. That tells me that they
Speaker 5: wanted people to know. Like somebody, they wanted to leak
Speaker 5: this for some reason. I don't know if they're sending...
Speaker 5: A signal to the far left, hey, get in line,
Speaker 5: or if they're sending, or if Republicans leaked it to
Speaker 5: send a signal, I'm not really sure. But I will
Speaker 5: say this. I don't think for a second this meeting
Speaker 5: means that Hakeem Jeffries is looking to work with the
Speaker 5: White House on anything. This is a race to the bottom.
Speaker 5: If Democrats take the House and they have a thin majority,
Speaker 5: just like Kevin McCarthy did, then those socialists that are
Speaker 5: getting in there, the far left that are getting in there,
Speaker 5: could be the disruptors that Hakeem Jeffries is going to
Speaker 5: need Republicans to do things like pass a budget. And
Speaker 5: maybe they're trying to negotiate how many impeachments they'll do
Speaker 5: to still pass the budget. But that's where we are
Speaker 5: with this. We're not, you know, they said they were
Speaker 5: talking about housing and immigration and high-cost living. All that
Speaker 5: goes out the window. If Democrats take the House, especially, well,
Speaker 5: if they take the House especially, it's going to be
Speaker 5: impeachment and a fiery flame throwing and a race to
Speaker 5: the bottom. That's just what we'll have.