(1 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington, DC – 1 May 2024
1. Wide, House Minority leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries walks into news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, (D) New York, House Minority leader:
"There is a troubling and disturbing rise in antisemitism in the United States of America that existed prior to October 7th and has been exacerbated since October 7th. We should be doing everything possible in a serious and sensible way to combat antisemitism. To crush anti-Semitism, to bury it in the ground and make sure that it can never rise again. Combating anti-Semitism is not a Democratic issue or Republican issue, it should be an American issue."
3. Wide, news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, (D) New York, House Minority leader:
"As far as I can tell, the efforts by the NYPD were thorough and professional, and they exercised a degree of calm in a very tense situation that should be commended."
5. Wide, Jeffries speaking
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, (D) New York, House Minority leader:
"Marjorie Taylor Greene is the star of the show. The show is called Republicans Gone Wild. It is undermining the well-being of the American people and preventing us from delivering real and meaningful results on the issues that matter. House Republicans are either unwilling or unable to get Marjorie Taylor Greene and the extreme MAGA Republicans under control. And so it’s going to take a bipartisan coalition and partnership to accomplish that objective. We need more common sense in Washington, D.C., and less chaos. The Republicans have done nothing but deliver chaos. We are in the common sense business."
7. Cutaway reporters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, (D) New York, House Minority leader:
"And we have decided that we are going to approach our jobs maturely. To find common ground, whenever possible, to deliver real results for the American people to protect their health, safety, security and economic well-being, while at the same time pushing back against Republican MAGA extremism whenever necessary. That has been the blueprint that we followed throughout the entirety of the 118th Congress, and I expect that’s going to continue until the extremists are vacated from the majority during the first Tuesday in November. Thank you."
9. Pan, Jeffries walks away
STORYLINE:
House Minority leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, has commended on the New York Police Department’s handling of anti-war campus protests.
"As far as I can tell, the efforts by the NYPD were thorough and professional, and they exercised a degree of calm in a very tense situation that should be commended," the New York representative told reporters on Wednesday.
New York police burst into a building occupied by anti-war protesters at Columbia University overnight, breaking up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school.
Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support the war in Gaza have spread across campuses nationwide in a student movement unlike any other this century. The ensuing police crackdowns echoed actions decades ago against a much larger protest movement protesting the Vietnam War.
Jeffries also slammed Georgian Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as the star of the show "Republicans Gone Wild."
He was responding to Greene saying she would call for a motion to vacate next week that would remove Speaker Mike Johnson from office if approved by the House.
But Democratic leaders took that possibility off the table.
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