Distraction from what, motherfucker, the price of
eggs?
What's your reaction to
what we've seen so far in in DC?
Hakeem Jeffries: I mean
the Washington DC situation is a
unlawful power grab uh that is in part
designed we believe as a distraction uh
but a distraction of course that we've
got to take seriously uh because it
violates the autonomy the home rule
statutes of the District of Columbia. I
think the DC attorney general uh issued
a strong letter making it clear that in
his view in the assessment of the
authorities in the District of Columbia
uh whoever Donald Trump seeks to install
allegedly to run the Metropolitan Police
Department of Washington DC has no
authority and that they should continue
uh to take direction solely from the
police chief of the Metropolitan police
department in Washington DC. I thought
that was a strongly worded letter. He
cited a lot of statutory provisions. I
think the attorney general was exactly
right.
The problem is a techincal violation of the rules, not the armed unaccountable thugs harassing people.
