I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Thursday, January 7th.

Brian Lairer on WNYC, with me now, Congressman Hakeem Jeffreys, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, under Speaker Pelosi.

He represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens and is a member of the House Judiciary Committee,

and remember he was also one of the House impeachment managers.

And Congressman Jeffries, welcome back to WNYC, just another Thursday morning.

Just another Thursday morning in Trump's America.

Good morning, Brian.

Great to be back with you even under these circumstances.

Before I ask if another impeachment process is underway or should be underway, as some people are calling for,

can you describe your experience of yesterday?

Where were you when the Capitol was breached? And what was your experience of the rest of the day like? Well, I was on the floor of the House of Representatives at the time. We were engaged in

debate with respect to the seating of the electors connected to Arizona

and or its certification because that's early in the alphabet as we were going through to

different states and that was the first state that the Republicans objected to. The debate was

ongoing and there seemed to be some growing tension

and movement by some of the Capitol Police officers who were in the chamber. The next thing

that we saw was that Speaker Pelosi was expeditiously removed.

And then the majority leader and the majority whip, Jim Clyburn and Steny Hoyer,

who were in close proximity to where I was seated, were expeditiously removed.

At that point, we knew something serious was taking place.

Jim McGovern, who's the chair of the Rules Committee, replaced Nancy Pelosi in the chair,

and the proceedings were ongoing, and then he was interrupted by, I believe, the sergeant at arms,

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