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The Bulwark Podcast

Hakeem Jeffries: More Is More

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

While Donald Trump delivers chaos, cruelty, and corruption—and Republicans play the facts-and-hypocrisy don't matter game— Democrats have to do more rallies, more town halls, and more hearings, on and off the Hill. And if Leader Jeffries gets the gavel after the midterms, he promises investigations into Trump's huge pay-to-play scheme and says that Kristi Noem will be one of the first people hauled up to Congress to answer for the unlawful round-ups and disappearances of law-abiding immigrants. Plus, the currently missing Mamdani endorsement, the D.C. takeover, the redistricting showdown, and leaning hard into Epstein. 

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
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Hello and welcome to the Buller podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome to the show, the representative from New York's eighth congressional district in Brooklyn. He's been doing that for seven terms, and then he succeeded Nancy Pelosi as the House Democratic leader in November 2022. You might know him as Hakeem Jeffries. How you doing, sir? Good. Great to be with you, Tim. We got so much to talk about. We have so much news to talk about. But I like, you know, the podcast has a policy of radical candor. Okay. You know, I just, I like to be honest. And so I've got to come clean with you on something. I've given you a little shit recently over the Sesame Street hip hop. All right. I don't, I don't, I'm not quite, maybe I'm, maybe it's a cultural bridge that I'm missing, you know, I've, I was been working on it a little bit myself. I was like, A, E, I owe you, an Epstein investigation hanging over you, you know, you're kind of doing that sort of stuff. What's, what's the deal with all that? You know, the Sesame Street hip hop, I think that I'm Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, 90s into the 2000s hip-hop

1:35.6

officiiano.

1:37.3

You know, that's kind of my zone.

1:38.7

I don't really go beyond that.

1:40.2

Okay.

1:41.1

I don't really go beyond that.

1:42.7

You don't let me quiz on you on NBA young boy or anything like that?

1:46.1

No, no, no.

1:47.1

Listen, those are my sons, but that's not me.

1:49.3

Listen, I appreciate the genre and how it's developed,

1:52.9

but I think that nothing, you know, comes close to, you know,

1:57.2

late 90s into early, mid to late 90s into early 2000s hip hop. All right. So you're not worried that, you know, people, that might be a little corny, you know, some of the letters, little cornys. You mean the ABCs of democracy? Yeah. Yeah, the ABCs of democracy. ABCs is a democracy. No, it's a little bit? No, listen, I think that, you know, it speaks for itself. It went viral for a reason. Okay. I don't know, you know, the comments speak for themselves. All right. We'll hash it all out. I just wanted to let you know that for me, it was a little corny. That's okay, you know? not everything has to land with everybody. Yeah, that's exactly right.

2:36.6

All right, let's not everything that's to land with everybody.

2:34.4

Yeah, that's exactly right. All right. Let's talk about some news. We got this summit today up in Alaska or in

2:42.1

Russia as Donald Trump thought where he thought he was going. Kind of as we're taping, people are

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