Hakeem Jeffries on Trump, Johnson, McCarthy, Biggie & Wu Tang (Oh, My)

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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John is joined by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries to discuss this year’s election, next year’s Congress, and the agita about his party’s future. Jeffries argues that although the Democratic performance on November 5 was undeniably “disappointing,” it was hardly catastrophic; that of all of Donald Trump’s disconcerting appointments, RFK, Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services may be the most dangerous; and that while he disagrees with Mike Johnson about much, he sees the speaker as a “good man” whom he can do business with (neither of which he could say so readily about Kevin McCarthy). Jeffries also describes how his new children’s book, The ABCs of Democracy, was influenced by Schoolhouse Rock, and offers his (solid) list of the all-time top five rap MCs and (unassailable) opinion that The Wire is the greatest TV show ever made. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.2	Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to In Politics with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey joint featuring lively, in-depth, sometimes ever so slightly profane conversations with the people
0:32.1	who roam the corridors of power and influence in America, weaving the warp and wharf and
0:36.5	weft of our politics and culture.
0:39.3	In a lot of ways, the words I just spouted, which in one slightly altered form or another start
0:45.0	every episode of this podcast could have been written with our guests today specifically
0:50.0	in mind.
0:51.0	Hakeem Jeffrey is the 54-year-old Democratic leader in the House of Representatives and the
0:55.0	smart money says the man more likely than not to become sooner or later, the first black
0:59.8	Speaker of the House in American history, is most certainly an A-list pedestrian in Washington's
1:06.6	most rarefied corridors of clout, and he is also a man authentically and organically
1:11.5	possessed of a deep and abiding cultural fluency that's almost unheard of within the terminally
1:16.9	baffled, reliably bewildered, boxy blue suit-clad confines of the Washington Beltway.
1:23.5	Hakeem Jeffries, a native of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a graduate of Midwood High School,
1:28.4	Bigghamton University, Georgetown's McCourt School
1:30.9	of Public Policy and NYU Law School.
1:33.6	A lot of degrees, Jesus.
1:35.8	He's also a dedicated lifelong member
1:37.7	of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bed-style, legendary,
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