Adrienne Adams: “We have to have Hakeem Jeffries as the speaker, we have to…”

“And it is going to be even harder for us now to wrangle in our state, our federal partners, our Congress members, our Senate members. This is why the next election is going to be so important. We have to have Hakeem Jeffries as the speaker, we have to have the majority in Congress as the speaker to turn over this madness that has become our federal government. And I'm going to have to stop you now, because I may made a promise, you know, that I was going to have you done, brother, and, and, and we're gonna have to have you.” (25:53–26:05)

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