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Hakeem Jeffries: “We have to clean up corruption in Washington, D.C. that's…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Leader Jeffries on MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber

Published | Video Starts at 07:28

And so our perspective is that we have to decisively address the high cost of living. We have to fix our broken healthcare system. And by the way, We have to clean up corruption in Washington, D.C. that's the Congress. That, of course, is the Supreme Court. And it also is the Trump administration which is running the largest pay to play scheme in the history of the world. Yeah. And you mentioned a couple specific facts, doj, the president trying to take money out of taxpayers and put it in his own pocket in the foreign aid. (07:28–07:42)

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Asserts that there is corruption in Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Trump administration, with the latter running a significant pay-to-play scheme.

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