Reporter to Jeffries: Are You Concerned ‘Communicating with a Sex Offender’ and ‘Embezzling FEMA Funds’ Will Harm Democrats’ Momentum from November Elections?

reporter: “Thank you, Mr. Leader. Are you at all concerned that the recent allegations against Democrats, such as communicating with a sex offender and embezzling FEMA funds, are going to harm the momentum that your party carried out of the elections earlier this month?”

Jeffries: “We’re going to continue to focus on the issues that matter for the American people — affordability, lower the high cost of living, health care. We got to fix our broken health care system and that begins with renewing the Affordable Care Act tax credits, not allowing Republicans to destroy the Affordable Care Act. And we have to clean up corruption, which we are experiencing in real time. And we’ve got to deal with, in the Congress, in the Supreme Court, and certainly with this administration, which is running the largest pay-to-play scheme in the history of the world. Here’s the interesting thing about Donald Trump and the Republicans. They’ve done nothing to make life better for everyday Americans. Nothing to fix our broken health care system. Nothing to lower the high cost of living, but everything in the world possible to enrich themselves, their friends and their families. That’s corruption in real time and the American people are rejecting it.”