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Hakeem Jeffries: “We disagree with your effort, which is ongoing to strip away health care protections from more than 100 million…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2019
We disagree with your effort, which is ongoing to strip away health care protections from more than 100 million Americans with preexisting conditions. We disagree with that as well. But we're not here, at this moment, undertaking this (inaudible) and responsibility because we disagree with his policy positions. We'll deal with that next November. We're here because the President pressured a foreign government to target an American citizen for political gain thereby soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 election by withholding $391 million in military aid without justification.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York
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transcripts.cnn.com

Editor's note · Context

Jeffries explains the reasons for impeachment, emphasizing the President's actions regarding foreign interference in the election.

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