Hakeem Jefferies says the Constitution says that only citizens can vote

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00:01 I welcome back to the program I have no idea what's going on with the stream this afternoon it's acting funny so be uh bare with us here well representative Hakeem Jeffries he is against the Save America Act but he also says this now the United States Constitution also makes clear that only citizens can vote 00:22 That's a constitutional requirement. And states are free to implement that requirement as best they see fit. In New York State, for instance, there are strong voter identification requirements that have been embraced by both Democrats and Republicans. This is a phony issue that Donald Trump is creating. Now, wait a minute. Is it a phony issue? But let's just go back to the first thing that he said. 00:53 Say you listen to that again, Hakeem Jeffries. Now the United States Constitution also makes clear that only citizens can vote. Okay. So then if the Constitution says only citizens can vote. 01:10 Doesn't it make sense that in order to comply with the Constitution, 01:19 which is the law of the land. 01:23 that we actually verify that the person voting is eligible to Isn't that incumbent on us? 01:36 We don't know these people are citizens unless we check their ID. That's kind of a little ipso facto. If only citizens are allowed to vote, then we have to make sure they're citizens. But they don't want to do that. They don't want to do that. They don't want to make sure. 01:59 that that happens. Let's take a look at U.S. 18 U.S. Code 611, voting by aliens. It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of president, vice president, presidential elector, member of the Senate, member of the House of Representatives, delegate from the District of Columbia, resident commissioner. Oh, oh, look at that. 02:28 There's an unless there. The election is held partly for some other purpose. Aliens are authorized to vote for such other purposes under a state constitution or state or local ordinance. Voting for such purposes is conducted independently of voting for a candidate such as federal offices. But still. 02:48 That's why John Thune has got to get the Save America Act passed. And it's really up to him. I'm tired of blaming the Democrats. We all know that they're going to go against it. We got to start blaming John Thune. Because as JD Vance said, if you don't get rid of the filibuster, the Democrats are going to do it. The problem is we actually do not have 50 senators, not who would vote for the Save Act, but who would overrule the filibuster. That's something that a majority have the Senate. 03:16 You need 50 senators plus me, and I'm certainly on board, 50 senators to actually overrule this archaic rule and pass the Save America Act. Now here, this is the thing that I find so absurd about this. If you remember Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, two people I didn't always agree with politically, moderate Democrats, but very good people. They are the people who saved the filibuster when the Democrats were in control of the Senate just a couple of years ago. What happened to them? 03:43 They were tarred and feathered by the far left. They were ran out of town. So when Mitch McConnell and Lisa Murkowski say, well, we need to protect the filibuster because the Democrats, they're not going to do it. So we shouldn't do it either. The Democrats ruined the career of Kyrsten Sinema for not overruling the filibuster. They're going to do it. So we might as well do it now to enforce the protection of the American electoral system. It's the dumbest political argument I've ever seen. 04:12 I promise you, Benny, I would bet every dollar that I own that the next time the Democrats have control of the Senate, they will break the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court and destroy this country. We have to do it now in order to save the country. And he's exactly right. He is 100 % right. Let's go to Eric in Spartanburg. Eric, welcome ...

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