Exclusive — Sen. Markwayne Mullin on Hakeem Jeffries’ Grandstanding: ‘It’s All Optics’

The actions of the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) are all “optics”, said Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily Before the vote on the “big and beautiful bill”.

“This is what they called the Magic Minute, right? Hakeem simply goes through the mourning process, I suppose you can say, because he knows he will lose this,” said Mullin. “It’s all about perception. It is about trying to show the basis that they are fighting and that they are not ready to give a thumb.”

“I mean, he put this false video … with him holding a ball that and he will – he will fight until the end, right?” He said. “And that’s all the optics.”

“And at the end of the day, President Trump worked his tail with all his administration, chatting with the members of the room all day yesterday. I was on the phone with them, working through certain questions they had, trying to make them move – that you know, to adopt the rule. And now, they have managed to speak and allow them to put the bill on the” “, said Hakeem.

When asked if Jeffries could explode the calendar with his marathon speech and delay the scheduled signature of July 4 of the bill, Mullin doubted that it was probably.

“I do not think so. I do not think it can last so long. The longest speech on the ground that has ever taken place was Kevin McCarthy, and he did it-I forget when it was, but I was placed behind him the majority of the time he did it of course,” he started, when the host Mike Slater noted that it was more than eight hours.