JUST IN: Hakeem Jeffries Asked Point Blank About Dem Calling For Lloyd Austin's Resignation

At his weekly press briefing on Thursday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked about Sec. Lloyd Austin.

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[icemediapro]

This guy is just making shit up as he talks

[bobbydee]

Someone who talks with there hands is a lier.

[Da_Don]

Deflecting the question and blaming the administration on "their" wants. The question was asked about his view. He's even more spineless than intox Nancy

[morrisfoster]

God Bless 45 47 President Donald J Trump'and Kristi Noemi VP and the

[kathleenrose]

Perhaps sec didnt think was worth telling potato as he would forget

[whitehouseummahh]

There’s no amount of information that would force you to say he should resign. He could be the worst of humans but he is protected by his black privilege which allows him to be incompetent as well as break national security protocol.

[RockyBallerBoa]

Jeffries loves Austin because he has proven to be 'Controllable '. A W0ke Sec Of Defense is the LAST THING America needs!

[robertunterzuberii]

I wish him a speedy recovery
But he has to

[omygarsch]

Jefferies is basically saying that the administration has no policy regarding chain of command and how to pass responsibilities when someone in authority is not available to perform the assigned duty of the position held. What a joke the administration and Jefferies are.

[mitchster]

Oh God! Lloyd Doesn’t know if he’s hitting his pain, medicine button or the nuke button

[dxjgprm]

Plans have been in place for years. No need to do it again.

[hjafary]

Can’t even be honest with straightforward questions like any reasonable person do when he hold the highest commanding rank AWOLED!

[leahbrozgold]

We the people believe Austin should resign immediately.

[julesroyster]

Blah blah blah Hakeem! Never should have happened! There should have already been "protocols" in place regarding communication so something like this would never happen.

[christinadacruz]

What if something had gone wrong and he died? We would then find out we had no Secretary of Defense or acting Secretary because everything was kept a secret.

[rebeccamead]

Jeffries is a company man through and through and that is not a compliment in any way. To make it sound like there wasn't already a clear protocol if a leader is AWOL, is so weak & ludicrous! It's insulting to every military person, veteran, their families and every single American citizen. Someone explain how Austin's clear, planned by him, for himself action didn't represent his Dereliction of Duty and his oath to this country??.

[mikedoughton]

Jeffries wouldn't even condem his own Democrat colleague for pulling a fire alarm during a vote! DC is full of clowns!

[robertreeves]

Who knows what the heck is the president in the house yes or no

[johnprendergast]

"It's not my job ...He is protected however"-unlike the Country...

[j.]

He needs more information..? If this was under Trump he would be screaming to high heaven !!