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Dem Leader Jeffries: Speaker Johnson's "reckless" shutdown talk is going to "get someone killed"
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks with CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the ongoing government shutdown. Jeffries also weighs in on the New York City Mayor's race and the pardoned Jan. 6 rioter arrested for threatening to kill him.

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