On Sunday's State of the Union , Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries' answer to Trump's threatened military crackdown on Chicago was met with a canned, consultant-crafted set of talking points that did nothing to convey the urgency of the moment.

In response to Dana Bash's question about Trump's threat, Jeffries ran through reasons why Trump is unpopular, as if saying that will turn off the march toward fascism.

And we should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular. Here is the transcript to his full answer, which would have been an fine, bland response to something like Republicans defunding local p

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