Stephen Colbert rips Hakeem Jeffries' 'silent' SOTU protest as 'bold rebrand of doing jack squat'

On Tuesday's broadcast of "The Late Show," host Stephen Colbert tore into House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., over his guidance for a "silent" protest of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address as a "bold rebrand of doing jack squat."

"For Democrats who did attend [the State of the Union], Hakeem Jeffries urged members not to make a scene, an approach he dubbed ‘silent defiance,' which I believe is a bold rebrand of doing jack squat," Colbert said.

"As Martin Luther King once said...