SEE IT: Hakeem Jeffries Doesn’t Like It When News Program Hosts Challenge Him With Facts

“All right, listen, the gas prices were this high under Obama, too,” she told Jeffries.

The House Minority Leader attempted to respond before Scotto pressed further.

“And Biden, right?” she asked. “President Biden, didn’t we have gas prices at over $5?”

Jeffries responded by attributing those price increases to extraordinary circumstances.

“No, well, they were gas prices in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic situation,” he said.

The hosts weren’t finished.

Scotto then shifted the conversation toward grocery prices, another issue Democrats have increasingly tried to focus on heading into future elections.

“And I remember eggs were like $12 a dozen,” Scotto said.

The exchange forced Jeffries into an awkward position.

Rather than focusing on criticism of the current administration, he found himself defending inflation spikes and affordability problems that occurred during the Biden years.