But as someone who was chief medical officer for Sacramento before you became a congressman, do you share those hopes? Does AI make better doctors?

You know what, AI in the healthcare space, it's an area that I focused on.

I was on the AI task force that Speaker Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries put together in the last Congress.

It is remarkable the advances that are taking place in the healthcare space, in drug discovery, in improving diagnostics and making diagnosis faster.

What we have to be careful about, though, the same tools that AI uses to help us come up with those cures for cancer, discover those new drugs, could also be in the hands of bad actors that want to manufacture bad biotherapeutics, bioweapons, et cetera.

It is an area that we recognize AI is going to do good and help move the world forward.

But we also need to have those guardrails.

Is there credible reason to believe that this technology itself could act on its own or be used by a nefarious actor to do incredible damage to us here in the U.S., but to people globally?

How does this relationship with Taiwan get passed down? If there's no one there since the Taiwan Relations Act, how is it that still to this day Congress has this wonderful relationship with Taiwan? Congressmen like yourself go there frequently, understand these issues arguably better than many other countries in the world.

You know, so there's obviously a large Taiwanese-American diaspora.

I'm from California, so, you know, vibrant community in California, active community.

You know, it's a major trading partner with the United States.

So, you know, deep economic ties there.

It's a technologic powerhouse when you look at the semiconductor industry.

So deep ties with us.

Congressman Amibera, is there any last message you'd like to send to Taiwanese or Taiwanese-Americans who might be watching this podcast?

Um, what does your re-election effort look like right now after the redistricting effort?

Yeah, so we took my nice D plus, um, 14, D plus 15 district and split it into two D plus six districts.

I went out and chose a district that's the eastern part of Sacramento County, and that extends all the way up to Lake Tahoe.

Um, I think that district we can take off the table.

Um, you know, Kevin Kiley chose not to run against me, and he chose to run in the other half of, uh, my former district.

That is gonna be a competitive race, that, um, California 6 seat.

We've got a crowded primary, um, a number of good Democratic candidates.

Mm-hmm

First of all, how did you guys come together on, on the housing issue?

I mean, we hear it from our constituents, right? For a lot of us, um, our path to the middle class was through being able to afford to buy a house to build wealth and, and then raise our families, and that's core to the American dream.

So we've got to build more housing.

Um, you know, I've been working with our city and counties in Sacramento.

You've got a lot of vacant land there.

It's just sitting there.

That's equity.

Where are you and your Democratic colleagues on this? Are, are you gonna hammer Republicans for the ballroom, or i, ha- has the dynamic changed?

Ami, could you just explain for us how your system works? What is your role in the system? And so that this is a slight sense of how it compares to being a member of parliament in the UK.

Absolutely.

We have three branches of government.

So there's Congress, which is made of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

There's the executive branch, which is the president.

And then there's the Supreme Court.

And the easiest way to explain it is Congress writes the laws.

what you have an ability to do, if you like, to keep the president in check as Democrats in Congress right now?

I, I know that when you- on your South American trip, you couldn't go to Venezuela under the current security, uh, situation there, but what did you pick up on that trip about the situation now?

You know, what we found out is, if you talk to the countries in the region...

We were in Lima, Peru, met with their leadership, their foreign ministers, very matter-of-fact that they're happy that, um, Nicolás Maduro is out of power.

He was someone who destabilized the region.

There's 1.7 million Venezuelan refugees in, uh, Venezuela- I'm sorry, in Peru, two million-plus in Colombia.

So they want to see this succeed.

They'd also like to play a role.

And there's absolutely no, uh, prospect of elections there, uh, and with Donald Trump saying he loves Venezuela, he means he loves the current regime now.

What do you think?

That is crazy, right? Again, what's going on in this country right now, right? Vaccines are pretty much, um, finished science, right? We all had childhood vaccines.

We largely eliminated measles and this year we saw some kids die of measles down in Texas.

We saw, you know, hundreds of people get sick with measles.

So, we've gotta restore trust.

Right now, I would say, go talk to your doctors.

Don't listen to what RFK Jr.'s putting out there.

But look, the two biggest, the two places that I believe have, uh, the most political importance of the three, um, Washington DC, New York City in general, and California, and maybe Cal- and maybe Los Angeles.