So, Congresswoman, do you believe the vice president when he says that he will comply with congressional subpoenas?

I mean, let's see.

But, you know, color me skeptical because so far they have not been willing to obey even court decisions, court orders that have happened.

They haven't shown up for subpoenas.

They haven't come and testified before Congress.

Of course, Republicans haven't called them to in many cases, but we will.

And I can tell you, you know, I don't know why he wouldn't just say, well, That is outrageous and we will not let it stand.

How do you respond to this apparent threat to you and your staff? And what do you think this symbolizes?

Great question.

Yeah.

Well, we, I mean, first of all, we gotta get money out of politics.

I think that is the crux of so much that we deal with, is the corporate capture by a small number of corporations and wealthy individuals who are destroying our planet, who are destroying our livelihoods, um, who are, you know, blocking us from taking massive progress forward.

So I have the We the People amendment, um, to get money out of politics.

We've put forward the For the People Bill when we were in charge, and we intend to make that a number one priority, um, for, for, for all of these issues.

Secondly, I think that, again, we have to regulate the hell out of these corporations, and these two things are tied.

Uh, can that be changed through a statute or, or what to make it that either the Senate would have to fire them, or they'd be impeachment process, something like that? Thank you so much.

[laughs] So I guess my question is, if the existing laws aren't being enforced against this illegal conduct, and there are no AI exemptions to that conduct, then, uh, I guess the question is, why, why do you think we need a whole new framework if the existing framework doesn't appear to be working?

Yeah.

Well, there are a couple of reasons.

I think that first of all, you know, for anything to be enforced, whether it's by the government or by individuals who are suing these companies, it takes a lot of money, and it requires that people actually do it.

[laughs] And so there is a real problem in both of those instances.

Right now under the Trump administration, we have, um, an administration that's not enforcing any number of product liability laws, um, tort, tort, uh, laws, you know, all kinds of things that we do have on the book, including, um, some of the antitrust laws that need to be updated.

Some of them don't fully address all of the pieces that we need to address.

I'm curious how you think about the interplay between, uh, a, a single payer insurance system and also, you know, the continuing the monopoly busting work on the provider side that you've been talking about.

It is

time to ensure that health care is a right and not a privilege, guaranteed to every person in our country.

It is time for Medicare for All.

Yay! Everywhere, people understand that it is inconceivable that as the richest country in the world, that we would be the only major country that does not guarantee healthcare to every person.

Whether you're rich or poor, you should have the same quality of guaranteed healthcare.

Is this a bold and ambitious plan? Damn straight it is.

If we can end slavery, if we can give women the right to vote, if we can send a man to the moon, then God, we can do universal health care for every American.

got my mojo back, myness.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has continued to call for an investigation and for justice for Eygi to save her family the pain of not knowing what the conclusion might be.

Just over one year ago, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a US citizen from my home state of Washington, was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Aysenur was a human rights activist observing a nonviolent protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank when she was killed.

The IDF claimed that they had been responding to a confrontation, but an in-depth investigation by The Washington Post found that Aysenur was shot more than 30 minutes after that incident ended, and that she was killed more than 200 yards away.

Aysenur's father lives in my district.

She graduated from the University of Washington, right in the heart of my district, and she had a beautiful and bright heart and a commitment to taking action that helped save lives.

I have benefited from listening to Hamed, her husband, and to Ozden, her sister, about who she was Underscoring how her death was such a travesty and a tragedy.

W- when you publicly posted about this case, was there any response, for instance, from the State Department?

Right.

What we found is support is incredibly high.

94% of Democrats, 60% of independents, one in five Republicans wants Medicare for All.

If you attack it with the arguments of cost and taxes and all of that, the support does not go down.

It goes down by maybe a percent.

Why? Because, uh, in our polling, 4 in 10 Americans have been denied coverage, period, by their private health insurance company.

One in four has medical debt of over $1,000.

What do you see?

Of more than 90 million people

... of more than 90 million people.

This is the same president who has been angling for the Nobel Peace Prize for as long as he's, he's been in office and before that.

Um, and so the idea that he can come in and use his bully and his might has done so much damage across the Western Hemisphere, across the East, you know, across E- uh, the EU, across the world, Africa, Asia, you name it.

And what it's doing is it is undermining the United States' leverage in, uh, being able to negotiate with allies and being able to form coalitions.

It's doing real damage right here at home.

Look at the Iran war.

Who are incredibly competitive with each other.

I think most Americans say, how is he able to get away with this? And in particular, one of my favorite things to talk about, one of so many of our favorite things to talk about during the first term, the emoluments clause, which I don't hear anybody talking about very much anymore.

Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.

And listen, that $2.2 billion is a low estimate.

That was for last year.

If you really add up all of the ways in which he's profited by getting law firms to pay into different funds, by selling access to the White House to foreign governments, by pardoning people and then having them contribute directly to him and his family ventures, some of the estimates run up to $6 billion that he has profited from investing essentially selling access to the highest bidder.

And the emoluments clause is in the Constitution, but I really believe we need to strengthen it.

There's been a lot of conversation around it.

What has been the hardest part about witnessing the cruelty of it all?

And it's

also very difficult to take seriously the poster child of corruption and fraud that is the president and his cabinet when they say that there's fraud happening.

I mean, they have been hellbent on getting rid of health care.

for millions of Americans.

And already, just under this administration, 8 million Americans have lost their coverage or chosen not to opt for new coverage because it's too expensive, right? Another 22 million have seen their premiums go up.

So, that's 30 million Americans who are seeing these increased costs.

And we just did a poll, because you know I'm the lead on Medicare for All.

It's as though they actually believed the president when he gave his sort of mythical in two weeks, don't worry, gas prices will be down answer.

Is that the case?

No, absolutely not.

All of a sudden they decide that they're going to send people home because Thomas Massey introduces an impeachment resolution of Pete Hegseth.

And because Republicans know this war is so unpopular and Pete Hegseth himself is so incompetent.

and unpopular that their Republican members do not want to vote on this and have to go home and face districts that are already furious and would be even more furious if they voted no on impeaching an incompetent and frankly corrupt Secretary of Defense that never should have let us go into this war to start with.

He never should have advised Donald Trump.

He never should have been the cheerleader with his bullhorn advertising all this military might that the United States can throw around.

The question I think a lot of Americans are asking is, can Congress, is Congress capable of grappling with this?

How do you measure Pete Hegseth 200 days into the war?

This is a Secretary of Defense that has zero experience and is absolutely unqualified to lead.

All he does is tell Donald Trump anything he wants to do.

Military might, bravado, all the things that he has done have ruined our reputation internationally.

We are not a trusted partner anymore.

And most importantly on this war, He is culpable as much as Donald Trump is.

Pete Hegseth is supposed to be telling Donald Trump that this was a bad idea from the beginning.

What more specifically can Democrats do to hold this administration accountable as this war continues into month seven?

Well, unfortunately, Peter, and it's great to see you.

Unfortunately, the thing is that we haven't had enough Republicans with a spine willing to stand up for our constitutional authority to declare war and solely our constitutional authority to declare war.

So the reason the War Powers Resolutions are so important and the fact that they pick up support every time from Republicans is that we are helping Republicans develop a spine to stand up for their constitutional obligations, to stand up to this president and say, we will not continue to fund this war.

You have to stop it.

It is not authorized.

And it is causing, as you said, enormous pain to Americans, not only in lives of service members lost and wounded, but also in terms of the cost of this war.

What worries you most?

Do you read from this president? He's trying to suggest if things don't go his way, that'll actually wage more war.

That's certainly what I understood from that.

And look, this is a bully of a president.

He went into Iran despite the fact that so many presidents before him have been, you know, sort of pushed to try to do that.

And they've all been smart enough to say, no, this president was dumb enough to say yes and to go in.

And I. I think that he thinks that there's a military might that the United States has that he can outweigh and defeat the Iranians.

But that is nobody's assessment, including our own military's assessment.

But also, have we accidentally pushed some of our allies into more direct relationship and conversation with the Iranians?

Your thoughts? This is a

remarkably cruel form of gaslighting that the president is engaging with against our troops, against the families of these troops that have committed their lives to the security and the safety of the United States.

It is remarkable, and yet it's not because it happens over and over again, to see the lack of empathy, the lack of recognition of what has happened.

Most of the crew has not even been to port since December of last year, and this is far beyond the recommended seven-month deployment that the Navy had said that they wanted to achieve.

But at a minimum, to recognize that this war of choice, as I called it before, and I still believe it is a war of choice, it is unconstitutional.

He never got approval from Congress to do this.

This is not only causing incredible pain to the service members who are protecting our country every day, but also to Americans across the country.

But what are your overall takeaways from these races and other recent progressive victories? And are there parallels to the Tea Party's rise among Republicans almost 20 years ago?

... becoming an American citizen and, and what it meant to, to, to speak with naturalized citizens and, and, and to still have this view of America as, as something that can be great, something that we're still striving for.

Yeah.

I came to...

I was born in India, and I came to the United States by myself.

My parents had very meager savings, and they took just the few thousand dollars that they had and they used it to send their daughter all the way across the ocean by herself at the age of 16.

That's when I arrived in the United States.

I went to college here.

Yes.

And number two, another one of your colleagues has a bill to lower the Medicare age.

Medicare eligibility age is actually my bill to lower the Medicare eligibility age.

We're getting ready to reintroduce it again.

I had originally introduced it with a former Pennsylvania representative who is not in Congress anymore, but I'm going to reintroduce it with another colleague.

And absolutely, it is a first step.

And in fact, in Medicare for All, the way the transition period works over a couple of years is that we start by lowering the Medicare age and we add dental, vision and hearing and a couple of other things in in that first year.

So, yes, I will be reintroducing that bill.

Congresswoman?

What is your reaction to hearing the president, hearing Thune, hearing Republicans celebrating his win?

Well, uh, Kate, first of all, Donald Trump [laughs] is the same guy that's endorsed Max Miller, who you were just talking about.

So I'm not sure I would listen to who he's talking about in terms of candidates that he's supporting.

Um, he's also got poll numbers that are in the tank.

I mean, they're really, he's not popular with voters across the country, and certainly in Michigan that is the case as well.

Um, I think that when I listen to both of them, I'm struck by the fact that they have nothing positive to offer voters.

All they can do is try to attach labels to Abdul El-Sayed.

How hard is it going to be to bridge the divide, do you think?

Mm.

And I actually think that part of what they are saying is that they have deep concerns about this, and it's not just the $1.8 billion slush fund.

It is also the fact that what Trump did is sue the IRS and then basically have a settlement that does not stand up in court to provide him with immunity from any tax deals going forward.

You know, any tax deals that he's done in the past or going forward.

That means that he can continue to make $2.2 billion, like he did last year, off of corruption that he is never gonna have to worry about he or his family being audited for.

So I think this is really disrespectful to the Senate, because obviously the Senate has confirmation authority over his cabinet members.

But also to you and me, to the taxpayers out there who are watching, this is all taxpayer dollars, and basically this corrupt president is trying to get a deal for himself and his family that allows him to put his pocketbook and his interests first instead of providing healthcare for the American people, doing the things that people across this country desperately want him to do.

Mm-hmm.

What are your expectations?

Well, my expectation is that our Republicans develop a spine, a conscience, and stand up for their constituents for, and for the country.

Um, this is clearly an illegal and unconstitutional war.

It is costing US service members' lives, 18 already who have lost their lives.

It is costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars at minimum.

It is driving up the cost of gas and groceries, and it is creating chaos, havoc, and putting innocent civilian lives at risk around the region.

So this war needs to end.

Y- your sense if your Republican colleagues beyond those four are feeling that pressure.

So if you could talk about what exactly you've called for.

Yes, we just introduced the REDACT Act, and this comes really from the whole experience of the Epstein survivors over the last year and a half under this Trump administration, DOJ and Todd Blanch's overseeing.

And you might remember that when Pam Bondi, then the attorney general, was before us in the Judiciary Committee where I sit.

I did the first line of questioning.

And the most powerful moment was when I asked the survivors to stand up and they all stood up behind Pam Bondi.

And I asked Pam Bondi to turn and to acknowledge them and to apologize for the fact that the Department of Justice, under her leadership and Todd Blanche's leadership, he was really the one who was managing the The Epstein files are both responsible.

They released the names of these survivors.

There are no body cams that these men are wearing, the ICE agents.

So if you could talk about what exactly you've called for.

Yes, we just introduced the REDACT Act, and this comes really from the whole experience of the Epstein survivors over the last year and a half under this Trump administration, DOJ and Todd Blanch's overseeing.

And you might remember that when Pam Bondi, then the attorney general, was before us in the Judiciary Committee where I sit.

I did the first line of questioning.

And the most powerful moment was when I asked the survivors to stand up and they all stood up behind Pam Bondi.

And I asked Pam Bondi to turn and to acknowledge them and to apologize for the fact that the Department of Justice, under her leadership and Todd Blanche's leadership, he was really the one who was managing the The Epstein files are both responsible.

They released the names of these survivors.

There are no body cams that these men are wearing, the ICE agents.

So if you could talk about, uh, what exactly you've called for.

Yes, we just introduced the REDACT Act, and this comes really from the whole experience of the Epstein survivors a- over the last year and a half under this Trump administration DOJ and Todd Blanche's overseeing.

And you might remember that when Pam Bondi, then the attorney general, was before us in the Judiciary Committee where I sit, um, I did the first line of questioning.

And the pr- the most powerful moment was when the, I asked the survivors to stand up, and they all stood up behind Pam Bondi.

And I asked Pam Bondi to turn and to acknowledge them and to apologize for the fact that the Department of Justice, under her leadership and Todd Blanche's leadership, he was really the one who was managing the Epstein files.

They're both responsible.

They released the names of these survivors.

There are no body cams that these men are wearing, the ICE agents.

So if you could talk about, uh, what exactly you've called for.

Yes, we just introduced the REDACT Act, and this comes really from the whole experience of the Epstein survivors a- over the last year and a half under this Trump administration DOJ and Todd Blanche's overseeing.

And you might remember that when Pam Bondi, then the attorney general, was before us in the Judiciary Committee where I sit, um, I did the first line of questioning.

And, uh, the pr- the most powerful moment was when this, I asked the survivors to stand up, and they all stood up behind Pam Bondi.

And I asked Pam Bondi to turn and to acknowledge them and to apologize for the fact that the Department of Justice under her leadership and Todd Blanche's leadership, he was really the one who was managing the Epstein files.

They're both responsible.

They released the names of these survivors.

There are no body cams that these men are wearing, the ICE agents.

What do you make of this notion that coming out that clearly and that strongly is something that will cost Democrats electorally? Do you believe that?

I think that may have been true back when abolish ICE was first used.

I don't think that's true anymore.

And I think I'm somebody who feels like it doesn't matter what you want to call it, but we have to disband ICE.

We have to melt ICE.

We have to abolish ICE.

Whatever word you want to use, what we need to get to is the end result, that ICE should not exist as it exists.

The fatal ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Oroho, what was your first reaction when you saw this news? Was it, was it surprise? Was it disgust? Was it I, I, "I'm not shocked that we're here again"?

It was all of those things.

You know, I'm the top Democrat on the Immigration Subcommittee, so I have been doing everything I can to hold this ICE and CBP and DHS accountable, and it is one shocking cruelty after another.

So yes, disgust.

Um, it stuck with me, you know, just watching the videos, watching the news unfold, watching his son at the press conference.

The cruelty, um, and the complete lack of any accountability, the racial profiling-

Mm-hmm.

That's what they said for Rene Good.