So how do you move forward in a way that makes the average voter who said, I'm going to give Democrats a chance now because this isn't working out for me? How do you move forward in a way that feels productive and feels like that you're getting Americans out of their own hole while holding people accountable for things that they've done wrong?

Well, first we've got to end the war.

That's the biggest thing we can do to bring down food prices, gas prices, diesel prices.

And the way we do that is to make it very clear that before we fund government in a continuing resolution in November or December, we are going to zero out any funding for further combat operations in Iran.

That would bring the war to an end.

That's how we ended Vietnam.

And that would be responsive to what voters care most about going into Christmas, that gas is too high, diesel is too high, food is costing too much.

What happens now? Is there a way that that Congress can hold these cabinet secretaries to greater account to to force them to answer questions that they otherwise just kind of ignored?

How do you see that part playing out in a House where you won't need Republicans, because they can't get in your way, they can't stop, given the majority that you're going to have, to lay down some serious efforts on the Epstein files, on the corruption of the children of Donald Trump? members of his cabinet, members of the business community? How do you see this accountability piece playing out for voters?

First of all, we are so lucky and fortunate in this Congress to have Robert Garcia chairing the Oversight Committee and Jamie Raskin chairing Judiciary.

These are extraordinary, brilliant people who are going to both be able to drive the narrative but also understand the substance in holding Donald Trump accountable.

And it's a matter of basic fairness.

You know, when people are saying, look, I'm paying six, seven bucks for gas.

I can't afford the groceries.

I'm having to pay 125, 150 bucks every time I go to the grocery store.

Will you support Hakeem Jeffries, his speaker? And do you think that those concerns from the left flank are valid?

I think that would be one way for Democrats in particular to show that they are going to deliver cost of living improvement for the American people.

Well, first of all, Chris Murphy is in my thoughts for a full and speedy recovery.

He has done a lot in showing leadership on foreign policy, and I hope he gets better very soon and back to work.

I believe that Chris Murphy may have a different view.

I haven't talked to him now after seeing the results of the election, because that election was a mandate to end this war.

And, you know, I talked to one colleague who said, yeah, but, Roe, Trump will just veto it.

No, he can't veto it if we just refuse to appropriate money.

Like – Is there a plan? What's going to happen? What should Democrats do now that they are going to have some measure of power in D.C.?

And how can we make sure that the incoming Democrats in the Senate and also the House not only obviously fight back against the Trump administration, offer hurdles and accountability against the corruption that we've seen set up investigations, but also start the process of building a resilient legislative agenda that will ensure that Republicans never win a seat of power in this country ever again.

I like how you just put that last line in.

Well, I believe we need America's next new deal.

I believe we need to take on the tech billionaires, many in my district, and call them the economic royalists of our time and tax their wealth and make sure that we have health care as a human right, Medicare for all, free college, free child care.

We can afford that.

By the way, who could afford that just with a 5% tax on these billionaires or not having these wars? And what Abdul has shown, what Angie has shown, what House candidates across the country are showing, is that you can have that platform and win.

And that even people like Tallarico have adopted parts of that platform.

Do you feel like the Republican strategy of making me the centerpiece in these midterm elections was a successful strategy? And also, should the Democratic Party apologize or at least praise me for tanking all of that slander and smearing? Because every moment that they wasted yelling about a Twitch streamer from California was a moment where they were not out campaigning.

How do you get the country back on the right track?

Sometimes the most simple questions are the most profound.

This election is going to be a rejection of Donald Trump.

It's gonna say that we shouldn't have been in the war in Iran and certainly stopping that war will help reduce gas and food prices for immediate relief.

It says that we shouldn't have engaged in the kind of corruption that Donald Trump is engaging in and stopping that and having accountability for that is going to matter in terms of American sense of fairness.

But ultimately, we have to deal with the fact that one third of the nation's wealth is piling up in my district in Silicon Valley.

Twenty five trillion dollars and people can't afford a job.

What is your reaction to this kind of last-ditch attempt from the president?

to to to emulate himself and

yeah and i how's that gonna work look i don't if he takes the credit i i think his presidency is done in terms of baked in public perception i mean i right again you get to a point like george w bush or nixon or hoover and it's very hard to to recover i'm more concerned about does he do things that are dangerous so if he's willing to uh support uh a minimum wage increase, where I'm on a bill that would, by 2032, get it to $25.

But if he's willing to support it at $15, I'd say, great.

That's going to set the bar so that by the time we come in in 28 and want to take it further up, Trump has given us the permission structure.

I mean, for zero eight to Israel, you know, now, if you're a Democrat who still wants eight to Israel, you're to the right of Donald Trump.

So my view is use him to shift the entire base of his base to the left.

I mean, the point of this is, in my view, to actually get things done that are going to tackle the gilded age.

How do you think this race is going to be interpreted? Like, is there even anything to take in the factional fight? Or are we all just going to say, oh, it's just a nice, thorough repudiation of Trump and and this administration? What do you think?

I'm wondering, Congressman, are you now making a statement that you see yourself as firmly in the DSA ultra progressive wing of your party?

I'm a progressive capitalist.

I represent the district in Silicon Valley that has one third of the nation's wealth.

But I'm not for this economy working not just for the few billionaires in my district, but for the people I grew up with in Pennsylvania.

The reason I've endorsed challengers at risk to blow back from the establishment in my own party is I just think that voters want to change.

They want a new generation.

They want folks who are going to fight against all the money in politics.

closely contested senate race right so much conversation there and that's where abdul el sayed is against mike rogers now that race got shaken up by house member your democratic colleague haley stevens who lost in the primary to el sayed come out this weekend endorses rogers appears with him it was a huge surprise to to some of your colleagues who had even spoken with her hours before and she had assured them no such thing was going to happen and then it did So what do you think is going to happen now? I mean, some sources are telling us House Democrats are discussing ejecting her from the Democratic caucus after this.

How in particular, though, do you hold this administration accountable? Oversight, another committee you're on, where is the first priority on oversight when there's so much to juggle?

Well, Jamie Raskin on judiciary and Robert Garcia on oversight are going to do an extraordinary job.

They are not going to allow the Trump family to get away with it.

We have to look at the corruption.

We have to look at the crypto corruption of the Trump family, where they basically for investments into their own family fund, gave access to chips to.

The UAE.

We need to look at the pardons that have been sold.

What is the strategy? How do you sort of deal with that disconnect between Americans' desire for change quickly and the challenges that the president may provide to you by not wanting to give Democrats any wins?

Are Democrats prepared in the House?

We are.

I mean, he did that with Adelita Grijalva.

Exactly.

He refused to seat them.

And look, first of all, Mark Elias, in my view, is an American hero.

I mean, what he is doing across the country in protecting the vote.

What steps are being taken?

I guess my question to you is, how should we regulate AI? How should we balance it with equity? How is it the new frontier, and how do we make sure that we have this balance of regulation, but also give African Americans an opportunity to have a bite at this apple?

Great questions.

First, we can't just have the tech billionaires calling the shots.

I mean, there has to be an independent AI regulatory commission.

It needs to make sure we don't lose control of this AI, so you don't have the Terminator scenario.

It needs to make sure, you know, that you don't have it be misused for someone to spread a new form of COVID.

But also in the work you're doing.

So what advice do you give him to make up that ground in a short period of time with black voters who see some disconnect and don't necessarily, I mean, maybe somebody is not understanding the history that you are outlining that you and I both know, which makes you such a formidable individual going forward.

Yeah.

And that devastated the community.

And we watched as this thing happened.

By the way, William Julius Wilson wrote about it happening in black communities first, in black cities, and no one cared.

Then it started happening to white communities, and everyone started talking about deaths of despair and people.

But we watched for 40 years, hollowing out.

So capitalism unchecked, which is what we've had in this country, where we basically said corporate profits can go sky high, And we don't care about communities.

in this country.

What parallels does Ro Khanna see in what's going on right now in Europe?

First of all, it's important to understand why we went so ahead of Europe economically.

As someone who represents Silicon Valley, which has one third of our nation's wealth, $25 trillion in my district, let me give you three points.

We got 80% of people in high school when France, Germany, UK had 20 to 30% because we invested in high school in America.

Second, we, after World War II, made massive investments in DARPA, in NSF, in higher universities.

French economists will tell you they never did that.

Third, we had agreements with our universities like Stanford to be able to commercialize that technology.

You would say what to Stephen Moore?

What's wrong with them? Like, what's wrong with them as people? Well, I think they don't have a sense of rootedness

in community.

Are they patriots? Some of them, but I call for them to all be economic patriots.

I said if Donald Trump could bully them into funding his ballroom, how I would get them into investing in America, building the schools and hospitals and libraries and helping small businesses and entrepreneurs across this country.

But I think they're socially disconnected because for the warmest time, they are just in their own computers and in their own technology, and they didn't really grow up playing sports or going to the school dance, going to events, right? And so, you know, one of those guys, Larry Page, he would just like, if he was bored of a conversation, he'd just get up and leave.

And they'd say, you know, be like, let's say you found me boring.

You just get up, walk out and leave.

Are you planning on supporting him going forward or are you waiting to see? Are you possibly jumping into leadership? What's going on? Give me a solid.

So what specifically have you been unable to obtain?

John, that's like a CNN fragment.

I'm an accused of Justice Department.

I'm telling you what the Justice Department has done.

This is a fact.

The Justice Department under the Epstein family.

You're right, you're right.

I'm a New Deal Democrat, not a Chuck

So because your schools aren't as g- as good as you want them to be, you're saying that this is driven by schools?

It used to be spending 57%, but Macron made significant cuts because he cut corporate taxes, he cut taxes for the wealthy.

And if you, uh, talk to students there, they will tell you that the schools are falling apart in certain places.

They're telling you teachers are not being paid.

In some cases, they don't have enough teachers, and that's what this is about.

Now, rioters have hijacked some of the students, and I unequivocally condemn the rioting and violence, and that should have no place, uh, in a society.

But there's also the costs of the war.

What about Lisbon?

I'd like to ask Representative Ro Khanna why you are backing this proposition and also your reaction to your fellow Democratic colleague, Governor Newsom, opposing it.

First, let me say what an honor it is to follow Navi Pillay, who won the Nobel Prize for finding that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, something still too many democratic politicians in America refuse to do.

And I appreciate Lorena Gonzalez's extraordinary leadership to help get this billionaire tax on the ballot.

It is the first time in the history of the nation or the history of the world that we would be able to tax billionaires.

You would tax 250 billionaires who have half the California economy.

There were $2.1 trillion.

And you would tax them 5%, even though their wealth has gone up 144% over the last three years.

So, Congress member Ro Khanna, if you can respond to what he's saying and also explain what Prop 41 and Prop 42 are.

I'd like to ask Representative Ro Khanna why you are backing this proposition and also your reaction to your fellow Democratic colleague, Governor Newsom, opposing it.

First, let me say what an honor it is to follow Navi Pillay, who won the Nobel Prize for finding that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, something still too many democratic politicians in America refuse to do.

And I appreciate Lorena Gonzalez's extraordinary leadership to help get this billionaire tax on the ballot.

It is the first time in the history of the nation or the history of the world that we would be able to tax billionaires.

You would tax 250 billionaires who have half the California economy.

There were $2.1 trillion.

And you would tax them 5%, even though their wealth has gone up 144% over the last three years.

So, Congress member Ro Khanna, if you can respond to what he's saying and also explain what Prop 41 and Prop 42 are.

I'd like to ask Representative Ro Khanna, uh, y- why you are backing, uh, this, uh, proposition, and also, uh, y- your, uh, your reaction to your fellow Democratic colleague, Governor Newsom, opposing it.

First, let me say what an honor it is to follow Navi Pillay, who won the Nobel Prize, uh, for finding that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, something still too many Democratic politicians in America refuse to do.

And I appreciate Lorena González's extraordinary leadership to help get this billionaire tax on the ballot.

It is the first time in the history of the nation or the history of the world that we would be able to tax billionaires.

You would tax 250 billionaires who have half the California economy.

They're worth $2.1 trillion.

And you would tax them 5%, even though their wealth has gone up 144% over the last three years.

So Congress member Ro Khanna, if you can respond to what he's saying, and also explain what Prop 41 and Prop 42 are.

I'd like to ask Representative Ro Khanna why you are backing this proposition and also your reaction to your fellow Democratic colleague, Governor Newsom, opposing it.

First, let me say what an honor it is to follow Navi Pillay, who won the Nobel Prize for finding that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, something still too many democratic politicians in America refuse to do.

And I appreciate Lorena Gonzalez's extraordinary leadership to help get this billionaire tax on the ballot.

It is the first time in the history of the nation or the history of the world that we would be able to tax billionaires.

You would tax 250 billionaires who have half the California economy.

They're worth $2.1 trillion.

And you would tax them 5%, even though their wealth has gone up 144% over the last three years.

So, Congressmember Ro Khanna, if you can respond to what he's saying and also explain what Prop 41 and Prop 42 are.

Congresista, ¿qué le dice a quienes temen perder su empleo por la inteligencia artificial?

Tienen razón.

Estoy muy preocupado.

Por eso estoy a favor de los trabajadores sobre la inteligencia artificial.

¿Qué significa eso? Los conductores de camiones deben estar en los camiones.

No estoy a favor de los camiones autónomos.

No son seguros y perjudicarían a nuestros camioneros y a nuestros trabajadores.

¿Qué deberían hacer?

Nobody shows up to his events when he goes to campaign for people, either.

Uh, you know, he's just ig- in a pretzel.

He has got no real power.

Uh, he's, uh, got no real beliefs.

Uh, and you know, he's out there trying to say, "Well, I don't know if Kimberly Guilfoyle taking $100,000 to do the government's bidding is right or wrong.

Uh, well, I don't know.

I, I know, uh, they taught me at Yale Law School that you shouldn't do this.

Do you agree with that? What are the stakes here for this Proposition 40?

In a letter to Kimberly Guilfoyle, Oversight Committee ranking member Robert Garcia is requesting, quote, "detailed information about Guilfoyle's financial records, communications with Eric Deders, and Guilfoyle's communications with senior administration officials on behalf of Guilfoyle's benefactors." Congressman, what do you believe the American people deserve to know about Kimberly Guilfoyle's dealings with Eric Deders?

Jonathan, a lot of Americans have credit card debt.

A lot of them fear at the end of the month that they're gonna get a 30% interest charge on the credit card debt, and almost all Americans who I know can't just call up someone and say, "Hey, you know what? Can you pay off my credit card debt?" Especially if that credit card debt is $100,000.

And here you have Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly asking someone to pay off her debt and offering to introduce that person to get favors from the Trump administration.

It's just not fair, and at a time where people can't afford gas and can't afford food and can't afford rent and are maxing out their credit cards, this is the kind of thing that really angers people, and this is why we're gonna have a huge win in November.

Congressman Khanna, what, what can the Oversight Committee do to stop or slow or expose this Trump crypto profiteering in plain sight?

We need to have accountability.

I mean, we need to investigate the deal that they had with UAE, where Donald Trump basically agreed to sell our most sensitive AI chips because a UAE senior, a royal Invested in the Trump crypto business.

Why should that be so concerning to Americans that a Democratic senator is not able to visit an American base in that region right now?

Because the whole job of Congress is to give consent on matters of war and peace.

Let's be very clear here.

Donald Trump's war is not just immoral and strategically a blunder, it's also illegal.

Congress has not authorized this war.

Senator Murphy is out there trying to assess the strategic damage.

This war has made us less safe.

"I can do whatever I want if I want." What worries you most about that not-so-veiled threat?

What are you concerned about in this kind of lame duck period of Trump's second term that he could do to try and tear down a lot of the protections that have been put in place around the environment?

More wars.

I mean, I mean, wars are awful for the environment.

I mean, he could get into more wars with Cuba, with others in Latin America like we have in Iran, and the environmental, uh, consequences of these missiles and the bombing and the mobilization is extraordinary.

Uh, I'm also concerned that he could just continue to gut basic, uh, regulations.

I mean, basic safety for clean air, for clean water, uh, gutting any, uh, of the emission standards, uh, that, that we have for, uh, power plants.

Uh, this is, uh, his, uh, his goal, and, uh, he's gonna see the more he loses in Congress, the more he's gonna wanna lash out, uh, and, and, uh, accomplish what he wants ideologically and through administrative power.

Is there any other aspect of this issue, the emissions issue and just the environment more broadly, that you think isn't being talked about enough? That there are policy solutions here, policy concerns that are not being addressed right now in the conversation that we're having in Washington, and just more broadly i- in the media about this issue?

So first, I just want to get your reaction to these new developments.

Well, it's horrific.

Uh, we have a crisis of misogyny in our country.

I mean, you have a, a student, uh, who was allegedly raped or assaulted by, uh, seven people in Cornell.

The New York Times is reporting that Cornell sent over to the DA an edited and summarized report.

Uh, five of the students were not even expelled, and there was no, uh, criminal investigations.

And what you have is a culture in this country where star athletes are protected, students are protected at, uh, universities, uh, and, uh, people are not being held accountable, uh, for assault or rape.

We'll see." With the midterms just 33 days away, what do you make of those comments?