Just first, your reaction to the leaders of AI industry coming out just days after that employee at Anthropic saying that the robots are going to kill us all, all coming around and saying, you know what? The pace at which AI is growing, we need to do something to pump the brakes.

We needed to do this like a decade ago.

Correct.

Like I was a tech policy advisor in the Obama White House at the time.

And we were talking about these same things 10 years ago.

And yet 10 years later, here we are still talking about it and nothing is getting done.

And this Congress was the Congress where we needed to do something.

But isn't also this just incumbent on— the leaders who are creating this?

So tell us about that.

Yeah, we have to make sure that data centers pay for their own power.

We'll start there.

Right now, too many people are seeing their bills skyrocket because of the data centers and because of the power infrastructure.

We're also seeing power lines go through communities.

We're having to choose here in Ashburn between putting it on school property or in a residence area.

And we also need to make sure that when data centers are talking about their impact, that we have real transparency and accountability there.

How can you hold him accountable?

So getting into Congress and doing the work, what is one thing that surprised you?

It seems like you can work with anybody if you really want to.

And if you approach people and try to have a conversation with them, they'll listen to you in Congress, especially people in their own party.

So if I saw on the news someone said something I didn't agree with, I could go up to them on the House floor and just talk to them about it and at least try to foster some understanding.

Maybe shouldn't have surprised me because this is how things worked in the General Assembly, but relationships matter a lot and trying to foster understanding really helps you.

I have been able to get a lot done just by having these conversations behind the scenes and understanding where maybe the other side is coming from on certain issues.

The thing that surprised me as well is I thought Republicans would stick to their principles even when the president didn't.

Or are there things that you think that we can bring back or we can get for our voters? What can they hope for in terms of the future?

So what are your concerns that this move could allow the White House to withhold information from Congress, potentially shield allies from congressional subpoenas, particularly in the Epstein investigation? And what can Democrats realistically do if the administration refuses to comply?

Sure.

So let's understand what they're trying to do.

Private advisors is such a broad term.

It can include pretty much anyone.

So even someone who is not necessarily in the administration could be covered by a private advisor.

Right.

So what did she tell you? And what questions do you have for DHS about this agent's conduct?

He

has no power to provide justice, even though he wants to run the Justice Department and is the acting head of it.

And, you know, he didn't want to do that meeting, let's be real.

I mean, at first, he actually tried to offer an assistant to meet with the survivors.

And they said, no, we got to meet with Todd Blanche.

And he only did it after Tom Tillis, the senator, told him in public during his confirmation hearing to do it.

And what was disappointing was in Tom Tillis' tweets, I'm glad he met with them.

What do you know about that? And more importantly, has Jim Comer said that they are going to subpoena him?

What was it like in there? What was the atmosphere?

It was interesting because I had three hours worth of questions and so did the committee.

And yet Leon Black is telling us that we had this premeditated strategy to corner him and to subpoena him fully.

Remember, this was a transcribed interview.

Republicans decided that they wanted to not have him sworn in and have him deposed completely.

under oath.

But I think they changed their tune when they saw that Leon Black, like many other witnesses close to Epstein, was not answering questions.

Congressman, for those who don't follow this story closely, explain the importance of these nondisclosure agreements with women who were in Jeffrey Epstein's circle and that you suspect Leon Black has more knowledge than he's so far disclosed.

has effectively destroyed with the bombing campaign and rebuild it?

There might be restrictions on paper, but I don't trust this regime, right? And so, again, we go back to the JCPOA in 2015.

There were extreme restrictions on how the money was released, and it was only money that was the result of sanctions based on the nuclear deal, and that if they were able to comply with a nuclear deal in phases, they would get money in phases.

None of that right now is being worked out.

Right now, the administration is desperate at this point.

They're just trying to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

They're trying to talk about all the good news.

What's your response to the president making unsubstantiated accusations that the pool was sabotaged? And by the way, is the same company that did the renovation, are they going to get the do-over too?

has effectively destroyed with the bombing campaign and rebuild it?

There might be restrictions on paper, but I don't trust this regime, right? And so again, we go back to the JCPOA in 2015, there were extreme restrictions on how the money was released.

And it was only money that was the result of sanctions based on the nuclear deal.

And that if they were able to comply with a nuclear deal in phases, they would get money in phases.

None of that right now is being worked out.

Right now, the administration is desperate at this point.

They're just trying to keep the straight and hard moves open.

What's your response to the president making unsubstantiated accusations that the pool was sabotaged? And by the way, is the same company that did the renovation, are they going to get the do-over too?

So what is the next step for your bill?

So there's two options.

One, we can push it through committee, which is the easier option.

I don't think this should be controversial, but sometimes committees tend to sit on bills.

They don't want to move bills forward.

So that's one idea.

It's important to note that this bill in particular would not apply to this Congress.

Are there other ethics areas that you and the Oversight Committee are considering exploring?

So what is the next step for your bill?

So there's two options.

One, we can push it through committee, which is the easier option.

I don't think this should be controversial, but sometimes committees tend to sit on bills.

They don't want to move bills forward.

So that's one idea.

It's important to note that this bill in particular would not apply to this Congress.

Are there other ethics areas that you and the Oversight Committee are considering exploring?

Tell me how this, if at all, deposition was different from yesterday's.

Well, President Clinton was very comfortable.

He answered all of the questions.

He was very descriptive in his answers.

What was interesting to me was two things.

First of all, we had a full showing of Republicans.

I mean, there were 10 or 11 Republicans who came to New York to depose the Clintons.

But why do you think it was that they were harder on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had said that she had no connection, did not even remember meeting him, than they were on somebody who admits to having some, his words today, tonight on X, limited interactions?

The way that they've gone through various agencies and departments closing down USAID, attempting to close down the CFPB, it's been devastating.

Yeah, it's devastating, not just for the federal workers here.

People forget about the contractors as well, but also just for the American people.

I mean, a lot of the federal workers I talk to, they're more concerned about the work that they're leaving behind than even their job.

And so, you know, I talked to one woman who she does research on crop disease and what's going to happen protecting our crops in America.

And without her research, our crops are actually very vulnerable to uh disease and uh it's very difficult for farmers to get that sort of research done um in the private sector so just little things like that they start to add up you don't even know what you're missing out on when you fire some of these folks uh republicans have said today in committee oh you know we're saving 20 billion dollars and through all these cuts well if we have a 36 trillion dollar debt and then you add on top of that the 20 billion dollars is mostly people who actually save the government money by finding waste, fraud, and abuse, then you actually ended up down overall, right? You're losing money by firing some of these people.

I thought that was just so insulting when they the way that they treated people around here.

Yeah, I had a constituent who's an oncologist for, you know, VA hospital who got that request for his five things.