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Ro Khanna: “The Democratic Party is not entitled, Andrew, to your or…”

Featuring: Ro Khanna, Democratic | U.S. House California, 17th Congressional District

Ro Khanna on his Epstein List Legislation | FULL INTERVIEW

Published July 16, 2025 | Video Starts at 30:16

Guys, we got to tell them why they should like the iPhone as opposed to saying, you know what? This iPhone really sucked. Maybe we got to look at our in the mirror and change our party. It's not The Democratic Party is not entitled, Andrew, to your or Kash or anyone's vote. It's not like, okay, just because your dad read the New York Times, you better vote for the Democrats for the rest of your life. Yeah, earn your vote. (30:16–30:22)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party must earn votes and is not entitled to them.

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“The speaker appoints a committee of nine people from the majority party and four people from the minority party.”
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“There are about 10 of us who don't take any PAC money or any lobbyist money.”
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“After three months, [Israel] had destroyed most of the Hamas battalions.”
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“Half this country has a declining standard of living.”
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“He [Gavin Newsom] hasn't supported the single payer bill.”
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“We should just release these [Epstein] files.”
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“Yes, I think [the list] exists.”
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“If the amendment passes, it would require Pam Bondi to release the list and any evidence, any files within 30 days.”
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“The speaker is going to try to probably stop this from coming to a vote.”
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“The Rules Committee is basically appointed by the Speaker.”
Ro Khanna on his Epstein List Legislation | FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 16, 2025 | 05:48-05:53
“The majority has it stacked in their favor.”
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“They vote on whether your amendment, whether your bill can even get a vote in the Congress.”
Ro Khanna on his Epstein List Legislation | FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 16, 2025 | 07:28-07:35
“There are hundreds and thousands of people who may have been caught up in an investigation [related to Jeffrey Epstein].”
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“The President should say, I am making an exception because of all the stakes. We're going to release all the information.”
Ro Khanna on his Epstein List Legislation | FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 16, 2025 | 09:25-09:32
“DC Just doesn't allow votes [to] ban PAC money.”
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“Summer Lee and I have a bill to [ban super PACs].”
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“It's, by the way, constitutional, even under Citizens United.”
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“The House passed [HR1] and then the Senate couldn't get it passed because of the quote, unquote filibuster that was Manchin cinema.”
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“There's a new wing of the Democratic Party that wants to get rid of the old guard. It's the Bernie wing.”
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“Bernie and I led to stop the war in Yemen.”
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“I came out with a plan to reduce $12 billion of deficits.”
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“I get booed when I vote against a trillion dollar defense budget.”
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“You're taking on the defense contractors when you're saying we don't want more wars in the Middle East.”
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“You're taking on the Pentagon when you're saying you don't want a trillion dollars of defense budget.”
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“I want Medicare for all.”
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“I want to release the Epstein files.”
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“There was no primary process in 2024, Bernie. In 2020.”
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“Buttigieg drops out suddenly, two days later, even though he's doing well, endorses Biden.”
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“Klobuchar suddenly drops out, endorses Biden.”
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“Beto drops out, endorses Biden.”
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“Bernie was talking about taking on big insurance companies, taking on the pharmacy benefit managers, taking on the defense contractors…”
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“I voted against giving the extra funding to Netanyahu.”
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“Israel had a right to defend themselves [after October 7th].”
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“More people in the Biden administration, others should have called out what was going on in Gaza.”
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“He and others should have been calling out this unconditional money going to Netanyahu.”
Ro Khanna on his Epstein List Legislation | FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 16, 2025 | 28:54-28:59
“We didn't earn your vote last time we were in these overseas wars, we were taking big PAC money.”
Ro Khanna on his Epstein List Legislation | FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 16, 2025 | 30:30-30:37
“We weren't talking about people's anger at the system with inflation.”
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“We didn't have a clear economic vision.”
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“We didn't even allow a Palestinian American to speak [about Gaza].”
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“We can keep putting up these status quo folks and we can keep losing.”
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“The Democratic Party was too beholden to the interest groups, to the defense contractors, to the ideology of overseas wars.”
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“People are tired about the focus on Donald Trump.”
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“They voted for him partly because their jobs were shipped offshore.”
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“There are no factories or kids are not going to have a good, good shot.”
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“Politicians are sending billions of our dollars and getting into these overseas wars.”
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“We should be having a thousand trade schools, we should have investments in new factories across this country.”
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“We should stop putting trillions of dollars in overseas wars and investing in this country.”
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“Madani has not condemned unequivocally globalized the intifada.”
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“Adams is not going to win. Madani is going to win.”
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“He still does not have the endorsement of every New York Democratic leader even though he won the, the primary.”
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“Voters in America are actually pretty smart.”
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“You got to be willing to lose to be willing to do something that's meaningful.”
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“Look at the amount of years that Biden and Harris were collectively in elective office.”
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“Gavin [Newsom] ran on single payer healthcare in California in 2018.”
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