Ro Khanna: “Thomas is a real friend. He's a good man. And he was taken…”

“You've worked closely with him, including to push for the release of the Epstein files. Congressman Khanna, what was your reaction to his defeat this week? Sadness, disappointment. Thomas is a real friend. He's a good man. And he was taken out for two reasons. One, he had the courage to go after some very powerful people in working with me to help get the Epstein Transparency act passed. As he mentioned, that's historic bipartisan legislation that finally got justice for the survivors. And he had people spend millions of dollars and had the President of the United States after him.” (02:29–02:43)

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