Astead Herndon

That makes sense.

But a question I wanted to ask you is something we actually explored last week, which is why didn't Democrats push to have these files released while Biden was president?

You didn't think it was going to go 180.

I was talking to a journalist last week for the show about specifically Epstein-Fowl, and they said, quote, I think if it wasn't—

I asked about why Democrats didn't do this years earlier.

And the quote was, it wasn't politically beneficial for them.

I wanted to know, how true is it that the reason why we didn't get that push earlier is because the party itself was also wrapped up in it?

I'm going to ask about one Democrat in particular.

Stacey Plaskett, the non-voting Democrat from the Virgin Islands, has been proven to have an extremely close relationship with Epstein throughout these files.

She texted him during the 2019 committee hearing, took advice for him about what to ask Michael Cohen, President Trump's former fixer.

Recent information shows she was still in close communication with him just weeks before his 2019 arrest.

Should she be serving in Congress?

Of course, you also represent Silicon Valley and AI and the future of work has become such an important topic.

I wanted to make sure we talked about that.

You know, you've said that you think incoming equality is one of the issues of our time.

Yes.

On the AI front, Senator Bernie Sanders warned of an oncoming AI tsunami at a recent event with you at Stanford, but he's called for a moratorium on building more AI data centers.

You have not.

I know you, but I'm saying some folks in your party have kind of embraced some doom about AI.

I would say even Sanders called for a moratorium on data centers.