Rep. Ro Khanna
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And that certainly Congress should be saying whether we should go to war or not.
So that's really where our friendship came in.
Now, of course, I've gotten to know him personally.
I have gotten to see him when he lost his wife, grieve.
I mean, you get to know someone on a personal level when you work with them.
We will keep most of the Democratic coalition, I think probably 95 to 97 percent.
And then we may pick up a few Republicans, but it's going to be very close.
Is this issue different than like Venezuela or other times it's come up?
It's a more of a commitment for the United States.
I mean, I didn't agree with what we did in Venezuela, but you could say that's in our hemisphere and it wasn't a long drawn out war.
This is a country in the Middle East that has 90 million people that if we want to topple the regime would take many, many troops.
Even the Joint Chiefs has said that, Keynes, that this is not like Venezuela.
This is exactly what Donald Trump ran against.
He said no more endless wars.
Well, look, I don't compromise my values or where I stand on immigrant rights, on human rights, on LGBT rights, on trans rights, on women's rights.
But I work with whoever comes to Congress where I can on issues where they're common ground because that's the only way that we can move forward and make progress.