Ro Khanna

This country has been asleep.

That's not a...

a reason not to care now.

Now I've gotten to know these survivors.

Like, yeah, all of us were guilty for 25 years, other than a few journalists, for not caring, for abandoning these girls.

Fine.

Guilty as charged.

Now let's move on.

Let's actually do something about it and get these files out.

And that's the honest truth.

Like, this is not a Trump thing or a Vance thing.

This is an America thing.

It's a crisis that we didn't care about these girls.

We treated them as abandoned property for the gratification of rich and powerful people.

And they didn't matter.

There are survivors' accounts, again, without specific names.

We're talking about Russian oligarchs who were involved in coming to the island, who were involved in the trafficking.

There are accounts about him having access to Putin and being able to facilitate meetings with Putin in some of the documents.

So he obviously had ties to both the oligarchs in Russia and to people close to Putin.

And that needs to be explored.