Ro Khanna
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But you get term limits and you get rid of the money in politics.
And those are the two biggest things that would clean up the system.
Like I said, a lot of it is the older generation, but I think the consequences of that is you would have a totally new group of people start to get into our congresses and into our positions of leadership.
I think you would have a sense of accountability, like, okay, you can't just call up your buddy to stop prosecution.
You can't just call up your buddy to have a different set of rules.
I think it would...
It would start to get our country back to the founding values of what it used to be, that you were in public service for public service.
It would be a reset for America.
Either direct abusers or trafficked or covered up.
Probably you have.
I mean, you've studied this so deep based on your stuff.
I mean, the only insights I have that you may not have, I don't know how many survivors you've talked to or survivors' lawyers, but my information that I've been repeating to you is what's coming from survivors, from survivors' lawyers.
I don't know how many are still in power, but I know there were politicians who were involved, people in politics who went to Epstein's rape island, who engaged in the trafficking of women.
I think there were a lot of people in New York in finance, and there were people in politics that were caught up in this.
Now, they're probably former politicians by now, but it was a group of people.
who didn't think even it was anything wrong.
Like, they just thought this is their gratification.
You know, it's like, they're powerful, they get this, they've conquered, and they're gonna exploit these girls, and no one's gonna touch them.
You know, the other thing is that they're ruthless, right?
Like most Americans, you know, one statistic I read, which surprised me, is most Americans end up living 15 miles away from their mom.