Ro Khanna

But I will say this, that whoever going forward for the party should be make a firm commitment

that they're going to follow the law and not engage in vengeance and not engage in retribution.

And it's sad to me that that that we've gotten to this state.

I understand Trump feels like, OK, he won a second term.

He was spared from assassination.

He had everyone against them.

And he's going to get the people who he he feels he was wronged by.

but it's a it's a horrible thing uh for the country and we've gotta we've gotta make make it clear that that we're gonna move past this chapter not that okay now we're gonna uh democrats are gonna come in and we're gonna go after uh everyone on their side i mean then we're no different than any other country jumping off tangentially from lawfare let's talk about crime for a second you know you described your self-described progressive democrat

so one of the things i say is that uh my district and i don't say this to brag i just say this to make a point my district is actually one of the safest in america right when you look at fremont uh cupertino sunnyville santa clara and san jose they're all in the top 25 safe cities and i say that's correlated with the fact that we have five trillion dollar companies apple google nvidia tesla and broadcom

You wouldn't have the economic prosperity of Silicon Valley if you didn't have the safety of Silicon Valley, because you wouldn't have executives living there.

You wouldn't have families living there.

You wouldn't have people wanting to participate in the economy.

So safety is essential if you believe in creating economic opportunity and economic mobility.

And I think that there is a group of pragmatic mayors now, Dan Lurie, I would say, in San Francisco, Matt Mahan in San Jose, Raj Salwan in Fremont, who recognize that the pendulum had swung too far, that, you know, I supported that ballot initiative that was on the ballot last election that said, you know, if you are committing multiple crimes of smashing into Walgreens,

then you're going to be charged that you can't just say, OK, yeah, we can keep smashing into Walgreens, committing taking under $1,000 and it's OK.

I don't view that as being not progressive.

I mean, progressives, I thought the whole point is you believe in the rule of law.

Now, if you say, yeah, you shouldn't lock someone up for the rest of their life or a mandatory minimum, it's fine.

But that doesn't mean you excuse behavior that is wrong.

Yeah, no, it's totally unacceptable.