Ro Khanna

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.

Totally unacceptable.

It happened with that Ukraine.

I don't remember all the details, but I think it happened with that Ukrainian girl.

It happened with this Indian American who was beheaded in Texas, where the person had all these arrests.

And you know what the interesting thing is?

I spoke out about those, and I didn't get that much pushback from a liberal...

base so i don't what i don't understand is where the the pressure is coming from from just saying look we got to be common sense in this country now i don't think the answer to that is you know put federal troops like trump is but what the democrats should realize in my view is like is that

why is the country letting him do that which we which i don't think is constitutional or the right right solution because they're so frustrated with what's going on and just citing statistics you know going out there and saying well the statistics are down