Ro Khanna

Well, the thing about the Epstein Files that is so mind-blowing to just, I think, the average person is that it turns out that something that felt like a crazy conspiracy actually was true.

And I mean that in the broadest sense that you're outlining, which is that there is, in fact, a social network of people who are, by any reasonable standard, elite.

And they have been hiding...

an apparently criminal conspiracy involving caricatures of crimes and real victims, hundreds upon hundreds of victims.

And they have been operating in the shadows and successfully operating in the shadows until basically you come along and set a deadline.

And so just how this deadline got set, how the Epstein Files Transparency Act came to be like the birth of it, how did this happen and why was it so hard in retrospect?

So I ask all of this to also ask when something like the operation in Venezuela happens, of course, the collective attention of the country, of the media, of everybody turns towards that because it's war.

Right.

How long does it take you to think about the clock and the deadline that had been set for more files to be released, which, spoiler alert, also was not met?

What's it like to be a Democrat who is doing this and –

pushing potentially for certainly some of the most powerful and celebrated figures in the Democratic Party to also be held to account, right?

Like President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, people on the side of the aisle that you reside on, both politically, culturally, and elsewhere.

What's it like to be that guy who is being this insistent about it?

So just broadly speaking, then, when it comes to

aiming in terms of what are we going to focus on up instead of laterally, right?

Why is it taking so long?

Why is it taking so long for someone on, I would say, the left with

a mainstream platform.

The idea of being very online, of course, you represent Silicon Valley.

And your relationship with them is fascinating to me.