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New Bombshell Probe Into Epstein Activities Has MAGA Terrified; Billionaires Desperate?

20 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What updates are there on the fight for justice for Epstein's survivors?

0.031 - 27.557 Shannon Maldonado

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33.562 - 43.441 Angie Sullivan

The president of the United States continues news cycle after news cycle to talk about how hot he thinks the men that he meets are. And he just did this with the Egyptian president. Play the clip.

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43.461 - 65.494 Donald Trump

It was a big deal for me to be with the great president of Egypt, but not as big as it used to be before I ran. So he was in a hotel. And I met him. And we fell in love, deeply in love. And he didn't even want to see Hillary. He said, you're going to win. I don't want to meet her. She said, you're going to win. He didn't want to see her. Remember that?

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66.015 - 76.393 Donald Trump

So we had a good relationship right from the beginning. No, we met. We didn't know each other before that. We had great chemistry. And I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to.

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77.875 - 90.953 Angie Sullivan

Interesting. Here to discuss this with me, of course, is our progressive fighter, a warrior, Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents California's 17th congressional district and is serving his fifth term. Congressman, how are you today?

91.774 - 98.263 Ro Khanna

Good. Good to see you again. I don't know how you find these clips. Pretty out there.

98.345 - 120.437 Angie Sullivan

I feel like we're just like a new cycle or two away from him moving Melania out and moving somebody new in. He's like, I say he's in his deathbed confession era where the dementia has lowered his inhibitions and he just keeps, you know, like your old grandmother in a nursing home, like, I really liked your little sister better than you. And this is what we're witnessing on the global stage.

120.907 - 137.182 Ro Khanna

Seriously, I mean, he was talking about Modi, who is the Indian prime minister, and how he was a very good-looking man and is a killer inside. But he went on and on about Modi's looks. I mean, it's just bewildering what he bases his decisions on.

137.242 - 149.614 Ro Khanna

But it would be comical if it weren't for the fact that it has real consequences and led to 14 service members' deaths in the case of Iran and all of us paying higher prices for food and gas.

Chapter 2: How is Elon Musk's wealth impacting society?

770.913 - 792.096 Angie Sullivan

Elon Musk isn't an expert in defense. And we as a culture attribute, oh, he's rich, he must know about everything. And it's such a fool's errand on our part that we attribute to their egos and we enable all of the worst impulses of these men. But what do you have to say about him, in my opinion, lying about AI not wiping out the workforce?

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792.548 - 817.779 Ro Khanna

Well, Jennifer, first, your insight is absolutely right. That's how we got Donald Trump. I mean, we give people who have wealth or the appearance of wealth this deference that somehow they know about foreign policy or economic policy or morality. And it's the arrogance of some of these folks that offends me the most. They think they know it all. But look, Bezos is obviously wrong on AI and jobs.

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818.56 - 838.609 Ro Khanna

He's wrong in a Just anecdotal sets, go to any university campus and ask young folks, do they have concerns about the job market? And they'll all tell you they have concerns about being hired. I mean, he would have been booed if he had given that those comments at any university as you saw all these commencement speakers being booed. He's got no self-reflection.

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838.669 - 855.869 Ro Khanna

I'm not saying that what he did with Amazon didn't have value, but he's got no self-conception of all the local bookstores that were put out of business, the retailers that were put out of business, the hollowing out of rural America. And so they only see one side of it, the wealth accumulation.

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855.909 - 872.492 Ro Khanna

And yes, consumers, maybe there was ease in lower prices, but they put a lot of folks out of business in doing that. And then with AI, even Dario Amadei and the people like Sam Altman at AI are saying this is going to displace jobs.

873.193 - 890.68 Ro Khanna

Yeah, it may create certain types of jobs, but jobs that are entry-level jobs, jobs which are dealing with accounting or law or bookkeeping that the customer support are going to be eliminated. And it's just no credibility to deny that.

890.66 - 904.855 Ro Khanna

If he had said, look, there are new jobs that are going to be created, et cetera, but we're going to have massive displacement or possible displacement as well, he'd have credibility. But, you know, he is just out there talking about what's going to be good for the capital class.

905.881 - 927.633 Angie Sullivan

Completely, and he has a Supreme Court that is not really protecting Trump as much as it is him and all of the oligarch interests. Everybody knows that, I mean, I call Donald Trump, instead of calling him a lame duck, I say we're in the dementia duck phase of his presidency. And the Supreme Court, they're young, at least the Trump appointees, and they're gonna be installed for a long time.

927.674 - 944.598 Angie Sullivan

And they consistently deliver for this class of people and not for working class people. And in the same interview, Congressman, he actually was sitting there talking about wanting to colonize the moon. And I think it's just so detached from the American experience. People are like colonize the moon.

Chapter 3: What are the consequences of billionaires accumulating wealth?

1116.925 - 1119.91 Ro Khanna

I didn't know whether there's a link to Trump there.

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1120.345 - 1153.212 Angie Sullivan

Okay, last question. As we head into the midterms, the Democrats are, primaries are rolling out all over and the Democrats look primed to take back the House, possibly the Senate. How worried are you about some of these red states like Texas, where Trump has a situation that he wanted with Georgia in 2020? He has primed the soil in Texas and some of these red states.

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1153.673 - 1174.373 Angie Sullivan

One thing he is, is he learned his lesson from Trump 1.0 to remove guardrails. Susan Collins is right, he did learn his lesson. He learned how to be a better criminal, Donald Trump. He learned how to skirt the system better. And so I'm very worried about these red states. What kind of oversight in Congress are y'all doing anything? Do you have your eyes on this that you can tell my listeners?

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1174.393 - 1179.985 Angie Sullivan

Because I do not want we have to talk about this, but I also don't want it to suppress voter turnout.

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1181.247 - 1199.239 Ro Khanna

I'm very concerned. I mean, Texas basically admits Abbott and Paxton that they do things to make the vote harder. And it doesn't have to be like stuffing ballot boxes. If you close polling places in certain places, if you use ICE to intimidate,

1199.219 - 1226.453 Ro Khanna

If you clear out the voter rolls, if you make it hard in terms of what ballots actually get counted in terms of disqualifying ballots and technicalities, you can really impact the results, especially when in a state like Texas, it's going to be a few percent. So I'm confident that in states like California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, in Virginia, where we have Democratic governors.

1226.854 - 1248.34 Ro Khanna

But where we have Republican election officials, Republican governors, we need to be very, very vigilant. What does that look like? We are need to have relationships with local election officials. We need to have huge amounts of volunteers out there. We need to make sure that we're coordinated with the local media. It needs to be a full out campaign.

1248.38 - 1265.285 Ro Khanna

Now, the good news is that every week Hakeem Jeffrey does convene a meeting specifically on this issue. of what are we going to do to mobilize and shine the light on elections across the country. And it's gonna take all of us.

1265.305 - 1289.238 Ro Khanna

So instead of just worrying about it, if you have the time in the last couple of weeks in October and November, say, I'm gonna go to a red state, I'm going to be an election observer, I'm gonna work with local election officials, local media, And let's get the type of turnout on those on Election Day like we've had at the no kings rallies. That's really what it's going to take.

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