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#271 Ro Khanna - The Internal Failures Undermining America’s Institutions

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112 min

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2 min

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Health & Wellness, Personal Finance, Investing

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Key Takeaways

  • Epstein File Contents: Three critical document types remain unreleased: 302 witness statements from 1,200+ survivors naming abusers, FBI interview memoranda with suspects, and prosecution memos explaining why 58 of 60 original counts against Epstein were dropped in 2007. Justice Department currently redacts abuser names while releasing survivor names.
  • Legislative Strategy: Khanna and Massie introduced inherent contempt legislation allowing Congress to fine Attorney General Pam Bondi up to $10,000 daily for non-compliance. They secured discharge petition signatures from Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace despite White House pressure. House passed bill unanimously except one member, Senate passed unanimously.
  • Foreign Government Connections: Survivor lawyers confirm ties to Israel and Russian oligarchs in unreleased files. Epstein accumulated $500 million despite no legitimate business, facilitated meetings with Putin, and maintained access to prime ministers and politicians. Documents suggest potential honeypot operation involving foreign intelligence agencies.
  • Online Exploitation Prevention: Parents must maintain paranoia about sleepovers, sports teams, gaming sites like Roblox where predators target vulnerable children without fathers. Khanna became first congressman to challenge Roblox after whistleblower Schlep exposed predators. Companies must prohibit 45-year-old men from communicating with 13-year-old girls on gaming platforms.
  • Wealth Tax Framework: Proposes 1% annual tax on billionaires who make 10% yearly stock returns without paying income or capital gains taxes. Silicon Valley contains $18 trillion wealth across 50-mile radius with five trillion-dollar companies. Suggests taxing borrowing against assets as alternative. Requires eliminating PAC money, implementing 12-year term limits.

What It Covers

Representative Ro Khanna discusses his bipartisan effort with Thomas Massie to release Epstein files, revealing 1,200+ survivors, FBI inaction since 1996, and White House obstruction. He addresses institutional failures, child exploitation on Roblox, and proposes wealth taxation reforms.

Key Questions Answered

  • Epstein File Contents: Three critical document types remain unreleased: 302 witness statements from 1,200+ survivors naming abusers, FBI interview memoranda with suspects, and prosecution memos explaining why 58 of 60 original counts against Epstein were dropped in 2007. Justice Department currently redacts abuser names while releasing survivor names.
  • Legislative Strategy: Khanna and Massie introduced inherent contempt legislation allowing Congress to fine Attorney General Pam Bondi up to $10,000 daily for non-compliance. They secured discharge petition signatures from Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace despite White House pressure. House passed bill unanimously except one member, Senate passed unanimously.
  • Foreign Government Connections: Survivor lawyers confirm ties to Israel and Russian oligarchs in unreleased files. Epstein accumulated $500 million despite no legitimate business, facilitated meetings with Putin, and maintained access to prime ministers and politicians. Documents suggest potential honeypot operation involving foreign intelligence agencies.
  • Online Exploitation Prevention: Parents must maintain paranoia about sleepovers, sports teams, gaming sites like Roblox where predators target vulnerable children without fathers. Khanna became first congressman to challenge Roblox after whistleblower Schlep exposed predators. Companies must prohibit 45-year-old men from communicating with 13-year-old girls on gaming platforms.
  • Wealth Tax Framework: Proposes 1% annual tax on billionaires who make 10% yearly stock returns without paying income or capital gains taxes. Silicon Valley contains $18 trillion wealth across 50-mile radius with five trillion-dollar companies. Suggests taxing borrowing against assets as alternative. Requires eliminating PAC money, implementing 12-year term limits.

Notable Moment

Khanna reveals Maria filed FBI complaint in 1996 about Epstein abusing young girls, but government and media labeled her a liar for thirty years until Khanna-Massie law forced document release proving her truthful. FBI took no action despite early warning.

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Episode Transcript

There's nothing like the American Express Platinum card. Find out your welcome offer after you apply, which could be as high as 175,000 points. Learn more and find out your offer at americanexpress.com/explorer-platinum. Terms apply. Ro Khanna, welcome to the show. Thank you. You got quite the studio, and I've done a lot of these. I haven't ever seen a studio with liquor, guns, time from your time in Afghanistan, Iraq. It's worth coming here just to see the studio. Well, thank you. If you get thirsty, we got plenty of booze here. I don't drink, but it looks pretty cool. It's you got a great collection. Thank you. But, man, this is so tried to get you and Thomas Massey on at the same time, but, he couldn't make it. But I just wanna say that what you guys are doing, trying to bring disclosure or or or transparency to the Epstein files and what the hell has been going on with all that. I mean, thank you for doing that. Well, thank you for your voice because you've been talking about this early on, and it's why I wanted to come down here. And, it's the survivors. I mean, you know what? People don't get how bad this stuff was. And, of course, Thomas has been a key partner. But you have over 1,200 women, many of them from working class backgrounds. A lot of them, by the way, didn't have a father. Like, they were purposely targeted because they were vulnerable. Epstein creates a rape island where basically rich and powerful people go down there either to abuse or sexually exploit these young girls or to watch in parties as 13 and 14 year olds are paraded around, and they're drinking booze and laughing. And then you have people trafficking these girls, even, when they were underage or 19, 20, being trafficked to other rich and powerful folks. They call the FBI. The FBI says, We're not going to do anything. The FBI says, what the fuck does the FBI do? So there's a What do they do? I so I'm just gonna I'm sorry. I'm gonna cut you off. I've been covering this topic for a long time. I started this with Ryan Montgomery about two years ago. I know you did. Then I brought on Tim Tebow. We're bringing on your buddy Schlepp who's going after Roblox. I know you're the first and only congressman to actually speak out against Roblox, at least according to Schlepp's attorney. Yeah. And, you know, is I just interviewed Elizabeth Phillips. You're are you familiar with this camp Canakuk? I'm not. It's the biggest Christian camp Oh, I get it. In the fucking world. Yeah. And they are they they I brought Elizabeth Phillips on, and she talks about how they've been molesting thousands of kids for years and putting them under NDA after a settlement so that they can never, as a kid, so that they can never …

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