Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper show on today's episode I speak to

Representative Roakana is a Democrat representing California's 17th

District he's also the co-chair of the Bernie Sanders for President campaign.

I also speak to Margaret Kimberly.

Margaret Kimberly is an editor and senior columnist at Black Agenda Report and she is the author of the book

Hot Off the Press's, Predudential Black America and the Presidents.

You can see Margaret and hear her read from her new book at a couple of events, which is really exciting.

She will be at Strand Bookstore on New York City Monday, February 3rd.

She'll be at the People's Forum, New York City,

Tuesday, February 4th.

Green Light Bookstore, Brooklyn, February 13th.

Thank you so much, Representative Kana,

for joining me again. You're one of the favorites of the Katie Halper show,

your repeat offender. And I appreciate you're continuing to have me on.

Yeah, of course, yeah.

Thank you.

Tell us what you're working on now and what you think the priorities are right now

because it's kind of overwhelming.

There's so much happening in the world

and there's so much scary stuff. Well this week Speaker Pelosi has scheduled a

vote on Senator Sanders and my bill to stop the funding for a war in Iran. We had passed this amendment actually two months

ago and it was part of the National Defense Authorization Act and Senator Sanders and I fought and we said do not give the Pentagon $738 billion a blank check without

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