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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Congressman Ro Khanna vs Useful Idiots

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Click here for the full interview with Congressman Ro Khanna: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/congressman-ro-khanna-vs-useful-idiots?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and chat live with Katie and Aaron in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Or find us on Locals at http://usefulidiots.locals.com Join the Absurd Arena live chat with Katie and Aaron every Tuesday at 12pm est at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/chat Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Even Trump-Crazed Media can't get it up for Indictment https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/even-trump-crazed-media-cant-get?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Congressman Ro Khanna joins Useful Idiots to answer the question once and for all: can we still call him, or any member of Congress for that matter, a progressive? Aaron and Katie come ready with hard-hitting questions on the Ukraine proxy war, the strangling sanctions on Syria, Biden’s drilling hypocrisy, and more, challenging the corporate establishment’s propaganda, constantly shoved down the throats of progressive members of Congress. But did the establishment get to Ro? Watch the full episode as the interview turns to debate, with Aaron confronting the congressman’s version of history in both Ukraine and Syria; the idea that the US wants peace, even after multiple top officials have denounced a ceasefire as unacceptable; and the blind trust in a president who hasn’t fulfilled a single progressive promise. Katie and Aaron don’t pull punches, citing facts and history when given the White House narrative, calling out the president’s lies. In a time when sitting for an opposition interview is almost unheard of for US politicians, it’s a big deal to have Ro Khanna, the last willing member, on the show. Hopefully, other politicians will follow his lead and allow their policy to be challenged. We’re looking at you next, Adam Schiff… Plus, watch this week’s Thursday Throwdown: even Trump-crazed media can’t get it up for the indictment. And join the Absurd Arena live discussion board with Katie and Aaron every Tuesday at 12pm est in the Substack app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to You

0:06.0

Sviliets. I'm one of your host

0:07.2

Katie Halper and I am the second

0:09.6

host Aaron Mate how are you Katie?

0:11.8

Good. You're not the second

0:12.7

host. You are co host. Okay.

0:14.6

All right. I'll take a co pilot.

0:16.2

No, that's it. And come on.

0:17.5

Yeah. I am, you know, major

0:20.2

news guys. I know I know everyone

0:21.9

talking about it. And it's

0:23.0

probably your your your tired of

0:24.8

hearing about it. And you're

0:25.8

like enough Katie. I don't want

0:27.0

to hear about this. But I have

0:28.0

to say. I think we all know

0:29.9

what I'm about to say, which

0:31.1

is that historic moment,

0:33.3

something huge happened on

0:36.3

Tuesday, which was that

0:40.0

justice was done. And justice

0:43.0

was restored. Democracy, a major

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