Episode 259 Promo - Glutton for Punishment (w/ Rep. Ro Khanna)
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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On this week's premium episode, Briahna presses Representative Ro Khanna about his vote condemning socialism, whether legislation proposed to address the crisis in East Palestine goes far enough, whether his endorsement of Biden's 2024 campaign is premature in light of more progressive-aligned entrants into the race, his thoughts on Sy Hersh's reporting that the US was behind the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, whether the US should support an independent UN investigation into the sabotage, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Why has there been such a quick coalescence around the idea of supporting Joe Biden, |
| 0:07.2 | should he announce a run for reelection in 2024, among in particular progressives in the House? |
| 0:14.8 | Pamela Gaiapal, the Progressive Caucus, has very quickly said that they plan to endorse Joe Biden if he runs. |
| 0:20.7 | Why not take a beat and see if there is a candidate that emerges, that at very least is willing to commit to things like Medicare for all, unlike Joe Biden, who, as I'm sure you remember, said that he would veto Medicare for all, even if it were able to pass the House in the Senate. Maybe it's someone like Marianne Williamson is obviously the only one who's |
| 0:37.7 | burned her hat in the ring thus far. She does support Medicare for a number of other Bernie |
| 0:41.1 | aligned policies. But it's still so early in the game. Why commit, I would argue, prematurely, |
| 0:47.3 | to voting and endorsing for Joe Biden? I said that the person I would support would be Bernie Sanders, |
| 0:52.6 | but given that he has said that he's not running, I think that the president has done a lot of things that have been more progressive than I anticipated. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean, the climate bill that he ended up passing, the sense that Bill Bank better, even though it didn't get passed for universal child care, $15 wage. |
| 1:10.0 | So I think he has one confidence from a lot of progressives in adopting the significant |
| 1:15.2 | chunks of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders' his agenda. |
| 1:18.8 | And I'm going to support him for reelection. |
| 1:21.6 | That said, some of the attacks I've seen, at least online, Marianne Williamson, are're totally beyond the pill. I mean, a democracy |
| 1:29.8 | should have competition. And if someone wants to run and run on ideas, that's their right. I've said |
| 1:36.4 | that about third party candidates. I've said that about primaries in Congress. I said that to people |
| 1:41.3 | who run against me in primaries, I don't think you should |
| 1:44.2 | squelch dissent or competition. I will make the case to the president. But if other people |
| 1:49.3 | want to run and make the case where the party should go, that's democracy. |
| 1:54.6 | So I would dispute the idea that there's a significant amount of progressive confidence in Joe Biden. |
| 1:59.7 | We might be defining who's progressive |
| 2:01.0 | wrong, or differently rather, but even if we put that to the side for a second, when I've |
| 2:05.6 | asked you this question before, you've alluded to the things that Biden has done that have surprised |
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