I'm Mehdi Hussan and welcome to a very special edition of Deconstructed.

Today we're in front of a live audience at the National Union Building in Washington, DC.

Ahead of next month's midterms and the coming blue wave,

I'm joined by a panel of lefty luminaries.

Here, to discuss the future of the American left, especially in Congress,

because if Democrats take the House and maybe even the Senate too,

what happens next? Are they willing to take a left turn and really fight for what they believe in?

Because Democrats, well, they tend to bring a knife to a gunfight while Republicans

they bring a rocket launcher.

So, the question we're discussing today is,

will a Democratic majority in Congress use its power not just to go after the tangerine tyrant in the White House,

but to push for a bold progressive agenda?

Are the Democrats ready to get radical?

We have a stellar panel today.

Senator Jeff Murkley of Oregon has been ranked as the most progressive Democrat in the Senate.

He's also the only Democratic Senator to have endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016.

In June, he was turned away from a migrant detention facility on the Texas border.

He filmed the encounter it rightly went viral earlier this month.

He took legal action to try and get the release of thousands of block documents related to Brett Kavanaugh's time in the Bush White House.

Congressman Rokana of California is a leading member of the House Progressive Caucus,

a former Obama administration official,

and one of the only members in Congress not to take a cent of corporate pack money.

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