Rep. Ro Khanna on Dignity in a Digital Age

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Bakari Sellers is joined by Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna to discuss the importance of understanding technology (2:54), the potential revitalization thanks to the US Innovation and Competition bill (8:10), and what Democrats need to do to maintain numbers in the House and Senate (15:22). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Rep. Ro Khanna Producer: Donnie Beacham Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.0	And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sales podcast.
0:17.0	Today we have none other than one of my good friends,
0:20.0	one of the most pragmatic progressives in the country,
0:25.0	someone who gets it right on issues we care about, including Big Tech,
0:30.0	none other than representative and Congressman Rokana.
0:32.0	How you feeling today, brother?
0:34.3	McCary, great to be on, honor to be on. I love your voice whenever I hear it on CNN or other
0:40.8	commentary, you're always spot on, even when you're criticizing us. I was like we got to take this seriously.
0:47.4	Well, know the criticism comes from a good place. So don't never fret over that.
0:55.0	I know that. I know that. You're good at messaging. You know what? My whole thing has been the president has accomplished so much, but we got to be able to communicate that to people.
1:02.0	And I think sometimes you break it down very well in terms of what we've actually done.
1:07.0	Oh, I agree with that. So we start each one of our episodes by having our guests walk us through the arc of their careers and yours is one that
1:14.1	span politics law of government higher education and business can you talk us
1:18.8	about the various stops in your career from your political campaign work in college to what you do now?
1:24.3	Sure.
1:25.3	Well, I'm the son of immigrants.
1:26.7	I was born in Philadelphia.
1:28.0	My parents immigrated from India.
1:30.1	My grandfather was my inspiration for politics was in Gandhi's independence movement. He was in
1:35.8	jail four years, 1942 to 1946. I grew up in Philadelphia, went to Chicago. I had the coincidence of getting to work on
1:45.6	President Obama's very first campaign, a state Senate campaign. Now I don't want to
1:49.6	exaggerate my role. I probably knocked on the doors once or twice.
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