All right, so Representative Kano, welcome to current affairs.

I'm associate editor Alex Skopek.

Thank you.

I said I wanted to get in touch and talk to you because you are all over the news right now with a few different situations.

There's the situation where you and Representative Massey have been at the forefront of trying to get the Epstein files released to the public.

There's the situation in California with progressive taxation and trying to bring more of a fair

economic order out there. And then there's all kinds of foreign policy. There's Venezuela,

China, recently appointed to the House Committee on China. But I want to start with Epstein.

Now, you and Representative Massey passed a law late last year, requiring the Justice Department

to release all of the files it has on Epstein and his possible co-conspirators, minus any very

minor redactions. It's now more than a month later.

It's now late January, and that clearly has not happened.

Why do you think that is?

First of all, the Epstein class needs to go.

This is about elite accountability.

For too long, the rich and powerful have had one set of rules in this country, while ordinary

Americans have had another set of rules.

And here you have a case where rich and powerful men visited Epstein's Island, raped or sex

trafficked underage girls, often from working class families,

and suffered no consequences. The most powerful people in America for decades got away with the most

heinous crimes. And we had not isolated cases, but over 1,200 survivors. That's why I say it's

going to be a moral reckoning when everything is released.

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