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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Ro Khanna on Crime, Censorship & Congress: Fixing What's Broken in America

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

All-In Podcast, LLC

Alllin, Coronavirus, Calacanis, Palihapitiya, Health, Sacks, Friedberg, Allin, Entrepreneurship, Covid19, Gambling, Grow, Investing, Iq, Tips, Tech, Business, Jason, Startups, Poker, Technology, Money, Learn, Davidsacks, Davidfriedberg, Chamath

4.27.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

(0:00) Chamath and Jason welcome Rep. Ro Khanna!

(1:10) H-1Bs and immigration

(8:40) Giving Trump credit as a Progressive Democrat, why bipartisanship is broken, future Democratic leaders

(15:08) Tech industry: Can Democrats win back tech?; Economic patriotism, protection vs proliferation of AI

(24:25) Government shutdown, what actually happens?

(30:25) Extreme rhetoric: Importance of dialing this down

(36:29) Censorship and lawfare on both sides

(40:32) Crime issues in major cities, why Democrats are losing on safety, common sense solutions

(47:46) Mamdani's surge: is Zohran the future of the party?

(51:15) Congressional stock trading ban

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0:00.0

bro how many times have you been on the pod now is this number four for you three or four no this is

0:04.0

my uh fifth time oh wait sorry i'm not rocana sorry over to rocana sorry we all look the same you're sri lank and he's indian i know the difference we all look the same bro we all look the same so like you're saying to the irish guys that's how that's how i my seat. I just had Indian Americans, every Indian

0:21.2

America go knock on doors and say, I'm Rokana. You know, they all thought, I thought the

0:25.0

candidate came to every door.

0:28.0

All right, besties, I think that was another epic discussion. People love the interviews. I could

0:35.1

hear him talk for hours. Absolutely. We crushed your questions a minute. We are giving people ground truth data to underwrite your own opinion. What are you going to say? That was fun. That was great. I'm doing all in. I will say one of my appearance. I think this is number four, but one of them was on election night. That's right. And it was with Trump, Trump son, Donald Trump Jr. And I actually ran into him in the

1:00.2

green room right before we were doing Squawk Box. And he brought up the Pod Save interview. So there

1:06.2

you go. Bringing the sides together. It's been pretty amazing. I think it's a good place to start.

1:12.2

How successful Indian Americans have become.

1:15.3

And a really important topic, I think, for us to kick off with maybe this time on your fourth appearance is immigration, H-1Bs.

1:24.4

What's your take broadly on what we're seeing out of the Trump administration on maybe trying

1:29.3

to correct the abuse in these systems and maybe monetize them. And maybe do you think that's a

1:37.7

good strategy for correcting the abuse? First of all, there's definitely abuse. Second, it definitely

1:42.7

needs to be corrected. The reality is that some of the H1B visa holders are being paid below market wages.

1:53.0

Some of them are not going to super talented individuals or in the jobs that actually require a lot of skill. And I had a bill, a bipartisan bill,

2:03.8

actually, that would have reformed it, requiring paying a prevailing wage, requiring,

2:10.1

making sure that the categories actually were skilled categories. I don't love the blanket 100,000

2:16.8

fee. I think that that's not the

2:18.7

best way to reform it, but if partly because it puts an unfair burden on startups, it actually

2:24.1

may hurt with talent. But if you wanted to say, look, there's going to be some prevailing wage

2:29.8

standard and we need reforms. I'm open, open to that. Do you think that the president is on the right

2:35.3

direction then in actually trying to reform the system? Yeah, I think in terms of reforming the

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