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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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(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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