Ro Khanna on MS NOW's Deadline: White House with Nicole Wallace discussing his visit to the DOJ

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Congressman for CA-17 in the Silicon Valley. Working to bring tech jobs in my district and across America. No contributions from PACs or lobbyists.

One of those two lawmakers joins us

right now. Democratic Congressman Roana.

He's a member of the House Oversight

Committee. He was pivotal in forcing the

Department of Justice to release the

Epstein files. Thank you for joining us.

Thank you, Nicole. Thank you for your

coverage of this.

Who are the six men um whose names you

saw?

We are going to push the Justice

Department to release those. They uh had

photographs as marked of

co-conspirators.

Uh some of them are uh Americans, some

of them are powerful people overseas.

And there's no reason that they should

be covering up those names.

Of the ones who are Americans, are they

in our politics?

No. Uh the but look that the six people

that Thomas and I were talking about are

just what we discovered in two hours of

searches. There are probably many more

that have been hidden. But this was so

blatant that there were six people who

were named as co-conspirators. By the

way, there were others named as

co-conspirators who were women. And our

assumption is some of those women may be

survivors, but it's not clear that all

of the women uh were survivors. Some of

the redactions even on the sensational

emails are appropriate. Some of them

were potentially survivors, but uh they

clearly have redacted in a way that is

excessive. The most important thing is

though that these career attorneys did

got documents that were already

redacted. Most of the survivor

statements to the FBI where they named

other men and particularly men in this

country, the F302 forms, they were

already redacted by the time the

attorneys reviewed it. and our law, the

Epstein transparency act, required the

FBI and the grand jury testimony

testimony to be unredacted. That

obviously has not happened.

Danny Bensky, one of the survivors who I

know you and the committee have met with

um was here at the beginning of the last

hour. Her personal information was not

redacted, including her address. Um, did

you have any sense in viewing the

unredacted material about the motive

behind the redactions? And I guess what

I'm asking is, do you understand why

co-conspirators names were redacted and

Danny Benky's personal information was

not?

The Justice Department obviously did not

take enough care to protect the

survivors. They refused to meet with

some of the survivors lawyers like

Bradley Edwards. They should have

consulted those uh attorneys to make

sure that they did not uh release the

survivors information and they just did

not take it seriously enough and as a

result they have caused so much harm to

survivors by exposing them uh in a way

they should never have uh done.

In the UK, the release of the files has

been met with a very different

reception. Um, where laws of political

gravity and decency seem to still be

holding. Um, did you see anything

in in the unredacted version that that

their investigation will will pursue and

lead to criminal charges?

Yes, absolutely. I mean, and like I

said, what we've witnessed, probably 70%

was still redacted, but 30% we had a

glimpse more than the general public.

And there are absolutely people who

should be pursued based on that in terms

of an investigation and criminal

charges. And I appreciate you're

bringing bringing up Britain because

they are actually dealing with the

consequences of these disclosures. You

have the king making a statement. You

have the prime minister in trouble. and

not clear whether his government is

going to survive. And we have people

like the commerce secretary who are all

over the files who are uh who have lied

about the relationship with Epstein uh

and there there no consequences. It's

the president saying move on. And the

question for this country is, are we

going to just say, okay, if you uh had

business dealings with a known pedophile

and if you went to his island knowing

that he was raping underage girls uh and

if you were still soliciting his

funding, uh fine, we're going to move

on. Or are we going to have a moral

reckoning in America about an elite

class that engaged in heinous behavior

and have us finally elite

accountability?

Um,

Danny Bensky also made the point that

Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files,

even the wildly redacted version that

the public has seen more times than

Harry Potter is named in the entire

Harry Potter Potter series. What does it

say to you that that hasn't broken the

trance of Republicans in their um,

sicopantic adherence to Trumpism?

This is one thing that is breaking MAGA.

I was on Shawn Ryan's podcast a couple

days ago. He has the number two podcast

in the country. He was a huge supporter

of Donald Trump and JD Vance. And he

basically said that uh Donald Trump has

lost him because uh he uh has covered up

for this Epstein class. And when I go

and talk to a lot of men, particularly

young men, people who uh have a sense of

honor, uh they are dismayed by Donald

Trump and what he has done. But he needs

far more accountability. You know,

there's been all this push to get

President Clinton to testify and

Secretary Clinton to testify. We need to

hear from Donald Trump to answer the

questions of the American public about

what he knew and what he did.

Congressman Roana, um thank you for your

work on this issue. It is the rare issue

that unites the American people. Um,

even if the Republicans want to ignore

that reality. Um, thank you for joining

us on it today.

Thank you. Well, you've been covering

this for a long time. I appreciate it.

Thank you sir.

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