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AMY GOODMAN: I wish to ask you about one other situation. We’re going to speak about ICE in a second and what ought to occur in Congress. However there are new revelations about an Abu Dhabi royal buying a stake within the Trump household cryptocurrency firm World Liberty Monetary simply days earlier than President Trump took workplace this time round, The Wall Road Journal reporting that Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, generally known as the “Spy Sheikh,” bought 49% stake in World Liberty Monetary for a half a billion {dollars}; months later, the UAE successful entry to tightly guarded synthetic intelligence chips; and the entire story of Steve Witkoff, the Trump envoy, a part of the deal, $31 million funneled into entities affiliated along with his household, who can also be co-founder of World Liberty Monetary, and his son, Zach Witkoff. What’s occurring right here? You’ve known as for an investigation.
REP. RO KHANNA: For this reason we now have an Emoluments Clause. You can not, because the president of america, settle for cash from overseas governments whereas making overseas coverage. And whereas this appears difficult, the story is definitely fairly easy. You have got senior individuals at UAE purchase an enormous stake, 49% stake, in Trump’s children’ household enterprise in cryptocurrency, and on the similar time, you have got these individuals from UAE lobbying Trump and Trump’s administration to minimize the export controls and permit America to promote essentially the most delicate expertise and chips to UAE. In order that they’re shopping for into Trump’s household enterprise, after which they’re asking Trump to promote them America’s most delicate secrets and techniques in terms of chips. That’s why the China Committee is investigating this. You ask: Why the China Committee? As a result of our largest concern is that these chips don’t get into the palms of China via UAE or different intermediaries. And right here you have got a state of affairs that our founders supposed to cease with the Emoluments Clause. I hope that this is not going to be seen as partisan, however actually seen for elementary transparency. However we actually want a brand new ethical imaginative and prescient on this nation. I imply, the decline in ethics and transparency has eroded public belief.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Effectively, Congressman Khanna, on one other situation, let’s speak in regards to the combat in Congress over funding for ICE and the Division of Homeland Safety following the deadly taking pictures in Minneapolis of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal brokers. On Tuesday, the Home narrowly handed a funding invoice that ended the partial authorities shutdown, however the invoice solely funds the Division of Homeland Safety for 2 extra weeks, time for lawmakers to barter new restrictions on immigration enforcement. Inform us, Congressman Khanna: What are you calling for?
REP. RO KHANNA: The Democratic Celebration can’t cave and fund a brand new company. The Democratic Celebration can’t cave and supply new funding to an company that’s killing Americans. For this reason I’ve known as for a 10-point plan. That must be our agency floor. We have to tear down ICE and have a brand new company that has oversight with human rights to implement immigration legislation. We have to make it possible for we eliminate certified immunity. We have to have a brand new customary of power. We have to make it possible for Noem is impeached. And I’ve a set of 10 factors, and I imagine that must be the agency floor that the Democrats maintain. Not an extra dime till they cede to our calls for. We’re in the appropriate. We are able to’t simply fold this time.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: And, Congressman Khanna, your response to what Trump has stated? He was requested in a current interview on NBC about ICE operations in Minnesota. He stated, “Perhaps we will use a little bit little bit of a softer contact, however you continue to should be robust.” Your response?
REP. RO KHANNA: I used to be in Minneapolis. I imply, you have got ICE brokers patrolling the streets and following individuals to church. You have got them going into the bookstores. You have got them going into grocery shops and eating places, not simply to immigrants or kids of immigrants, however to third- and fourth-generation Minnesotan households. So, I don’t perceive what a softer contact seems like. Are they going to observe individuals to much less church buildings? The truth is that they’re violating individuals’s constitutional rights. And till we tear down the ICE company, till we exchange the ICE company with an company that’s below the Justice Division that follows human rights and constitutional rights, we’re not going to resolve this. That was how we enforced immigration legislation from the New Deal on to George W. Bush. There isn’t a cause that we want an company that has no accountability to human rights and constitutional legislation.
AMY GOODMAN: So, you be a part of your fellow congressmember, Ilhan Omar, in calling for the abolition of ICE?
REP. RO KHANNA: I imagine it must be changed. I’ve stated — I’ve stated, let’s tear down the company. It’s not working. It’s violating human rights. And let’s have an immigration enforcement company — everybody believes that we have to implement immigration legal guidelines — however let’s have that company be a brand new company that has clear safeguards, that has clear legal guidelines in regards to the human rights of detention, the place persons are being detained, and that’s below the Justice Division with oversight from Congress.
AMY GOODMAN: Congressmember Ro Khanna, Democratic congressmember from California, becoming a member of us from the Rotunda, from Capitol Hill.
Arising, we hear the testimony of victims of Trump’s militarized immigration crackdown, together with Marimar Martinez, shot 5 occasions by a federal immigration agent in Chicago. Again in 20 seconds.
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