Eric Swalwell
Appearances
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Jesus Christ. Don't hate democracy.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
And I think a lot of Democrats feel this way. And we could just lose you. Silicon Valley Democrats. You lost a lot of folks. You lost a lot of folks.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
We... We need a story that connects with everyday Americans. I think when you look at a lot of the policies that we believe in, and you look at polling and focus groups, people will be like, oh yeah, I like that. I like that. I like that. But our story right now, I don't think we know who we are and who we're fighting for.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Now, so it is to me exciting that we can go through this reset and renovation to find that story That connects. I'm a blue collar kid. I was raised by a cop and a mom who had six different jobs. I was the first of my family to go to college. I like to think you were raised by two Republicans. Yeah, I was. They were. They are. Were and are two Republicans.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
And I've got three little brothers who are cops. And I grew up in Dublin, California. Everyone called it Scrublin' until we invested there and we saw success.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
uh to becoming a you know you're a bit of a democratic poster boy well that's that's only because i've gone after donald trump but if you look i ran against the most liberal member of congress pete stark um i have been a pretty independent vote in congress and i root for success of entrepreneurs
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
and business and want to connect that success to the people who work hard at those businesses so everyone does well. And I think if we're just perceived as rooting against success overall and vilify people who are successful, then no one can be successful if that's the case.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
It's only an oligarchy if working class folks don't benefit from it. So if that's what it becomes, then that's a problem. What I want to see, and I think what you all are rooting for, is that anyone, if you work hard, work your ass off, you should do better for yourself and dream bigger for your kids. And I think we have an opportunity to do that.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
The president, the president-elect has an opportunity to make that happen. And where he tries to do that, he'll find a partner in me. But do we have this branding issue? Yes. No, I think that's... What is the branding issue? Yeah, let's unpack the branding issue.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
You have to be perfect and pure is what the perception is right now. But nobody's perfect. No, no, no. That's the perception of people who like... Like we're all riddled with errors and faults. Of course, we're not perfect and pure. But I think the perception is that to be a Democrat, you have to check all these purity boxes and then you can be a part of the party.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
And right now, the Republican Party is like, I think, the exact opposite. It's like, do you like Donald Trump? Great. Come to the party. And so.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Well, that's wrong. And it should make people feel that way.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Well, you represent the party. Let's talk about rebuilding. And we have an opportunity to rebuild now. And so on, for example, the Department of Government Efficiency, like we should root for government to be more efficient and we should try and enable that. But like if... That effort goes into an area where it's going to cut Social Security or cut Medicare.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Then I think you'll see us be guardians against that. But like most small businesses think it's pretty hard to start a small business. And then once you do, you don't have the resources that bigger businesses do. And they see regulations as what gets in the way.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Well, I would say in the house right now Hakeem Jeffries has been pretty effective at uniting us and even in the last Congress you saw something that you've never seen before in any Congress in our country any Parliament in the world, which is the minority party and delivered the majority votes on every vote of consequence.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
So keeping the government open, lifting the debt ceiling, which the incoming president now supports, which we welcome that, and we would love to get rid of it, by the way. You know, the funding of, even the funding, you know, to Israel, that, that... move forward because Democrats were unified on that front.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
So I think Hakeem has shown himself as like a practical negotiator and someone who can work with Speaker Johnson.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
who who is the elder statesman that can help push and cajole and influence the democratic party to find a more solid ground i think one of i think one of our best thought leaders is mark cuban i think he's mark cuban mark cuban yeah he he's very influential uh he has a lot of relationships with my colleagues uh and myself he has business experience but i think he's also not lost touch of like what regular people
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
care about. And I thought he was an effective surrogate for Kamala being out there on the trail. But I, I go to Mark on a lot of stuff. And I think he understands where most people are.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
How did she get selected? So she was vice president, and the runway was about 100 days. And we can go through the different scenarios. I don't think any of them were good. And as you said, if your premise is that President Biden should not have run for reelection, making that decision that close to the election, I don't know if any candidate would have done it.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
We could go through 100 scenarios. There are a bunch of great candidates. I still think all of them would have probably been set up to fail. It's too short of a runway.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I didn't, and my colleagues and I, I don't think we interacted with him that often. And we kind of, you know, we started his presidency in COVID. And so the Joe Biden that I knew when I was in a baby, you know, child in the Congress in 2013 was very engaged and, you know, loved meeting with Congress and the meetings would go an hour over the time allotted.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
And it was kind of that Bill Clinton charm offensive that he could put on. And I will just tell you, like the first two years with the COVID restrictions that we had, we didn't see that because we, you know, we would have remote meetings with the White House. And so they hit him. They hit him. I don't know. I know where we are now. The reports are he was gatekept.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Like I said, I'm focused on the future. Let's talk about the future.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Might be back tomorrow. Might.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
So the Supreme Court was not saying whether we should ban or not ban TikTok. They were saying that Congress voted, President signed, and there's no way around this ban. So I think they were just following the law. I voted against the ban. I think China is the place where you...
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
And the problems that I have with TikTok as a father of like three little kids are the problems that I have with Meta and the problems that I have with, yeah, all social.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
And I look to Jim Himes, who is the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, the ranking member. He's in what's called the gang of eight. He has the most exquisite access to intelligence. And Jim voted against the ban. And I thought, you know what? If this guy is not seeing anything on the national security level.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Nothing that I had seen. Is it owned by the Chinese government? Absolutely. But is there a national security risk? I have not seen that.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Is that fair or unfair to you? It is out of the reach of the United States government. But what I will say is... Most of what we buy as far as what's in our basket at Walmart has a Chinese component that could make us very much at risk. What's in our basket doesn't have a microphone or your GPS.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I guess my point is like, yeah, TikTok's not a problem. You want to ban everything that's made in China? That's great. You'll destroy the economy. Exactly.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I guess I'm the only one of the four of us that doesn't want to ban speech. No, I'm with you.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
You've got a guy in the Intelligence Committee here telling you. Well, but I also looked at... the small business owners who use that as a platform. I understand how you just, the buckets that you just created. People depend on it. And more people, what I was telling the White House was more people watch President Biden's State of the Union address on TikTok than anywhere else.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
And President Biden had just gone on TikTok right before this.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Sure, no, I get it. So my point is,
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I mean, I think Donald Trump is going to allow TikTok.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
That, and I think he also recognized. Super PAC, 50 million. Yes, and I think the reason he cares is because he knows a lot of his followers are on there. And for whatever reason, they have not chosen to go to X. You know what else is very popular exported from China? Fentanyl. Yeah, and we should probably ban that too.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I mean the fact that it's popular should not be why we are doing that's why I think you're framing What I'm saying is you it's addictive and it's back in the tube and then so you're you're gonna take away a platform That is people widely used on it.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Yeah by Americans It's a week is not week is chosen to go to those other ones and I just don't think we ban things in America I think this is the Chinese Communist Party if you if you actually
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I'm just very cautious when it comes to bans. That's fair.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I do think it's funny that a committee about efficiency has two people running it. But I think it just cut itself in half if Vivek's running for governor. So that is their first success, I guess, to cut the size of the committee.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
No, I got it. As I said, knock yourself out. If you want to make it easier for small businesses to start a business, if you want to save money and fraud.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Yeah. Look, my staff shows up and we benefit from people being in the office. We show a lot of flexibility for people who have family issues, kind of on a case by case basis. And people with disabilities have more access to work. But I generally, I see the benefits of having everybody at the office. And we were one of the first offices to come back.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
on the Hill during COVID because I saw the benefit of that. And if they can draw a straight line between benefiting our constituents and people being in the office, I'm open minded.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
What I'm going to be asking my constituents, you know, as tax cuts are proposed and regulations, you know, potentially are cut is, you know, what did you get out of this and what have you lost? Because if it's just as I said, it's just kind of a a broligarchy that benefits and you don't benefit. then I won't support it.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
But if you can draw the line and say, you know, this business getting this benefit or this corporate tax rate going down means that, you know, you're going to do better and dream bigger, I can be for it. And so that's what I'm going to be looking at.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Yes. And frankly, a lot of that starts with the Department of Defense. I mean, look at where the cost drivers are in government. But that means you need to have alliances in the world, right? If you're going to reduce what you spend on defense, you better strengthen your partnerships.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
So I chair the Rare Earth Minerals Caucus for this reason. And it probably surprises people that a Bay Area Democrat wants to get the U.S. back into mining. And that's because we're getting our ass kicked by China on this, on not just the mining but the processing and the magnetizing. But we do have allies who have these resources. So we can do it in the United States.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
There's a mountain pass where they're doing it with almost 100% recycled water so you don't have the acid pond issue. But you also have countries that you could have these partnerships.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
It's an incredible thing.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
And then be held to account, as I said, if the wealth is only concentrated at the top. Right.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Well, I hope that's how we govern in this next year. But it doesn't come out that way.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
need a better story and i don't stop focusing on those weird things that story with the concerns people have with dei although i would argue now the new dei is don eric and ivanka and people probably won't like that approach to it uh either but that you floating the trot you're trying yeah i'm not sure but okay we need a better story and i look forward to being the first time
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I don't give a if he tries to acquire, I just want the cost of eggs to go down. That's what my constituents are promising. Knock yourself out. Go get Greenland.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Of course, there's benefits there. But I want to know, you said you're going to lower the cost of eggs. Eggs are pretty expensive. How are you going to do that? And if you can tell me that spending $200 billion to get Greenland is going to help lower our costs, great. But I think people want to see costs come down.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
I think he's... Has the gravitas and the experience to do it. And I want to see that happen. Kash Patel is the one that I think could destroy the president's agenda.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Democratic Rebrand & more with House Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Well, what I see, and I may be a little bit biased because the guy wrote a book. He listed 100 enemies. I'm not in that 100. I'm actually in the preamble. He starts it with, of course, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell are the most dangerous people. Well, you were part of the House Russian investigation.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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But I do believe if the president focuses on going after his enemies, he's going to lose the ability to bring order to the border. to get the most violent undocumented immigrants out of the country and make people feel safe in communities where they don't feel safe.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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I think you should focus on violent offenders. Yeah, no brainer. Serious, sexual, violent. So let's say you get that done in six months.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Well, you also need order at the border, right? And I support surging resources to bring that. But 40% of my constituents were born outside the United States. We are the eighth wealthiest district in the country. No thanks to me. I'm not contributing to that wealth. There is a straight line between those immigrants and that wealth.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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And so if we can find a way to address shortages in the workforce, in agriculture, hospitality, food and beverage, of course we see it in biotech and tech. I think we can have the best in the world. I'll just leave you with this. A foreign minister in Asia said to me in the past year, he said, Eric, he said, you know, the population of the United States is 3 billion people.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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And I looked at him and I said, no, you mean it's like 300 plus million. I thought he misspoke. He said, no. He said, there are 3 billion people in the world who would give up everything to come to the United States. And he said, if you get it right, he said, you can pick the best. That's right.
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Russia had a preferred candidate and they did a lot to try and get that guy to win. I think he could have. And I think he may regret that in a lot of his trolling, he made himself look guiltier when he probably could have shown us that the concerns we had weren't there. But I don't I'm not going to dwell on that. I'm not going to.
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you know, focus on the fact that he was impeached twice and sent a mob that, you know, could have killed many of the people in the capital with me on January 6th. I'm going to focus on if he wants to bring order to the border, make our community safer and raise wages and lower costs. I'm going to work. What I meant, what I meant. I think that's a great message.
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Was a Alameda County prosecutor in the same office Earl Warren, you know worked in and we were trained that it's not about wins and losses It's just about doing justice and I approached it just trying to follow the phone when you were watching some of the other Things that happened post all of this.
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a lot of people around him went to jail and it felt like, well, if Michael Cohen went to jail, like why the is this guy not being held to account? Like Michael Cohen went to jail for being a part of that hush money settlement. So again, just being a blue collar kid who resents people who think that their position entitles them to be better than regular folks.
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I just wanted everyone to be treated the same. And so That's the way I was raised. My dad lost his job as a cop when he wouldn't essentially get bribed. He wouldn't allow a bribe from a mayor to influence him. Well, that's amazing. That was my earliest experience. We were in a small town in Iowa, and he was the police chief. The mayor very publicly tried to corrupt him, and he wouldn't do it.
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So my earliest... Memory is that he was willing to lose his job to do the right thing, but you're saying something very important Which is everybody should be treated the same.
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As I said, I'm going into this open-minded to what we can do. I'm just saying, into this new year, open-minded, not focused on the past, on what we can do to make the country succeed.
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And you can't do anything on the workforce issues until the public believes you've secured the border. That's just that's rational or not.
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I just think she was attached to an incumbent party. Incumbent parties worldwide are just getting pounded and there wasn't much that was going to change where this thing was going.
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Well, they don't have their shit together either, by the way, the Republican Party in California. Look, I was in the Palisades on Monday. I have 10 friends who lost everything. I was with a woman who stood on top of a pile of ashes that was her house looking for any memento for her family. And it's awful. And I'll...
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I will also be open minded as to what we could have done to prevent it, to prevent it, why resources that should have been there weren't there. And as a member of the Homeland Security Committee, make sure that we're better prepared next time. And if there is accountability that should have that should come to be part of that. But like there's fires are still burning right now.
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And so I don't want to be that mean where it's like, you know, the guy that like last week I was a hostage expert. This week I'm a wildfire expert. That's us. Yeah. Yeah. My job is to look at, you know, what we could have done, who should be held accountable. But with the fire still burning and families, you know, living with friends and relatives right now, I don't want to hop.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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I don't want to give this a hot take yet.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Thank you. Well done.