‘I believe this is going to be a reckoning’: Ro Khanna, the man behind the Epstein files act, on building bipartisan wins

The California Democrat believes common ground does not only lie in the center - and has the successes to prove it

It was mid-December, and Ro Khanna was watching the calendar. The 19 December deadline for the justice department to comply with a new law the California representative wrote was ticking closer - and his bill was already forcing sealed documents about Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking operation into full view.

In the weeks leading up to the deadline, three federal judges in Florida and New York had reversed years of secrecy, releasing grand jury testimony they had previously kept sealed. And when the deadline arrived, while the justice department didn't release everything, thousands of new files, connections and photographs began to complete the picture on what Khanna calls the Epstein class ... rich and powerful men who still have buildings named after them, who still are on corporations, are still in positions of prestige, who engage in heinous conduct.