Two outlets report an exchange in which California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna is questioned by an interviewer about the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. In the interview, the interviewer presses Khanna on whether Hamas had any justification for killing Israeli soldiers during the attack. Khanna responds by refusing to endorse or justify the killing of Israeli troops, according to the reported accounts. The discussion is framed around Khanna’s position on the conflict and his views toward Palestinians, while the interviewer challenges him directly on the moral and legal justification for the attack. The reporting indicates that Khanna does not provide an endorsement of Hamas’s actions even as the conversation turns to questions of responsibility and the rights of Palestinians in the context of the war. Across the coverage, the central point is the same: the interviewer asks whether Hamas’s attack was justified, and Khanna declines to justify violence against Israeli soldiers.