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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Boris Epshteyn Reacts to Eric Swalwell's Latest Comments
"Republican rhetoric has put a target on the backs of all law enforcement. And I say that with concern with two brothers who serve as police officers and walk the beat every day because if you're hearing defund the FBI and that the FBI was responsible for a false flag operation, you don't distinguish between an FBI special agent and police officer in your community. You just consider it as law enforcement and the quote unquote deep stated. And so that's why we saw the attack that we did at the FBI field office. And we're going to continue to see attacks on law enforcement. So a couple of comments and I will unleash the baron. Number one, he thinks the average American doesn't know the difference between a police officer and a federal agent. Number two, this is the man who had sex with a Chinese intelligence officer. And number three, he wants us to believe that it's the Republicans who want to defund the police. Your reaction baron. This is the alternate world that Democrats will, of course, is the president a little bit. Defund the police is what Democrats have been pushing is a radical Democrat souls back to you have done. They've ruined destroyed cities like Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Detroit. Washington D.C.. This has been a disaster under Democrat rule. Democrats have ruined safety. They've ruined American American cities and they've unleashed a crime wave. Any we've seen before. Swollen knows it. He's just lying about it because that's what he does. He's a liar.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Dan Bongino on the Infiltration by China Into the U.S.
"I don't want to alarm you. I don't want to put you into a state of despair, I still have faith in the American military. I have faith in the country, but Democrats know what an epic failure this was. There's no way they're going to defend this. They can't spin this. What they're worried about debris, hitting a cow in Montana? They're worried about pieces of the balloon falling into an isolated area that with limited population, are you kidding me? And of course, I don't know why we're surprised. We can't stop illegals from coming across our southern border. Why would we be able to stop a Chinese spy balloon from coming through our northern border? This is America. We're weak right now under Biden's leadership. And everybody knows it. Listen to Dan bongino over the weekend on Fox News. China has been playing us for chumps for decades, folks. As I opened up the segment with, they've been flipping us the double barreled middle finger for a long time now. They've been in our universities with these Confucius Institutes. They've been infiltrating our businesses, they've been stealing our IP or intellectual property overseas. They've been using government procurement methods to lock out foreigners from their own markets. They've had spy operations. They've even, I don't know if you saw the story a few weeks back. They even set up their version of their own local police force right here in the United States. They've been filtered Eric swalwell bedroom. Who even knows what happened in there? They had a spy allegedly and dianne Feinstein, U.S. senator's office. Can you find fault with anything he just said?
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Lauren Boebert: Bogus Complaints by Dems for Committee Removals
"We had some hacks and goons in the media losing their minds over the speakers fight saying oh the public's never going to forget Everybody was melting down peeing their diapers or whatever As predicted of course the public did forget The people move on And you guys you and the other 19 the brave 20 who stood up got some really great concessions And I have to say in a hat tip to the speaker who if he you know we're going to keep him in check That's what we do here but he booted Adam Schiff and Eric swalwell off those committees Yes So we're going to keep him in check I know you are but that was kind of a good development You can't have these guys in these committees They're national security threats They absolutely are And this isn't anything that's political This is for the security of our nation If it was political they wouldn't be serving on any committees just like Nancy Pelosi did to Republicans in the last Congress So this outrage that they have over being taken off of these significant committees where they could do a lot of damage to our country is completely bogus And how rich is it that Ilhan Omar is standing in a press conference which Eric smells not so well and Adam Schiff Talking about their committee assignments being taken from them When she called for me to be removed from committees in the last Congress So you know I mean the hypocrisy is always on full display when it comes to the dunes on the left But you know this is justice Democrats have set the precedence They have they have already made it clear that they'll remove people from committees And we're just trying to protect our nation from people who are a threat
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"eric swalwell" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Here's Adam Schiff, Adam Schiff, there's a lot of buzz about Trump being invited back to Facebook and they're all upset about that too. Well, apparently, Adam Schiff says, hold my beer. I'm going back to TikTok. He has or I'm launching on TikTok. Now, TikTok, that's ironic because they're trying to ban TikTok. The United States wants to ban TikTok because the Chinese are spying on us through TikTok. Colleges, government offices are banning TikTok, but Adam Schiff says, no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna go to TikTok because that's where I'll complain about Kevin McCarthy. Hello, I'm congressman Adam Schiff with some troubling news. Today, Kevin McCarthy removed me from the House intelligence committee, all for doing my job for holding Trump accountable and standing up to the extreme maga Republicans. We knew it would be bad when the Republicans took over, but it's far worse than we expected. But I can promise you this, this is not the end of my fight for our democracy. This is just the beginning. Please join us and contribute today. Thank you. That contribute. I want to fundraise off being kicked over being kicked off the intelligence committee. This is flat out a skit from Saturday Night Live. That is that is flat out a comedy skit. Adam, that can not be real. That can't possibly be real. That he's sitting there on TikTok of all places, begging for money because it's so bad that he got kicked off the intelligence committee. We knew it would be bad. We didn't think it'd be this bad. We didn't think I'd get kicked off the intelligence committee. He was senator Ted Cruz last night on Fox News channel. I think Jesse watters pointing out why Eric swalwell is problematic. Swalwell, you know, today's Democrat party for some time has been in bed with communist China, but swalwell took that to a whole different level. He was literally in bed with fang fang, jeopardizing America's national security. And that kind of cavalier attitude. Well, that has very real consequences. So I'm glad to see that leadership in the house of the new Republican majority is standing up, standing up and fighting. I think the leadership fight that we had in the house was very beneficial for helping ensure the majority actually stands up and fight. You can not make this up. The guy that was sleeping with fang fang is whining about being kicked off the intelligence group. These people are nuts. Can you imagine their righteous indignation over a completely legitimate effort to purge something as important as the intelligence committee after everything shifted? Hey Schiff, you promised evidence that showed Trump was colluding with Russia. Where's the evidence? These people are infuriating. And meanwhile, while ship is whining about not about being kicked off the intelligence committee, he continues his wine tour by bitching and moaning over the fact that Facebook now wants Trump back on Facebook..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Adam Schiff Complains About Kevin McCarthy, Asks for Money on TikTok
"Here's Adam Schiff, Adam Schiff, there's a lot of buzz about Trump being invited back to Facebook and they're all upset about that too. Well, apparently, Adam Schiff says, hold my beer. I'm going back to TikTok. He has or I'm launching on TikTok. Now, TikTok, that's ironic because they're trying to ban TikTok. The United States wants to ban TikTok because the Chinese are spying on us through TikTok. Colleges, government offices are banning TikTok, but Adam Schiff says, no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna go to TikTok because that's where I'll complain about Kevin McCarthy. Hello, I'm congressman Adam Schiff with some troubling news. Today, Kevin McCarthy removed me from the House intelligence committee, all for doing my job for holding Trump accountable and standing up to the extreme maga Republicans. We knew it would be bad when the Republicans took over, but it's far worse than we expected. But I can promise you this, this is not the end of my fight for our democracy. This is just the beginning. Please join us and contribute today. Thank you. That contribute. I want to fundraise off being kicked over being kicked off the intelligence committee. This is flat out a skit from Saturday Night Live. That is that is flat out a comedy skit.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"eric swalwell" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"His accounts will be restored in the coming weeks. Facebook's decision to reinstate Donald Trump is inexplicable. The only motive I can see is a profit motive here. I think he'll regret giving all three of us more time on our hands. Today's Democrat party for some time has been in bed with communist China, but swalwell took that to a whole different level. No, from the relief factor dot com studios. Here's Mike Gallagher. Eric swalwell fang fang. Ilhan Omar whining. She's being stripped of her committee position. Oh, these guys are very unhappy. It's a dark day in Democrat land, Kevin McCarthy is kicking Adam Schiff and Eric swalwell, swalwell off committee chair. It's hysterical to watch these guys wine. I'm going to play for you the wackiest clip you'll hear all day. I want you to picture Ilhan Omar as radical as they come. This is one of the loneliest, most extremist members of Congress, the gentle congresswoman Ilhan Omar complaining about being removed from their committees. Kevin McCarthy's purely partisan move to strip us from our committee is not only a political stunt, but also a blow to the integrity of our democratic institution and threat to our national security. It's a threat to our national security to get you off of a committee. No, congresswoman Omar, you mean to tell me Kevin McCarthy functioned as a partisan? No. No, they can't do that. The Republicans aren't allowed to function and perform a partisan act. Only you guys get to be partisans. Only you guys get to target the 45th president of the United States relentlessly. And come up with bogus goofy conspiracy theories about him colluding with the Russians. And the pee tape and the steel dossier only you guys get to do that. Republicans can't play ball that way. You need to get everything you want, Ilhan Omar. Do you Kevin McCarthy needs to bow and scrape? For you? Right? That's the way that works, isn't it? These people are believable. Adam Schiff and Eric swalwell are actually appearing on all the liberal networks side by side. I mean, it's so funny. It looks like a hostage video. The tumor's standing there, shoulder to shoulder, go running over to MSNBC and whining to them and whining and complaining and sort of threatening Kevin McCarthy. Listen to swalwell yesterday. Even though we have set publicly, these smears are bringing death threats, he continues to do it, which makes us believe that there's an intent behind it. But we will not be quiet. We're not going away. I think he'll regret giving all three of us more time on our hands. But at the end of the day, our mission now is to restore the credibility and integrity of this institution of which the speaker has so gravely so gravely smashed and destroyed. Gravely, he sounds like he's going to cry. Did you check with fang fang? Before you gave that speech? His fang fang given you any talking points? Congressman swalwell? Unreal. I mean, these guys, they have no self awareness. How could they be this obtuse? You can't be this dumb..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Will Hild: Why Are Companies Practicing 'Woke Capitalism?'
"Are you encountering a sort of the path of least resistance by a lot of these decision makers in these big Fortune 500 companies? That's exactly right because the problem is that even though these asset managers are managing other people's money in other words, it's pension holders. It's a university endowment. When they go and meet with corporate leaders, boards of directors, CEOs, COOs, they represent large portions of these companies shares. So they have to worry that their largest shareholder is upset about something, whether they like it or not, whether it's good for business or not, they have to play ball. And this, by the way, I know your viewers care a lot about this trend of quote unquote woke capitalism. Why is suddenly every corporation, you know, getting involved with BLM or pushing diversity equity and inclusion nonsense, or even in 2021, getting involved in fights over election legislation in states. ESG is the reason for that because they have to answer to people like Larry Fink at BlackRock and just take Exxon as a concrete example two years ago, he helped elect three radical environmentalists to the board of that company to push them out of the oil and gas industry and into unreliable unaffordable quote unquote green technologies. So if you take an example like that, all of these corporate leaders see that. And they see Larry pushing, you know, raises onto the boards of directors of these companies and they know that could be them next if they don't play ball. And Larry's been vocal about this. He spoke in an interview publicly in 2017 with The New York Times that he that he believes behaviors have to be forced to change. And BlackRock, they are forcing behaviors. And he was talking in terms of corporate governance. And literally race and sex quotas on boards of directors. So this is not this explains a lot of why we've seen these corporations going, well,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Will Hild: E.S.G. Is a Scam by Far-Left Progressives
"This. They've read about ESG. They've kind of heard about it. It's kind of in the background. What does let's get right to what ESG stands for and how and why ESG came into being? Certainly. Well, ESG stands for environmental social governance. And it's billed by its proponents as just another type of investing strategy. So something like value investing that Warren Buffett is famous for or momentum investing or technicals looking at technicals. But what it really is is a stocking horse for far left progressives to shoehorn their politics into the corporate boardroom. And so what they do is they take public dollars that are being managed by companies like BlackRock and state street and Vanguard, but BlackRock being the worst and the largest. And they use that money to force things like net zero carbon emissions targets on the companies like Exxon, for example. And this raises the costs of everything from the grocery store to the gas pump or American consumers. It is a huge burden on American consumers and it is going to reduce the shareholder returns for these pension funds. So the whole thing is a scamp, and what we really need to do is to be is to be pushing back on it because this sort of World Economic Forum type agenda that we've seen where we're all going to meet is going to be a treat and we're barely going to get to drive our cars. This is being driven by this ESG strategy.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Is Trump Being Set up by Going Back to Facebook, Twitter & Instagram?
"So what does he do? What does he do? Where does he go? Here's a text message on the MyPillow text line from Michigan, I hope Trump does join any of them. They only want him on there so they can bash him for telling the truth. Because he puts out mean tweets, so he needs to stay off of them and laugh at everybody else and stick to truth social. The argument against that, though, is that he reaches many, many, many more millions of people through Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. So where are you with this? I mean, a lot of people are pushing back against the idea of Trump going back. A text from Alaska, returning to those platforms will send the message that those platforms can abuse their discretion and get away with it. I mean, let's just look at this big picture for a minute. What changed now? After two years of being banned, what has Trump done that would warrant his return to those platforms has he apologized for anything? And you know me, I'm the Trump supporter. I'm not saying he should. I'm saying from their standpoint, what has changed? He hasn't backed off of anything he said. He doesn't back down off of his belief that the election was stolen from him. He hasn't backed down over his insistence that he did nothing wrong on January 6th. What changed? Why would Facebook, why would Instagram why would Twitter suddenly want him to return to those platforms? I smell a rat. And I can guarantee you, they're setting him up. Again,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Adam Schiff: 'Tragic Decision' by Meta to Allow Trump Back
"Check out shifty Schiff, Adam Schiff, who's whining and crying about losing his committee chairmanship, he was on with joy Reid last night on MSNBC whining about Trump coming back to Facebook. Please. Facebook's decision to reinstate Donald Trump is inexplicable. It represents, in my view, a total caving in and copping out the only mode of I can see is a profit motive here. If you look at what Donald Trump has been posting on his own social media platform, all of that violates Facebook's policies. He's continued to give aid and comfort to those who committed accident insurrection. He's continuing to spread the big lie. And the idea that somehow he would not do that on Facebook when he's doing it in his own platform to me is a tragic decision by a company that's putting its profit above the public interest.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Meta Allows Donald Trump Back on Facebook and Instagram
"Scary news, he's back, guess who's been invited back to Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. Yep, Donald Trump has been given the green light. And I'm sitting here wondering, why now? Why is meta and Twitter and all these big social media giants? Why are they all saying, oh, come on back now. Mister Trump, the water's fine. Come on back in, sir. This is, I've got friends who say this is a win. I'm not so sure. I'm not so certain. I mean, it's great for Trump. I guess he's going to have a headache with truth social because I don't know how he navigates that. This is a very interesting dilemma. President Trump, spearheaded truth social. And true social is a great place. It's a great site, lots of like minded conservatives, they have an ability on truth social to kind of, I think, squeeze out the trolls and the goofballs and the bottom feeders who wind up on there. It's not like, it's not like Twitter, where everything goes, everybody's on a lot of viciousness, a lot of contentiousness. There's something nice about truth social that it makes it a more comfortable place, at least for like minded conservatives to hang out. And president Trump has a business interest, a substantial business interest in truth social. He's not supposed to go on Twitter. That's why he hasn't tweeted yet apparently.
The Trish Regan Show
Kevin McCarthy Makes It Official: Schiff and Swalwell Are Out
"Idea that the likes of Adam Schiff remember the shift show, or Eric swalwell, remember fang fang, or Ilhan Omar, some bad things happened. I mean, the idea that any of these people have such incredibly important sensitive positions or hat, I should say in the past tense within our government is pretty alarming. Now, okay, I get it, they're elected officials. Nonetheless, even as elected officials one has to, and this is where the Speaker of the House comes in and why he or she, in some cases, Nancy Pelosi is so important. One has to exercise some judgment over who is given certain committee positions. You think about the house Intel committee and the kind of information that you are exposed to. Adam Schiff is such a political animal. Do not forget that. That he was right out there manipulating the public into thinking certain things were true. Russia Russia, Russia, that absolutely were not. And I think that's pretty unforgivable and speaks volumes about who he is as a person and as a politician. When you are on the house Intel committee, you need to kind of be above all that, right? Okay, we get it. You're out there in your district, pushing a certain narrative. But when it turns in such the way that the shift show did and become so overtly political, that's when it becomes, I'll use this word dangerous. And so Adam Schiff does not deserve a position on the intelligence committee because of that. The other person that doesn't deserve a position on the intelligence committee and this one should be pretty obvious. I mean, when our own intelligence is investigating a relationship, a lawmaker had with someone that was believed to be a Chinese spy, I'm talking fang fang, I mean that is, to me, total disqualifier. I mean, I'd get the guy right out of the house. And he ought to have been voted right out of his position, but it's pretty darn obvious that he can not be on the intelligence committee, because he doesn't have, shall we say enough intelligence himself to beware of the threats all around him, like
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Kevin McCarthy Kicks Schiff and Swalwell Off Their Committees
"Kevin McCarthy and you Speaker of the House coming out guns ablazing shift the most mendacious individual on Capitol Hill kicked off the committee, Eric swalwell, who strangely can not say the following words. I never slept with a Chinese intelligence officer. He can't say that. It's so strange he's been kicked off to you heard. What Kevin said about Devin Nunes, the former chairman, while he's with us right now, in studio, what a fabulous fabulous guest to have. Chairman Nunes Devin explained to us how egregious, can you put meat on the bone of what Kevin just said about shifts chairmanship? Well, look, if you go back, I mean, all this time that he's been there starting in 17, he knew I was out there publicly saying that, look, there's no evidence of Trump and Russia. There's none. And he would say things continually like, oh, they're just covering for Trump. You haven't seen what I've seen. I've seen the evidence. I can't talk about it. But I've seen that more than circumstantial evidence, he said at one time. He had so many variations of all of this evidence that he had supposedly seen, and then we would go out and say, no, that's a lie. And you know, at that time, you know, we had everybody against us. I mean, even a lot of the so called conservative outlets were even kind of attacking us, right? At that time, and the reality was, is that I always said this, and it's still baffles me. That the one crime we knew that was committed early on was the leak of general Flynn talking to the Russian ambassador. He's the incoming national security adviser and there were 9 sources.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Assesses Kevin McCarthy's Latest Actions as Speaker
"This constant controversy about whether or not Eric swalwell, who almost assuredly slept with a Chinese spy and Adam Schiff, who was just a pathological liar, should be on the house Intel committee. Now Kevin McCarthy, who many of you in this audience, you were rather brutal and dare I say it cruel towards Kevin McCarthy, made a promise when he wanted to become Speaker of the House that he was not going to put swalwell or shift on the committees. And he's making good on that promise, and the Democrats are losing their mind. The Speaker of the House has the ability to block certain members of Congress from going on committees. Kevin McCarthy is using that power and he is basically sending a memo and a message to the Democrats. You guys keep on screening us the way you did with the January 6th committee. You try to block some of our members from committees. We're not going to play ball with that. We're not going to allow Elon Omar and swalwell and Schiff to be able to sit on these Intel committees that require not just access to you have access to confidential information, but they leak it regularly. They abuse it, and by the way, Omar was foreign affairs just to be clear. Who's to say that Eric swalwell, who slept with the Chinese spy, would not continue to misuse or abuse classified or confidential information. Isn't that the whole saga right now is around the mishandling of classified information? Let's go to cut 57, McCarthy speaks about his decision to keep Adam Schiff from sitting on the intelligence committee, play cut 57. What Adam Schiff did use his power as a chairman and lied to the American public, even the inspector general said it. When Devin Nunes put out a memo, he said it was false. When we had a laptop, he used it before an election to be politics and say that it was false and said it was the Russians. When he knew different. So no, he does not have a right to sit on that. So yes, he can serve on a committee, but he will not serve on Intel, because it goes to the national security of America. And
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Kevin McCarthy Tussles With Reporter Over Intel Committee Removals
"What did Adam Schiff do at the chairman of the Intel committee? What Adam Schiff did, use his power as a chairman and lie to the American public, even the inspector general said it. When Devin Nunes put out a memo, he said it was false. When we had a laptop, he used it before an election to be politics and say that it was false and said it was the Russians. When he knew different, when he knew the Intel, if you talked to John Radcliffe, DNI, he came out ahead of time and says there's no Intel to prove that. And he used his position as chairman, knowing he has information, the rest of America does not, and lied to the American public. When a whistleblower came forward, he said he did not know the individual, even though his staff had met with him and set it up. So no, he does not have a right to sit on that. But I will not be like Democrats and play politics with these, where they removed Republicans from committees and all committees. So yes, he can serve on a committee, but he will not serve on Intel, because it goes to the national security of America. And I will always put them first, all right? And if you want to talk about swalwell, let's talk about swalwell, because you have not had the briefing that I had. I had the briefing of Nancy Pelosi had the briefing from the FBI. The FBI never came before this Congress to tell the leadership of this Congress that Eric swalwell had a problem with the Chinese spy until he served on Intel. So it wasn't just us who were concerned about. The FBI was concerned about putting a member of Congress on the Intel committee that has the rights to see things that others don't, because of his knowledge and relationship with the Chinese spy. There's a new sheriff in town. Bravo speaker McCarthy, and that's the way you do it. We're going to have to stand up to this bunch and stand up and fight and is there a better fighter?
The Charlie Kirk Show
America Just Had Its Worst Aviation Disruption Since 9/11
"We have a lot of news to get to, but let's dive right into it. I want to play cut 52, the FAA, the federal aviation administration, is having a tough day for millions of people that are trying to travel across the country. They have been grounded. Flights have been suspended. Now, there are some flights being resumed thankfully, but there are still over 10,000 flight delays across the country. Let's play cut 52. The FAA tweeting, it is quote experiencing an outage with its notice to air missions system which provides critical flight safety operation information. We are closely monitoring the situation, which impacts all airlines and working with the FAA, to minimize disruption to our operation and customers. We encourage customers to check AA dot com for the latest flight information. Now, the question that many people have is what is causing this? Is it some sort of a cyberattack? Is it a hack? It could be the government is saying it's not, but it could be the Chinese Communist Party retaliating against the House Republicans that have just set up a subcommittee that is expressly anti CCP. And by the way, I don't know if the House Republicans are going to be able to keep up this pace, but they are posting win after win after win. Could be that they're just getting all the conservative stuff out of the way first, or it could be that a new boss is in Washington, D.C. in the House of Representatives, because the amount of wins that we have seen in the last 24 hours makes anything that Paul Ryan and John Boehner did seem like almost nothing from committees to kicking people off committees. Elon the ingrate Eric swalwell, the fang fang lover and many others. We're going to get into that. But it could be the Chinese Communist Party is retaliating via a cyberattack against the FAA notams system because of that committee. That is probably unlikely though.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Art of Retaliation
"I want to talk about an important principle in politics and it is the art of retaliation, the art of retaliation. Now, this principle came to my mind when Kevin McCarthy said recently, I, Kevin McCarthy, I'm going to remove Eric swalwell, Adam Schiff, and Ilhan Omar from their House committees. Now, we should note that this is a kind of an unprecedented, well, actually, no, it is a precedented step. But it is an unusual step because the general modus operandi, the way of doing business in the Congress is this. The majority party controls the committees. They appoint the chairman of the committees and the committees, by the way, are the mechanism through which legislation passes. Committee is a very important a judiciary committee, the ways and means committee and so on. And the majority party has the majority of members on the committee, but the minority party, in this case, the Democrats in the House would have the right to appoint their own members. But the Democrats decided last time around, to violate this kind of code of etiquette, if you will, and throw a prominent Republicans, notably Marjorie Taylor Greene, offer committee. Oh, she's an extremist. So extremist or not, the point is she's not being named by your side. She was being named by the Republican side. And the fact that the Democrats said, well, we have the power to do it, so we're gonna do it. It was very important and it is very important for Republicans to be like, well, you know what? Two can play at this game.
WCPT 820
"eric swalwell" Discussed on WCPT 820
"You, representative Eric swalwell. A liberal. Oh, what's his name? The capitol police officer that I love so much with the tattoos. Michael phenomena. What do you think? Here's my beer. No, he was on MSNBC yesterday. And what was it Kerry Lake? Oh, yeah. We called a piece of. Yes. And they did fantastic. And correct. And accurate. And they didn't bleep it, which I love. No. Nicole Wallace. Yeah. Anita and San Antonio, hello, and nita. Hi, good morning, Stephanie. Good morning You know, I know it's because using because of what happened in 2020, but early votes are actually counted either like first, like as they come in, like they're trying to do in Nevada right now, which are just trying to hand count. And it's failing. Yeah. But the rest of them are counted on election day, along with election day voted. So there will be no red mirage. The mail in ballots are counted last. So I hear this very few mail in ballots. Early voting will be counted the same at the same time. Yeah, I mean, it's different in every state. I just don't understand why it's not the same. No, everywhere. The ballots you count them as they come in. So ballots that come in first get counted first. But there are no states where early voting is counted last. Okay. So it's not the same as like mail in ballots. Right. I got it. Yeah, it is. That's what I mean. Everyone should be like California. Need your meaner nanny nanny boo boo. We just became
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"eric swalwell" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"It's astounding. So let's talk about rising inflation concerns along with crime, giving momentum new momentum to Republicans after the Democrats were closing the gap. And the historic gap. Yes. So, after the Supreme Court ruling, there was huge outrage. That has seemed to subside, at least among overriding concerns. Despite all the legislative accomplishments, and I want to say that I want to, you know, say, it's an extraordinary session. You and the president have done so much in terms of domestic concerns, the economy. So why is this message? Why do you think the president has moved out in this message through the voters? Well, first of all, let me say that I think that much of what you've said I don't agree with. That is to say, The New York Times poll I think is an outlier poll. One poll, but all the others. It's also the RealClearPolitics average. It's showing similar issues. No, but that was one that brought down the average. And it was an outlier. It wasn't even that big a sample. So I dismissed that. I've been since Congress adjourned. I've been in an average of 5 states a week. And I can tell you that women's concerns about their freedom are very, very much still very significant in terms of how they will vote. Now, did you hear that answer? Andrea Mitchell, who's hardly a Republican, she's an activist, she's an advocate rather for the Democrats and for the left. But she's admitting that they're all senior, the RealClearPolitics, average yesterday, has Democrats losing 52 to 48. Republican majority, according to the RealClearPolitics average, 20 days before the midterm election. They project, they project that Herschel Walker will win. Now who knows? I don't know. Got no idea. God knows, we're going to find out. But the Democrats are pushing the panic button. If you haven't seen this ad that Eric swalwell put together out in California, showing the woman having dinner with her white her husband and kids, and the police come banging on the door and they haul her out in handcuffs. You understand these are all actors. It didn't happen because it's never happened. Never in America has a woman been arrested for an abortion. Now they're pretending they want to terrify people into thinking if you vote, Republican, women will get arrested for having abortions. That's how low they've gone. That's how desperate they've become. There's a reason because they know they see the handwriting on the wall. They see it happen. 806 5 5 806 5 5 6 four 5 three. Here is Dave in Chicago. Hey Dave, welcome aboard. Welcome to Philadelphia. How are you doing? Hello, Mike. Hello. I was listening to you and heard your discussion about the Iowa race with the abortion. Right. And there was saying that there's somebody else in the room. It's almost the identical response warn I kid. In Georgia, it's like they have a master script writer for their narrative..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"eric swalwell" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"My pillow dot com promo code my G. My Gallagher. You know, in poker, they call it a tell, you know, when they expose, they play their hand, they show their hand, they give away who they are. It's like when they call us election deniers, as if we're not allowed to question an election. As an American, it's your duty to question an election. It's your duty to question authority. And the other big tell is the desperation, the level of desperation. Have you heard about the Eric swalwell campaign ad? I got to play it for you. If you're watching on the sale of news channel, watch it. If you're listening on the radio, turn it up, it starts out with a family, a mom and a dad, they're around the dinner table. Check this out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. Weird. He is weird. Fuck you. Bro? Mary Anderson? Yes. I have a warrant for your arrest. The rest for what? Penal code two four three violation. Unlawful termination of a pregnancy. You gotta be kidding me. That that is my personal business. And that's for the courts to decide, man. Your medical records have been subpoenaed, and doctor Landry's already in custody. No. Thank God you. You can't just. You will have to submit to a physical examination. What? By him. No, no, no one's touching. Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. Why is this happening? I love you. We're just enforcing the law here. Elections have consequences. Vote Democrat on November 8th. Stop Republicans from criminalizing abortion everywhere. Protect women's rights and freedom. Please. Don't do this. You know, if the slaughter of a child in the womb wasn't such a serious issue, that is laugh out loud funny. That's literally common. That's comical. Now, do you want to react to that ad, please? Do you understand how desperate they are never in the history of America has a woman ever been arrested for an abortion? But this is the tactic that they're going to because it's all they've got. All they got is abortion and Trump. One 806 5 5 mic, give me your reaction to that ad..
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Trump Defenders Are Silent As the GOP Anxiety Grows
"After having decried the FBI's search of the ex-president's home, many Trump defenders went silent upon released on Friday of the probable cause affidavit that revealed the extent of Trump's efforts to hold on to top secret documents. GOP worries about the developments of the case and Trump announcing a 2024 run before November, giving way to a subtle broader warning about putting the former president too much on the ballot this fall. Some Trump Republicans acknowledge the growing angst and concern as it's become clearer that Trump may have been warehousing may. Now a warning may have been warehousing some of the America's most sensitive secrets and an unsecured basement and refused to turn them over when the national archives and DoJ tried to recover them. One top Republican fundraiser asked to describe the mood among donors said there is enormous frustration. Aw. It could happen a warning. It happened to a nice yeah, they're on a train to Willoughby. Now they can get off at the Willoughby stop. Next stop, Willoughby. Get off. Get off at Willoughby as Eric swalwell said that you've been given an opportunity to get off the Trump train now. I would take this. I would take this. Freedom. Democracy. What's Willoughby? That's a Twilight Zone episode. Oh, okay.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Cliff Schecter on How Democrats Are Finally Learning to Punch Back
"Talking about, you know, I think that's getting more and more popular sort of, you know, we were just played some Eric swalwell. Alpha liberal, like, you know, I think many of us are learning how to punch back, right? Biden's ratings are up. There are Democrats that are really out there, I think, vocalizing everything that Biden and the Democrats are getting done. And Republicans offer nothing. Well, I mean, when I came on here in the past, we would have a group misery party about like, why can't Democrats do this? Why can't you always comment when there's negative things about them and jump in instead of instead of offering no comment, like they've raided Mar-a-Lago, go comment. But we've gotten so much better at talking about what Biden's doing. We've gotten so much better. And they have. I mean, to me, I mean, and I hope it ends up being a seminal moment in this campaign when their White House do you know that the president tweeted out all the tweeted out the PPP loans that each of these SOBs, these complete hypocritical liars who didn't tell these students who just want to take money and have no accountability and then you find out that, you know, chuck grassley sitting there on his forearm a 112 years old. And he's sitting there just collecting government money. He never pays back. None of these guys ever, but it's okay. They're white. So they don't have to. And I mean, the fact that they went to The White House account that they did that, the fact that Biden, people were like, why do you say semi fascists? And I was like, guys, keep your eye on the ball. He used the word fascist in there. That's the word people are going to remember. It was uncomfortable for him to even get to that place. We're getting there.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
The GOP Are Scared of Their Own Base
"We were just talking about the dangerous repercussions. This is how pathetic this party is. House Republicans have been plotting investigations of Biden and his family if they retake the majority, but those plans have been complicated by the, yes, by the actual crime. Committed by Donald Trump, for some Republicans expressed concern about the fallout among the conservative base, the base has lost its mind, said one senior House Republican, and Trump decides to call them to arms. I think he could get another January 6th. This is what we've been talking about all morning, Dana. They are scared of Trump's base. This is how this party has become so pathetic. Eric swalwell said it's very clear Republicans have recognized they can no longer win with votes. So they're leaning in to try to win elections with violence and they're fomenting that violence right now. Jared Hoffman was talking about is they retake the house. He said it will be a show on steroids. Absolutely. We've got to get out and we've got to make sure that we get everyone out with us. The midterms are terrifying. We've got to keep the house. Yeah. Oh, I know. I mean, this is not only has this been an extraordinary two weeks for Joe Biden and Democrats in terms of what they've gotten done. Republicans will do none of that and we'll do nothing for you or your family or anything that they have already told you. It will be Benghazi and I'm not kidding. I'm not joking about they're saying we won't be Sarah Palin said Benghazi. We will do Benghazi and Hunter Biden. I mean, that's what they'll do.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"eric swalwell" Discussed on Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"A very small wall on the line who we proudly call our alpha liberal from the great state of California. Good morning, representative swalwell. Good morning. Good morning. I was just in a judiciary committee hearing. We call that the land of misfit toys because it's including the likes of Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and others. So this is a welcome and refreshing recovery. Listen, can we tell you that calling you an alpha liberal is the highest compliment because on TV on Twitter, you show Democrats how to fight. How to take it to these Republicans. You tweeted that. You said worse the land of misfit treasonous toys could get more populated of some of these mega Republican candidates win. Right, and you just went through the whole bunch of them that have threatened violence in their campaign ads, right? And I just sat through a hearing with the assistant attorney general where the Republicans are protesting that the Department of Justice is looking at people that threaten violence at school board meetings. And they can not draw the distinction between someone who would show up peacefully and passionately to talk about their kids curriculum. And the over 220 cases that Reuters has recently identified of incidents where school board members are being threatened and look, this is a lot who now is more comfortable with violence than voting. They'd rather see chaos than community. And we can't call them out enough because look only one vision for America is going to come out of this midterm. Either it's a vision of community or it's a vision of chaos. And we know they have chosen chaos and we have got to be loud. We've got to organize and mobilize and we can win. It's a narrow path. Yeah, and you pointed out, you said, one third of Americans say it's time to take up arms against our government. I know exactly who's inspiring the treason curious as you call it. And you went down the list, Ronnie Jackson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, gosar, Lauren boebert, with these ads that are inspiring violence and this goes all the way up to what we're doing with January 6th, right? You just said please. Maga Republicans are not pro cop, they're pro coup, start calling them out, and that's what we have to do is say it like it is, right? And we let them define us as a defund the police open border Socialist Party and one that is not who we are at all. That doesn't reflect Joe Biden's belief. It doesn't reflect the majority that Nancy Pelosi leads in the house. And it doesn't reflect truck streamers thin majority in the Senate. But we are often on our heels. And so I think we have to play on their side of the field and put them on their heels because they have proven not just by fringe people in their party that they're outside the mainstream, but by the votes that they've taken that the majority of them voted against same sex marriage. The overwhelming majority of them voted for force pregnancies for women. Majority of them voted against contraception. So that's who they are. And so we have them on the record. This isn't, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene said something and we're projecting it on all of them. These are votes that they've cast that put them outside the mainstream of the freedom that we all want for ourselves, our family and our community. And yeah, let's keep them on their side of the field at ours. Yep.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"eric swalwell" Discussed on Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"Happy hour that is happy. Yay. It feels like justice is coming week. Or is it just me? It's tantra for coming. Okay, we have. It's circling the nipple. We have a double header. Sounds dirty too. Eric's representative Eric swalwell, alpha liberal, and Alison gill from Mueller shoes. And they are both alpha liberals. And a very, you know, I think we are feeling really, really confident. It's not just AG Garland saying yes, we will, but in the news that Trump is, I don't even know whether you want to call it under investigation, but this is obviously going all the way to the top. Right. Glenn kirschner said, yes, he is confident. We are going to see indictments soon of going all the way up to the top, including Trump. So I got to say, and we told Eric swalwell that alpha liberal is, right? He needs to teach other Democrats how to punch and counter punch like this. Fantastically. Allison gill is my right. She just holds me back by the shirt when I'm veruca salting. Yes. About January 6th. Hold. Hold. Just gosh. Yeah. I will always be the one in braveheart that goes first and gets everyone killed. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I'm John Belushi. I know I'm mixing two movies, but I'm like, let's go. And then I brush and then everybody else gets mixing more than two movies. Yeah, it's animal House meets braveheart and I'm the asshole. Okay, listen, this is a highly highly driving us all off a cliff. Okay, but it's a happy, happy, happy hour. Enjoy.
WCPT 820
"eric swalwell" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Yeah Eric swalwell talked about the shouting over the he just said we're better than this Unfortunately no No we're not No Half of us are not No He just said we're better than this The day It's just Okay Just when you think there is no other low right One of them somebody will do something You're like oh my God of course And you could tell it was that there I gotta have my you lie moment How can I be more obnoxious than the last version of the Republican Party I put the spotlight on me Right How can I make this about me Okay but I just thought in general I mean can I just say I can see why he's president and I tell fart jokes in my basement because he was off You define that I would have been I mean didn't mention Their party rooting for Putin Last whatever he was fake president I mean honestly and Russian TV using it as propaganda Didn't mention it right Yeah Oh my God He's classroom than you are Oh wow Wow wow wow All of a sudden January 6th didn't mention it Yeah I mean you can't help me struck by it We are fighting for our democracy here at home as well And people have made the parallels between you know Ukraine and January 6th here and what it is all as we keep saying it's all one story But anyway he is a lot more restricted than I do Which probably why I have a far fun and he has a nuclear button See when I do that what happens Nobody does Or maybe that's the stuff he took out of his speech when he had to put in stuff about Ukraine Fart button No You're talking about January 6th and all that Okay But you know what A lot of bipartisan support I was happy to see the Republicans standing and clapping on it Most bases Some of them Sometimes It's nice to see Joe Manchin sitting on the Republican side That tells you everything you need to know Sure Joe it's.
WCPT 820
"eric swalwell" Discussed on WCPT 820
"New member to the hurry up and back like it's a little short on the envelope this week You know and yeah by the way new members of the slowdown of production of everything in the world everything's gone up The claim big this year will come in up to whatever Let's try that Let's try this That's what I call dinosaur weekend Hey what I don't even think he got through his treatise No He did well There's only so much time in radio Okay speaking of C words Kevin McCarthy Here's a C in there There is Yes It's hard to say Just think about what would happen Jody in 2022 if they can power I am so hoping that these smirks get white off their faces They are so sure they're gonna win this huge majority You know what We have a little something to say about that right But he's just so sure he's already talking about who he's gonna throw ilana Omar Adam Schiff and Eric swalwell off of their committees He's previously said he would throw Maxine waters And he would put Paul gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene back on committees I mean think about that's a peek into the future of the universe If we do not sell it I mean Brian Karen was talking about how many people don't vote right Let's put all the pressure we can Jody was very hopeful this morning about filibuster reform and voting rights but we can only do what we can do Right and we have got to turn out in 2022 like it's the end of the world because it is Well I mean if Manchin doesn't even vote for the bill that he's signed on to that makes zero sense Right right I mean it just makes no sense Yeah Okay Grumpy baby Is having a bad bad couple of spat in court Yeah She might be so colicky There's the number statements for the police decision.
Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"eric swalwell" Discussed on Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"On. Now you're certainly. I believe unified the country not in congress but the policy he has enacted really track with where the majority of americans are. And i think he's right to say bipartisanship doesn't necessarily have to be bringing intractable. Republicans in congress together with democrats but it's bringing policies that republicans and democrats across the country support. And so i would give him an a in that regard. I do think that the challenge of our time right now as we see the texas legislature on the democratic side in exile coming to washington because of the voting rights abuses that. You're seeing there that we have to recognize that the twenty twenty election did not resolve this question of trumpism versus democracy. We we thought that there would be resolution but instead it feels very much that we're in overtime and when you're in overtime you have to recognize what's at stake in that you know it's a very fragile time and so you know the covert relief is important but i i really do think we have to put front and center you know. These voting rights abuses. And make sure that especially in the senate whether it's on the for the people after getting the john lewis voting rights act passed that this is seen as existential. Because i do believe that there is a foreshadowing here of what's been done in florida and texas and georgia and arizona on the voting rights. Front that you know. We don't recognize that In the congress that we could just like hungary in hong kong and other countries that have drifted from democracy to an autocracy. We keep going the same direction and so. That's where i hope you know. President biden puts a lot of his focus in bringing the american people together around that issue before we close. Is there anything else. You'd like to say to our listeners. In many ways this was so predictable that we would find ourselves at this moment. And i think about the day before the senate trial of the second impeachment and we were in a hold room a formal ceremonial room. Just off the senate floor. Because of covert restrictions they were setting us up in that room. The senate staff was because only to impeach managers could be on the floor at a time and this. It help team had set up a copy machine printer they'd given us laptops and to millennials. I was the first to ask what the wi fi password was and they told us. It's under an account called managers and after we were given a briefing on like this room that we would use as a working room. I told the. It help team. I said you know. I'm i'm really impressed. That in such short time. You put this infrastructure together for us and without any recognition of irony in without missing a beat of this young nonpartisan staffer said to me. He said well sir. We were the same impeachment team From the first impeachment and to be honest we just left all this infrastructure up in this room because we figured you all would be back and so to them like. It wasn't a surprise at all like they didn't even take down the wifi network. That was used for the first impeachment because they figured donald trump would put our country in a position where he would be impeached again. And so my hope is a you know. A legislator is that we are never in a position where people in our country whether it's an it. Help person or a member of congress or everyday citizen is so pessimistic about what a president can do to a country that we can redeem democracy and expect better. Well thank you so much for joining us. Of course Is really my pleasure. Thank you that was democratic congressman. Eric california he's author endgame inside the impeachments of donald j trump for today. We'll be taking a break now. For the summer away you can enjoy a special series at entered some my favorite his actions from the diane rehm show are you can always find us on facebook and twitter or send us in in nail the podcast at w. amu dot org. Art theme. music is composed by jim berg and then lands verka. Late show is produced by alison. Brodine with help from. Sandra baker are engineered. Today is michael kidd. Thanks for listening all be well stay safe. I'm diane ris..
The Diane Rehm Show
"eric swalwell" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"Not for the sake of themselves but for the sake of the country finally tell me what you believe. President biden is doing right and what his administration needs to focus on. now he is. Certainly i believe unified the country not in congress but the policies he has enacted really track with where the majority of americans are. And i think he's right to say bipartisanship doesn't necessarily have to be bringing intractable. Republicans in congress together with democrats but it's bringing policies that republicans and democrats across the country support. And so i would give him an a in that regard. I do think that the challenge of our time right now as we see the texas legislature on the democratic side in exile coming to washington because of the voting rights abuses that. You're seeing there that we have to recognize That the two thousand election did not resolve this question of trumpism versus democracy. We thought that there would be resolution. But instead it feels very much that we're in overtime and when you're in overtime You have to recognize what's at stake in that. You know it's a very fragile time and so you know. The cloverleaf is important. But i really do think we have to put front and center. You know these voting rights abuses and make sure that especially in the senate whether it's on the for the people actor getting the john lewis voting rights act passed That this is seen as existential. Because i do believe that there is a foreshadowing here of what's been done in florida and texas and georgia and arizona on the voting rights front That you know we don't recognize that In the congress that we could just like hungary in hong kong and other countries that have drifted from democracy and talk takeuchi. We could go in the same direction and so That's where i i hope you know. President biden puts a lot of his focus in bringing the american together around that issue before we close. Is there anything else. You'd like to say to our listeners. You know in in many ways. This was so predictable that we would find ourselves at this moment. And i think about the day before the senate trial of the second impeachment and we were in a hold room a formal ceremonial room. Just off the senate floor because cove restrictions They were studying us up in that room. The senate staff was because only to impeachment. Managers could be on the floor at a time and this. It help team had set up a copy machine. A printer had given us laptops. And you know it was one of the to millennials. I was the first to ask what the wi fi password was and they told us. Well it's under an account called managers and after we were given a briefing on like this room. That would use a working room. I told the. It help team. I said you know. I'm i'm really impressed. That in such short time. You put this infrastructure together for us and without any recognition of irony in without missing a beat. This young nonpartisan staffer said to me. He said well sir. We were the same impeachment team from the first impeachment and to be honest we just left all this infrastructure up in this room because we figured you all would be back and so to them like. It wasn't a surprise..
Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"eric swalwell" Discussed on Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"In in wanting to recognize that if we say that a president can a mob a violent mob at the capitol. Then there's almost nothing that is outside of that immunity. That presidents are afford so really wanted to make sure that you know we establish some boundaries court will hear this is the us district court for washington dc. It's judge meta who's the judge and you know. Ideally would be resolved there but of course any appeals would go up through the circuit court of appeals in washington and possibly to the supreme court. So you know diane. I don't have the same pressures of time. That the senate had you know that we had is impeach managers where joe biden was trying to put a cabinet in place. We were trying to pass the american rescue plan to address covert relief and any you know Effort take longer than a couple of days at the senate. Trial was going to be met with a lot of pressure because of other responsibilities thankfully collaterally because it's a civil lawsuit. I just don't have those pressures. And so i do. Hope we were able to yield more evidence than we were able to get in the senate trial. What you make of the cases brought by this date of new york and sivan's prosecutor for seven years and i. It's my hope that any case that is broad is only brought because they have the goods they have the evidence that the facts and the law alime and that donald trump is treated no better or no worse than any other. You know criminal defendant in our country. My fear is that he would be treated better because he's a former president and that there may be this mindset that well we have to sweep this under the rug and let's just move on for the sake of moving on and i really do hope that If there is evidence that as president or as a candidate he committed a crime that we hold him to account. I don't think this is like gerald ford pardoning richard nixon. I think that the crimes against the constitution in the country were too great. And if again you can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt that you have to pursue it for the sake of You know just the reconciliation. That we need is a country out there issue you faced. You found out that trump's justice department was secretly demanding that apple. Turn over your data and that of your family move. You say demonstrate sweated fragile time this is for our democracy. I was a little bit alarmed but frankly not surprised. When i received an email from apple couple months ago that my data had been turned over to the department of justice and actually was a staff member on the intelligence committee whose family member had their data also turned over in addition of course to adam. Schiff we'll wait the attorney. General called me and told me he had no idea about this new attorney. General merrick garland and that he wanted to have an inspector general. Look into it. And i know the judiciary committee will look into it but to me as somebody who was a vocal critic who was on the front lines on the intelligence and judiciary committee when you see that only two members of congress were targeted and they were the two. That were the most vocal myself. Mr schiff i think the you know rebuttal. Presumption has to be that. It was politically motivated again. I'm i'm open minded enough. That they could have a good reason. But knowing myself that. I never leaked any classified information My presumption knowing that donald trump used the department of justice and other instances to reward his friends and punish enemies That is something that we have to look into. But are you afraid at this kind of behavior that donald trump engaged in could become the new normal. I'm especially afraid that. Is we see georgia in texas and florida legislatures and governors try and they learn the wrong lesson from two thousand twenty instead of holding up the election results especially in georgia and arizona and saying this election was one of integrity. They're trying to make it harder for a democrat to win in twenty twenty two or twenty twenty four. I'm also. I'm equally afraid that governors or mayors would look at what donald trump did with the department of justice. And think. well. I can use my own local police my own state police to go after my enemies because i do believe presidents set the tone for the country and if you see a president using the department of justice you know for his or her personal benefits and political benefits that it could trickle down and affect what leaders do a the state and local level and so. That's why i really do think we have to. Universally and in a bipartisan way condemn. Donald trump did to make sure that this is not the new normal in america considering divisions we all see happening on capitol hill and in the country right now. How can you possibly the optimistic that there will be not only a reckoning but a beginning of understanding that republicans and democrats have to work together or this country is going nowhere. I find my faith in people like ambassador. Ivanovich and alexander vitamin and fiona hill You know all immigrants all worked for and were appointees of a republican president. Who had the courage to stand up and do what was right. I find the courage post insurrection. And people like officer. Mike fennell on Who defended the capital but had voted for donald trump of people like liz cheney and adam who were republicans but voted to impeach voted to hold donald trump accountable. And so you know if they can do that. With great risk to themselves personally and great risks to their livelihood in their careers than we all with very little risk you know can come together as a country. And as i said us unity as the antidote. So if they can do it. we're not asking. Every american to put on the body armor that mike fatone put on that morning to defend the capital as he suffered a heart attack in traumatic brain injury or just asking them. You know to be a little bit more open minded to recognize. There's only one version of the truth about that. Day and for us to unite is a country. That's where i get. My faith is what republicans are people who supported republicans. Did that day and the courage they have shown to break away from that not for the sake of themselves but for the sake of the country. Finally tell me what you believe. President biden is doing right and what his administration needs to focus.
The Diane Rehm Show
"eric swalwell" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"And i know the judiciary committee will look into it but to me as somebody who was a vocal critic who was on the front lines on the intelligence and judiciary committee when you see that only two members of congress were targeted and they were the two. That were the most vocal myself mr schiff. I think the regrettable presumption has to be that. It was politically motivated again. I'm open minded enough. That they could have a good reason. But knowing myself that. I never leaked any classified information My presumption knowing that donald trump used the department of justice and other instances to reward his friends and punish enemies That is something that we have to look into. But are you frightened at this kind of behavior that donald trump engaged in could become the new normal. I'm especially afraid that. Is we see georgia in texas and florida legislatures and governors try and they learned the wrong lesson from twenty twenty instead of holding up the election results especially in georgia in arizona. And saying this election was one of integrity. They're trying to make it harder for democrat to win in twenty twenty two or twenty twenty four. I'm also i'm equally. Afraid that governors or mayors would look at what donald trump did with the department of justice. And think well. I can use my own local police my own state police to go after my enemies. Because i i do believe presidents set the tone for the country and if you see a president using the department of justice you know for his or her personal benefits and political benefits that it could trickle down and affect what leaders do At the state and local level. And so. that's why. I i really do think we have to. Universally and in a bipartisan way condemn. What donald trump did to make sure that this is not the new normal in america but considering the divisions we all see happening on capitol hill and in the country right now. How can you possibly be optimistic that there will be not only a reckoning but a beginning of understanding that republicans and democrats have to work together or this country is going nowhere. I find my faith in people like ambassador. Ivanovich and alexander men and fiona hill All immigrants all worked for and were appointees of a republican president who had the courage to stand up and do what was right. I find the courage. You know post insurrection. And people like officer. Mike on Who defended the capital but had voted for donald trump people like liz. Cheney and adam kin zinger Who were republicans but voted to impeach an voted to hold donald trump accountable. And so you know if they can do that with great risk to themselves personally and great risks to their livelihood in their careers then. Y'all with very little risk you know can come together as a country and as i said us unity as the antidote. So they can do it. We're not asking. Every american to put on the body armor that might put on that morning to defend the capital is he suffered a heart attack in traumatic brain injury or just asking them. You know to be a little bit more open minded to recognize. There's only one version of the truth about that day. and for us to unite the country. So that's where i get. My faith is in republicans are people who supported republicans. Did that day. And the courage. They have show-me to break away from that..
The Diane Rehm Show
"eric swalwell" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"Who was in what. I would call like riot gear. Who kept coming up to the podium and telling us what was going on and that my constant thought was will surely there are more of you than there are of them are. surely they're not going to get past. The as i said the perimeter you should have set up because as we know during the summer there were black lives matter protests and there was just a phallus of officers that protected the capital during the summer and the moment that i realized we were outnumbered was when the house chaplain unannounced. An unsolicited went up to the front podium. The same podium that the president of the united states speaks from You know during the state of the union and the house chaplain just randomly started reading a prayer. And that's when i i the house chaplain. i had gaveled into session. that day speaker. Pelosi it asked me Right before the debate has started to gavel in the session to have the chaplain lead us in prayer and that was her first day on the job is the new house. Chaplain and i knew she had a military background. So when she led us later in this unannounced prayer felt to me in many ways like last rites like she saw that there was this uncertainty and so she was now you know calling on us to all be peace. And that's when. I realized we weren't going to be protected by the capitol police that they were outnumbered congressman. Well how do you explain the mindset. The many republicans who right after that attack voted against certifying the election as we were leaving the floor. You can only move as fast as the slowest person in front of you so there were times where you know i can still hear. The capitol. Police officers yell to move faster. But you couldn't move at all because there was kind of a bottleneck and there were times during like the bottle necking in the stairways and the tunnels and hallways were bump into a republican. Who had been at the rally or a republican who had helped on trump. Tell the big lie. And i believe naively that will. Maybe this is sadly is going to take that. Were both running for our lives from his mob. And maybe this is what it's going to take to be the antidote to. What's going on outside. You know unity would help us get through this and you're right at within hours i've no lesson was learned. We spent hours once. We went back to the floor. Debating big lie. We went all the way until about four in the morning at because arizona in pennsylvania and other states challenged and we didn't have that september..
The Diane Rehm Show
"eric swalwell" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"They were essentially relaying. What they were hearing there was a couple of security officers from the capitol police who would update us from time to time. And only once diane mentioned this in the book from the gallery. A democrat did panic and started shouting and screaming at the republicans. This is your fault. This is your fault. Tell donald trump to call this off and what was amazing about that. Moment was almost to a t. Every republican democrat on the floor looked at that individual and said stopped like the. This is not the time to litigate. This just stop because we were afraid that you have this stampede. Or this Almost riots break out on the floor and we thought that we we had to listen to the police that that was not the time to fight each other because it was so uncertain as to what was going to happen next. But did you know in your heart that it was down trump. Did you believe that at that moment. I had seen the footage. And i remember holding my cellphone in handing it to my colleagues as he was speaking Where he said he's going to go to the capital and that people have to fight like hell and we'd also reviewed the mo brooks footage where he said you know it's time to take things and kick some behinds Is he putting different language and so we always though thought tan that the capital was fortified. We never believed that as angry and fired up is the mob was that they would be able to breach a capital and so we watched you know just with horror. As they went past each barricade and perimeter the capitol police had set up. And i do remember thinking at some point when you heard the banging in the shouting and the smashing of glass Like this can't be happening. That was like a constant thought. I had was. It can't end this way like the. There's no way. And i remember getting emotional in tears starting to come down like the Our country cannot end. This way was the feeling that i had And honestly i am. It was the same feeling. I had in two thousand sixteen as i saw the results coming in on election night i remember florida was called for donald trump. And then pretty soon you know. Michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin recalled for donald trump. It was just a a disbelief that like. How did this person who pandered grievances and riled up so many people and i really thought brought out the worst in us. How was he able to win. It was very much the same emotion. I had on the floor which was like how. How has our great country succumb to this With as i said the uncertainty about what was going to happen next for my personal safety and of course for the country. I think the country felt the same way watching what was happening. How can this be happening in our country. How can this capital of ours beep reached this way. It was unbelievable to think that there was not adequate protection for that. Place is so precious to our country. Did you at that time wonder where the protection was swear. The national guard was where somebody was so we have a security officer who kept updating us and there was a capital police officer..
The Diane Rehm Show
"eric swalwell" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"But i i went. To ruben geigo. Who is an iraq. War veteran a close friend of mine. And i told him we should stick together. A his wife had been text. Messaging me and asking me to make sure. I've watched him. she knew. That ruben as iraq war veteran may not listen to the orders of the police and may try to engage with the mob. So we agreed that we would leave together. And i remember ruben. Taking off his coast. Telling me i should take off my coat and also grabbing a pen and saying get one of these for yourself and go for the throat if anyone gets near you and so I got pretty serious pretty quickly and pretty soon. You heard the banging on the doors but you couldn't see anything because there weren't many windows and you heard yelling and shouting from the mob and then pretty soon you also heard the smashing of glass on the windows. Very small windows that were on the front doors and speakers gallery and We were told to take out. Our gas masks are so. I didn't know this but underneath every chair in the house of representatives is a gas mask and so I pulled out my gas mask. And i looked at it. Because it's in a sealed package. I looked at ruben ruben. You know what the hell do i do with this. I've never had to take out a gas mask before. But because rubin has served a theater of war he knew and pretty soon. You saw the veterans in our caucus. A helping many members take out unseal and put on their gas masks because they had experienced doing it. And so next thing you know you have dozens of gas masks in the gallery and on the floor. And we were awaiting instructions as to where to go and fortunately we were able to leave and taken evacuation routes off the floor And that's of course is the country knows. That's when miss bobbit breached the speaker's gallery doors and You know was killed by the police officer. Who was protecting those doors. That that is when i was Exiting and moving out and away from the floor. So i gather no one really panicked. It was instruction and reaction to those instructions. It was very very tense and there was a lot of anxiety in the room. And i really have to credit speaker. Pelosi's floor staff who was instrumental in keeping everybody calm..
The Diane Rehm Show
"eric swalwell" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"Congressman a house committee investigating any january's takes ends direction is likely to begin. Its first hearings next week. What are the questions you hope. The committee will address well. Good morning diane. I really do hope that the committee addresses how donald trump able to organize assemble and amo mob at the capitol. What did he know in the days leading up to january six about who was going to show up and what their intentions were. What did he know on that day. as the mob was assembling and preparing to move to the capital. Why didn't he send more troops To the capitol to defend the capital assist the capitol police. And of course. I think there are a lot of questions about what. Can we do to make sure that this never happens again. And as republicans work to erase that day and rewrite that day is something that was to celebrate. What can we do to hold up the police. Officers in the custodial staff that defended the capital to make sure that they are always honored and that you know we remember the service that they gave the sacrifices they made and why again. We can't let this happen again. What do you make the fact that many republicans are saying. It was just an ordinary day an ordinary visiting day. they're scared they're scared of donald trump. He's gone too many republican districts to support challengers to republicans who have held him accountable for what he did on january six And and you know. No event in american history has been more recorded than january six. So as i prepared this for donald. Trump's impeachment is a teacher manager. We saw you know hours of different angles of this attack. Whether it was donald trump's speech and his words or fifty million dollars he spent in the days leading up to this attack to aim the mob at the capitol and then of course the on the scene footage from so many people who came because in their words as they told the fbi they would tell courts is they were being held to account..