Eric Swalwell: “I urge my colleagues to defeat this previous question so that we can immediately take up Mr. Nadler's legislation that…”

“I urge my colleagues to defeat this previous question so that we can immediately take up Mr. Nadler's legislation that would protect Bob Mueller's special counsel investigation. The rule of law right now is under attack by a wrecking-ball President who does not respect it, who has fired his investigator and, as we speak, seeks to hire a judge who would protect him. But Bob Mueller, despite the attacks that I hear in this Chamber, is making progress. His investigation started in May 2017. Since May 2017, he has obtained a lot of guilty pleas and indictments. October 5, 2017: a guilty plea against General Michael Flynn, campaign adviser and national security adviser to Donald Trump; December 1, 2017: the statement of offense from Michael Flynn detailing what he had done; October 5, 2017: statement of offense and guilty plea from George Papadopoulos, senior adviser to candidate Trump; February 2, 2018: indictment against Richard Gates, adviser to the President; February 23, 2018: guilty plea from Richard Gates; February 12, 2018: guilty plea from Richard Pinedo; February 16, 2018: guilty plea from Alex van der Zwaan; Indictment, February 16, 2018, against 16 Russians for weaponizing social media to help the Trump campaign, including the Internet Research Association, directly tied to Vladimir Putin; February 22, 2018: superseding indictment against Paul Manafort, campaign chairman for Donald Trump and Richard Gates; February 23, 2018: guilty plea from Richard Gates;…”