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Eric Swalwell: It cannot go on like this. The abuses were so great the threat to the country`s rule of law, the Democratic…

On the recordJune 11, 2021
It cannot go on like this. The abuses were so great the threat to the country`s rule of law, the Democratic self-government is so severe that to let it go unrecognized and are reckoned with will bring some kind of cataclysm.
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California
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msnbc.com

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Swalwell discusses the severe threats to democracy and the rule of law due to the lack of accountability for abuses of power.

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