Eric Swalwell

There were a lot of my Republican colleagues who were willing to abuse every lever of power -- military, Department of Justice, the White House -- to try and overturn an election and overturn the will of the American people.

What is it worth if people like Mark Meadows and others can just blow off subpoenas, that’s the trickle down effect, the collateral effect is that if people start to believe that law and order doesn’t matter anymore, then as a democracy…

If you truly had nothing to do with the insurrection, the treasonous act that took place on January 6th, you would help your country.

They’re always projecting, Lawrence, and I also think of the Mueller report where Mueller said there were a number of blind spots in their investigation because of the apps that were being used.

I support Ted’s legislation for inherent contempt. We should fine them $10,000 a day until they come in, and for Mark Meadows, the judge should hold him in contempt immediately once we refer it to them, and they should throw his own book…

I have legislation that would put in place a duty to report, that if you receive help from a -- or you’re solicited by a foreign actor that you would have to report it or it would be a crime.

He has attempted to erase the history of Russia, the history of January 6th and the history of his corrupt, racist, misogynistic presidency.

It’s important for us to look backward and make sure that history is properly recorded.

I think he clearly incited, assembled and aimed that mob at the Capitol.

I believe that if it goes that far, the jurors there will be able to follow the line (ph) of all the faith in the world that that will be the case.

We came so close that day it was actually only seconds or minutes in some instances where members of Congress, staff, and others could have been killed and the government could have been overthrown.

And we have a Republican Party that no longer believes in voting. They believe in violence. They don’t condone democracy anymore.

What we should also note that these Proud Boys, these Oath Keepers they will have no right to invoke executive privilege and so any defiance of the subpoenas hopefully will mean that they will be held in contempt, put in jail until they`re…

Donald Trump, over about a month period, incited a mob, invited them to Washington, warned the country that it would be wild, spent $30 million over about a month promoting this Stop the Steal rally, and then at the rally, told people that…

Accountability prevailed again, Lawrence, and we`re seeing that with Steve Bannon. We`re seeing it with Donald Trump in the courts and we`re seeing it in the House of Representatives.

Paul Gosar as John mentioned, he represents chaos and Americans detest chaos. Americans like law and order, and if we have a country led by those who are unleashing chaos, then we are lost and so that`s why it was important today to say…

These guys Donald Trump, Steve Bannon Mark Meadows, they have run rampant for the last four years and a land of no laws where they were essentially above the law. They were pirates in international waters. And now they`re coming to find…

This isn’t about red team versus blue team. This is about whether the rule of law matters anymore and whether people around the former president are above the law or if they have to follow the same laws that you and I have to follow.

There’s a new sheriff in town, frankly, Jonathan and that the rule of law matters again in America.

And now, again, there`s a sheriff in town that says the rule of law matters.

I believe it should come, hopefully, others who are holding out and waiting will start coming in.

We have the midterms coming up and the Republicans have shown themselves as a party that is more comfortable with violence than voting.

We have to keep sending the refusals to the Department of Justice, Lawrence, because the day we stop doing that, is the day that witnesses like Mark Meadows will defy our ability to get to the truth.

He should resign if he does not agree with what they’re doing, Joy, because, right now, as Tucker Carlson makes a tribute video for the terrorists, celebrates the cop killers, the message that is received by the people watching is, if we…

But we now see Republicans believing that people not only have a right to go to the school board, but they have a right to go there and incite and threaten violence against people making decisions about our kids’ education.