Eric Swalwell

In many ways, this feels like a pre-September 11 environment for businesses.

Thank you. I thank the Chairwoman for holding this critical hearing as the dashboard is blinking for America's businesses.

Democracy is on life support. And this is very binary. Either you are a part of the gang that is trying to resurrect it or you are a part of the gang that is trying to pull the plug.

It will happen again if we do nothing.

We must learn from what Donald Trump exposed as far as vulnerabilities in our democracy and not just accept that this can never happen again.

Donald Trump allowed foreign actors, whether it was the Russians or, here, the Emiratis to get too close to our foreign policy.

There’s never been a structure that Jim Jordan didn’t want to take a wrecking ball to and this is just too fragile. Look, the way I see it right now, Jonathan, democracy is on life support. And this is very binary. Either you are a part of…

This virus is serious. Get vaccinated. Life is precious. And Tucker Carlson is not worth dying for.

I trust Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, you know, Mitt Romney. There`s a few others in the Senate. But no, mostly no.

For the first time ever in our country`s history, we did not have a peaceful transition of power.

We are on life support right now and it`s a fight every day to keep this democracy alive.

Democracy cannot die like this.

I don’t think we can be reminded enough of how dangerous and how precipitous our potential loss of this country was back in January.

Little has been more maddening post-January 6th than to hear police leadership declare that they didn`t have intelligence justifying a tighter security posture.

Donald Trump incited and inflamed and invited this mob here, and I`m convinced if Donald Trump did not do that, these folks otherwise never would have come.

That when it`s all said and done, there will never have been more criminal indictments from a single incident.

They showed their true colors and they weren’t blue.

This is a party now that Kevin McCarthy leads that is pro- slavery. A majority of their members voted to keep the Confederate monuments at the Capitol. Instead of siding with the police, they’re rolling with the cop killers.

When the rubber meets the road, to honor Donald Trump, they have chosen to dishonor the police.

I certainly think they would be responsible members of the commission and maybe Kevin McCarthy should consider that.

It's clear that we had a President and a Department that rewarded the President's friends, reducing the sentences or issuing pardons for Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, and then punished and weaponized the Department to go after…

It was wrong that the Obama Administration allowed that.

If a Member of Congress commits a crime or if there's probable cause for a search warrant, he or she should have their records subpoenaed or their property searched and seized.

Do you fear that if you have a President who detests accountability... that could have the effect... of governors and mayors seeing it as a permission slip to weaponize local law enforcement?

I have faith that Merrick Garland is going to get to the bottom of this.