Eric Swalwell

This is the White House and its most aggressive way yet trying to obstruct our investigation.

The President said after all that he wants to fully cooperate.

First, he's a man who knows. He sees the classified and unclassified intelligence. And so he's worried that this investigation could be shut down.

It just feels like we're leading up to a crescendo, you know, with people being able to get an audience with the president and suggest that Bob Mueller should be fired.

But if you listen to Republicans on that committee they would probably take credit for firing Bob Mueller because they expressed that they'd like to see him go.

The willingness to just torch the whole FBI building to advance this narrative is very troubling.

I think it's a concerted effort, frankly, it's an ominous tone here in Washington that has us all fearful that the Mueller investigation is going to be shut down unless we do something to preserve it.

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I am opposed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Swalwell of California moves to recommit the bill H.R. 4324 to the Committee on Financial Services with instructions to…

it is sickening to sit here and listen to the good names of people, like Bob Mueller and James Comey, just be smeared.

Actually, Donald Trump Jr. can actually just waive the privilege if he was forthcoming and wanted to clear the air.

Certainly relevant because of prior reports as well with her role in the firing of James Comey.

It's usually when you're seeking to protect somebody, that's when you don't answer a direct question.

To hide behind a made-up privilege sets us back in what we need to tell the American people.

We believe we're on solid legal standing here that if he is there under subpoena, he would have to be -- he would be ordered to answer the question.

If he's talking to his father and they're trying to get their stories straight, that's not recognized as a privilege.

This falls in line with others who have casually exerted privileges. Jeff sessions cites a long-standing Department of Justice privilege, which is not found in the law, that he couldn't tell us what he says to Donald Trump and Roger Stone…

I hope that they recognize the seriousness of this, because this June 9th meeting is a cornerstone piece of our investigation and what the president knew, what Donald Trump as a candidate knew at the time is critically important for us.

my story has never changed.

We must all remember our common responsibility to prevent that kind of abuse from happening again.

But you would agree, today, it should be answered differently.

Once and for all, can we answer the question?

I cannot overemphasize the danger this perspective poses to our Republic.

You know, I actually read the Papadopoulos deal as something that should really concern them. Because if you look at the timeline, they went to Papadopoulos in January, he gave them a bs story. They went back to him in February, he stuck…

We're updating the foreign surveillance act and our ability to surveil individuals overseas. And I thought this was a great opportunity to take lessons learned from what Russia did and also from the government response as Russia was…