Eric Swalwell

Well, it's a concerning comment from the House majority leaders. So I asked, Anderson, you know, first, is he speaking with personal knowledge? And if so, did he pass this along to anyone?

Certainly on the criminal prosecution side. You know, Bob Mueller has -- is an individual with the highest integrity who served during some of the toughest times in our nation's history.

It's welcome news, Anderson. This investigation was disrupted last week when President Trump fired the chief investigator, Director Comey. So, I hope this is a way to get that investigation back on track and that the American people can…

But the duty to protect the ballot box and the integrity of free and fair elections, that's on us. That's on Congress and we should not shirk that responsibility.

No, more necessary than ever. And that's, you know, the other part of the solution here. You know, an independent commission looks forward and we know from the intelligence community that Russia intends to attack us again.

the cost of the president's ties to Russia cannot be our national security. And if this is true, that is a price that we could pay.

if our president was show boating or grandstanding with U.S. intelligence in such a reckless way, you know, that's something that we should all be concerned about.

The only reason would you lie about a fact in an investigation is to cover up something that had occurred in the past.

There is evidence of collusion, both on the classified and unclassified side. And my hope is that the world will soon see it.

I learned a lot from Sally Yates today as she testified, particularly just how hard she tried to tell the White House about Michael Flynn, perhaps being compromised, and just how little that they cared.

There is evidence, not only of collusion, but there's deep, deep evidence that Russia interfered with our election and intend do it again and this demands a serious investigation.

It was very, very disturbing when DNI Clapper laid out the gravity of this attack, that another country violated our sovereignty and that, you know, from the appearance they are celebrating and congratulating themselves to use his words.

I still think, Anderson, that the most comprehensive way to get to the bottom of this, to take politics out and to debunk a lot of the myths out there is to have an independent commission.

I think for us to be back on track with a new leader of the investigation, I think it's probably restored the faith among all and, again, we just want to get back to work and I can say right now that that's the case.

I'm not familiar with one and unless he were to proffer to us why we should do that, in other words what he could offer that we could not otherwise obtain, I don't think that would be a good idea.

That's what we thought was the most relevant. And I hope the Republicans understand that we too want to, you know, pursue anyone that violated the law if there were leaked violations.

We wanted to point out the deep personal, political and financial ties between Donald Trump and his team with Russia at the time that Russia was interfering in our investigation.

It's going to be a long summer here in Washington, so even during recess weeks, I think members of the Intelligence Committee are expect to be here interviewing witnesses, getting to the bottom of this and doing everything we can to make…

I can tell you the witnesses are relevant ones and the documents that we are reviewing have expanded since Mike Conaway has come on to lead this investigation for the Republican side. So, we are back on track. And I think that's a good…

No question there are a lot of redundancies, I think that this would have been better handled if we had a joint Senate-house investigation.

Yes, and I also have a lot of faith in Mike Conaway from Texas, I, you know, take him at his word and have, you know, seen him at work and I think he just wants to follow the evidence.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage of the…

This is the final amendment to the bill. It will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. Russia attacked our democracy this past Presidential election…

I am opposed in its current form. 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. 1343 to the Committee on Financial Services with…

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