Russia: Influencing Trump & His Team
Over the past year, I've spent hours listening to witnesses talk about the events of the 2016 campaign. The House Intelligence Committee, on which I sit, has been investigating Russian interference in the election. Multiple members of Donald Trump's campaign, businesses, and family, I've learned, were contacted by individuals linked to the Russian government—but none of them, so far as we know, reported these contacts to law-enforcement agencies.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, on Thursday introduced the Duty to Report Act to help protect our elections from foreign interference.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement Friday:
"The Trump-Russia report released by the House Intelligence Committee's Republican majority is an incomplete, inaccurate report of what the Russians did and who they worked with, solely intended to cover up evidence damaging to President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), ranking member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement Monday in response to Republicans halting the committee's investigation of Russian interference in U.S. elections:
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), the Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement Tuesday:
"The Russian government – and its plans to attack our democracy again – scored a major victory today in the House of Representatives.
During the 2000s, Eric Swalwell was one of the first prosecutors in Alameda County to discover that some criminals were dumb enough to post incriminating photos and videos of themselves on social media. His boss and mentor, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley, recalled that in one case, Swalwell scoured the web, uncovering a video that a defendant had posted of himself holding a .25-caliber handgun. That damning piece of evidence clinched a conviction.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), a top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, says the panel may need to call on President Trump himself to testify on newly surfaced emails detailing a Trump Tower real estate plan for Moscow that was scrapped during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Congressman Eric Swalwell hosted a town hall meeting last Saturday at Granada High School in Livermore.
He began the session with a touch of humor, noting that upon the birth of his son, "We got the cutest baby monitor from the Russian Ambassador."
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Tuesday said President Trump should fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions — but not for the reasons that seem to bothering Trump.
"Well, I support President Trump firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions — not for the misguided reasons he wants to fire him though," Swalwell told host Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room."
New evidence about the Trump campaign's contacts with Russian officials last year makes it absolutely crucial that we have an independent, bipartisan commission to protect our democracy.
There is no doubt that Donald Trump Jr., then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, son-in-law and close adviser to the president, met in June 2016 with a Russian government emissary whom they believed would offer them damaging information about Hillary Clinton. And there's no doubt that Trump Jr. knew who would be at the meeting and why.