We have two parties, for most part here in America. One enthusiastically sends rapists to the White House and to Congress and to the Senate and looks the other way when they allow child abuse, basically from top to bottom in the party. The other, at the very least, grapples with [00:00:15] the allegations and occasionally backs off of supporting those candidates. So we have serious allegations in this particular case being made against Eric Swalwell, a representative who's running for uh governor in California here in the primary. that is currently ongoing. And [00:00:30] a whole lot came up over just the last few days about him and it has already resulted in the cessation of that campaign. We'll see what else comes of it, but the campaign is over. That is how fast it was that the endorsements were taken away and that basically he was [00:00:45] pushed out of the race. And so let's talk a little bit about some of the allegations. There are at least four, although I've heard about potential others. So we will see if those develop into full blown stories, but One woman who worked for Swalwell said that the California congressman [00:01:01] had sexually assaulted her twice when she was too inebriated to consent. Three other women also accused Swalwell of misconduct. The women said Swalwell had sent them unsolicited nude photographs or explicit messages. And look, these are allegations right now and he denies [00:01:17] them. Although, as you'll see, he implies that he has done some stuff. But it will never stop being amazing to me that these people who are in the political world and higher steps that they want to climb. Can't stop themselves from doing these things that could totally [00:01:33] blow up their chances of doing that. mean, setting aside the wild evil of the acts, but even just for pure pragmatic ambitions sake, you're going to send photos that can be traced to you? These people have boundless confidence. So anyway, the first claim, the sexual assault, [00:01:53] is the most serious. Should we go to the video? You think we have time or? I think that it's pretty serious. Let's do, we'll be fast on the back end. But I want to get to a little bit of the woman who hasn't been identified talking about the experience she had. After the first [00:02:08] incident where she said she woke up in his hotel room as a staffer naked after a night of heavy drinking. She told us about what she says happened several years later in 2024 after she had left his office. I decided to ask him to meet me for a drink and I did this because I was [00:02:28] so far removed from what had happened in 2019. I felt safe because I was established. I had a partner. I felt more secure that I could have a strictly professional relationship with this [00:02:44] person. After that bar closed, we went to another. I went to the bathroom and I don't remember anything after that. You don't remember anything? I remember the next day, I can see flashes of that evening of him on top of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me. It was a lot more [00:03:08] aggressive. It was aggressive. Did you say no? Yes, I said no. In my flash that I can recall, I was pushing him off of me saying no. And what did he do? He didn't stop. [00:03:26] He didn't stop. And you woke up the next morning. I woke up the next morning naked, alone in his hotel room. I, for a moment, didn't even know I was in his hotel room. That's [00:03:41] how intoxicated I was. And I called my mom, the only person I could think that could help me. So incredibly the most serious sort of allegations and apparently there has been contemporary [00:03:57] text messages and other evidence photos and screenshots of some of these claims at the time, which again is not not proof but it is further evidence and this is a person who's willing to literally go and be. by the media and it's amongst multiple people who are making [00:04:13] claims like this. That's pretty robust at this point. Now he had uh denied it saying these allegations are false. They come on the eve of an election against the front runner for governor. For nearly 20 years, I have served the public as a prosecutor and a congressman and have always protected women. I will defend myself with the facts and where necessary bring [00:04:30] legal action. My focus in the coming days is to be with my wife and children and defend our decades of service against these lies. Which I mean, if these things are true, everything that he just said there is like the most grotesque possible response you could have to this uh to hide behind your family. Again, if the allegations are true. Now, not long after that, it was [00:04:50] done. As I said, he said, I'm suspending my campaign for governor to my family, staff, friends and supporters. am deeply sorry for mistakes and judgment I've made in the past. I will fight the serious false allegations that have been made, but that's my fight, not a campaign. I mean, he- basically had to at this point. I'm not going to give honor points or [00:05:07] whatever at that point. And so he makes it clear that something happened. That is, and again, this is my speculation. That is the statement you put out if you want to acknowledge without acknowledging that you cheated on your wife. That's mistakes in judgment, not non-consensual. [00:05:25] didn't assault anyone, but I cheated on my wife. That's my pure speculation, but that's the sort of thing politicians say when that's the message they want to give. Jair, what do you think? But no one was even accusing him of that part. I mean, that wasn't the focus, the cheating. Well, it could be a reference to the sending the pictures or the text messages or something [00:05:44] like cheating. don't mean necessarily having sex. It could be trying to cheat or whatever. And again, there seems to be contemporaneous evidence about a lot of these claims. Right, mean, and as you also point out, look, it was an admission that I've done some things, right? And again, as you're running for governor, I'm not sure what the expectations were. If [00:06:03] you're just some Joe Schmo and is doing his thing and that's between you and your wife, I get that. But you're looking for influence in the party and in the state obviously, and running for this stuff. And it's just weird to me because now look, he suspended his campaign. Representative Tony Gonzalez, Republican, who has also had these issues with his staffer [00:06:22] who eventually unalived herself, uh suspended his campaign for the next office they were all going for. So I'm seeing these parallels and I saw CNN and some folks talking about this at the end of last week about Now what's next? I mean, should they still be in office? And it's weird that we have that conversation. um If they're suspending campaigns based off [00:06:41] of these accusations, why would you then trust them to still be in office, period? And now the wagons have to get circled and be like, we might lose this many votes and that many votes. Well, where's the principals at, um It sucks. Sometimes you lose some things based off of holding on to principals. And um I think that should be understood a lot more. It's [00:07:00] the kind of conversation I don't think we have enough of.