Eric Swalwell

And to her, I apologize deeply for putting her in this position.

These allegations of sexual assault are flat false.

They're absolutely false.

They did not happen.

They have never happened.

And I will fight them with everything that I have.

Did you ever behave inappropriately with female staffers?

No, no, it's false.

And also, you know, some of the allegations I've seen, which is that we've had NDAs in the office and never, there's never been an allegation and there's never been a settlement.

And, you know, I will also just take stock that, look, we're 27 days before

and an election starts.

Why address it?

If there are internet rumors, why even come out and address this?

Yeah, I don't want there to be any question.

Well, we wanted to know the consequences of what they're doing.

And first, Michael, I just want to thank The Washington Post and New York Times for their investigative reporting on this.

Also, the FBI agents who have come forward, and we understand there are others as well who are

actively doing that.

We want to thank them because it's their bravery and their loyalty to the Constitution, not to Donald Trump, that allowed this story to be told.

And we hope that if anyone else is working on this case right now and illegally being told to smear an opponent of the president,