Swalwell GOES ON OFFENSE against Trump…ALREADY!!
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What is Congressman Eric Swalwell’s rallying message for listeners at the start of the episode?
I'm joined by Congressmember Eric Swalwell. So, Congressmember, not the result that people wanted. I'm telling our audience though, now is not the time to give up, not the time to give up hope. Now is the time to get to work. You put out a message today to that effect. What's your message to everybody out there?
Yeah, let's get loud and let's get going. Uh, because uh if a young woman in Florida, where a six week ban is now the law of the land, can get up today uh and find her way through, uh, we can too. And if a soldier in a trench in eastern Ukraine who just saw their best ally walk away from them can keep fighting, we can too. And if a high school student who's gonna go to school today in a country that's gonna my arm mass shooters to the teeth and they're still gonna get through it. We can too. It doesn't feel good to lose. It sucks. I hate it. I hate what this winner says about our country and the people who make it so great. But We have work to do. We we've dealt with this guy before. He's a one-term president coming in.
He's in serious cognitive decline. We're not helpless. We are privileged to be among uh those who can do something. Uh and by the way, uh there's no time to, you know, mourn or grieve for too long because the next play is gonna happen pretty soon when he starts to nominate all of the cabinet officials. Who will implement Trump's project 2025? And so we gotta be loud. We have to get in front of all of the senators who are going to be voting on this and make our cases to them as to why people like Rick Grinnell and Cash Patel and all these others in the Rogues Gallery cannot be in charge of our country, why our kids need vaccines. Mm.
And we're not going to let RFK Jr. as the health secretary take. them away. So there's a lot of plays coming down the field. And so we should, you know, be upset, but let's put our helmets on, get back on the field and defend uh, you know, the the yardage between us and Project 2025 becoming the law of the land.
You talk about two individuals there, Rick Grinnell, Cash Patel, who are now at Donald Trump's top list of leading the CIA. Um, you talk about uh Yeah, and by the
way, if either of them are there, it's just the C A.
Right. And then then you then you take then you have, you know, his picks for, you know, Attorney General, Judge Eileen Cannon, uh, who dismissed his case when he stole nuclear secrets is at the top of that list. Other individuals who have you know said some really serious things. But what what what can we do? First off, what's Congress gonna do? As you're speaking to your colleagues, what is that resistance gonna look like?
Well, here's the good news about Congress. Беро із демократ. When are in the majority, Hakeem Jeffries is a speaker. That can still happen. Worst case scenario is that we're in the minority, but Republicans only have a two or three seat majority. We just saw what that looked like with the shit show under Speaker Johnson. And Speaker Johnson was formerly the Speaker. Functionally, Hakeem Jeffries was the speaker because no vote of consequence passed without Democrats delivering the vote. So we know what that looks like. We can do that again. And uh so we have to use the house as a way to fence in Donald Trump uh and his worst instincts.
And a lot of people are talking about how the Supreme Court we did a video on this this morning, you know, the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron decision, um, which used to provide not carte blanche authority for agency discretions, but gave agencies a lot of deference. Donald Trump and all of his, you know, people. got that overturned. Now Donald Trump controls the agencies. And so there are people saying, and and you're a lawyer, um, that the federal courts are now a route as well to kind of curb it, which is interesting that, and it just goes to show you the lack of strategy that that they're having where they would have had all this deference to agency decisions. Now that deference is stripped away and federal judges in the first instance are now making decisions
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