Rep Eric Swalwell on Republican Politicians Being Fake, Trump’s Huge Ego & What Kamala Harris Brings

our next guest is a member of Congress who is doing everything he can to make C-SPAN exciting have you all lost your minds Donald Trump opposes it because Donald Trump wants to be president because Donald Trump has 91 felony counts that he's facing and the only way that those go away and he is not held accountable is if he's president you all God I don't know what it feels like to be so helpless to have to follow somebody like Donald Trump follow Donald Trump and it's fine I get it you must see yourselves as so very tiny and so very small when you look at Donald Trump and he's so big that he looms so large over you that you would do anything that he says to support him from our 14th District here in California please welcome Eric [Applause] [Music] swell that is [Applause] that's like a Comedy Central roast you have going there yeah they're not serious on like a just a human level when you eviscerate your you know fellow members of Congress like that what is it like afterwards like are you guys in the cafeteria together what what kind of conversations do you have after that there's a gym uh like a congressional gym heard about that you know you have uh Jim Jordan sometimes he's on like the elliptical next to my treadmill and the first couple times I thought this is going to be really awkward but you go in there and he's like hey swell how you doing man I'll see Matt Gates out at a restaurant DC and he'll come over be like hey buddy how's it going Ted Cruz during the impeachment you know the SEC the second impeachment I probably clarify we're on a break and we're in the bathroom and I'm washing my hands he's washing his he washes his hands the clean the cleanest they had ever met uh and and and he looks at me and he goes hey man we've never met I'm Ted and he puts his fist out and I was like hey Ted and I gave him like a fist bump back and he could tell I was looking at him like he had three heads right because the night before he was roasting me on Fox News and he says to me he goes you know you're doing a really good job out there I'm like what is this guy talking about he goes no really you're doing a good job and it occurred to me for these guys they're just pro wrestlers they don't even believe it like they just go out there in the ring in service of Donald Trump they want to be famous but but that's not what they want to do I think that's worse because some of them like when I see marer Taylor green if she's at a restaurant she wants to kill me right I'm not I'm not engaging with that so she's sincere so she's actually crazy yeah but I think it's worse if good for her she's actually I think it's worse though if you know better and you're still sure it is of course it is like Marjorie Taylor green can't help being a dummy but if you can help it and you can you are a dummy anyway I mean that's kind of despicable and pro wrestling was fun when I was a kid but like that's not why I went to Washington I've got a seven-year-old a 5-year-old a two-year-old in the bathroom Cruz like is he eating the urinal cakes or what's he up to uh Adam ker was uh here he is uh for those who don't know he's a former uh Republican Congressman who's very outspoken against Donald Trump and has really been I I think um persecuted by his like a lot of even members of his family Etc you know these people he I think he said something similar about like Trump do you know does Trump like that is he like Hulk Hogan also back there he's an Entertainer he's just an Entertainer yeah so he's friendly to you when you see him he told me I do a good job on TV he did yeah yeah and I think that's all that matters to this guy like again the consequences for everyone else like women in their bodies kids in their safety at school you know seniors and their Healthcare like to him it's just it's me me me and that comes first so if you see someone else on TV again when the cameras aren't on he's like hey yeah we're we're in the club and it's like nobody like there's actually real consequences and Stakes for what you're taking us all through that is just crazy um you're one of the few Democrats who goes on Fox News it's really like you and Pete Budaj and Gavin Newsome maybe a couple of others why do they call you and say like hey we need a guy we need somebody to fight with well I I think I probably go on for different reasons than the other two I go on so my parents can see me on TV my my mom and dad are Republicans my wife Britney is from Indiana she was raised by Republicans she grew up with the Pence uh family and I actually think you know let's go make the best case uh to the people who need to hear it uh the most and we we have to do that more I also think Democrats sometimes we stand too much on virtue and like modesty and we think everything is a Harvard Law School moot Court competition but we just need to talk about this like it's a gut check to the regular folks and and not make this so complicated just be real about what the stakes are and you're going to see that on Tuesday night with Toma Harris father I'm interested about your parents now I mean they say a lot of nasty things about you on Fox News I they're your parents doesn't that upset them and make them go I'm not I see that what they're saying is not true I shouldn't believe anything else they say my mom told me recently that when she would hear Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity go after me she would change the channel she's like I don't like that honey that I I think they went too far so yeah that thanks Mom wow wow that's I mean I have family members like that but not my mom and dad I think that would be devastating what's the like what's Thanksgiving like at your house the 2016 Thanksgiving uh there were a lot of hats and my mom had to implement the following year like a no hat rule because there were some you know Red Hats back and forth Red Hats but they're not they're not voting for Trump this time I see because they're Reagan Republicans they believed in small government low taxes and that we'd be strong in the world and and Trump is the opposite you know of all of that and and they also look at my kids and I think they see an opportunity to just bury this guy and bury this Movement Like recently my son was with me at a parade and we were passing out rubber duckies for St Patrick's Day parade and and he's going to every little kid and he's giving him a rubber ducky and this man was standing behind his little girls my son Nelson on the rubber ducky and the man says to my little boy he says we're for Trump and my son looks at me and he looks back at the man and he said who's Trump and so I think we have an opportunity to like who's Trump this for the next Generation on November 5 you um you you've known kamla Harris for a long time right yeah she and I both got our start in the same prosecutor's office in Oakland we were a couple years part we worked for the same boss though and and this boss uh Tom orof uh he described the prosecutor's office in Alam County where Earl Warren was the da uh that it was like an aircraft carrier and you had the flight crew who were important who the lawyers who supported the fighter pilots and the fighter pilots were the ones who took out the hardest cases to do justice and they were fearless and when I joined the office and was starting to hear about kamla Harris you know in the Attorney General's office I asked colleagues I said what kind of trial lawyer was she and across the board everyone said KLA was a fighter pilot she took the hardest cases out and I think you're going to see that on Tuesday night she's serious she doesn't take herself too seriously but she's also fearless and also she knows how to have a little bit of fun and and I think Jimmy the team that has the most fun is the team that wins now we can't on November 5 we don't count joy we count vote so we've got work to do over the next UH 60 days and and this is a tight race uh but she's going to show uh that she cares about you and the future and you mean me or personally she really cares about you oh that's really nice want me to pass it along but Trump is just going to be me me me grievance grievance grievance on Tuesday night and I think she's going to show just how insignificant he is and how important these issues are for all of us well thank you for being here Eric swell everybody he's a congressman thank you Eric we'll be right back with Rex Orange County da [Applause]