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2020: Eric Swalwell on gun control and being bold

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News, Politics

4.587.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tommy talks with Congressman Eric Swalwell about gun control, what it means to be bold in his campaign, his work on the intelligence committee and how he plans to win over his Trump-supporting family.

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0:00.0

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:20.1

Welcome to Potsy of America.

0:21.3

This is Tommy Vittor and welcome to the latest candidate profile.

0:26.5

As you know, we are trying to talk to all of the candidates running for president

0:31.6

of the Democratic primary in 2020.

0:33.4

And today I sat down with Congressman Eric Swahwell.

0:38.0

We started the conversation by talking about his ideas to get guns off the streets because

0:42.2

he has made gun control really the focus of his campaign.

0:45.9

We also dove into the roiling debates in Congress and on Potsy of America about impeachment

0:53.1

and the reasons for or against.

0:55.3

Talk a lot about his work on the House Intelligence Committee.

0:59.0

What challenges he sees in the world that worry him.

1:01.6

We talked about Iran, we talked about China, we talked about a whole bunch of top top top

1:06.2

secret documents getting leaked out of the NSA and the CIA and how the hell that keeps

1:10.0

happening and what rules of the road if any he thinks should be put in place to you

1:15.5

know limit cyber activities and cyber espionage.

1:18.3

We also talked about his likelihood or not to win votes from his parents and his brothers

1:23.9

who are Trump supporters and what he's learned from talking with them and you know basically

1:29.4

why he thinks he's the best candidate to do this.

1:31.6

So I really appreciate the time.

1:34.8

There was a lot of Potsy of the world moments in there so download rate review, subscribe,

1:40.8

Potsy of the world, quick plug for myself.

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