Eric Swalwell: 'We Aren't Being Told the Truth About Russia'

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rep. Eric Swalwell brought the real talk on the latest episode of THE NEW ABNORMAL. He told Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson that he’s “afraid” America’s intelligence agencies aren’t telling “the truth about what Russia is doing” to sabotage election 2020. Swalwell offered BS-free assessments of the Mueller probe — “Trump got his way and we lost" — and impeachment, telling Rick and Molly, “I don't think we would have moved forward with impeachment if we were in a pandemic.” Swalwell also came clean about his quarantine beard, his blink-and-you’d-miss-it presidential run, and the “ankle monitor [Donald Trump needs.” Plus! Rick and Molly dish on the Florida’s dumbest election, the Trump campaign’s cannibal clan, and the “competition of the dumbfuck supervillians.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi folks, this is Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.
0:05.2	Hi, I'm Molly Junkfast, novelist and editor at large at the Daily Beast and the person
0:10.0	who tells Rick not to tweet the things he wants to tweet.
0:12.7	I'm an editor at large at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best
0:16.7	selling author and full-time troublemaker.
0:18.9	The new abnormal is about one nation under a pandemic and how it's changing all of us.
0:23.5	We'll talk about what's happening in the country and the culture and look at good and
0:27.4	bad people, leadership and ideas.
0:29.8	Molly and I come from very different political worlds, but what brings us together is that
0:33.8	we both love America.
0:35.1	We realize that putting our country over party and ideas over ideology might be the only
0:39.2	thing that gets us through this.
0:40.7	We'll be joined by smart gas from media, politics, culture, medicine and science.
0:45.7	I'll try to keep ripped to the minimum number of curse words and try to keep our pets and
0:50.9	other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.
0:54.5	So Molly, it looks like the week after we interview Gretchen Whitmer, all of a sudden Michigan
0:58.9	turns into the center of the political universe.
1:00.9	I blame us.
1:01.9	Oh yeah, it's definitely us.
1:03.8	I actually blame you.
1:05.1	Oh, probably.
1:06.1	I'm generally to blame for most things, but this week in a Michigan we had what?
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