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Hi everybody.

My name is Andrew Eger. I am White House correspondent with the bulwark. I co-write the Morning Shots newsletter with our editor at large, Bill Crystal, who joins me, as always, on Tuesday morning, to do a little video version of our morning newsletter. We still haven't quite figured out whether this actually counts as a video version or whether we're doing other stuff, other breaking news. Today it's a little of both. We got a little bit into this story

in our newsletter last night, kind of a late breaking story that was sort of taking place all day

yesterday. But we have had an unusual situation, I would say, play out in the House of Representatives,

which is currently

on recess, currently coming back from recess.

And we got a pair of resignations, or at least announced resignations, one on either side

of the aisle over a pair of personal scandals.

And the first of these that we got was maybe the speediest. I guess there are probably other examples

we could think of, of, you know, career immolations that have happened this quickly. But of course,

I'm talking about California representative Eric Swalwell, who, you know, one week ago was sort of

looking like the guy who was going to become the next governor of California. It was sort of a liberal

icon in at least sort of resisty circles dating back to the first

Trump term where he sort of emerged as sort of like a young, brash, combative opponent of the

president in the House of Representatives.

I briefly ran for president.

Didn't go so well.

But, you know, was looking a lot stronger as a, as a

candidate for California governor, again, as, as recently as one week ago. Last week, a number,

well, I guess, even a little earlier than last week, there were rumors circulating about Eric

Swalwell and some possible, you know, sexual misconduct stuff.

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