Nashville's Morning News with Dan Mandis

Hour 1 of NMN, No Deal with Iran + Swalwell Ain't Doin So Well

35 min
Apr 13, 20265 days ago
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Summary

Nashville's Morning News discusses the Trump administration's blockade of Iran's Strait of Hormuz following failed nuclear negotiations with J.D. Vance, and covers the sexual assault allegations forcing Congressman Eric Swalwell to drop out of California's gubernatorial race.

Insights
  • Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade serves dual strategic purposes: pressuring Iran on nuclear weapons while simultaneously restricting China's access to Iranian oil, demonstrating multi-layered geopolitical chess strategy
  • Failed Iran negotiations may have been strategically predetermined, with the blockade announcement suggesting Trump administration used talks as diplomatic cover for military action rather than genuine negotiation attempt
  • Democratic Party leadership appears to have strategically timed release of Swalwell allegations to consolidate primary field before general election, preventing a two-Republican general election matchup in California
  • Political hypocrisy exposed: Swalwell's public advocacy for women's rights and consequences for assault contrasts sharply with documented personal misconduct, undermining credibility of partisan messaging
  • Blockade creates economic opportunity for U.S. oil exports while raising global energy prices, creating domestic political risk if gas prices spike before elections
Trends
Strategic use of military blockades as economic coercion tool against adversaries with nuclear ambitionsCoordinated political takedowns using accumulated allegations as timing-dependent leverage in primary electionsIncreased scrutiny of congressional members' personal conduct affecting electoral viability and party strategyEnergy market volatility tied to geopolitical tensions creating both export opportunities and domestic price pressuresBipartisan consensus on removing members facing serious misconduct allegations (Swalwell and Gonzalez examples)China's economic vulnerability to Middle East supply chain disruptions becoming explicit policy leverage pointVideo evidence and social media documentation making political scandals harder to contain or deny
Companies
CNN
Interviewed anonymous former staffer with allegations against Eric Swalwell regarding sexual assault
Fox News
Referenced as media outlet that Swalwell's mother watches; criticized by Swalwell for coverage
BBC
Published article about Iran's extortion tactics regarding Strait of Hormuz control
People
Donald Trump
Announced Strait of Hormuz blockade and issued lengthy Truth Social post detailing military strategy against Iran
J.D. Vance
Led 21-hour failed nuclear negotiations with Iran in Pakistan; sent as diplomatic envoy to demonstrate administration...
Eric Swalwell
Dropped out of California gubernatorial race following multiple sexual assault allegations and video evidence of misc...
Dan Mandis
Primary host discussing Iran policy and Swalwell scandal with co-host Joan
Joan
Co-host providing commentary and oil market data on Iran blockade and Swalwell allegations
General Richard Newton
Scheduled guest at 7:06 AM to discuss military strategy for Strait of Hormuz mine clearance operations
Congressman Andy Ogles
Scheduled guest at 7:35 AM to discuss potential congressional vote to remove Swalwell from office
Katie Porter
Speculated as potential beneficiary of Swalwell's withdrawal from California gubernatorial race
Nancy Pelosi
Reported to have pressured Swalwell to drop out of gubernatorial race following allegations
Adam Schiff
Reported to have pressured Swalwell to drop out of gubernatorial race following allegations
Hakeem Jeffries
Reported to have pressured Swalwell to drop out of gubernatorial race following allegations
Steve Hilton
Former Fox broadcaster leading California gubernatorial primary polls as Republican candidate
Tony Gonzalez
Republican congressman facing sexual misconduct accusations similar to Swalwell; subject of bipartisan removal calls
Madison Cawthorne
Previously removed from Congress after alleging cocaine-fueled orgies in Congress; referenced as precedent for Swalwe...
Vernon Davis
Featured in sponsored podcast segment discussing transformative journeys of athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs
Vince Collinaze
Featured in sponsored podcast segment about news and interviews with national figures
Quotes
"This is world extortion and leaders of countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted."
Donald TrumpMid-episode, discussing Iran blockade
"I think this is a chess match. I think this is Donald Trump telling Iran, okay, you know what? If you're going to be the arbiters of who is going to use the Strait of Hormuz, well, think again."
Dan MandisEarly episode analysis
"These allegations of sexual assault are flat false. They're absolutely false. They did not happen."
Eric SwalwellMid-episode, Swalwell's denial statement
"I woke up the next morning naked alone in his hotel room."
Anonymous accuserLate episode, describing 2024 incident
"I think this was a concerted effort to take out Eric Swalwell. I think that people have recognized his BS on both sides of the aisle for a long time."
Dan MandisLate episode analysis
Full Transcript
Welcome on in to your Monday, April 13th. Hey, Joan. Yeah. I got a great joke. I'm gonna open up the radio broadcast with a great joke. Wow, okay. I think we should be the determinants of whether this is a good joke or not. So, you know, Joan, you know, Eric Swalwell is in the news and it just, it seems like Eric Swalwell isn't doing so well. He's not, Dan. That's my joke. I actually- Swalwell doing well? Is that what, that was the joke? Oh yeah, that was the joke. Actually, oh, you know what? So the best part of this whole thing, Sam is the one that told me that joke. And he's throwing down the cricket sound effects. Come on. See, he was roasting you. He was hoping you'd use it. It's all about the delivery. All right, very good. Anyway, all right, very good. Looks like straight-up Hormuz is gonna be blocked. So we are blocking the blocking of this straight-up Hormuz. That's basically what we're doing. I think this is a chess match. I think this is Donald Trump telling Iran, okay, you know what? If you're going to be, if you think that you're going to be the arbiters of who is going to use the straight-up Hormuz, well, think again, the president coming out over the weekend and saying, you know what? No, Iran, you're not going to block the straight-up Hormuz. We are going to block it. This is, by the way, a big FU to China. Everybody knows that, right? Because Iran, as we've been talking about, Iran and some of their allies and some of their friends have been able to sail through the straight-up Hormuz. And so Iran has been selling oil at actually a pretty good price because they're the only ones, essentially, that have been allowed to use the straight-up Hormuz because they mined the thing. And so now Donald Trump says, okay, so beginning at nine o'clock hour time, so beginning of Chris Hancho, we're gonna block it. And so now the question is, and I can't wait to see this, what is Iran going to do? Is Iran going to challenge us? Are they going to challenge our warships? And are they going to essentially say, okay, Donald Trump, we dare you to sink our ships? I could just see Donald Trump saying, go ahead, make my day. So all of this has been going on. I have some audio here, actually some video, if I could. We all know what happened. I know everybody watches the news here. So just so I do a little bit of catch-up, we know that J.D. Vance, he flies all the way to Pakistan 21 hours of negotiation only for the Iranians to say, nope, no peace deal for you. We've been at it now for 21 hours and we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached the agreement and I think that's bad news for Iran, much more than it's bad news for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that as clear as we possibly could and they have chosen not to accept our terms. 21 hours of negotiations. Iran refused to back off on their mission for nuclear weapons. Do you know what I think part of what this does is it proves that Iran clearly is not interested in negotiating a deal or abandoning their nuclear weapons program. We could have saved some time and just said, you know what, clearly we know where Iran stands and so we're just going to go ahead and start blocking this trade of Hormuz now. As in like 48, 72 hours ago because it's clear, Trump had it, okay, so if these negotiations don't work, then what we're going to do is we are going to, our next step will be block the straight of Hormuz. However, the problem is that we essentially gave them, I mean, how long have we been screwing around with this? I mean, we started the discussion of having these negotiations, I don't know. I mean, it was in Pakistan, I think it was days ago, so as they get ever so closer to being able to produce a nuclear weapon, we've wasted, I don't know what, 48, 72 hours, whatever it's been, whole bunch of days. And the longer that this takes, the closer they get in my estimation to being able to manufacture a nuclear weapon. They've broken, and I want you to think about this. Do you believe that I, hey, Sam, let's do a daily Dan poll, shall we? Do you believe, yes or no, that Iran has been negotiating in good faith, yes or no? I would say it's a no. They've broken, first of all, we spoke about this last week, they've broken the ceasefire multiple times, in multiple ways. The Hormuz Strait was supposed to be open, it isn't, and they fired at our neighboring countries when they weren't supposed to. So realize the only thing that this ceasefire has done, thus far anyway, is to allow Iran more time to work on their nuclear program, if that is indeed what they are doing. J.D. Vance was asked if President Trump was kept in the loop during the 21 hours of negotiations. Yeah, obviously we were talking to the president consistently. I don't know how many times we talked to him, a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past 21 hours. We obviously also talked to Admiral Cooper, to Pete, to Marko, to the entire national security team. We talked to Scott, but sent a number of times. So look, we were constantly in communication with the team because we were negotiating in good faith. And we leave here, and we leave here with a very simple proposal. And that simple proposal was for Iran to abandon their nuclear program. Now, when the talks failed, the president, President Trump, pulled out a very lengthy, truth social post. And it's a long post. 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At some point, we will reach an all being allowed to go in, all being allowed to go out basis. But Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying there may be a mine out there somewhere that nobody really knows about but them. And he appropriately says, this is world extortion. There was a great, I'm just, side note, there's a great article in the BBC earlier today about how Iran does need to stop extorting the world. Because that is essentially what they're doing. Back to President Trump. This is world extortion and leaders of countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted. He says, I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in international waters. That has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines, the Iranians laid in the Straits. He says, any Iranian who fires at us or at peaceful vessels will be blown to hell, is what Donald Trump says. And by the way, just it's worth noting the words blown to hell, Joan, capital letters. Of course. And with an exclamation point, he goes on to say, Iran knows better than anyone how to end the situation, which has already devastated their country. Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their anti-aircraft and radar are useless. Khomeini and most of their leaders are dead all because of their nuclear ambition. The blockade will begin shortly. Other countries will be involved with this blockade as well. Iran, he says, will not be allowed to profit off this illegal act of extortion. They want money and more importantly, they want nuclear additionally. And at an appropriate moment, we are fully locked and loaded. And our military will finish up the little that is left of Iran, President Donald J. Trump. That's a long post. I've seen him do longer though, Joan. But that's a long post, but it was an important one. And I think that he knew, I think Trump knew. Don't you think that Trump knew that these negotiations were not gonna go anywhere? I do. And sending in JD Vance was spot on the coolest thing to do because they needed to know that there was unity in Washington because so much has been spoken about. JD Vance, not being on the side of going into Iran exactly in the first place. So I mean, the talk about President Trump doing 4D chess while everyone else is sort of just playing checkers, it's so true. It's so true and it's so obvious by what he's just done. This effort to block up the straight of hormones, that's designed to choke Iran financially, but also to choke China financially. And man. That's what I said, a big, big middle finger to China. Absolutely. Absolutely love it. Perfectly said. Yeah, so I mean, he's got the world on his fingertips right now. Let's just hope it stays that way. And don't forget JD Vance was Iran's guy. They wanted JD Vance. Yeah, yes. So there's that aspect of it as well. So this is gonna be really interesting. And yeah, why should Iran, by the way, I've got General Richard Newton later on today. He's gonna be with us at 706. Congressman Andy Ogles is gonna be, I cannot wait. Do you know what question number one is for Andy Ogles, who's gonna be here at 735 in studio? Does he love Eric Swalwell and is he gonna miss him? How do you, yeah, are you going to, I mean, this is a dumb question to ask Andy Ogles, but do you think that he'll vote to boot Eric Swalwell from Congress? I think he'll be the one to bring it up. Oh, you think it's like- He likes to make a scene. It's like, good morning, Congressman Ogles. And he'll just bypass the good morning and go right to how Swalwell ain't doing well. Do you think I should use my joke? Do you think I should use my borrowed Sam's joke on Andy Ogles? Absolutely. We love when you tell jokes. Congressman, I hear Eric Swalwell ain't doing well. Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. By the way, over the weekend, Trump ordered a couple of Navy destroyers to sail right through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran didn't fire on them. They encountered no mines as well. You know, I'm thinking about how do we avoid those mines? And basically, Trump brought up a great point in his big long truth social, which is how do we know that they've actually dropped some mines in there? Like, they keep talking about it, but I mean, our radar doesn't know where they are. We can't figure out where they are. We can't send in divers or whatever. It seems to me like what they need to do. And I'll ask General Newton this question, but go into the Strait of Hormuz, and I don't know how long it is. It's pretty narrow, but go down, figure out where the mines are, and destroy the ones that you can destroy. And they just clear a path. You don't have to clear the entire Strait of Hormuz, just clear a path so that the ships can get through. And then just start widening out the clearage from there. Right? I mean, I'll ask the expert, I'll ask Richard Newton this question coming up in the seven o'clock hour, but I'm not saying it's gonna be easy, plus also our ships will no doubt be fired upon. So that's another thing that our men and women in uniform, our Navy will have to deal with. But I mean, I love that Donald Trump and Jones just hit the nail on the head. Three day, three wave, what is it, three dimensional chest, four dimensional chest, whatever it is? Chest, while everyone else is playing checkers. There you go, that's what it is. Here is more from President Trump talking about, this is President Trump talking about what's next. This was last night. Oh, I don't know. I don't care if they come back or not. If they don't come back, I'm fine. Their military is gone, their missiles are largely depleted. The manufacturing capability for missiles and drones is largely defeated. We've been very nice. We haven't ripped down too many bridges. We did one only because they broke their word, they broke their promise. And remember, their promise was that they were going to open the hormone. I opened the hormone straight, and obviously, as we know, they didn't. So you've had Iran selling this oil on the open market, getting good money for it because they've been controlling the straight. So they've been making bank, the Iranians have. They of course have been selling to China, other countries, friendly to Iran, have been moving oil again through the straight of Hormuz. They include Pakistan, the Philippines, Iraq, a Turkish ship as well, apparently. So all of that is going to end today, beginning at nine o'clock guard time. The president, he's been talking about how America is open for business and that countries have been coming now to America to get their oil. This has been going on since, I mean, really in earnest, I guess last Friday, where this became a big topic of conversation, that is obviously great for us. Now the question is, do we have enough oil to make up for what is being lost? Well, that's a big no, we don't. Will it make a dent? Absolutely, that's a good thing. Is it good for America that all of these nations are coming to our United States of America to get their oil? It is great for us. Does it mean that the price of our gasoline is going to go down? Probably not, because we are, again, the cost of our gas depends on what is happening on the global market. And Joan, if I may, where are we at on the, what do the oil futures look like? Do happen to have that up? I do. So West Texas crude right now is trading at 104.29 a barrel. So it's up nearly 8%. Right. It'll take me a second here to get, what's the other one? It's too early on a Monday. I need more coffee. It's not Brent crude. It is Brent. It is Brent. Brent crude oil is trading at 102.20 right now. So both are over 100. Yep. Okay. CENTCOM, by the way, said the US will not, but there's, so Trump comes out and he does what he's going to do, right? He says what he's going to do. CENTCOM then comes out and says, well, hold on, the US will not impede vessels, transitioning, transiting the strait to and from, from non-Iranian ports. So if they're not going to Iranian ports, then apparently we'll, I guess, let them through. The blockade will only be enforced against vessels entering or departing Iranian ports or coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. So coming up, I've got some great audio. President Trump basically telling Iran, you go ahead and you try to stop us. Number one, just real quickly, Joan, we were talking about seeing past text messages where you are being referenced by other, by textures to other hosts and so forth. So I want to know what they were talking about on the air when 4702 sent a message to, I guess to Bell. Okay. Saying, y'all got to come up with a song to dedicate to Dan Manda, cello-L. I would've know what they were talking about. Yeah. It's like, why do I get a song dedicated to me? Chad and Bell, whatever, I love them. I'm just kidding, I don't care. Let's see here, 4702 also says, hey Dan, there's a great presidential quote for your daily Dan polls and your daily Dan jokes. Don't. Don't. Thank you, 4702. Don't. All right, so real quick, Eric Swalwell. Now, I didn't realize, Joan, but did you know that there is video out there and I'm showing it here. I apologize to those who are eating breakfast right now, but Eric Swalwell, if you haven't seen the news, the congressman is now decided he will not be running for governor, he's dropped out of the race for California's governor because of all of these allegations against him, sexual allegations, allegations of rape, those kinds of things, unwanted pictures, if you know what I mean. You know, I think part of what has me baffled by all of this is the fact that he's so blatant about it. Like, no shame whatsoever. He's not even trying to hide it. He's sending, allegedly, he's sending pictures to women, like more than one of things that, you know, you shouldn't be sending pictures of so forth, but there's also all across the internet, right? There is a picture of Eric Swalwell and it's not a picture, it's a video and I'm showing it on Super Talk TV where he's got some sort of a, you know, I don't know, young woman. She's a sex worker. How do we know she's a sex worker? She has only fans. Oh, is that what it is? She has an only fans? Something to that effect, yeah. So I have some observations about this. Anyway, so he... Poor technique, John. Well, she's sort of like turning her head away a little bit and then he like brings her face over and gives her a big ol' smooch. The other thing I love, and then I'll let you talk, Joan, cause I mean, you're gonna have better thoughts on this than me, but he's got his shirt, you know, buttoned down to like mid sternum. You know what I mean? It's like, and I'm a, I of course, I'm king of the undershirts. So I just, I don't like men who do that, but whatever. Well, especially if they're smooth, like a baby's bottom right there, it's kind of awkward. So anyway, so yeah, so that is, and again, if you're watching on Super Talk TV, supposedly this is a sex worker and he is just, but here's the... Prostitute. You're being taped. You're being videoed, dude. So you're a married congressman and you're in the room, apparently with at least two other people, a sex worker or prostitute, and whoever the other person is, who's filming it? And there's a guy sitting on the other side of this young lady on the same bed. Okay, so that was my observation. Like they've got an audience. What are they doing? Is, are they filming a sex tape? I mean, it's so gross. The man is married and he's doing all this, oh, me too women, women, believe them. You're right, Joan, there is a, I didn't even notice that, but there is a right knee and a couple of hands holding a phone to the left of said female. And there's somebody who's obviously filming. So there's at least two other people there. In this hotel room. In a hotel room. I mean, he is the creepiest of creep. I've got a question. Who was the guy, oh, who was the guy who was, was he in a wheelchair? But he was a congressman out of, I think one of the Carolinas. And he talked about how there were cocaine fueled orgies. Yes. Was it Madison Cawthorne? That was Madison Cawthorne. Madison Cawthorne. So I wonder if Madison Cawthorne is somewhere, cause he was drummed out of Congress. Yes, he was. For saying that. I wonder if Madison Cawthorne is around somewhere saying, I told you, this is stuff that's going on. I don't know if he was on drugs or anything, but clearly Eric Swalwell, he just, he didn't care who knows what he's doing. And this is a married congressman. So this is the same kind of Hootspa that led him to, you know, have his thing with, is it Fang Fang? Yeah. Fang squared. So. Oh my gosh. The clips that are cycling out are just hilarious. 2024, Swalwell was on Kimmel talking about the consequences for women and their bodies if Trump wins the election. Was he really? Yeah, I've got it. Go ahead. The consequences for everyone else, like women and their bodies, kids in their safety at school, you know, seniors in their healthcare, like to him, it's just, it's me, me, me. 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 like regular folks and not make this so complicated. Say a lot of nasty things about you on Fox News. I mean, they're your parents. That 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 challenge. She's like, I don't like that, honey. I think they went too far. So yeah, thanks mom. Your mom should have told you to keep your hands to yourself when you're your pants buttoned, unless you're with your wife. By the way, he's been married for like over 10 years. Right? So that's the other part of this, of course, is that I mean, obviously I don't think America necessarily cares about, I mean, they, they elected Donald Trump. And let's be honest, Donald Trump is no bastion of virtue. Okay, so let's just say it. But for Eric Swalwell, what makes this so, I don't wanna say gratifying or satisfying that he is going down in just a blaze of non-glory is that he's such a jerk. Like, I mean, Sam and I used a more colorful language in the hallway. And I think Joan and I did, or at least I did to Joan, where, you know, he's just, he's always been such a, an A hat. You know what I mean? A pompous A hat. And so I'm sorry, but you know what? I, I don't, I mean, clearly I don't feel sorry for him. He didn't, he didn't seem to care whether or not he went down politically or not. So anyway. I don't know if you've heard the audio, but CNN interviewed anonymously the former staffer. I have the audio, so let me do this. Let me first play the audio of Eric Swalwell when he came out and he said, yeah, there's no truth to these allegations, flying in the face, by the way, of all of the video that's out there. A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations. I thought it was important that you see and hear from me directly. These allegations of sexual assault are flat false. They're absolutely false. They did not happen. They have never happened. And I will. So he says they've never happened, but the video is right there. I fight them with everything that I have. They also come on the eve of an election where I have been the front-runner candidate for governor in California. I do not suggest to you in any way that I'm perfect or that I'm a saint. I've certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past, but those mistakes are between me and my wife. And to her, I apologize deeply for putting her in this position. So apparently, I mean, obviously it sounds like he is at least admitting that he cheated on his wife. And now again, that's a personal matter. These days, again, most folks don't necessarily seem to care about that, but it does matter politically to a lot of folks. But here's the other thing about the other allegations. One woman says that she worked in his office for two years and she says that he took advantage of her when she was drunk and that he raped her. She described it as non-consensual because she was drunk and that was back in 2019. And apparently she has the proof on that. Vince Collinaze is redefining news talk. I'm Vince Collinaze host of the Vince podcast. I'm bringing you the truth beneath the headlines of all of the nation's top stories. In-depth interviews. We feature news-making interviews with the top guests on the whole planet. And I'll ask the questions you only dream of other interviewers asking. And a front row seat to the most important conversations of the day. There's a show with an obsessive focus on what's good for America. You are going to love Vince. The Vince show. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Let's see here, do you, okay. So do you have that audio, Sam? I thought that I had the audio, but, oh wait, I think I do, it might be right here, hold on. Yeah, this does not look good for Eric Swalwell. And yeah, here it is. So this is the woman. This is the woman who is accusing Eric Swalwell. And there's some obvious questions here, which we'll get into following the audio. Joan, have you heard this audio? No, I haven't. All right, I want you to listen close to this audio. Okay, this is the woman who claims that Eric Swalwell got her drunk and then took advantage of her, not once, but twice. I decided to ask him to meet me for a drink. And I did this because I was so far removed from what had happened in 2019. I felt safe because I was established. I had a partner. I felt more secure that I could have a strictly professional relationship with this person. After that. All right, so she's talking about Eric Swalwell. And she had met with him originally in 2019. She worked in his office for two years. She says that he took advantage of her when she was drunk and that he raped her. She described it as non-consensual because she was drunk. That was back in 2019. Same woman in 2024. They were having drinks again. She became drunk. She said no. And that he then forcibly raped her. And she says that she has the proof. So obviously the question is, okay, well, wait a minute. So if he raped you back in 2019 and then you met him again in 2024, and that's when she said, well, I thought that basically, and you just heard the audio, where she basically says, I thought that I could handle him. Person. After that bar closed, we went to another. I went to the bathroom and I don't remember anything after that. You don't remember anything? I remember the next day. I can see flashes of that evening of him on top of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me. It was a lot more aggressive. It was aggressive. Did you say no? Yes. I said no. I said, in my flash that I can recall, I was pushing him off of me saying no. And what did he do? He didn't stop. He didn't stop. And you woke up the next morning. I woke up the next morning naked alone in his hotel room. So after that, you've got Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries and others on his side were pressuring him to drop out. And again, the big question, and she answered it. Now, whether or not people accept that answer or not, if you did this in 2019, why did you meet him again in 2024 and go not to one, but two separate bars? But you know what? Bottom line is he has now decided to drop out. By the way, it wasn't just this one woman. There was like four other women, roughly I believe that also came out. Oh, there's more than that now. So there's now more since I set this up earlier this morning. How many are there? So people were posting stuff apparently almost two weeks ago, some women were starting to come out and say that they'd been harassed by Swalwell. No one had really alleged any assault. But now there's a young woman who posted the other day, I've got the audio, if you want it real quick, we can squeeze it in. Just her introing what is about to happen to this guy. Go ahead. People have questions about why I decided to make public comments about allegations of sexual harassment against Eric Swalwell before a major news outlet published the story. So let me be as clear and transparent about that as I safely can be. I am personally working with a group of women who want to come forward and share their stories. I am also aware of a much larger group that is also in this process that I am not personally working with. We have secured pro bono legal representation for them and they are in the process of sharing their information with major outlets while ensuring that their legal and physical safety is protected. Yeah, that whole clip goes on for another two and a half minutes, but there's apparently gonna be a whole lot more dropping. Well, now they're talking about Joe bouncing him out of Congress. So, and this is the Democrats. Now remember, there is a Republican governor named Tony Gonzalez, a congressman, and he is out of a, is it Texas or New Mexico? I think it's Texas. Yeah, I think it's Texas. And he is facing his own accusations and so both parties basically are saying, look, Tony Gonzalez, Eric Swalwell, both y'all gotta go. And so now that's gonna be, and that's a question I'm gonna ask, Andy Ogles at 730 when he's here in studio is just basically what are your thoughts on all of this? By the way, some people are saying, as far as this woman meeting Eric Swalwell a second time, fool me once, what is it? Shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. So I don't, what do you think about that, Joe? Like people are calling BS on the story, I don't know, but he chose to drop out. Well, he did choose to drop out. In my humble opinion, it's obvious that that's because he doesn't want more to come out. There's probably others out there, but the goal was achieved, so he's quitting. Well, then clearly, see, I believe this is the Democrats that did this because, and I talked about this on Friday, the Democrats for the, in the state of California, the governor's race, and I don't have time to get into all of this now, but they have that jungle primary. If you have too many Democrats in a race, then what's gonna happen is the top two contenders in the primary, they can be two Republicans, they can be two Democrats, or they can be a Republican and a Democrat. The problem is, in California, for the Democrats, is you had so many Democrats running that the Democrat numbers, they just had so many different candidates that it was spread out amongst too many candidates. So the top two candidates in the primary in California were both Republican because there's, I think there's only two, there's that Steve, is it Hinton or Hilton? Whatever, Steve Hilton, the former Fox broadcaster, he was leading the polls. Yes, yes. And so they were crapping Twinkies. They were like, we've got too many of these, we've got too many of these Democrats in a race, we gotta start sort of shedding some of these names. And they knew that these allegations against Swalwell were out there. And so their fear would be, we got Steve Hilton and we got Eric Swalwell, those are gonna be the two top candidates. Well, if all of these allegations come out, heading into that general election at the end of the campaign for governor in California, then they're gonna end up with a Republican governor because you're gonna have a lot of people that won't vote for Swalwell based on all of these allegations. So they took them out. Yes, so then- That's basically the Democrat party took them out. Who's the next Democrat? You know what? I don't know. I can tell you. Go ahead. It's our lovely Ms. Katie Porter. Yeah, the one who throws- She's crazy. She's nuts. She's nuts. And so wouldn't it seem logical to you that it was her campaign that made sure that these videos got exposed, that these women came forward? Maybe. That wouldn't surprise me, but I think Democrat leadership probably had something to do with it too. I think this was a concerted effort to take out Eric Swalwell. I think that people have recognized his BS on both sides of the aisle for a long time. And now not only is his run for governor over, but he may be out of Congress if they decide to boot him out of Congress. I don't know if his marriage is over or not. We'll have to see what happens there, but Swalwell is not doing well. You sure haven't heard anything from the wife. I mean, she's been very quiet. Yeah, I don't know. I haven't heard anything. Sam, have you heard of anything from the, I'm sure very proud, Mrs. Swalwell? No. She was silent during the whole Fang Fang thing as well. Next roll with Vernon Davis. I'm your host, Vernon Davis. Okay, y'all, thank you. Thank you, that's enough. Today we have Dietrich Wise. Through my example on the field, off the field, during game day in practice, that was one way that I led because then it led to success. Next roll isn't about what's next. It's about why they do it. Bobby Bones. Like I've had a lot of stuff happen, bad and good. And so I don't have any fear of mixing it up. That's powerful, man. Next roll with Vernon Davis. 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