Swalwell: Republicans Are Willing to Risk the Republic to Protect Trump

WALLACE: All right. We’re going to get into the memo in a minute. I want to talk and turned to Congressman Swalwell about the state of the investigation.

Congressman, on Friday, the president was asked about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who signed one of the request applications for this FISA warrant and also is the only person who can either fire or limit the investigation by Robert Mueller.

Here was the president.

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REPORTER: Does it make you more likely to fire Rosenstein? Do you still have confidence in him after reading the memo?

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You figure that one out.

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WALLACE: Congressman Swalwell, is this memo an excuse to shut down the Mueller investigation?

REP. ERIC SWALWELL, D-CALI., INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: It does appear that way, Chris. And good morning to my colleague, Chris Stewart.

We believe that the memo that the Republicans put out shows not a single abuse, but a willingness to risk our republic to protect the president. So, I hope that Mr. Stewart is sincere when we go back to Washington this week that he would do all he could to protect Bob Mueller and Mr. Rosenstein and support the bipartisan legislation that’s out there that would do that. And also that would support releasing the Democratic memo that puts into context point by point the seriousness of this investigation as well as new, unseen evidence that bolsters the FBI’s credibility.