joining us is california democratic congressman eric swalwell. his district borders kamala harris' hometown of oakland. welcome. >> thank you, josh. >> what do members of congress do about this? the senate has adjourned until after labor day. it is off the job for at least the next three and a half, almost four weeks. with everything else going on, including trying to figure out another stimulus package for the coronavirus, what does congress do about this? >> we fight. we keep fighting. we know who is counting on the mail. it's not only mail-in voting. it's 600,000 prescriptions a day sent to patients of the va. so we have the power of the purse. we have the leverage of oversite. we ha we'll continue to fight, joshua. this president has never met a deal or seen an election he wasn't willing to cheat. he will do anything to avoid losing the election.

let's speak to someone who has been briefed on the intelligence, former 2020 candidate eric swalwell,elevant to this discussion, inside the impeachment of donald j. trump and he would have an inside view of that. thanks for taking the time this morning. >> of course, good morning, jim and poppy. >> so, first, let's take this presidential claim head-on, and i'm not going to play the sound again because it's a claim made without evidence. >> thank you. >> you're familiar with what the president says that china and rushal grab batches of mail-in ballots and fake them, et cetera. based on the evidence you've seen is that true or false? >> false. absolutely false, but that won't stop him from saying it. there is overwhelming evidence that just like 2016 russia has a preferred candidate in this race and that's donald trump and they're seeking to help him and they have a candidate that they would like to tear down just as they did in 2016 and that's joe biden and that they're doing this, actually now by laundering information through united states senators. so maybe donald trump should direc

. >> california democratic congressman eric swalwell has been our guest for this segment. congressman, thank you. >>> another break. when nicolle and i return, basketball meets balloting.

let's recommend eric swalwell to talk more about everything happening on capitol hill. >> good morning. >> let's talk about, at the end of all this fighting going back and forth and the court battles and we can drill down on that a little bit. how can we help the american public in a time when people are suffering and losing their jobs and businesses are closing. this back and forth on capitol hill and no one can come to an agreement. >> we need to pass the heroes act. that immediately applies direct relief to families. it extends an employment and sharon send continues to forgive student loan and it gives state and local governments $1 trillion. for the last 12 weeks we have had that plan and we passed it and the house and the senate called for a pause and cannot do anything at all. the president's executive orders yesterday are unconstitutional. it is like a child playing house. it doesn't help a single family. >> is there compromised happening? i want to talk about the constitutionality of it but steven mnuchin said just is happening because there is no n negotiations. we have a lit

. >>> today california congress members barbara lee and eric swalwell will team up. they will be on facebook live talking about how the coronavirus affected these bay. congresswoman lee and congressman swell well will be on the facebook live conversation this afternoon. congresswoman lee wants to make sure that coronavirus vaccines will be free and accessible. congressman swell will not be supporting the postal service as a condition of any relief bill. that facebook live conversation is at 130 this afternoon. >>> in the meantime the washington, dc negotiations over another coronavirus relief package not making a lot of progress we are told. republicans and democrats are showing concerns that there will not be a deal this week. one of the biggest sticking points, unemployment benefits. democrats want to expand the $600 weekly bonus. republicans want to give some extra money but they don't want people making more money on unemployment than on their job. the senate minority leader says renters need to be given financial help. in addition to be protected from being affe

she was talking to california congressman eric swalwell who at one point wanted bore impeached and she could not contain herself i don't think he's gotten better since i made that call he hasn't gotten better and in fact if you look at things that have happened since then i'm thinking roger stone for example things have got worse given all of that let's be honest the sides questioning bill maher today and hopefully for you tripping him up what oversight can your committee realistically do did you hear that hopefully you'll trip him up during questioning hey stephanie you forgot to wear your impeach bar hacked what was that about sticking with them isn't b.c. one of the people who is looking i apparently to replace joy reid who moved to weekdays from weekends is a woman named tiffany quo us now she had on a guest an african-american backing donald trump in fact he happens to be the head of the national diversity coalition for the trump campaign and here's how some of that when your colleague you're using these racist terms like a good time at the very same time to cohabit 19 he came fro

>>he's a congressman eric swalwell is calling the stimulus bill absolutely necessary for everyone to get through the pandemic he said that the new legislation would mean hazard pay to front-line workers and ppp for small business through the heroes act. >>we also need to take care of our front-line workers and the heroes just hazard pay to front-line workers so that and they can continue to work during these harsh conditions as well as making sure small businesses can continue to draw on the paycheck protection plan which gives them a payroll and so that they can keep their employees paid and they don't have to go on unemployment insurance and also just have that pride and dignity of being able to say they can keep their job. >>well house democrats included 200 billion dollars for hazard pay in the heroes act. well to the south bay now san jose's longtime police chief is preparing to pass on the baton to a new leader chief eddie garcia announced this week that he will indeed retire at the end of the year. he served as chief since 2016 but spent nearly 3 decades in the department duri

. >>> in dublin, eric swalwell will hold another event addressing voting rights and that event will beat the post office on village parkway. >>> congresswoman barbara lee will hold an emergency town hall this afternoon along with panelist like voting rights advocates to discuss the usps and voting in alameda county. >>> according to tsa reports, demand is picking up. they had a busy weekend streaming more than 680,000 passengers on saturday and more than 816,000 sunday. it marks the second sunday in a row that the number topped 800,000 since the start of the pandemic. the numbers show an uptick and they are significantly down about 7% compared to 2019. >>> an update on a san francisco restaurant that got attention for how it tried to make dining safer. the health department has ordered it to take down its igloo light doan's. they spent $4000 on three domes to encourage customers to eat their during the pandemic but the health department says the domes may not allow for adequate airflow because the structures are enclosed. the owner also reported anr checon the weatand if hose s anotr h

eric swalwell has long believed this.atch. >> with this expense is empathy, does not call integrator question the going on? >> here we go again, this sounds awfully familiar. members of the u.s. senate are acting as russian launderers of this information to bring down a u.s. candidate. that's reprehensible. should stop. >> tucker: senator ron johnson of wisconsin, seems like a sensible, moderate businessman character, right? no, ron johnson is working for vladimir putin. msnbc is on the case. >> russia is doing it again. house speaker nancy pelosi said it best. with donald trump, all roads lead to vladimir putin. >> we see now they are passing off to the american people information that is intercepted by the russian intelligence services intended to undermine faith in the american system. >> russia can't believe we are saying this has friends in the u.s. senate who are helping russia disseminate their talking points here. >> russia is actively working to "denigrate joe biden." my question for you is ron johnson, senator f

you have alex padilla, you have congressman eric swalwell, congressman adam schiff, you have fiona, state office holders out there. every type, size, fit out there is already looking at that going, it will be a very interesting couple months as we run the presidential race and who will be the next senator for california. >> yeah. a lot to play out. it will be very interesting. we appreciate your insight. thank you. >> as a black man, i am absolutely blown away that there is on that ticket a black woman of the vice presidency. >> today, brown reiterated that he believes the political ambitions would have been better served if she became biden's attorney general instead of vice president. >> i may be old timing in the sense of trying to make sure that you play the game the way you need to play the game. you want to be the president. at some point you have to show thatture true leader. not that you are the follower of someone elgs who is the leader. >> but he says she will be the most important surrogate biden will have in the campaign. >>> another san francisco mayor was quick to praise joe

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congressman eric swalwell and barbara lee are encouraging people to avoid large gatherings. >> people got antsy. they saw other parts of the country opening. >> i drive around and i look at different areashe la, you. people have been too relaxed. i see people without masks, grouping together. >> both represent parts of alameda county which is seeing more than 12,000 positive covid-19 cases. >> facebook employees will be allowed to work from home through june of 2021. the ceo mark zuckerberg had previously said there's no timetable for bringing workers back to offices. google has said employees can work remotely through the end of june and twitter has said they can do so permanently. >>> people are scrambling to find childcare solutions. but a new program from the ymca could be a saving grace for many people and their kids. >> i miss my teachers. >> reporter: she's ready for the fifth grade. distance learning for now but she won't be home all the time. she'll be here at the ymca on mission street with other students her own age. >> you do your zooms and then do you the homework that yo

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. >> and happening today -- >>> representatives eric swalwell will hold a conference. that's at 2 healthcare afternoon. they will be joined by the fremont fire chief and the cal fire unit chief. >>> at noon, governor newsom will give an update on how the state is responding to the fires. you can watch that today on kpix 5 and also streaming on cbsn bay area. >>> new is g,me peterson was convicted of nvted murdering his wife and unborn child in 2002. on monday, the california supreme court ruled that jury selection was impartial. in peterson's 2004 trial. the court cited that 13 prospective jurors revealed they were improperly dismissed during the trial. some jurors are surprised and disappointed. >> scott was responsible for that. for him to take two lives and not pay the ultimate penalty is in my mind ridiculous. >> the jurors believe the trial was fair and every other regard but for now peterson still sits in san quentin state prison. >>> the murder conviction against him stays the court now orders a new penalty phase trial. they have 90 days to decide what's next. >

she going to hold a rally outside of the san francisco post office, and representative eric swalwell will do the same in dublin, and represent anna eshoo will do the same in palo alto. >> and he is doing everything in his power to try to sow doubt and undermine the vote. i am telling you that i will not let him get away with it. >> president trump says that the postmaster is trying to make sure that the post office is running properly, but at the same press availability, he said that the post office is already running well. the house speaker nancy pelosi is call back from the recess and back to washington to vote on $25 billion for funding for the post office and we will follow that and the rallies today and you can find it all at nbcbayarea.com. kris sanchez for today in the bay. >> thank you for the latest, kris. it is 7:37, and now continuing with the covid coverage. the number of cases in the united states is topping the 634,000 with the number of dead exceeding 11,000. this is coming as the cdc is saying that covid is the third leading cause of death in the united states right b

she is going to be speaking at a rally outside of the bay area post office, and representative eric swalwell doing the same thing, and congresswoman eschoo is going to be in pal low al low, and they are talking about suing the administration. >> he is doing everything in his power to sow doubt and undermine the vote, and i am telling you that i will not let him get away with it. >> reporter: president trump says that the postmaster is trying to make sure that the post office is running properly, but at the same time at the same presser he said that post office is working very well. so house speaker nancy pelosi is calling the house back from the august recess to vote on giving $25 billion to the post office to roll back some of the changes and to make sure that it is running efficiently in time for the election. in san jose, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> thank you. perhaps a small sense of closure may come for some of the victims of the golden state killer with an emotional hearing starting later today. a four-day sentencing trial is going to begin for joseph d'angelo. he is going to

here's house intelligence committee eric swalwell earlier today. >> you have in public reporting acknowledgments by this pro-russia individual that he is sending information and materials to the senate, hacked and leaked documents to the senate to denigrate, to tear down joe biden. and ron johnson and lindsey graham are all too willing to use it in their naked ambition to keep donald trump in power. the concern here is u.s. persons are being used to facilitate this russia influence operation. >> the confirmation from the intelligence community today that russia is actively working to get donald trump elected is one possible explanation as to why donald trump refuses to confront vladimir putin about whether russia paid bounties to the taliban for killing of u.s. troops in afghanistan. donald trump has repeatedly called the russia bounty story a hoax and claims it was not credible, which is strange, because it was credible enough for mike pompeo to bring it up with russia. "the new york times" reports that secretary of state mike pom may went against donald trump and warned about the bounty progra

knew that there was no collusion between trump in russia, there was no evidence whatsoever in eric swalwelle are such wretched characters who was the ranking -- number two guy of the democrats on the intelligence committee were still maintaining that trump is a russian agent, there is no evidence, think about that mentality. the democrat party is ethical, its moral compass, the ends justify the memes, we are going to rid the country of trump but it's much worse than that, we're going to rid america of its values. and they like the word transform although some of them use the actual word revolution. they're going to revolutionize america. but the whole democrat leadership knows that it is lying, they call trump a liar when he exaggerates, they call him a liar and then he disagrees with them. lying is pretty precise, you have to know what you're saying is false and do it anyway. in the entire impeachment project is driven by democrat lies in self-consciously want to circumvent the procedures of our democracy that have been in place for whatever it is 240 odd years. this is the most frightenin

>>he's a congressman eric swalwell is calling the stimulus bill absolutely necessary for everyone to get through the pandemic he said the new legislation would mean hazard pay to front-line workers and ppp for small businesses through the heroes act. we also need to take care of our front-line workers and the heroes just hazard pay to front-line workers so that. >>and they can continue to work during these harsh conditions as well as making sure small businesses can continue to draw on the paycheck protection plan which gives them a payroll. so that they can keep their employees paid and they don't have to go on unemployment insurance and also just have that pride and dignity of being able to say they can keep their job. >>house included 200 billion dollars for hazard pay in the heroes act. a look outside from the airport sfo words still cloudy this morning looks like it's a little bit of sunshine starting to peek through. >>your current temperature 56 degrees right now at >>good morning, welcome back to the kron 4 morning news 6.54 this wednesday morning we're taking a live look out

to see him take their last breath at the white house whitney wild kron 4 news is by congressman eric swalwell is calling the stimulus bill absolutely necessary. >>for everyone to get through the pandemic in hayward today, he said that the new legislation would mean hazard pay. >>to front-line workers and ppp for small businesses through the heroes act. >>we also need to take care of our front-line workers and the heroes just hazard pay to front-line workers so that and they can continue to work during these harsh conditions as well as making sure small businesses can continue to draw on the paycheck protection plan which gives them a payroll. so that they can keep their employees paid and they don't have to go on unemployment insurance and also just have that pride and dignity of being able to say they can keep their job. >>house democrats included 200 billion dollars for hazard pay in the heroes act. >>and i was like this is the year right dad. >>make it to see if you can come home. and. he's never coming home. >>never coming home that's the word because this san quentin inmate is dying of c

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. >>> following the postal service announcement, e >> congressman eric swalwell called for a present of crimes commission. he tweeted out that the commission should be made up of an independent prosecutors that look at those who enable a corruptive president. the tweet went on to say that example 1, sabotage, to win an election. >>> election officials say botta should not be concerned about their ballots being counted. santa clara county election officials say there are in the planning phase for the upcoming election. they say safeguards are in place to in to protect the integrity of the system. the county tracks when each bout comes in and people, not machines, check signatures on every ballot. >>> i don't believe our botta should be concerned about boat by mail boating. i've been hearing a lot of things in the news lately that there is widespread voter fraud. >>> santa clara county also said the ballots this year will have 70 days after election day to reach the election office people will be able to send ballots by mail or leave them at drop off sites all around the county. >>> ma

and eric swalwell will be outside of palo alto as well.the firefighters are trying to put out the marsh wildfire here going through the sunol preserve and burning at least 1,800 acres and at least 10 homes under mandatory evacuation, and several other homeowners have been warned to be prepared to evacuate. >>> i want to check in with meteorologist kari hall, and are conditions going to be any better for firefighters today? >> unfortunately not as we are going into this afternoon and it is going to be hot once again. we are having a calm wind this morning, and that is good news. we can see the smoke drifting by from the walnut creek cameras, where temperatures will reach 100 again today. 106 in antioch, and oakland reaching 97 and 98 is the high in san jose. going through the forecast, it is looking hot. the temperatures are coming down to 93 for the inland areas, but then starting to go back up by the end of the weekend into early next week. laura? >> all right. thank you very much. another local news update is coming up in a half hour. en