Hooters, Hotels, Unsolicited Nudes and Extra Long Hugs: Eric Swalwell's Creepiness Knows No Bounds | 5.04.26 - The Grace Curley Show Hour 2

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I'm still not on board with like, oh, you know, this is a bad. This was a mistake because gas prices are high. I'm just getting a little bit impatient with the convoluted messaging we're getting and whether or not anything's actually coming from it and whether or not we're making moves here. I feel like the longer this goes on past the six week mark, which we are now well past that, the more. direct and the more precise your messaging has to be like the further out you get taylor from this timeline it's it's really kind of goes back to what i was saying earlier about the restaurants being a server you know people are willing i am willing to wait I'm willing to hear you out. I'm willing for you to make a decision that I might not like, might be hard. But if you really think it's the best choice, I'm willing to hear you out on that. But I need to know what's going on. And I understand they can't tell us everything. I get that. It's the fog of war. You don't want to ran to know exactly what we're thinking. But it is getting to a point now where, like you said, every day we're reading these headlines, and you start to not know what to believe. And so I would like if our administration would come out. And I understand this is part of the negotiation tactics, but. I really don't know how much you can negotiate with these people. They talk about like, oh, the hardliners and the moderates. The moderates you can't negotiate with it. The moderates aren't moderate. They're moderate compared to, I guess, the hardliners, but that's not saying much. So every time where I used to give a lot of grace to the idea of, oh, this is all part of the negotiations, I don't really think negotiations are working. I don't really think there's a way to negotiate with these mullahs. So I would rather see, honestly, some direct action. And a game plan of what they're going to do, I do think the blockade is a good idea. I think they should keep the blockade going. But I don't know if the blowing them off the face of the earth threats are working. I don't know if this is... All that does is bring them to the table again and buys them another couple of weeks and they come out to a ceasefire and then ceasefire deadline's over and there's no deal and then we get tough again and then they say, okay, we'll come back to the, it's a never-ending cycle. Something has to end the cycle. Either follow through on one of these threats or just abandon the operation. Listen, I love. Do you not think the blockade is putting enough pressure where they're going to buckle at any time? What do their finances look like? How much reserves do they have built up where they can support themselves? There's obviously not enough unrest in the country itself for them to rise up and take these guys out or they're just under, you know, like a hostage situation like in Gaza with Hamas. But. Something's got to give here. You can't just keep going back and forth. That's the part of it that I find troubling is with the blockade. It's like I appreciate the fact that they're on the brink of an economic collapse and this blockade is really putting a stranglehold on them. But I don't know if you can break people.

who have the mentality of it is like a weird thing if people are willing to die for this i don't think anything economic or anything to do with the blockade is going to be the thing that ends this right and you can't have a rebellion for someone on behalf of someone yeah because if they're not going to rise to the occasion they're just not going to rise to it but i will say this is today and tomorrow like this is ever changing and things do change and and If we get some good news on this that maybe there's... Listen, I'm still not counting this as a forever war. It's far from that. No. We're not talking like 10 years. It's been just a couple of months. You know what the word is that depresses me on this? I'm just being transparent with the audience. The word that depresses me when I see the Chiron is talks. Talks. Trump feeling confident about talks with Iran. Trump talking about the possibility of more talks with Iran. It's like the time for talking has to be over. There's no talking with these people. I really, I, I, I. I wish, I wish it were different. I wish I could look at this, like I've looked at so many other deals that he makes and go, oh, good, they're at the table. He's got the cards. And if anyone could do it. And by the way, if there ever was a person who could bring the mullahs into a talk and make that, I have no doubt, Taylor, that Trump is the guy. If there was ever a world in which these people were willing to sit down and make a deal and stick with it, it would be with Trump. But I don't think it's a failure on Trump's. Part, I just don't think it's ever going to happen. I don't think it would matter who was president, who was in there, who they were talking to. Unless you're Obama and you're giving them pallets of cash, you're unfreezing all their assets and you're giving them exactly what they want, I don't think it matters how good of a negotiator or the art of the deal you got going. I don't think they care. So we'll see. Let's talk about Eric Swalwell, though. We got to talk about Eric Swalwell. This is such a crazy, crazy story. So CNN has this. It says, as Eric Swalwell's public profile grew, more than a dozen women describe how he made them uncomfortable in private. We're going to go through this. A 19-year-old L.A. restaurant hostess was stunned to get a LinkedIn message from Eric Swalwell. A congressman she had interacted with briefly as she escorted him and his party to a table, only telling him her first name. Right there. Freak. Freak azoid. Freakazoid and you're coming at me through LinkedIn, major red flags. It's funny how these guys who were such creeps. Wait, he found her and she only told him her first name and he was able to find her afterwards. Yeah, that's weird. That's weird. That's diabolical behavior. And you know what it is? There's guys like this, they've got so many different. platforms that they're utilizing at all times. Like they've got so many different channels that they're trying to creep on girls through. It's like, okay, I'm gonna go on my... You know he's just refreshing these. Like, okay, let's check the LinkedIn. Let's check the Snapchat. Let's check the Snapchat. Anything on Instagram, any DMs on Instagram. It's very, very strange. So a young congressional staffer said Eric Swalwell sent her flirty messages on Snapchat after talking to her inside a Capitol Hill office and slipping his business card into her back pocket. Another young woman who connected online with Eric Swalwell about a policy issue said he repeatedly sent her suggestive

messages offered to fly her to D.C. and even wrote her a letter of recommendation despite never meeting in person. He would Snapchat me. He'd be like, what do you want to do with your future? She recalled. And then he'd be like, what are you wearing right now? More than a dozen women who spoke with CNN described interactions with Swallow that made them uncomfortable over the last decade, from social media messages to in-person encounters, to alleged attempts by the congressmen to lure them into his hotel room. Some asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation. Their accounts at a new depth to a portrait of troubling behavior by Eric Swalwell, who dropped out of the California governor's race and resigned from Congress last month. I'm just going to, I am skipping around here a little bit if you want the full story. It's from CNN. Has he officially resigned? Is he out? Is he done? Did I miss that? I think so. Do they need to do some sort of, they love ceremonies, these people? Is there a ceremony that has to take place? Or someone has to bang and gavel? Yeah. They're like the women who throw a divorce party, you know? It's like, everybody can't. You start by your hand on the Bible and by the end you just take it off. Like it's reverse. And then I show up in the background, I go, reverse. I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to check in on that. But their account suggests that even as the Democratic rising star drew Plottitz from connecting with young voters on social media where he advocated for women and blasted President Trump for a history of sexual assault allegations, he was using the same platform to reach out to women and at times to sexually pursue them. That's putting it mildly. Sam Azari, an attorney for Eric Swalwell, remember this name, Taylor, said in a statement that Eric Swalwell categorically and unequivocally denies each and every allegation of sexual misconduct and assault that has been leveled against him. She said that Eric Swalwell denied the accounts of some of the women who spoke to CNN and that his communications with others were routine and professional. Someone asking you what you're wearing, by the way, not routine, nor is it professional. Okay? I've been in, I've been in the business world. For over a decade, I would say. Nothing about that strikes me. No one's ever asked me through a text of what I'm wearing. No one's ever asked me that in my business, in my career. And if anyone ever did, I would not consider that professional. She also confirmed that Eric Swalwell had consensual relationships outside of his marriage. So this is his lawyer. He had extramarital contact with women. He's not denying that, but that's very different from engaging in non-consensual sexual misconduct. So we are confirming, and he did confirm this too, when he was like, I'm, you know, I didn't do anything wrong. I deny all these accusations. I'm sorry to my wife. He also confirmed that there was definitely he wasn't a faithful husband, as if we needed him to tell us that. The night after CNN reporters outlined the woman's account to Azari. to seek comment. So the night after CNN reporters reach out to his lawyer for comment, without sharing any of their names, Eric Swalwell personally sent Snapchat messages to two of the women. So CNN, I just want to walk us through this. CNN reaches out to Eric Swalwell's lawyer. Doesn't name any of these people and just says, we have it that he was Snapchatting people inappropriately, whatever. He then, his lawyer must say to him like, is this true? Are you Snapchating these women inappropriately? He takes it. This dumbass takes it upon himself to go back to Snapchat to send these women messages. They didn't name them. So he just outed himself because he goes to the actual women, two of them and says, why are you screenshoting my snap?

He asked one message. He asked one woman in a message sent around 2 a.m. according to a video she provided CNN. Whatever money he's giving this lawyer, he might as well to set it on fire. Because any lawyer would tell you, let's not go back to Snapchat. In fact, in fact, in fact, why don't we just really cover our asses here and delete the app? A lot of apps, they'll have minimum requirements for usage. Like, you've got to be 18 and over. Something like Snapchat. Once you hit 25, it's time to delete it. Dude, what do you do? This guy's, what, 40 years old or so? And he's hitting people up on Snapchat. What are you in high school? It is weird. I do have Snapchat, but I just... I don't really lose it. I got rid of that a long time ago. But I'm only using it to like send a picture of my coffee to my friends and be like, oh, look how much cream they put in this one. It's a very boring life I leave. What's the point of that? Did they need to know that? No, but, you know, it's part of what makes society function. You need to know these things about each other. Some women who interacted with Swallow described him as exhibiting Jekyll and Hyde behavior. He portrayed himself as a champion of women's rights, blah, blah, blah, but he's not actually. Yeah, it's always the feminist bros with the man buns who aren't actually feminists. Always the feminist bros who are like, hey, listen, the future is female. Those are always the biggest bleep bags, okay? That's something that every woman who has half a brain knows at this point. When a guy starts lecturing you, like, hey, man, I'm just, I just want a woman to be president. You're like, okay, this is a scumbag right here. This guy is one of the worst. That's just, that's science. That's settled science. It screams pervert to me, yes. It's so easy to put things off. I'll do that in the new year. Everyone's putting everything off these days because especially if it has to do with yourself. You have a million things to worry about. And you oftentimes will put yourself in the back seat. Well, I don't want you to do that because especially if it's your smile, you want it to be perfect. You want to be proud of it. I know the first thing how he does when he comes back to Mass is that he goes to perfect smiles. He gets everything checked out. I also go to perfect smiles quite a bit. I got my invisible line there. I've loved the process of my invisible lines. I was actually Taylor driving into work today. And I was admiring my smile. While you were driving? Yeah, red lights, red lights. Yeah. You know. But I was like, hey, girl, it's looking straight. It's looking good. It's what I always wanted. And now it's here. And so, yeah, sometimes I'm going to take a minute and go, thank you, Dr. Tam. Let me see the bottom. Oh, yeah. Very nice. And my jaw feels better, too. That's the great thing. You get your teeth. Right, whether it's getting them aligned or getting them cleaned and other problems take care of themselves. And so this has been a wonderful experience for me. I now have my retainer trays. It's been easy as pie. If you want to check out perfect smiles, if you want to ask them about an embeciline or veneers or whatever it might be, please contact them at 603-595-6699. Tell Melissa, you heard about it here, say, I heard Grace talk about it. I want to know what this is all about. She will set you up with an appointment and that's all you need to do. It's 603-595-66.

699 or visit them at perfect smiles.com. We'll be right back. The Grace Curley Show will return. This is the Grace Curley Show. Welcome back, everyone, to The Grace Curley Show. And thank you so much. You have the national gas price right now. The average is 445. Ooh. And, you know, in California and Massachusetts, they should suspend the gas tax, but they won't. They won't do it. Actually, I saw Adam Schiff essentially saying, like, yeah, I would be on board with that, but we need a new tax to add on to it. Forget it then. If you're just going to take away one and add on another, you're not helping. But that's obviously the point. Now, speaking of people who don't help, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren, we're at one point very excited about blocking a merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines because they thought... that if Spirit Airlines merge with JetBlue, it would eliminate competition between airlines. And now Spirit Airlines is dead. So it's safe. But it's safe to say. that you're really going crazy with the sound drops today. It's safe to say that the airlines have less competition, right? When one of the airlines goes defunct, I'm going to say not good. But I want to play this Pete Buttigieg cut before Taylor because this is him talking about blocking this merger. And what they did was the DOJ stepped in and said, we're going to file a lawsuit. We're going to do all these things. And then Spirit was like, guys, we don't have any money. Are you seeing what people are? People are flying on cardboard boxes. We're asking people to fly the planes halfway through the trip. We can't afford to be in a lawsuit with the government. So they said, forget it. The merger's off. And then they went bankrupt. And then they went bankrupt again. And now they're dead. And so this was Pete Buttigieg taking a victory lap on that way back when. 2023 flashback cut six. Our department, the Department of Transportation, has generally not gotten involved in these merger cases, but that's changing today. It is so important to make sure that passengers have choices, that they have access to low fares, that they have access to competition, and yet we've seen less and less and less of that competition over the years. We are taking a step that, again, is unusual in terms of recent years, but we think is the right thing to do, supporting the... DOJ's lawsuit and independently using our own authorities, which are a little bit different from the DOJ, starting our own investigation and taking other actions. Yeah, and a federal court sided with the DOJ, the Biden DOJ, and block the merger. And now...

Now we're not hearing from Pete Buttigieg. He's gone quiet on this one. Today's poll question is brought you by Local Silver Mint, located in Ware, New Hampshire. Silver Day will work with you directly, so contact him at localsilverment.com. Taylor, what is the poll question and what are the results thus far? Who comes out looking worse following the demise of Spirit Airlines? Pete Buttigieg? Sean Duffy, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, or Donald Trump. This could change because if Pete Buttigieg, I want to hear his excuse. I haven't heard his yet. But Elizabeth Warren went from saying, this is a Biden win for flyers to saying, well, the judge was the one who did it, not me. And I find that to be especially slimy and really giving people the run around. So I'm going to say Elizabeth Warren. 69% say Elizabeth Warren. Now, how's this for a teaser? When we come back. We are going to talk about Hooters because I'm looking at in the green room, there are three men that work with me in the green room right now, and two out of three of them have been to a Hooters. You know who had an event at a Hooters? Congressman Eric Swalwell. Oh, man, you should order milk. We're going to talk, Eric Swalwell, when we come back.

is on the air. Just wanted to mention here, Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized right now. He's in critical condition. Not a lot of details on what's going on as far as his medical problem, but things do not look good. So saying my prayers for... Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, obviously a very good friend of Donald J. Trump and sad news there. Also right now, and I had mentioned this in my teaser today because we were talking about Spirit Airlines. We were talking about the way people travel, the price of these flights, and also the price of gas. It's the highest since 2022, which that cannot be right because I don't remember anyone talking about gas being high in 2022. That feels like that are we sure? Because in 2022, Why was it that no one was talking about this? If they were that high in 2022 that right now they've just reached 22 levels, what was it about that time that it seemed to push this off the headlines for so long? Was it because there was a sharp, Socratic, compassionate man leading the country? So no one wanted to talk about this? I don't know. But it got me thinking, look, what are people doing, Taylor for travel? Are people opting out now of flying because it's so expensive? But then again, driving is very expensive. Are people doing staycations? We got the summertime coming up. This is when a lot of people plan their big, you know, yearly trip somewhere. Do you think this is going to impact travel? And part of me thinks, no, because no matter how much, how expensive everything is. Every year we hear about like the most people are going to be on the road. This is the most busy the airports are ever going to be. So people seem to do stuff either way. Oh, airports always going to be a hassle. I'm one of those guys that. You're like Spencer Pratt in the RV. So here's the compromise that my family has come to. Because we have three small kids and they all require their car seats. And now you know what carrying car seats through an airport is like, then picking them and strollers to boot. It is a hassle. So two adult men are going to drive the car while... loaded up with car seats and strollers and everything, so we don't have to deal with that at the airport. We're willing to drive the 18, 20 hours or so from Massachusetts to Kissimmee, Florida and let the kids travel on the plane. Oh. Oh, that's nice. Oh, I like that deal. I'm going to suggest that to my husband. I like that a lot. I think that's a good plan. Yeah. I would also tell people if you're traveling through the airport with kids, I've done this before. One time I traveled with both my kids. I was by myself. And I think I said this after the fact. If someone offers to help you, like if there's a strapping guy there, if a Taylor Cormier, for example, is there. And he says, hey, can I help you with that bag?

Here's a tip for the ladies. Say yes. See all these women who are like, no, no, no, I got it. And then you delay everyone because everyone's behind you and you got a million bags, you're not moving. Someone offers, just assumed that they're offering because they actually want to help and be like, sure, why don't you take this big bag of crap and we'll all move along a lot faster? That's something I had to learn the hard way because my instinct tailor was to go, no, no, no, no, I got it. Thanks so much, but I'm good. And then all of a sudden I had to say, Hmm, maybe I should just let this guy help me. A lot of these men are walking around the airport with nothing in their hands. Was anybody hurt during that interaction? Were there any hard feelings? Anybody lose their pride? No, everyone was happy. He felt good. He treated you like a female and you accepted his male help. I didn't tell you this. I didn't tell you this when this happened. Okay, so I'm staying there. But equity and equality wouldn't have gotten you that interaction. I just want to point that out. Oh, no, that was chivalry. Pure and simple. And I'm a big fan of chivalry. That was giving up any feminist kind of agenda and saying, I will accept help from a man. Oh my gosh. And I feel like I'm doing my part because people feel good when they're helping. You know, it's like, there you go. I'm helping you help. Yeah. Don't you feel good about yourself, Jerry Seinfeld, eating your turkey sandwich at the restaurant. Everybody feels good. Yeah, but when I was in line at the airport and I got the stroller. Is this somehow dovetailing with Eric Swalwell? No, no, no, that's a separate thing. Don't worry, don't worry. We're putting a pin in that for now. I'm at the airport. I got my stroller. I got my two kids. And there's a guy behind me, an old man. And then there's a family behind me. Man, wife, two teenage daughters. And that guy, he's like a pretty young dad. That guy says to me, so he's now talking to me, but there's a guy in between us. Hey, when we get on the flight, would you like me to take that bag for you? I'm happy to carry it back. I'm also in the back of the plane. And I go, oh, yeah, that would be great. He goes, I can see you got your hands full. Nice thing, nice comment. Like, I can see you got a lot going on. Old guy. You know how old guys are? They love to make a joke. Oh, yeah. Are you going to offer to help me? Said something like that. Oh, God. This guy did not appreciate it. He goes, she has got her hands full. He goes, oh, no, I know, I'm just saying. And I was like, this is so uncomfortable. So you took that moment of chivalry and you made it weird. You made it about yourself. Boomer mentality. It was very boomer. It was very boomer. I was like, ugh, why'd you have to say that? You just ruin this good moment. But I did let him take my bag. I don't know. I would say the staycations are probably going to be pretty in style this summer. I think people are now. And that's something teller that's kind of after COVID, too. People started to create these, they started building pools and making their houses kind of a nice place to be so that they could hang there in the summer and not have to travel. We might see a little bit more of that. But no, we are, we're done with the spirit airline. I hope we've laid spirit to rest in a way that people find appropriate. This is the end for Spirit. And 17,000 people don't have jobs now, thanks to Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg. So I just wanted to point that out. Now, coming back here to the hooters of it all with Eric Swalwell. This is the CNN article. As Eric Swalwell's public profile grew more than a dozen women say he made them uncomfortable in private. Azari, that is Eric Swalwell's lawyer.

Swallow won his congressional race defeating a 40-year incumbent more than double his age and drew his national profile but connecting with young voters on social media. We can restore a lot of faith that people have in their democracy by opening up a little bit more. Eric Swalwell told the Hill that year. Snapchat is a great way to do that. The news outlets headline crowned him, the Snapchat King of Congress. And he certainly was. He certainly was the Snapchat king of Congress. But Swallow wasn't just using Snapchat to engage with constituents or promote legislation he supported, according to the women who spoke with CNN. A former congressional staffer said Eric Swalwell began sending her flirty messages on Snapchat after she met him in 2017 when she was a college intern. She said Eric Swalwell first noticed her in the cloakroom of the Democratic Caucus, a private meeting area. She was looking for a job and trying to network, she said, so she was excited when Swallow took an interest in her, but soon he made her uncomfortable. He was overly friendly with me, finding reasons to talk to me in a corner alone or touching my shoulder, hugging me a bit too long. One time, and you know what I'm going to say? You know what I'm going to say on this, Taylor? In the professional setting? No hugs. No hugs. Don't need it. I go to party sometimes. I'm like, I don't think the hugs are necessary here. It's not that I think anyone's being weird, but it's just like, that's one thing from COVID. I don't mind the finger guns. I don't mind that. Hey, how you doing over there? Don't, don't you come over here. You stay over there. We're all doing right. Head knot is fine. Head knot. We saw each other. Just not going is great. And Seinfeld, when Jerry talks about the double kiss, that woman who insists on kissing him, I 100% agree, especially around the holidays. Everybody's so into the kiss on the cheek. Why? Why do we need this? Somebody went in for a kiss on the cheek with me the other night. I don't even know you that well. No, it feels passe. Let's do a strong handshake, if that. I don't mind a strong handshake. I don't know. There's something nice about the kiss on the cheek, though. It's very, it's old school. There's an occasion for it. There are things, I agree, there's an occasion for it, but there are also things of Americana and American culture that we shouldn't just let slip away. Here's what I'll say. We can agree and disagree on when and where. Here's the thing we agree on. The office? Never necessary. Meeting with a congressional staffer that's working for you. Hug. I don't. Forget a hug that lasts too long. How about a hug period? It's like, why are we hugging each other? We don't need to be doing this. Right. That's an easy, you know what that is? That is an unforced error for most people. It's like if you're, and that's why Taylor you see these celebrities like Keanu Reeves, guys who have been around the block a million times. They take pictures with fans. You know what they do? Arms out. The floating arms. Arms out. Smart move. Hand float. I think that's a great idea. It's like, we don't want to leave any room for a misunderstanding here. But with Eric Swalwell, that seemed to be the point of it. So he was overly friendly. He asked for her, he wrote his personal cell phone number on the back of her business card. Her mother also confirmed in an interview that the woman had told her about the interaction with Eric Swalwell. While Eric Swalwell never sent her overtly sexual content on Snapchat, she said he sent her flirting messages and selfies. Their interactions trailed off after she found another.

their job. Now, his lawyer says those allegations were categorically false. Heather Purcell said she met the congressman at a TV studio during the 2016 DNC convention. Purcell, who was in her 20s and working at a political consulting firm, had grown up in Eric Swalwell's district. When she introduced herself to Eric Swalwell, she said, he looked at me up and down in a way that made me feel uneasy. He asked her about herself, touched her shoulder, and wrote his personal email address on a business card he gave her. When Purcell got a new job on the hill a few months later, she emailed Eric Swalwell and he responded in part by sending her his personal phone number. Purcell said she never called Eric Swalwell and didn't interact with him again in person. She had a gut feeling that the power dynamic did not feel right to me, that he was just trying to engage in a personal relationship when it should have been professional. As the Me Too movement focused attention on women facing harassment in the workplace, Eric Swalwell publicly positioned himself as a champion of women. He tweeted Dems or Cleaning House when Al Franken resigned over his sexual misconduct claims, which really, in hindsight, they're not saying what Al Franken... you know, that he shouldn't have resigned. But compared to what Eric Swalwell is being accused of, that was nothing. The most important thing we can do for the Me Too movement, he told CNN in June of 2018, is to make sure that every woman in America is protected at her workplace. By that summer, Swallow had become a fixture on CNN speaking out about Trump. A former L.A. model said in a news conference and a follow-up interview with CNN around this time in July 2018 that Eric Swalwell drugged and raped her. Her attorneys have not publicly released evidence to corroborate the alleged assault, but said they were cooperating with law enforcement in Los Angeles who were investigating the claim. Swallow's lawyer categorically denies those allegations that he engaged in non-consensual sex with her. This is just, it goes on and on. And when we come back, I'll read you the part about the private part messages that he's sending people unsolicited. This man is just, and it's, it is true. It's like it's always the feminist, you know, guys who are up there. Remember he used to get up with Roe versus Wade Taylor and talk about his kids? I'm going to find this during the break. He, there are these guys who. it kind of goes back to the louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. It's like the more they try to convince you, I'm standing up for women. It's like you just as a woman, you get a gut feeling like these women are saying that this guy is not authentic, that he's got ulterior motives. And unfortunately, it was even more gross than a lot of us thought. We'll talk about it when we come back, stay with us. Follow Grace on X at G underscore Curley. This is the Grace Curley. This is the Grace Curley Show.

Speaking of California, we've been talking a lot about Eric Swalwell. Kamala Harris, fresh off her snooze fest fundraiser with that guy who fell asleep playing the saxophone. She just announced she's endorsing L.A. Mayor Karen Bass for re-election. This is great news for Spencer Pratt. This is great. Spencer Pratt is surging right now in these polls. And the only thing they have on him is, well, he's technically doesn't have a residence in the area that he's running for. He has an RV. And so he's technically doesn't have a house there because it burnt down because of the... mismanagement from Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom and all these government officials. You're kind of making his point. He doesn't have a big house there like Karen Bass because his house burnt down. And it's taking a really long time to rebuild because of the red tape and the incompetence from Karen Bass. But I'm happy that Kamala Harris is coming out and supporting her because this makes perfect sense. One incompetent person supporting another incompetent person, both epic failures in California. This sometimes the endorsements people get, I think are. more of a victory for the person running against them. Because anyone in California who's on the fence, if they hear Kamala Harris who blew through a billion dollars and wasn't able to win the presidency against Donald Trump. is endorsing Karen Bass. Everything's going to start to add up. Now, I wanted to read you one more part here from this Eric Swalwell story in CNN. Two women who were quoted in CNN's previous story said that Eric Swalwell began sending them messages on Snapchat after connecting with them on social media, including explicit messages and unsolicited nude photos and videos of himself. Another woman told CNN she received sexually tinged messages and videos from Eric Swalwell. The congressman first messaged her on Twitter to speak about her work in recent years. This is like his big thing. He's always trying to help people. Like, oh, yeah, I want to connect you to someone. He's a real networker. Over the course of several months, he would message her. When he visited her city, often suggesting she visit him at his hotel, which she interpreted as him propositioning her. He also suggested he could help her with her career. She shared screen grabs of her conversations with Eric Swalwell on CNN. And then there's another story in here of a woman, a former congressional staffer.

who had a consensual sexual relationship with him over years, she said he started sending her messages on Snapchat. That seems to be his preferred method of communication, Snapchat. After she left her job, they had sexual intercourse multiple times in hotels over the years, consensual. They sent each other explicit videos and photos, and Eric Swalwell sent her nude photos of himself in videos of him masturbating. She recorded some on the Snapchat videos. which showed Eric Swalwell's face and naked body and showed them to CNN. So Eric Swalwell is never going to have a political career again. And thank God for that. This man is the worst of the worst. All right, everyone, have a good Monday. Howie's coming up next. He's back in studio.