Ryans return. He is running on the promise that he hopes will win back democratic voters. He will take questions from you in the audience, democrats and independents who say they plan to participate in the democratic primary and caucuses. Please welcome tim ryan. [ cheers and applause ] hello. Good evening. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. Welcome. We have a great audience, thank you. Very energetic crowd tonight. Thank you for spending your sunday night with us. I want to get to the news, which is tragic news that we have to talk about. Fridays shooting in virginia beach, 12 innocent lives taken, murdered. Four people wounded seriously, the deadliest shooting in this country this year. What authorities are saying is that two 45 caliber pistols were found at the scene. Both legally purchased by the gunmen. One of those pistols had a suppresser. Several magazines were found near the shooter. You wrote, we need real good reform and we need it now. Is there any law that could have been passed that would have prevented this . I dont know if it would have prevented it, we all watch these stories, heart breaking, were away from our families and we know that were all vulnerable now, especially in these public spaces. My wifes a first grade schoolteacher, when these shootings happen, it hits particularly close to home for us with School Aged Kids as well. I think it could have been less severe if we had gun reform that didnt allow for those extended magazines. And the silencers. Thats ridiculous. I mean, to say that someone can have a silencer or an extended magazine in the United States today. Those need to be banned in the United States. That should not be a partisan issue, and the nra needs to get off the dime and help the American People make that hap n happen. You say this as someone who once had an a grade. Your position has changed. Lets go to our. From andrea, she joins us, she is an interior designer, and the volunteer leader of moms demand action. Good evening. Whats your question. Congressman ryan, its nice to have you here tonight. Im a fellow ohioan. And thats where i grew up. Where in ohio . I grew up in toledo. East side of toledo. As you well know, because you serve for ohio. Ohio and where i grew up, where you grew up, we have a strong culture of hunting, fishing, outside sporting. That same culture is here in georgia, where i now make my home. However the training requirements to get a license to own a firearm are very different between our two states. And across the country. And i would like to know that if youre elected, one, would you work toward requiring states to have a minimum training requirement in order to own a gun. And if so, what would you do to try to do that . And if not, why . Thank you for the question, and youre right. So just so everyone knows. My wifes a first grade schoolteacher, this is the first time ive ever gotten applauded for going from an a to an f. We have a sports man culture. One of the great days of my life every year is when our oldest son mason whos 16 and i do a duck hunting trip together. He does a lot better than me, so we wont talk too much about that. But i do think we need to have some requirements. I hate to get too much into what the states should do, but we should consistently be helping states make sure that gun owners pass a background check. Make sure that assault weapons are banned. We should not have weapons of war on the street in United States of america. We should make sure we study. We should make sure we study gun violence as a Public Health issue. And so we can help in that regard, and i think its important for the federal government to do those things and do it immediately. Thank you for the question. Congressman, let me follow up on that. Your fellow democratic candidate, jim swallwell is up next, woe like to pose a ban on semiautomatic military style assault weapons. He wants to offer a buy back program for them. And criminally bros cute anyone who does not sell them back. They could face jail time if they dont sell those guns back. Do you support that . Yes or no . I do support an assault weapons ban. He laid it out, which is, if you have these weapons you have to sell them back to the government. And if you dont, you can be criminally prosecuted as someone who has owned guns, hunted. Do you support that . I cant see why i would not support it, i dont want to say something, i support that i dont know about, and i havent read. I do support an assault weapons ban, and a background check. If youre going to buy the weapons back, i would be supportive of that. I want to see the details of it. We watch these school shootings, we have kids in school, my wife is in the schools. This is something i want to have an impact as president on the United States on. Congressman, lets get to our next question. Michael allen is with us, michael is a professional singer, you can serenade the whole group later. Lets see what you got there, fella. Not for free, im a capital i ist. I want to ask you something about winning back the voters that we lost. Particularly in your part of the country that ultimately gave the presidency to donald trump. He won a lot of those voters by promising to bring back jobs. And a lot of industries that are simply 20th Century Technologies or 19th Century Technologies, some of them have been automated out of business. Would you commit to telling workers like that, telling them the truth, their jobs arent going to come back, and helping them and coming up with concrete plans to help them move into the 21st century workforce . I appreciate that, its a good question. Im running because i understand exactly what those workers are going through. And in many ways, i believe im the only one in this campaign who deeply understands what those workers are going through, because ive been living in communities like that my entire life. My grandfather was a steel worker, my wife is from that community. Her dad worked in a steel mill, lost his job 40 years ago when they shut the gates down. I could tell you a story about my cousin donny who was a vietnam vet. His last act at the company he worked for was to unbolt the machine from the factory floor, put it in a box and ship it to china, okay . And then i can go back a couple weeks, its been in the New York Times about the general motor plant that has closed. That plant used to have 16,000 people. And when these plants close, i know whos working in them. Theyre my family, my friends. The first place i went when they laid off the last shift at General Motors was to go to union hall and put my arms around those workers, because i know them. Ive been telling my Community Since i started in politics, the steel mills arent coming back. Ive been telling them the truth for 20 years, and ive been doing everything in my power to use my congressional appropriations committee. I brought back hundreds of millions of dollars to my community to start an energy incubator, to work around Additive Manufacturing and 3d printing. To move our community into those future industries. Thats what i want to do as president of the United States. Because these folks, my folks, our folks are forgotten. Theyre black, theyre white, theyre brown, gay, straight, they take a shower after work, and when im president , theyre not going to be forgotten any more. When i walk into the white house every morning, no ones going to have to explain to me why im there or who im there for, okay . [ cheers and applause ] so congress manning, lets talk a little bit more about General Motors, because okay. Lets talk a little bit more about General Motors, i appreciate that question, its your district. I spent so much time there reporting on it for the last decade. And the president as you know, has threatened to cut subsidies for example. Im interested if you were president because youve called General Motors greedy, youve said they turn their back on us when we needed them most. Should there be consequences for u. S. Companies that shut our plants and lay off hundreds of thousands of American Workers . And what you said i said. I meant. So what would you do, should there be consequences for those companies . Its a real question, do you let capitalism run its course or subsidize . I believe that the tax code and the trade agreements in the last 40 years have devastated our country. Theyve been written for the corporations, you can see it the pharmaceutical industry, the manufacturing industry, whoever it is, thats agreements dont concern the worker. Its been a race to the bottom in the world for the last 30 or 40 years. And the middle class in the United States has been eviscerated because of that, we live with this every day. The schools dont have funding. The Mental Health board doesnt have funding. You fix the tax code by not incentivizing General Motors to move their company to mexico or to move their production to south korea. Work on the tax code. And i believe we have to have trade. Weve got to engage the world economically. But weve got to do it in a way where were lifting up their labor standards, their environmental standrd as, more in line with the west, europe, canada, the United States. And so i dont want any punishment, but lets write the rules to where theyre going to want to invest in the United States. I do just lastly, i do believe we need Public Private partnerships. I am we have to save capitalism from itself right now. And i every economic project ive done locally in youngstown, ohio, we sit down with the business community, the investor, the port authority, the local Economic Development organizations, the local workforce organizations. The mayors, the councils, you got to build a team, and to the last gentlemans point thats what i want to do as president when were talking about winning the future around electric vehicles. Build the team and lets go and win the future. Lets get to our next question. It comes to us tonight from liz heywood, whos a professional artist and designer, currently focused on painting murals all across atlanta with political themes. Very appropriate. She currently can i request a mural of me in atlanta. Is that too much . Im a pretty die hard warren head. In a save america interview, you described worrying about the climate and rising sea levels as a luxury. Obama said that Climate Change is the largest threat to future changes. The pentagon said Climate Change posts a risk to national security. I heard on npr that 100 million animals and plants are at risk of extinction. So why is Climate Change not one of your top priorities. Climate change is one of my top priorities. When i refer to it to be a luxury for people to think about, im talking about the autoworker who just lost their job, and cant pay their mortgage. Not sure what their future looks like. My argument is, we have to understand that they dont have the bandwidth to talk about climate because theyre worried about putting food on the table for their kids. And theyre worried about where their next paycheck is going to come from, i talk about climate in the sense i have three kids. Masons 16, bellas 15, bradys 5, he will be 5 on june 12th. He reminds me of that every time i talk to him. This is a jobs program. I talk about reversing Climate Change as a jobs program. We should dominate the battery market, the charging stage market. You know who dominates the electric Vehicle Market now . China. 40 to 50 of the electric Vehicle Market is china. Who dominates the solar market . China, 60 . We should dominate the wind market. We can reverse climate, lets talk about it in the context of jobs. Solars growing at 30 a year, winds growing at 20 a year, were going to make 30 million electric vehicles in the next 10 years. I want those made in the United States and lets steer the investment to the communities who have lost. Communities of color, old coal, old steel, old auto, old rubber. Were going to talk a lot about china ahead. Everyone stay with us. Well be right back with congress man tim ryan. Stay with us. paul great. Another wireless ad. So many of them are full of this complicated, tricky language about their network and offers and blah blah blah. Look. Sprints going to do things differently. And let you decide for yourself. Theyre offering a new 100 total satisfaction guarantee. Try it out and see the savings. 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The impeachment question obviously has been a big one for a long time. And a long time coming, a lot of people have been talking about it, the one issue i really had that i was waiting on was, i wanted to ask mueller or have the congress ask mueller if donald trump wasnt president , if he was tim ryan or matthew or an autoworker in lordstown ohio, would you have prosecuted him . I wanted to know that answer. And the answer i got a couple days ago was yes, he would have. [ applause ] so i do believe we need to move forward with the impeachment process, and let me tell you why. No president , not donald trump or anyone else is a king. They are a president. Article 1 of the constitution, the first article creates the congress. It creates the house of representatives, we are closest to the people, we go home every weekend, wes get elected every two years, were the closest to the people in the communities. And we oversee article 2 of the constitution, which is the president not the king. And when you think that the president has committed crimes, which i have read the mueller report, and i believe he obstructed on multiple occasions. We have a responsibility. I dont want to, i know what this is going to do to the country. I take no joy in this at all. But i have a duty and a responsibility and that duty and responsibility has led me to think that we have to do this. [ cheers and applause ] well, thats news. Thank you for the question. Thats news, thats a big headline for you. All seriousness, you have hesitated to say this, and you just said it tonight that you support moving forward with impeachment proceedings now. Lets get to the next question, that comes from peter nunn, he joins us tonight and he owns a hair salon. Whats your question. Thank you, georgias governor just signed a sixweek abortion bill into law. How do you plan to convince women voters that you are the candidate for them . I appreciate the question. When i first got to congress, 17 years ago, i grew up in a catholic family, catholic community, catholic church. We were all very involved in the church. And my position was, i was a prolife democrat. When i got to congress i started working with other members of congress, congresswoman rosa de lower rah from connecticut and others around issues of womens health. Through that process we worked with planned parenthood, other female members of congress. And through that process i met women who had very, very difficult circumstances where they had to have an abortion. Now, im sure it wasnt the first time i met a woman who had an abortion, but it was the first time i ever knew i was talking to a woman about an excruciating circumstance they were in. And when i learned about their circumstances, i slowly began to change my position. Started voting differently. Because i just dont believe in these very complicated circumstances that the federal government or State Government should in anyway shape or form be between a woman and her doctor. Thats their decision to make. [ cheers and applause ] so to follow up on that, congressman. The democratic governor of louisiana signed a bill into law that bans abortions after a heart beat is detected which can be as early as six weeks into a preg nance sip. Do you believe there is room today in the Democratic Party for lawmakers who do not support abortion rights . Thats for whoevers running for office to determine. I will say youre running for president , you were one of those democrats. Im a prochoice member of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party is prochoice, as president i will nominate and have a litmus test to nominate judges to support roe versus wade. Thats my commitment to the American People. Is there room in the Democratic Party for people who dont support abortion rights. If a democrat is running against a republican, they have a few issues you dont agree with, that is determined by the people in the congressional district, in the state. Would you vote for a democrat that does not support abortion rights . Probably not in a primary. Lets get to our next question. Karen omiller joins us, shes a special education teacher. First of all, thank you very much for doing an important job. Karen lost her son david to the opiod epidemic. He was only 33 years old, she works with the Addiction Support Group broken no more, and we are so sorry for your loss. Whats your question tonight . Good evening. 50,000 people a year die from opiod over dose. We have a medication that has been demonstrated to reduce overdose deaths. Regulatory barriers have resulted in a lack of access to this medication. A bill has been introduced in the house, the mainstreaming Addiction Treatment act which will deregulate the prescribing of this medication and allow every medication to provide this life saving medication. Do you support this bill. It sounds like i would, i havent heard it, about it, but yes. Thats something that i would support. And let me just say how sorry i am, we have experienced this in my community for a long time now. Im co chair of the Addiction Treatment and recovery caucus, and we were able to make some small steps forward with the comprehensive addiction and recovery bill to get money down into the local communities. Weve got to also be very firm with the pharmaceutical industry. I love seeing these lawsuits come against the pharmaceutical industry that would make sure that there were thousands and thousands of opiates that are getting to communities. To where everyone in the town had 30 or 60 pills. Its ridiculous in the United States. And theyre making money off it, and im cheering on this lawsuit. Thank you for your question. But we this is a long way, we have to go on the addiction issue, which is one of the reasons we also need some kind of public option in the Health Care Bill to make sure everybody has access to treatment. Youre talking about the lawsuit in ohio that is about to begin. The one in oklahoma, a civil case going on right now, were all watching very closely. Your fellow competitor for the presidency beto orourke says there has to be legal consequences including jail time for drug manufacturers. Do you believe . Jail time for these pharma executives if they are found in guilty . Yes. Lets talk more about this, your state of ohio ranked second in the nation for opiod overdoses. I spent a great deal of time with our team reporting across ohio. They had no idea their son, a baseball player. The sheriffs wife got addicted to opiates. No one is immune from this. What are we getting wrong as a country on this . Some of it we already talked about as far as the pervasiveness of the drugs. The quick knee jerk reaction to use painkillers as a response, too much so. But i dont they have you can have this conversation without talking about the despair thats out in our country today. And this is why i say, like i dont think were getting it. I feel like im one of the only people who really understand because im living in the middle of the economic devastation and the opiate crisis, which is why i think we need a president of the United States who understands this. When you look across the board, you see many of these communities that have economic despair. Also end up falling into addiction. And depths of despair and suicide. This is not the way the United States should function. We are supposed to take care of our own people in the United States. And weve failed them, we failed them economically, we failed them with health care, we failed them with pensions, and we failed to address some of these basic needs that they have, if we were committed. We could save a lot of lives 2349 United States. What happened, people had jobs that were paying 30 or 40 an hour, now theyre making 12, 13, and the president s running around saying the economys booming. Its not booming. Its not booming. And so which is why one of my first initiatives is to have an industrial policy in the United States. Weve got to get the job numbers. The wages up 30 an hour, 40 an hour. 50 an hour, so people can work hard. And if they hurt their back, theyre going to want to get back to work. They have a little fishing boat, they can take their kids hunting, go on vacation. When you are making 12 an hour you start taking some pills and you start feeling better. I know youve seen it in ohio yourself, lets talk about that and the economy ahead. 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My question is, currently right now there are many farmers across ohio who are suffering because of the trade war started by this administration. What are your plans for handling the tariff fiasco that is currently hurting our farmers, and also which may deal with the intellectual property concerns that our nation has about china . Yeah, thank you, thats a great question. And china is a huge issue, an issue and a relationship ive been working on for 17 years. I was one of the original co sponsors back in the day for a china currency manipulation bill to punish the chinese for manipulating their currency. I believe in targeted tariffs. Weve had steel dumped in youngstown, ohio, which means they send a bunch of steel to our country. Its put our Steel Workers out of business. Its put a lot of Steel Companies out of business, because the price is so cheap. Were targeted efforts to do that, but this particular issue about tariffs needs to be part of a larger strategy against china. China is on the move, china is our number one threat. We have a relationship, theyre a threat, they want to take us out economically. They are building islands in the south china sea, ports in the middle east, rail lines from northeast china all the way to rotterdam. They are signing long term raw material contracts in africa to feed their industrial machine. They want to dominate the top 10 industries in the world around added manufacturing, wind, solar, artificial intelligence. Trump does not have a big strategy, he has a tactic that gets him on tv, because he sends a tweet out, taf is are on, tariffs are offp. The media runs with all the time. We talked earlier in the night, 40 to 50 of the electric Vehicle Market. Theyre running circles around us with 5g internet. We need an industrial policy in the United States if were going to take on china, if you think that makes sense. What i just told you. I need your help. I need you to go to tim ryan for america. Com and listen so what im saying about china. Listen to how long ive been talking about this, because when im president , thats going to be the number one issue that the president is going to have to deal with, our long term relationship with china. So congressman, you do support as you just said, some tariffs. There would be some tariffs under a president ryan. Tariffs we all know, we pay for them, theyre a tax on the American People, wouldnt continuing at least some of the president s tariffs hurt the very people youre trying to help . Yeah, well depends if its targeted. His are not targeted. But its still a tax. I understand. But were in a complicated relationship with them, its about sitting down and working it out. Im for taking a strong position, and negotiating from a strong position. Hes taking a punch, and we have no clue what the plan is, what the strategy is, and our farmers are getting hammered, we are having a recession in Rural America right now, and theyre sending money to china the president is on his second payment to the farmers, they dont want a payment. They want to be able to sell their product and we need to be able to do that, and oh, by the way, he made a lot of promises to the autoworkers in youngstown. I think it would be nice if he spent 20 to 30 billion helping farmers deal with a crisis. He could spend 1 billion, help General Motors open that factory back up in youngstown, ohio, and we can start producing electric cars, well kick chinas butt that way, instead of what hes trying to do now. So our next question comes tonight from tish woodward, a Program Manager for the Atlanta School of sleep medicine. Good evening. As a fellow ohioan, i understand that issues affecting youngstown can be different than those affecting columbus where im from originally or cincinnati. Your campaign seems to be focused on winning back the white working class. How far will address issues of racial equality . Thank you for that question, fellow buckeye. We got more buckeyes over here . I have made it a point. Because people say, tim ryan is a white irish guy from youngstown. This is not about the white working class, this is about white people, black people, brown people, gay people straight people. North, south, urban, rural. This economy is not working for well, just the top 1 of the people in the country. When i talk about electric vehicles and all these other projects and growing the pie. I will have concrete plans on how to steer that investment into communities of color, into the communities that have been left behind. A lot of people dont know, but Youngstown Ohio is 50 africanamerican. Ive been working on these issues a long time. We need to address when it comes to africanamerican women, whats happening with their health. 300 to 400 times 300 to 400 times higher percentage of death in pregnancy or childbirth. Even along education in wealth income levels, thats an issue we need to address. An africanamerican baby born in youngstown, ohio has a higher infant mortality rate than a baby born in iran. I am deeply committed to these issues around justice, when it comes to the africanamerican community. And you can bet that i will surround myself with men and women in my administration that will help us put an excellent plan together to make that happen. Thank you. So congressman, on that points, you said i dont necessarily think we need another white guy for president. Of course it struck me. Whether youre on the ticket or n not, are you comfortable with an all white, all male ticket for the Democratic Party in 2020 . No, absolutely not. And i we have to, our ticket and the next prepzs cabinet must reflect the diversity of the country. And im committed to do that. All right, our next question tonight comes from tyler weigert. Currently he supports senator cory booker. As one of the leaders of the movement to prevent Speaker Pelosi from maintaining her speakership . If you became president do you think she would be an effective ally in the house or do you prefer to work with a new leader . I think shes doing a terrific job. Shes tough as nails. If you look at the entirety of when i ran against Speaker Pelosi, it was never personal. I have the utmost respect for her she is tenacious, shes smart. Shes doing a phenomenal job. And donald trump has met his match with Speaker Pelosi. [ cheers and applause ] i know firsthand what hes up against, and hes going to lose, i will tell you that, i think not just her not just what shes doing being speaker, shes protecting the integrity of article one that i mentioned earlier. President trump was going to come and give the state of the union speech. Wait a minute, you didnt get invited. This is the peoples house. And i think thats symbolic of whats happening between the executive and the legislative branch. Shes doing a great job. Two years ago, my colleague don lemon asked you whether you believe Speaker Pelosi was more toxic than donald trump to some people across the country and you said in some areas of the country yes she is. Do you stand by that today . I think things have shifted a little bit give ing President Trumps performance. Im sure there are areas still in the country where President Trump is more popular. Her Approval Ratings have gone up significantly, my whole thing the whole time, weve become a coastal party. We feel forgotten in the industrial midwest, in the south. And my whole pitch was like, we need to be represented. No one is hearing us, we are forgotten here we sign these big trade deals, globalization, automation. How about us . How about us, were americans too it was great when we were building the steel and the cars. Oh, you told us times have changed. Once we made you rich enough. Rich enough to forget our names. Thats how we feel and so my pitch for democratic leadership, we need you people, not just another generation, but people from parts of the country that have been forgotten. And thats why im running for president. Im not going to forget. Im from there. I live there. We go to school there. I want an opportunity to represent the entire country. All of the forgotten communities. I want an opportunity to walk into the white house and pull every lever possible that the president of the United States has on behalf of the working class. White, black, brown, gay, straight. I will be a working class president for the American People. Stay with us, congressman tim ryan, were going to be right back. Applebees new loaded fajitas. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. 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Yeah, i learned centering prayer, which is a catholicbased meditation from a priest friend of mine back home. That sent me on a journey where i went on mindfulness meditation retreats for five days, seven days. Ive done several of those before i had kids. Im not going to go home and telling my husband im going to a sevenday silence retreat, but i would like to do that. But you went and you sat in silence for like 36 hours . Yeah. And then a week. Yeah. Its an amazing experience. It reduces your stress level dramatically. Its no phones, no journalling, no tv. And so its been great because theres so Much Research on it now. How much it can help kids. How much it can help people who have addictions. Just generally for all of us where stress is a huge killer. Its a very Simple Practice that has no side effects. How has it changed you . Well, the stress level is different. I think you start to see through a lot of the bs and you kind of cut through the noise, which has been very helpful in politics in the last few years. It helps you see how things are interconnected. It helps you really see a little bit deeper into people, kind of looking into their hearts and really see whats motivating them. A lot of the trauma. You look at whats happened and today with so many of our kids that have so much trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences that they have, this is a real focus. Putting social and Emotional Learning into schools is like a really big part of my educational plan because it deals with the kids trauma. If you dont deal with the traum athe brain doesnt function properly. If you dont take care of the kids traum ayoull not be able to teach them. If people want to know more, youve even written a book on mindfulness. Let me get to the next question. Jesse lovet joins us. A retired property manager and currently supports former Vice President joe biden. Good evening. Whats your question . Good evening. What changes would you propose to the existing Affordable Care act, or do you support the medicare plan for all . Thank you for that. Let me first say weve covered a lot of ground. Tim ryan for america. Com. If you go to my website, well outline all of these issues we cover tonight and didnt cover tonight. Even including mindfulness and yoga with veterans, really helping them heal, which is transforming their lives, which has been amazing. I have been on the medicare for all bill since 2007. I believe that the very next step we have to take is to have a public option so that everybody can buy affordable, Accessible Health care. But i also believe that we need to have another conversation. The Current System is a disease care system. Its a sick care system. Wait until we get sick, throw a bunch of money at it. Pharmaceutical Companies Make a bunch of money. Insurance Companies Make a bunch of money. We need to have a conversation about health in the United States. We need to have a conversation about our food system in the United States and we need to have a conversation about our agriculture [ applause ] we need to also have a conversation about our agriculture system in the United States. And what kind of food are we producing . How do we move to a more regional, sustainable, ag kults are system. Were destroying our soil, destroying our environment. We lose 220 cubeit tons of fish in the gulf of mexico every year because of what were sending down the Mississippi River that runs into the gulf of mexico. Weed need to talk about incentivizing patients and doctors february health s to be. Reward patients with rebates and refunds to stay healthy. These are critical components. 75 of our Health Care Costs in the United States are from chronic diseases that are largely preventable. Preventable 2 trillion to 3 trillion a year. So my Health Care Plan is make sure we get everybody covered. Mental health, addiction, all of these Critical Issues facing people today. But lets flip this system and get people healthy. You want to knock the knees out from the pharmaceutical industry . Lets all say, how do we get a little more healthy in the United States so we dont need the damn pharmaceutical system. We save that money for people who are really sick. And cant change that for through their diets or other things. The money should be reserved for those people. Get out of the disease care system and move it to health, food and take care of our soil. Congressman tim ryan. Thank you. Thank you very much for tonight. Thank you all for joining us. Stay right there. Still ahead, congressman Eric Swalwell will join us at the top of the hour. My buddy jim sciutto takes over next. Well be right back. Thanks, everyone. Allergies with sinus congestion and pressure . Go to the pharmacy counter for powerful. Claritind. 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Weve heard from congressman seth molton and tim ryan. Now its congressman Eric Swalwells turn. The california democrat kicked off his run near parkland, florida. Why is that . Because he vowed to make gun control a central focus of his campaign. That, of course, an issue very much in the news this weekend. The 38yearold swalwell would be theoung