Let's start with his opening question.
Swalwell starts off with this unverified, and in my opinion, dubious anecdote. I call it dubious because you don't see US Representatives chatting it up with grocery cashiers every day.
Swalwell: A couple of nights ago, I met with a woman who works as a cashier at a grocery store, and I told her I was coming to see you, Mr. Lyons. And she said, "Will you ask him"--and she didn't want to give her name. She was terrified to give her name--But she said, "When I get off my shift at midnight and walk through the parking lot to my car," She said, "If somebody rolls up in an unidentified van and gets out wearing all black, and their faces (are) covered (and) they don't have any identification, and ask me to get in the van, how do I know who they are?"
How does she know Mr. Lyons?
How does she know if they're an ICE agent or bad guys?
Mr. Lyons: Sir, ICE agents have identifiable placards on their uniforms as well as their badges representative. But you won't see ICE agents rolling though parking lots and just snatching someone up. ICE does intelligence driven, targeted, enforcement operations.
Swalwell's anecdote smells like week old fish. Maybe she was a cheap date, given Swalwell's history of those things?
That aside, Mr. Lyons' answer demolishes his leading question. And it is a leading question as Swalwell gives the answer he's looking for in his diatribe.
When that falls flat on its face, Swalwell shifts to a new line of attack having failed miserably with his first. He gives no follow up question.
