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We return to the accusations against now former Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell. CBS's Gwen Baumgardner has the details on the women accusing him of sexual misconduct and assault.
I had contact with Eric Swalwell on three separate occasions.
>> Another Eric Swalwell accuser came forward Tuesday with stunning allegations dating back to 2018 in a West Hollywood hotel room. >> I believe he drugged my drink. He raped me.
And he choked me. And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness.
Lana Drew says her delay in coming forward was driven by fear, not doubt. Immediately, we will be filing a police report with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office.
Swalwell's fall has been swift and sudden, dropping his bid for governor and announcing he's leaving Congress, all within a 24-hour period following multiple prior allegations.
Friday, he strongly denied any allegations of sexual assault.
>> They have never happened, and I will fight them with everything that I have.
>> Ally Zamarripa and Anikka Al-Bright spoke exclusively with CBS's Nancy Cordes saying Swalwell sexually harassed or pursued them early in their professional careers.
>> He invited me to a hotel to meet him.
Um it was very clear what the connotation was.
Um at that point, I completely stopped responding.
>> One night, he was on a trip, and he was laying in his hotel room bed, and then he sent me a photo of his penis.
The political unraveling has left a vacancy in the US House of Representatives.
Here in California, Governor Newsom has 14 days to call for a special election to fill Swalwell's seat.
>> Since we have a primary election coming up in June anyway, it looks to me like that would be a good opportunity.
>> Swalwell was initially part of that statewide primary election in his bid for governor, and had been said to appear at a candidate's event Tuesday afternoon.
Gwen Baumgardner, CBS News, Los Angeles.
Lauren Leader joins me now.
She is the CEO of All In Together, a nonprofit women's rights organization.
So, in this show, we've been talking about the allegations against Swalwell. We also know that Republican Representative Tony Gonzales retired today because of a misconduct allegations there and an affair that he admitted to with a former staffer.
What role did power dynamics play in these situations?
>> it's all of it. It's absolutely central to all of these cases, right? And it's,
you know, obviously, we're talking today about what happened in Congress, but we were talking a few days ago about the Epstein class and the Epstein cases.
They're all linked. These are powerful men in powerful positions who are abusing their power in order to take advantage of women.
And in the case of both Gonzales and Eric Swalwell, these were staffers. Not that it makes it any more acceptable regardless of who it is,
but in the case of Gonzales, he was being investigated already a year ago.
He was under a cloud of suspicion because of the you know, on ongoing investigation into his behavior with his direct staffer.
And you know, we're talking about Swalwell today because the obviously the accusations of rape and drugging are just horrific.
But we should not lose sight of this other case because in the case of Gonzales, he harassed his staffer to such a horrific degree, she committed suicide by setting herself on fire.
I mean, this is a case that Republican women have been trying to get attention on for months and months.
And honestly, it wasn't until we had this sort of multitude of cases at the same time and they had the votes to potentially expel them both if all of this is coming to light.
>> We should mention again while Gonzales has admitted to the affair, he says he has nothing to do with her suicide.
But what else needs to happen to prevent this from happening in Congress or in politics at large?
>> Or anywhere. I mean, anywhere. Look, so many of us really thought that the Me Too movement was going to usher in an era where there were enough consequences and the threat of consequences that people would really stop abusing these power dynamics and and stop using the workplace as a place to recruit and harass and abuse women.
That has clearly not happened.
And I think one of the reasons is because in Congress, and frankly, all the way up to the halls of the White House, we have not seen real accountability.
And men have been able to get away with horrific behavior, and there've been relatively little consequences.
Clearly, Eric Swalwell never thought this was going to come out.
out. It's unconscionable that he ran for governor knowing that this was in his in the closet and that these women were coming forward or might come forward.
It just speaks to a level of impunity, this sense of like nothing can touch them that is really at the heart of these power dynamics.
Lauren Leader, thank you.
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