Rep. Eric Swalwell Eric Michael SwalwellSwalwell calls for creation of presidential crimes commission to investigate Trump when he leaves office 'This already exists': Democrats seize on potential Trump executive order on preexisting conditions Swalwell: Barr has taken Michael Cohen's job as Trump's fixer MORE (D-Calif.) said in an interview Monday that congressional Republicans appear to be helping the White House rather than taking the House Intelligence Committee’s probe into Russia’s election interference seriously.

"At best it's been an incuriosity and at worse it looks like it's been working in partnership with the White House to tell their narrative and not to, you know, take back our freedom to choose in the next election," Swalwell told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

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Swalwell sits on the House Intelligence Committee, which is conducting one of several congressional probes into Russia’s attempts to meddle in the United States election and any potential ties between Trump campaign staff members and Russia.

The Democratic congressman called for his Republican colleagues to "get serious," a remark that comes after former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort Paul John ManafortOur Constitution is under attack by Attorney General William Barr Bannon trial date set in alleged border wall scam Conspicuous by their absence from the Republican Convention MORE and his former business associate were charged in a 12-count indictment unsealed on Monday.