Biden’s Energy Department "Weaponized" to Reward Friends, Help China
The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer
Government Accountability Institute
4.9 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Research that resonates. |
| 0:05.7 | Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Biden's. |
| 0:12.4 | Investigations that matter. |
| 0:14.4 | If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma? |
| 0:19.0 | I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. But that's, you know, I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't fired. The only entities, the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a medal of freedom in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the |
| 0:40.7 | drill down where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, |
| 0:46.5 | D.C. seated next to me is the co-host of the program. Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? |
| 0:50.8 | I'm excellent, Peter. How are you? I'm doing well. And I'm wondering, have you ever had a financial shutdown at the Eger's house? |
| 0:58.5 | Every time we get a bill at the restaurant. |
| 1:01.5 | Without fail. |
| 1:02.9 | If the bill is seen by two people, then absolutely. |
| 1:05.1 | It's shutdown time. |
| 1:05.9 | It's negotiation. |
| 1:06.8 | We're going to a workshop. |
| 1:07.7 | And they're like, okay, what are we taking out of the budget to be able afford this meal? |
| 1:11.0 | Right. |
| 1:13.4 | So it is a negotiation. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, they've been negotiating in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:19.4 | And have averted, at least temporarily, a financial shutdown. |
| 1:26.4 | Everything is going to get funded apparently, except for Ukraine aid, which is still being discussed and negotiated. |
| 1:29.9 | And this, I think, offers us an opportunity to take a look at one of the things that our federal government is spending huge |
| 1:35.1 | sums of money on. We talked last week about Ukraine aid and about Penny Pritzker and the cronyism |
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