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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Bipartisan Support For Insider Trading

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Insider trading by members of Congress and senior officials of the executive branch demonstrate the sort of corruption that enrages voters. Co-host Eric Eggers starts this week’s episode of the Drill Down off with a fitting observation: “Behind every powerful and successful woman… is a husband with incredibly well-timed stock trades.”

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.0

Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Bidens.

0:12.0

Investigations that matter.

0:14.0

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

0:40.9

Drill Down, where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in our

0:46.3

federal government. Seated by my side as always is Eric Eggers, who's an author and vice

0:51.4

president of the government accountability institute.

0:58.1

Now, Eric, I know you are a man of many, many talents.

1:00.2

I'm wondering, are you much of a car guy?

1:05.3

I mean, do you actually ever pop the hood and take a look underneath and see what's in there?

1:12.1

Well, I don't want to say no, because I feel like that's one of those defining characteristics of like what we consider masculinity.

1:12.8

Right.

1:14.3

So I'll answer it this way.

1:14.6

Yeah.

1:23.7

One time when I was in my early 20s, I attempted to help a girl jumpstart her car and the fire department had to be called.

1:25.7

It didn't go well.

1:26.2

It did not go well. It turns out it's red on red and then black on

1:28.4

black. So that's a free tip for any listeners out there. So that'll tell you basically about my level of utility as it relates to any automobile motor motor repair. Well, you may not be a car guy, but I guess you are a quick learner, right? You learn red on red. I'm not much of a car guy either, But what I've learned in the work that we do here at GAI is that when there are problems, sometimes you have to take a look under the hood yourself. You hear a sound, you hear a noise, you think there's something that doesn't seem quite right that our federal government is doing, and you need to pop the hood and see what's going on actually with the engine.

2:01.5

Elite metaphor alert, everybody.

2:02.8

Thank you very much.

2:04.1

And, you know, this is what the Wall Street Journal recently did.

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