Government is a Loose Cannon

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Peter and Eric return to the topic of COVID-era restrictions on the most recent episode of The Drill Down with more proof that when the government rushes to do things, it becomes a loose cannon. “March madness” for most people might refer to the college basketball tournament, but the madness of the restrictions thrown on Americans to control the COVID virus by the federal government also celebrates its third anniversary this week.

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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 five. 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.
0:38.4	Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down, where we relentlessly exposed cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, D.C.
0:47.4	Seated by my side, Eric Eggers, the co-pilot of this program. We all have times of the year that we get very excited. Kids love
0:56.4	in anticipation of Christmas. Other people love Thanksgiving. Some people love spring break or
1:03.0	the summer. You like this time of year for a very particular reason. Yeah, March Madness is a
1:08.7	passion of mine because it combines two of my favorite activities,
1:11.7	sports and gambling. So you forgot drinking. Easy. Getting aggressive. No, but March Madness is around the
1:22.1	corner. And I think it's obviously it's an exciting time for anybody that does like college basketball.
1:27.1	It's a national holiday many times people take off a lot of work.
1:30.5	But I think that actually it's weird now to be experiencing a March madness NCAA tournament
1:37.0	without thinking about what happened three years ago.
1:40.8	Yeah.
1:41.1	Which I think makes this week a weird anniversary of sorts. It is the three-year
1:45.6	anniversary of when the world shut down because of COVID. That's right. And back then,
1:50.2	it was a different kind of March madness. There was a kind of a madness where you described
1:55.9	to me, you were originally going to go up to the ACC tournament to watch it. And then you were sitting in a bar somewhere and they literally stopped the game at halftime.
2:05.3	Well, you were not.
2:05.9	First off, it was a restaurant.
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