Research that resonates.

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

Investigations that matter.

If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?

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

Drill Down, where we relentlessly exposed cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington,

D.C. joined, as always with my co-host, Eric Eggers, who is an author and vice president

here at the Government Accountability Institute. Now, Eric, we have talked

before about the tragic war that is unfolding in Ukraine on other podcasts. We wanted to revisit

it again as the war has now entered the second year. We usually look at issues related to

cronyism corruption as it refers to domestic policy. But we want to talk about

in a global aspect today. Yeah, I think it's really interesting. I think there's some

basic assumptions that have gone unchecked. And I think Republican leadership has actually

referenced that the American support for Ukraine is the biggest reason why they've been able to

pass massive spending bills. And I think, in my opinion, I could be wrong, but our guests will kind of help us inform us if I am wrong. But I do think that the national intention is sort of rapidly diminishing away from attention investment. It used to be, right? I mean, when the war started, it was on CNN every day every day yeah it was on every news channel every day we were getting news reports from the field and

you don't really hear about it very much anymore but um there are still people that are making a lot

of money off of the war because we're spending a lot of money and aid in ukraine yeah that's exactly

right and to be clear we've said this before uh we are fully in support of the Ukrainian people and supporting the efforts to defend their sovereignty and independence. But you do have this problem of people, profiteering people in Ukraine, people in the United States that are going to funnel money. We had this huge problem with Afghanistan, of course, helping us unpack all of this and the geostrategic side of this as well is Rebecca

Koffler.

She's a Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert who served as a Russian doctrine and strategy

specialist at both the Defense Intelligence Agency.

She also did work at the CIA's National Clandestine Service, and she led red teams during

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