Punishing Americans With Good Credit
The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer
Government Accountability Institute
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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 |
| 0:23.6 | things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't five. The only entities, |
| 0:28.3 | the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a medal of freedom, |
| 0:32.9 | in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. |
| 0:38.4 | Hello and welcome to the Drill Down, where we drill down on cronism and corruption in the federal government in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:45.7 | My name is Eric Eggers, and I'm in for Peter Schweitzer, who is out on a number of very important missions, helping to protect and defend the country. |
| 0:54.0 | And we have a very |
| 0:54.6 | important and exciting conversation to have today on essentially what is the direction of this |
| 1:00.3 | country. Now, I've been working here at the Government Accountability Institute for 11 years, |
| 1:05.3 | and I've been working with Peter Schweitzer for that entire time. And I remember a decade ago |
| 1:10.2 | when we were working on a book called |
| 1:12.0 | extortion, which was meant to expose the perverse incentive structure for members of Congress |
| 1:17.5 | in Washington, D.C., and the ways in which they leveraged and abused their positions of authority |
| 1:21.8 | to punish private businesses. We were having a conversation with a new member of Congress. |
| 1:27.1 | His name was Ted |
| 1:27.7 | Yoho. And he was represented the Alachio County area in Florida. He's actually a large |
| 1:33.2 | animal veterinarian. And so we thought, hey, here's a new guy who hasn't been corrupted by |
| 1:37.1 | the swamp-like atmosphere. And so we wanted to meet with him and get his take as a new member |
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