SCHWEIZER: “Dirty Business” Behind the Battle Over TikTok
The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer
Government Accountability Institute
4.9 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Research that resonates. |
| 0:05.8 | 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 |
| 0:40.4 | Drill Down, where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, |
| 0:47.0 | D.C. joined, as always, by Eric Eggers, who is seated by my side. And we're going to talk about |
| 0:53.5 | intelligence, spying, |
| 0:56.1 | corruption today. And it's all centered on Washington, D.C. Of course, the big news that just |
| 1:01.6 | came out is that the Chinese balloon that we allowed to float across the continental United |
| 1:07.7 | States before shooting it down in the sea was successfully gathering |
| 1:11.9 | intelligence on U.S. military sites. |
| 1:14.7 | That thing we thought was spying on us, turns out was actually spying on us? |
| 1:18.0 | I know. |
| 1:18.4 | It's shocking. |
| 1:19.7 | And it was over U.S. military sites. |
| 1:23.2 | I mean, it's obvious what it was doing. |
| 1:25.6 | But the fact is we didn't do anything in response to it. |
| 1:28.3 | But the reality is the balloon's not the only way that China is spying on us. |
| 1:34.2 | We now know that TikTok, the app that is used by tens of millions of Americans, is essentially an extension of the Chinese spy network. They gather |
| 1:46.3 | huge amounts of data on us. That data then goes to ByteDance, which is the Chinese |
| 1:52.1 | parent company. And ByteDance is, of course, obligated to share that information with the Chinese |
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