Research that resonates.

He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.

Peter Schweitzer.

Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years.

In fact, probably done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done,

chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington.

Be very prescient, Eric Eggers.

Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute, Research Director, Eric Eggers.

We're going to take information that we've learned, that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered, and we're going to try to go further.

Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it.

Thank God.

Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,

The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down.

Well, we truly have a housing crisis in america

crisis is a word that gets tossed around a lot but in this case it's real but what if people

actually don't want you to be able to buy your own home we're going to talk about that today the

host of this program eric egers eric do you remember your first home purchase and how you felt

and what it cost you and all the details? I do remember all those things. It was 2009. And thanks to then

President Obama, who had for that 8K for first time home buyers, you wouldn't say that President

Obama bought me my first home, but he did buy me my ostentatious booksells I bought with the $8,000 I got. By way, that's a quintessentially American thing to do, $8,000 to buy a house. I'm not going to use it to actually pay the house. I'm going to buy something else with it. I like to buy something. I have fonder memories, Peter, over the time I sold my first

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