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. The 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, it's Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the drill down.

Well, Donald Trump has canned the head of the bureau of

labor statistics setting off widespread opposition to the move in washington dc but was he justified

in getting the head of the b ls fired and what does it say about the larger issues of experts and

how they failed us repeatedly we're going to have that conversation today. And, of course, the co-host of this program is Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? I'm excellent. I'm glad to be one of the few people not fired by Alan Trump. You know, we knew the economy was going to create it with all these tariffs have come into place between tariffs and deportations. We knew the economy is going in tough shape. Apparently, this job loss is one. You cannot attribute to those other two

decisions. Yeah, and I think this is a bellwether, by the way, because it's not just about the

Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's about the larger issue of what do you do when people that are

experts that are supposed to be the truth tellers are flatly wrong consistently.

What recourse do you have?

Let's look at a couple of the reactions to the firing of the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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