meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Should We Be Trading Weapon Dealers For Basketball Players

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this week’s show, Peter and Eric discuss the recent prisoner swap of basketball player Brittney Griner for a Russian arms dealer known as “The Merchant of Death.” Is a former Olympic medal-winner and LGBTQ activist worth unleashing one of Russia’s most notorious weapons purchasers? And when American citizens choose to travel to dangerous parts of the world and get in trouble overseas, do they have a right to expect help from America?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 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, I'm Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the Drill Down,

0:41.9

where we relentlessly exposed cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, D.C.

0:48.4

Seated by my side as Eric Eggers, the co-host of this program, I've been watching the news a lot

0:53.4

lately, right, as you have been.

0:55.4

And a lot of interesting headlines. We're going to talk about one of those today. And to give

1:01.0

people an indication of maybe what we're going to talk about, I have a question for you.

1:05.5

Okay.

1:06.4

If you were ever detained in a Russian prison, what would you be worth?

1:11.6

Yeah, that's a great question.

1:12.8

And I think it just depends on to whom, right?

1:15.9

You know, to my wife, maybe I would be worth a WNBA player.

1:19.7

To my publisher, I probably wouldn't be.

1:22.8

I'm thinking like two mid-grade drug dealers would be.

1:27.3

I think that's very, that's a good valuation. Can we not at least get a little white collar crime actually going on? I mean, apparently we're just passing criminals back and forth across the international waiver wire as it were. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's the kind of trade that you used to hearing about on ESPN, but we're talking about it today, obviously,

1:44.5

because Brittany Greiner is back in the United States. Thanks to this agreement that was struck,

1:49.8

this exchange done between the United States government and the Russian government. We traded

1:54.6

the merchant of death for anBA, our All-Star.

2:02.2

And we're going to unpack this today.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Government Accountability Institute, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Government Accountability Institute and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.