Research that resonates.

Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Bidens.

Investigations that matter.

If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?

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

Drill Down, where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in

Washington, D.C. Certainly horrific things going on in the Middle East. Our prayers are there

for the people of Israel and other innocent victims. We're going to talk today,

however, about something that's closer to home, and that is the speaker's race. Now, Eric,

let's assume for a minute that you are a member of Congress. I'm going to say from the great

state of Alabama, how, how's that? Because of my literacy rate? Yeah. Okay. Just other cultural tendencies.

It's unclear why you've chosen. No, I just think Alabama. It's a neighboring state. It's a wonderful state. But let's assume you're a member of Congress and you're looking for somebody to be the Speaker of the House. What qualities are you looking for in a candidate? Yeah. I think you're thinking like Abraham Lincoln, right? Yeah, these incredible statesmen, statesmen, good leadership, a comprehensive understanding of the relevant subject matter, those types of things. Is that not what we typically do when we pick speakers? Well, you know,

that would be the hope. And some of them have had those qualities in the past. But today we're

going to talk about the dirty underside of the speaker's race and how this is really informed the entire Congress, how leadership positions

are chosen. Because we have the sense that, you know, hey, we're going to pick this guy to be

the chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee because he's a farmer and he actually knows

something about farming.

No, that's oftentimes not how it happens. So we're going to describe the ecosystem and we're

going to explain why this is important. And it's really a race that is formulated in a way

a lot of people don't realize. When you talk about ecosystem, you think about what are the key

ingredients to sustain life forms. And in Washington, you.C., it's quite simple. That is money. And that's what drives everything in Washington, D.C. That's why the person that's in charge of the Agriculture Commissioner, the Agriculture Committee doesn't have to be, that even has to necessarily spell farming, right? It's just somebody that has to be able to raise a lot of money.

And this is how power becomes corrupted because then it's not about making good policy decisions.

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