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, it's Thanksgiving time.

You're going to be served lots of turkey and stuffing and gravy. Is there also going to be a serving of politics at the Thanksgiving table? And is that necessarily a bad thing. We're going to talk about politics, the holidays. And I'm going to do that, of course, with Eric Eggers, the co-hosts of this program. Eric, how are you?

I'm excited to recreate as close as we can, the dysfunctional family dynamic.

We both come to love at the Thanksgiving.

I'm going to begin with the side of hostility and end with a desert of passive aggression.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

Yeah, we all want to have access to the Eggers dinner table to hear all that.

But if you look at where America is today, the image a lot of people have is how divided we are, right?

You can buy an F. Donald Trump table runner with either snowflakes, holly, Santa, or pumpkins on it.

You can also buy a Christmas ornament that says only you can prevent

fascism. On the other hand, you can also buy Donald Trump Christmas ornaments and MAGA Christmas

yard signs. The interesting question is, how divided really is an American? Do you think

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