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 exposed cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington,

D.C. Our co-pilot on this podcast is always as Eric Eggers, who's an author and the vice president

here at the Government Accountability Institute. And I'm thinking I've known you for what probably 12 years. Something like that, yeah. And one of the things I appreciate about Eric is he's passionate. You know when he's all in and he's all in on a lot of things. It's true. You know, I do have a lot of passions. I'm passionate about working here. I'm passionate about making

fun of you. I'm passionate about, you know, relationships, experiences, truth, my delta status, all kinds of stuff.

Well, you're leaving something out, having known you for more than the deck out, you're leaving out the fact that you are passionate and you love free stuff.

Oh, that's absolutely true. Like, like, whatever I charge from an

hourly rate standpoint in personal business, it's, it's never less than when I'm at Costco.

And it's like, I'll wait around five minutes for like a half a hot dog. What does this say about me?

To get the sample. Well, there's free stuff being handed out in Washington, D.C. Oh, what a

segue. Thank you. And it's more than half a hot dog. In fact, there's a new report out that shows how

passionate a lot of well-connected celebrities are about free stuff too. And this relates to the so-called

PPP program. That's right. The personal payment

protection program, right, or something like that. And it was something that was made available

in the pandemic. It was like, oh, what's going to happen to the government? And ironically, it's actually

maybe one of the reasons why we suffer from inflation, right? It's one of the mechanisms by which

lots of cash was infused into all aspects of the economy.

And so, but there was some like, hey, you can get up to $10,000 and you get maybe a forgiveness-free loan, but some people have exceeded that amount.

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