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.

Be 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 Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.

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., the host of this program, of course, Eric Eggers, Eric, how are you? Peter, I am excellent. I'm very excited. Not only is it close to the election, and so it's a big moment for the people that care about the stuff we care about, but our guest today has been doing some of the same work that we've been doing at the Government Accountability Institute. And it's fun to kind of talk to a colleague in an expert in government corruption, who's got an awesome new book out that I think exposes a lot of things that people are going to be very interested to learn about. Yeah, it's this book, Rights and Freedoms in Paril. It's by Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch was founded in 1994. I'm old enough to remember when it was founded. Tom joined in 1998 and is now the president of the organization. And really, I've seen the exponential growth of

this organization from a small and effective unit to the behemoth that it is today. So,

Tom, it's great to have you here to talk about the book. We really wanted to focus on two

areas, right? We wanted to talk about lawfare, the origins of lawfare, and then we want to

talk about election integrity. But let's first go to this issue of lawfare. What do you say to the theory

that the reason that they have engaged in so much lawfare against Donald Trump is as a

pushback to all the corruption talk that Donald Trump is engaged in about draining the swamp,

about the institutional problems, the kind of work

that you and we have been doing for years.

Do you think there's a link between the lawfare as a weapon and this focus on the swamp

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