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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

The Lessons Learned And Cultural Shifts Following Covid

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As the nation awakes from its turkey-induced tryptophan coma, Americans remain a thankful and forgiving people. The mood and the time are right to forgive those bad decisions – but on the most recent Drill Down episode, Peter and Eric reflect on what went wrong in America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as the first step to granting forgiveness. Take Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), for example. In February of 2020, early in the outbreak, he first urged people not to mask unless they had symptoms. Two months later, he reversed himself and issued general masking orders regardless of any symptoms. Why?

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.7

Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Biden's.

0:12.4

Investigations that matter.

0:14.4

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, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the Drill Down,

0:41.4

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

0:46.4

Seated by my side as always is Eric Eggers, author and vice president here at the Government

0:50.8

Accountability Institute. We are both back from the wonderful four-day weekend for Thanksgiving.

0:57.6

I had a great time, went to the beach, had a seafood boil, something untraditional that my

1:03.6

wife came up with.

1:04.3

It was fantastic to get a break from Turkey.

1:07.4

And Thanksgiving is a great time.

1:09.0

I always enjoy it.

1:10.0

It's a wonderful time with family. It's a time for reflection. What was your Thanksgiving like, Eric? Well, it wasn't as nice as yours because we should point out that Peter Schweitzer's actual birthday was on Thanksgiving this year. It was. So actually, I just thought of this. Do you feel like you get jobbed out of appropriate birthday recognition and acknowledgement because it's on Thanksgiving? No, it's pretty good. But when I was a kid, this happened.

1:31.2

And my dad made a joke about you always get a turkey on Thanksgiving, which kind of like through

1:37.7

me is, are you talking about? What do you think now, dad? Now I ate my own seafood.

1:43.1

No, but it was kind of like this confusing. Is he talking about the meal or is he talking about his son? But how was your Thanksgiving? You had a good time? Everything went well. Yeah, after everybody passed their COVID test to gather in the same room per Dr. Fauci's guidance, we're able to get together and share reflections on the year. That's what happens at Thanksgiving. You get together.

2:01.0

You say a thing you're thankful for. And, yeah, you're not supposed to talk politics, right? I mean, that was the other thing. You got the COVID issue and you got the politics. I did see somebody share a picture on social media that said, you know, if you want to really have a spicy Thanksgiving dinner, you should wear a T-shirt that says unvaccinated and ready to talk politics.

2:18.6

And I thought I would like to be at that guy's Thanksgiving.

2:21.0

Yes. you should wear a t-shirt that says unvaccinated and ready to talk politics.

2:21.0

And I thought I would like to be at that guy's Thanksgiving.

2:22.7

That would liven things up.

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