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, it's Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down. Well, if you live in a city like, say, Washington, D.C. or Baltimore, Maryland, and you're concerned about violent crime, you should probably consider moving to Bogota, Colombia, or Islamabad, Pakistan, because they actually have lower murder rates. And the problem is the people that are governing your city don't seem that interested in actually

trying to reduce violent crime where you live. So what's going on with the National Guard?

Should they be deployed? Are they constitutional issues? We're going to unpack that today on the

drill down. The co-host and the co-pilot of the show, of course, is Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you?

Are you ready to move to Islamabad?

I love that you were saying that you just wanted to say Islamabad.

I did.

But it is a true fact that Washington, D.C. has a higher crime rate, higher violent crime

right than Bogota, Mexico City, Islamabad, even Lima, Peru.

So it's almost like we're taking a tour of the world through the lens of Donald Trump and his desire to clean up America one violent

city at a time. You could almost say Washington, D.C. is a third world city, at least when it

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