The New Face of Resistance - Lobbying Against Trump
The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer
Government Accountability Institute
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Research that resonates. |
| 0:05.0 | He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer. |
| 0:09.0 | Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done. |
| 0:18.0 | chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. |
| 0:22.8 | Be very prescient, Eric Eggers. |
| 0:27.6 | Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers. |
| 0:31.9 | We're going to take information that we've learned, that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered, |
| 0:34.2 | and we're going to try to go further. |
| 0:36.3 | Great investigative reporting, Peter. |
| 0:38.3 | 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. |
| 0:45.3 | This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. |
| 0:50.3 | Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down. Well, Donald Trump has gone to Washington, D.C. |
| 0:57.0 | to do exactly what he said he was going to do. He's shaking things up. He's reforming the place |
| 1:03.1 | and he's going to cut a lot of spending. And people keep wondering, where is the resistance? |
| 1:08.5 | Why are people in the streets? Well, they are on the street. They're on |
| 1:12.3 | K Street and the resistance against Donald Trump is going to begin with the lobbyists. |
| 1:17.7 | Here today to talk about that as a co-host of this program, Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? |
| 1:22.1 | So you're telling me that there's more to the anti-Trump movement than just like Charles Schumer |
| 1:27.1 | standing on a street corner, |
| 1:29.3 | shouting random words, Elizabeth Warren. You're telling me there's something more organized, |
| 1:34.3 | maybe more intentional, and I would have to think more effective potentially than just what we've |
| 1:39.6 | seen recently in terms of these elected Democrats is kind of shouting literally into the wind. |
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