Research that resonates.

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

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 expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, D.C.

Seated by my side, as always is Eric Eggers, who is the co-host of this podcast. He's an author

and vice president here at the government

accountability institute. So, Eric, I was thinking we talk a lot about the books that we have

written, right? We do. That's something we, we do is proud authors. We don't often talk about

books that we're actually reading written by other people. Have you read anything good lately?

I was going to say, is that just a point or is that a question? Well, I'm just curious. Have you read anything interesting lately? So it's really hard for me to read books for several reasons. Number one is just from a functional intelligence standpoint. But number two is once I've sort of worked on and read yours, it's like going from a Michelin restaurant.

There you go.

You know what I mean?

To like back alley dumpster diving.

Are you due for a raise?

Is that why you're bringing this up?

Well, why I'm bringing up is that I have to eat out of a dumpster.

So, no, but I think I did actually read a book not too long ago.

It was kind of fascinating.

It's called The death of expertise. I've heard about it.

And it's basically like how as Americans, we have a growing distrust of what we like to call

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