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Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Bidens.

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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 exposed cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington,

D.C. I'm joined as always by the co-host, Eric Eggers. He's an author and vice president

here at the government accountability institute.

Well, last week, we had as a guest, a member of the mafia, and we try to keep it professional here and information oriented, but I have to tell you, the mafia conversation got me thinking

a little bit more about family. And so how was your weekend?

Do I have to start referring to you as Don Peter or Don Schweitzer. There you go. Godfather. No, hey, thanks for asking about my weekend and my family. It was good. It's football season, right? And so it was fun because I was a son who's more into Pokemon than pigskin, but he's playing flag football. And I was trying to, you know, teach him the rules

and stuff. But he's, you know, he's a little bit of a deficit. Like, not only does he, from like a gene standpoint, right? The athleticism is not going to be in his favor. But my man, like, at practice, you know, he's just out there in his Velcro sneakers. And other kids, they like swagged out to the max. They got gloves. They got mouth guards. They've got like the

performance enhancing, you know, clothes. So it's funny to see just the dichotomy in equipment in the

flag football. Yeah. So you're using the equipment to compensate for maybe concerns that you

have in other areas. Other parents are for sure. Other parents are for sure. So this is reminiscent

actually of something we want to talk about today.

Oh, yeah, what's that?

We want to talk about the fact that the federal government is buying, I would argue, all kinds of

unnecessary equipment, mainly weapons.

And it's a huge problem with the federal government.

And we're going to talk about it today because we're seeing the militarization of the federal government in a way, which is quite scary because those guns are frankly pointed at us. So I like that. So like the parents that have bought their kids way too much stuff for flag football, they're either overcompensating for their child's lack of athleticism or the fact that they're in failed marriages. What are the federal government's going to be overcompancying for by buying all these weapons, do we think? That's a good question. And we're going to talk about that today. What is the motive? But just to sort of put this in a perspective, because when we think of the military and law enforcement agencies at the federal government, We're like, that's great. That makes sense.

People don't realize all these other government agencies that have been given the power not only to

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