The TikTok Dilemma - A Deal in the Making
The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer
Government Accountability Institute
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 27 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 |
| 0:16.0 | done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. The very prescient Eric Eggers. |
| 0:22.6 | Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers. |
| 0:27.6 | We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered, |
| 0:31.6 | and we're going to try to go further. |
| 0:33.6 | Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it thank God Eric |
| 0:38.9 | Eggers from the government accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast the |
| 0:43.5 | Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer this is the drill down with Peter Schweitzer hi it's |
| 0:50.1 | Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the drill down well Well, it looks like we might have a deal for |
| 0:55.1 | TikTok, but is it a good one? We're going to talk about that today, what the deal is, who's |
| 1:00.9 | involved, and the underlying issues that may or may not be addressed. And we're going to do that, |
| 1:05.7 | of course, with the host of this program, Eric Eggers. Eric, it seems like they're going to save |
| 1:09.7 | TikTok and your dance videos on that platform |
| 1:12.4 | are going to be safe. |
| 1:13.8 | No, we're precisely the right people to be having a discussion about TikTok because |
| 1:18.1 | you can count on zero hands. |
| 1:20.2 | The number of TikTok accounts, Peter Schwitzer, or TikTok videos we have been involved in. |
| 1:25.1 | But I hate to tell you, number one, New York Times best selling author, that you have |
| 1:28.3 | buried the lead, unfortunately. |
| 1:30.2 | Like, they have forced this sale of TikTok. |
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