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, 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., the co-host of this program, of course, Eric Eggers.

Eric, it's about a week since those elections.

We know a lot of things, some things we still don't know.

But we're going to unpack that today, right? We're

going to try to unpack and make sense of what happened, why it happened, the role of money

in politics, whether it still matters, and why we still don't know the results a week later

of some congressional races in California. It's quite stunning when you look at these numbers.

Yeah, you know, we're a couple of white conservative males. So like, we don't need any help feeling empowered. And then you get Donald Trump elected president and you kind of just take that and jack it up on steroids. So it's almost like it seems like many different things are possible now. Yeah. But I do think that where we are in terms of elections, it's kind of like, you know, when I was a kid, they had these books that choose your own adventure books.

...