Research that resonates.

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

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

D.C. I'm joined, as always, with Eric Eggers, who's an author and vice president here at the

Government Accountability Institute. So it's the fall, and your four adorable kids, I say adorable because they look nothing

like you, are in school.

But it kind of got me wondering, what were you like as a students?

I mean, did you actually get good grades?

Were you studious?

What was your basic academic performance when you were young?

What are you writing a book? Well, how was your school performance? Not great, not great, to be honest. Yeah, no, mine wasn't either. I, not really in, no, never in high school or in college. In high school one time, I got a bad report card and I just realized, you know what, I'm just going to not bring it home.

Did they notice?

My parents absolutely noticed, but what are you going to do?

And then the cool thing is, bad report card and I just realized, you know what? I'm just going to not bring it home.

Did they notice? My parents absolutely noticed, but what are you going to do? And then the cool thing is when you get into college, because you're conceptually an adult, you're not required to show your parents, your grades. There you go. Like my grandpa used to call the college, you'd be like, no, I'm paying for it. What's his grades? Like, you have to talk to him, bro. Well, our nation schools have gotten their report card and the results are not good. Oh, they are not good. That's right.

This was in the news recently. And I think it's one thing to notice how bad the school's performances

or the children's performances on this national standard. It's called NAEP,

the National Assessment of Educational Progress is. It reveals a decline in reading and math scores

in every state over the time of the COVID pandemic. It's the first time since NAEP's been

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