How DC Keeps Getting Richer With OpenTheBooks.com CEO Adam Andrzejewski

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The Death of Journalism With Michele Tafoya

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Payoffs and Presidential Candidates

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TikTok is lawyering up. The embattled social media app has 150 million users in the US, but dancing teenagers don’t have the kind of pull that TikTok needs. So, they are spending millions on the most connected Washington lobbyists they can get, high-priced, “well placed names” who can speak to Republicans or Democrats.

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer, Peter and co-host Eric Eggers detail the impressive lineup of former politicians and staffers from previous White House administrations who are making money defending what some critics and computer security professionals call “Chinese spyware.”

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The Risks The Big Banks Continued Taking

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The net is tightening. House Republicans are acquiring more evidence that connects Hunter Biden’s China business dealings to other members of the Biden family including his father, the current president of the United States. Peter Schweizer first exposed many of the connections and the coincidences all the way back in 2018, and the Government Accountability Institute continues to uncover new details. Peter and co-host Eric Eggers detail the latest revelations on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.

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Peter and Eric return to the topic of COVID-era restrictions on the most recent episode of The Drill Down with more proof that when the government rushes to do things, it becomes a loose cannon.

“March madness” for most people might refer to the college basketball tournament, but the madness of the restrictions thrown on Americans to control the COVID virus by the federal government also celebrates its third anniversary this week.

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As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine moves into its second year, Peter and Eric welcome to The Drill Down the author Rebekah Koffler, a Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert who served as a Russian strategy specialist in the Defense Intelligence Agency and with the CIA's National Clandestine Service to analyze the war’s likely outcome and ask questions about the Biden administration’s strategy for helping the Ukrainians.

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On this episode of The Drill Down, Eric Eggers takes over the pilot’s seat and welcomes Seamus Bruner, director of research here at the Government Accountability Institute. Seamus is an investigative journalist and the author of two books on corruption within the FBI and other parts of the federal government and has been one of GAI’s biggest investigative stars since our founding in 2012. His third book, “Controligarchs,” will hit stores soon. Seamus joins the podcast today to talk about his research on Chinese government money flowing to the “Biden Center” at the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

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The environmental catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio had many causes. Government incompetence and neglect played a role, as did both excessive regulation and deregulation under different administrations. Corporate “efficiencies” as well as domestic politics created the conditions that caused a terrible accident. The response was to prevent one type of disaster by creating another type of disaster.

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