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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer
by Government Accountability Institute
Peter Schweizer is the author of, among other books, ”Clinton Cash,” ”Extortion,” ”Throw Them All Out,” and ”The Invisible Coup.” He has been featured throughout the media, including on ”60 Minutes” and in the ”New York Times.” He is the cofounder and president of the Government Accountability Institute.
Episodes
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The Air Force Set a Goal for Fewer White Officers | Ep. 290
President Trump signed Executive Order 14151 on his first day back in office. The order shut down federal DEI offices, froze equity grants, and ended the minority set-aside schemes where a front owner holds 51% of a company on paper. Rep. Sarah McBride wants the old system back. Peter Schweizer…
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From Obama.com to ActBlue: 14 Years of Foreign Cash | Ep. 289
ActBlue told Congress it required a passport number from donors with foreign addresses. Internal messages released by three House committees show the check confirmed only the number of characters. Fraud reviewers flagged mismatched IP addresses, foreign credit cards, and links to rejected…
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Big Tech Wants Rules for AI. Small Rivals Pay the Price. | Ep. 288
Anthropic and OpenAI plan IPOs. Their leaders also warn of killer robots and ask Washington to regulate them. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers ask who profits from the rules. Investor Steve Eisman says the AI labs face open-weight competitors, have no lasting edge, and manufacture a crisis to…
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Xi Purged His Top Generals Days Before Flying to Washington | Ep. 287
The press covers President Trump as the weak party at this week's U.S.-China summit. Low polls, gas prices, Iran. The coverage leaves out what Xi Jinping did on his way to Washington. Days before the trip, Xi expelled two of China's top generals, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, for disloyalty to the...
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Mississippi Passed California in Reading. Here's the Law They Wrote | Ep. 286
American students fell three quarters of a school year behind in reading and math between 2018 and 2025. They now trail China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, the UK, Canada and Australia. The skills dropping fastest are the ones the AI economy rewards: evaluating sources, connecting information,...
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9/11 Families to New York's Mayor: Do Not Come | Ep. 285
Twenty five years after the towers fell, the men who planned the attack are dead and al Qaeda's command structure is gone. Peter Schweizer argues the war never ended. It changed method. Osama bin Laden believed you beat the Judeo-Christian West by punching it in the face. The Muslim Brotherhood...
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Inside the Meta Settlement: No Admission, No Zuckerberg, No Trial | Ep. 284
Meta settled the state lawsuits over teen harm for $12.6 billion, spread across ten years. Its outside lawyers get roughly $10 billion. On a present-value basis, the law firms collect more than the states do. A month earlier, the states behind the case sought permission to ask a jury for $1.4...
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7,800 Donations From One 85 Year Old: Inside the Democrat Spam Machine | The Drill Down | Ep. 283
Democrats trail Republicans in cash by nine figures. The DNC reported $16 million on hand against $17.9 million in debt. The RNC reported $130 million. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers follow the money filling the gap, and most of it comes from senior citizens. A Stanford researcher spent eight...
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Birth Tourism & Fake Weddings: How China Buys American Citizenship | The Drill Down | Ep. 282
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers track three fronts in China's campaign against American immigration controls, and the officials in Washington who look away. Trump signed two executive orders on August 6, narrowing his birthright citizenship push to birth tourism and surrogacy. Five days later the...
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270 Investigators. 32 Indictments. California's Fraud Math. | Ep. 281
California pays 270 people to investigate Medicaid fraud. In 2024 they returned 32 indictments. Arizona pays 33 people and returned 82. PeterSchweizer and Eric Eggers break down 'the summer of fraud' on ep. 281 of The Drill Down. Federal Medicaid recoveries went from 1.4B to 2B. CMS withheld 351M...
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One Third of Democrats Now Call Themselves Socialists | Ep. 280
Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, and his own party's establishment spent roughly $83 per vote trying to stop him. Haley Stevens had the governor, Jim Clyburn, AIPAC money, and most of the state's Democratic leadership behind her. She lost anyway. Peter Schweizer and Eric...
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CODE RED: The AI That Broke Out and Hacked a Tech Company | Ep. 279
An OpenAI model sat inside a sealed testing environment with one job: pass a cybersecurity exam. It decided the fastest route to the answers was to break out of the sandbox, get onto the open internet, and hack Hugging Face, the central repository for AI models. No human directed it there. Peter...
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278,000 Noncitizens on the Rolls: What DHS Just Found | Ep. 278
Donald Trump's recent speech on election integrity, followed by a Department of Homeland Security briefing, generated more heat than light. But what was actually revealed? Peter and Eric cut through the rhetoric to examine the real findings: Over 270,000 noncitizens identified on voter rolls from...
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SCOTUS Brings Life to the (Political) Parties
Political parties may soon make a comeback. A new Supreme Court decision “could fundamentally change the equation in American politics,” says Peter Schweizer about a Supreme Court decision on campaign finance. “This will allow the parties to have more influence and more direction on who their...
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Birth Tourism Wins at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s decision in the birthright citizenship case is “a monumentally terrible decision,” says author Peter Schweizer, whose latest bestseller exposed China’s efforts to exploit birth tourism on an industrial scale. In Trump v. Barbara, The Court this week threw out President Donald...
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American Patriotism or Socialism?
America is about to celebrate its 250th birthday, but some left-wing Democrats plan to skip the party. “When you forget who you are, it’s easy to be talked into becoming something else," says GAI’s Eric Eggers. A new CNN poll found surprising support among Democrats for socialism, with 66 percent...
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Iran Sent an IRGC Commander to the World Cup?
More than a million people are coming to America this summer for this year’s World Cup soccer matches. It’s “sports tourism.” At The Drill Down, however, host Peter Schweizer is more interested in stopping what he has called “birth tourism.” “The Trump administration announced actions against...
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Schweizer: “Is it still election fraud when it’s legal?”
California’s glacial counting of primary election votes is a feature, not a bug. The state’s election laws are deliberately designed to make elections as untraceable and lengthy as possible. As author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer asks, “If you make election fraud legal, is it…
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“Defund the Data”: The Secret Amendment That Could Blind Fraud Investigators Forever
They caught $200 billion in fraud — now Congress wants to take away the tools that found it. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers are joined by fraud investigator Andrew McClenahan to expose a buried amendment that would ban federal agencies from buying the data they use to hunt criminal fraud…
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The DNC Tried to Bury This Report — Here’s Why
As America approaches its 250th birthday, the media insists we're hopelessly divided and on the brink of a second Civil War. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers ask the question nobody in Washington wants answered: is that actually true — or is someone profiting from making you believe it? In this...
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Schweizer: Gerrymandering is as old as the United States
With important mid-term elections coming in November, “the latest rage in politics is cracking and packing,” says Peter Schweizer. “Gerrymandering is in the news right now,” says co-host Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. “Cracking is when you spread out your opposition's...
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Schweizer: Sheinbaum has made her choice
How Mexican Consulates Are Engaged in Political Interference in the US
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Schweizer: Spirit Air collapse a “classic Democrat problem”
Whether it is interfering with airline mergers, off-shoring a state’s oil refineries to Asia, or placing bets on chip makers, the nine scariest words in English are, in President Ronald Reagan’s immortal phrase, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” The fall of Spirit Airlines “is the...
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Schweizer: “Political violence will get worse” until we deal with cancerous rhetoric
The shots that rang through the ballroom at the Washington Hilton last week bounced off the same walls as when President Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed 45 years ago. But the reaction to the two events says how much our culture has degraded. In 1981, the Academy Awards were postponed for...
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How California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Law Threatens Investigative Journalism
How California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Law Threatens Investigative Journalism
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Swalwell’s Sudden Political Death a Strategic Hit Job
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s sudden political death was no accident, but a strategic hit job by an unethical California Democratic Party and its media enablers. “Swalwell was pushed out for strategic purposes,” says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. Call it the law of the jungle. On the Drill…
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Schweizer on Birthright Citizenship: “The Constitution is Not a Suicide Pact”
Foreign interference in our elections is the broad theme on today’s episode of The Drill Down, as hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, ActBlue’s foreign donor problem, and a lawsuit in Virginia over allowing the foreign-born children of people...
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Schweizer: “John Thune is Making a Huge Mistake”
The Supreme Court looks ready to overturn a Mississippi law that allows absentee ballots to be collected as late as five days after the election. Meanwhile, Congress is struggling to consider a bill called the SAVE Act that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in all states and...
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Insider War Trading and “Killed to Order”
Are there administration insiders profiting from knowing news about the war with Iran before the public does? Recent news stories from the world of “prediction markets” seem to indicate that may in fact be happening. That story and an interview with the author of a new book that details a…
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Left vs Right vs China: Wynton Hall’s “Code Red” details the AI Power Struggle
Elon Musk calls artificial intelligence “a supersonic tsunami headed toward humanity.” The CEO of Anthropic says we have about five years until half of all entry-level, white-collar jobs will be wiped out. Microsoft’s head of AI believes it will happen sooner than that. The hype around artificial...
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Schweizer Tells Senate Committee: “Birth Tourism is a Major National Security Threat”
“Birth Tourism” is a major national security threat, with as many as 1.5 million Chinese children who were born as “birthright” US citizens potentially becoming voters in US elections, author Peter Schweizer told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Sitting on a panel with three...
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How Trump’s Iran Strike Reshapes Global Power Dynamics
How Trump's Iran Strike Reshapes Global Power Dynamics
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Buck Sexton: “Menticide” in America
Words like “mind control” and “brainwashing” get tossed around, but it is a very real science and a very dangerous game that former CIA operative and now conservative talk show host Buck Sexton calls by its scientific name of “menticide,” the murder of the mind. Psychological attacks are real…
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Schweizer and Halperin Discuss Future of Media
Did politics destroy journalism, or was it the other way around? Author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, host of The Drill Down, sees the case for both but believes journalism has done more damage to itself than politicians could manage to do to them. Schweizer says, “a friend of…
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Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny
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Mexican Government Denies “Reconquista” Intentions -- Schweizer Responds
In the week since The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, debuted atop the bestseller lists, Mexico’s president and ambassador to the US have tried to dismiss the book’s findings about Mexican consulates interfering in US domestic politics, waving…
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Schweizer One Million Chinese “US Citizens”
In its first week, Peter Schweizer’s new book, The Invisible Coup, is the number one book in the country. A little celebration might be in order, but Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers relate the book’s blockbuster revelations to what is happening now in Minneapolis. Why is ICE even there in the...
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The Invisible Coup - Weaponized Migration in America
The Invisible Coup - Weaponized Migration in America
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Credit Policy and Avoiding “Big Vito”
To respond to “affordability issues,” the Trump administration floated 50-year mortgages for buying homes. Last week, Donald Trump suggested capping credit card interest rates at 10 percent. Financial writer and two-time New York Times bestselling author Carol Roth thinks both are a “terrible...
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Minnesota’s Fresh New Fraud Hell – Ballot Cheating?
The story of welfare fraud in Minnesota keeps getting bigger. And no one in state government has worked harder and longer trying to sound the alarm about it than state Sen. Steve Drazkowski. He joins The Drill Down to discuss the growing evidence of widespread fraud in his state that may include...
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2025 Highlights
2025 Highlights
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Guardrails
Massive welfare fraud in Minnesota by Somali immigrants was not supposed to happen because of government “guardrails.” Political violence by an Afghan refugee was not supposed to happen because such people were vetted before being allowed into the US. And voter fraud won’t be a problem because...
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Legal or Illegal - The Debate on Military Strikes
Legal or Illegal - The Debate on Military Strikes
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Unmasking Welfare Fraud - The Minnesota Scandal and Its Implications
Unmasking Welfare Fraud -The Minnesota Scandal and Its Implications
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Thanksgiving Politics - A Family Affair
Thanksgiving Politics - A Family Affair
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Unpacking the Arctic Frost Investigation Political Scandal
Unpacking the Arctic Frost Investigation Political Scandal
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Schweizer: They Want a Nation of Renters
It’s harder than ever to buy a home, thanks to immigration, environmental regulations, and zoning restrictions. The word “crisis” gets used too often, but housing certainly qualifies. On the heels of an election won by Democrats who stressed “affordability,” the Trump administration has floated…
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SNAP Judgments
During the government shutdown, Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins has been reviewing data from 29 states administering the food stamp program. Rollins’s review has found EBT cards that have been carrying balances of more than $10,000. It found cards that haven’t been used in years. It found…
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Schweizer: Litter Boxes in the Classroom for “Furries?” Blame our Schooling
The assassination of Charlie Kirk and other killings by young and seemingly well-educated but radicalized young people has led many to ask: Why does this keep happening? The problems begin not in college, but in the K-12 schooling that is infested with a mind-altering system of control. It is...
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Schweizer: Rigging Elections Before the First Vote is Cast?
Voting security is always a hot topic around election time, but manipulation of our electoral system is a bigger problem that we have to worry about all the time. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, we are not talking about stolen ballots, “ballot harvesting,” or other…
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Peter Schweizer is the author of, among other books, ”Clinton Cash,” ”Extortion,” ”Throw Them All Out,” and ”The Invisible Coup.” He has been featured throughout the media, including on ”60 Minutes” and in the ”New York Times.” He is the cofounder and president of the Government Accountability Institute.
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