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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 "Architects of Ruin." 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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Ep. 278 | 278,000 Noncitizens on the Rolls: What DHS Just Found
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 DrillDown, 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 Andy McClanahan to expose a buried amendment that would ban federal agencies from buying the data they use to hunt criminal fraud networks....
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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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Riot Inc - The Hidden Networks Fueling Unrest
Riot Inc - The Hidden Networks Fueling Unrest
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Schweizer: Yes, Immigrants ARE Getting Health Care Payment
The federal government remains in a shutdown and, depending on whom you believe, it is either because Democrats want to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants, or Republicans want to jack up costs on ordinary Americans. What’s going on, and who’s right?
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Bannon to Schweizer: Charges Against Comey “Are Just the Appetizers.”
The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has raised cries of “lawfare” from Democrats declaring that President Donald Trump’s administration is going after his political opponents. It’s a rich charge to make, given the number of prosecutions against both Trump and those in his orbit…
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The TikTok Dilemma - A Deal in the Making
The TikTok Dilemma - A Deal in the Making
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Bill O’Reilly on Confronting Evil
“Evil is on the rise in America, and overseas,” says author and talk show host Bill O’Reilly. “Evil is very simple: It's when one human being hurts another human being on purpose with no remorse.” Like Charlie Kirk’s killer. Like Vladimir Putin. And about 15 percent of the world’s population,...
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The NFL’s Hidden Agenda - Wokeness or Profit
The NFL's Hidden Agenda - Wokeness or Profit
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Is George Soros a Racketeer?
Is George Soros a racketeer? The billionaire currency speculator, who in 1992 netted $1 billion by shorting the British pound and bringing the Bank of England to its knees, controls a large network of leftwing activist organizations from under the umbrella of his Open Society Foundations. Days…
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The National Guard’s Role in Crime Control
The National Guard's Role in Crime Control
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Insider Trading by Congress
It’s the heat of the Summer in Washington DC, but hell is freezing over anyway. Why? Because veteran stock market wizard Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), has come out in support of a bill that will ban members of Congress from trading in stocks or options. For late arrivals, former House Speaker Pelosi...
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On Power with Mark Levin
On Power with Mark Levin
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Schweizer: Trump Was Right to Fire Jobs “Expert”
Experts are on a run of bad luck lately. Climate change predictions, Covid vaccine promises, jobs statistics, and economic analysis of the effect of the Trump administration’s tariffs. What’s the problem with the experts? Do they really know what they say they know? Do they know how much they…
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Margaret Roberts - FBI’s Role in Domestic Terrorism
Margaret Roberts - FBI's Role in Domestic Terrorism
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Peter Schweizer is the author of, among other books, "Clinton Cash," "Extortion," "Throw Them All Out," and "Architects of Ruin." 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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