The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

The Air Force Set a Goal for Fewer White Officers | Ep. 290

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:15:09 +0000

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 and Eric Eggers track what changed. In 2022 the Air Force set a goal to cut white officer applicants from 80% to 67.5%, and Gen. CQ Brown co-signed the memo. Once the quotas ended, all five active-duty branches hit their FY2025 recruiting goals. At Ivy Plus schools, Black enrollment fell 25% after race-conscious admissions ended, while Black freshman enrollment jumped at the University of Mississippi and LSU. United Airlines set a goal of 50% women and people of color for its pilot academy. The FAA now requires airlines to certify merit-based pilot hiring.

The episode closes on the federal search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home and why a colorblind standard means equal scrutiny for every public official.

(00:00) Where DEI stands now (01:34) Day one: Executive Order 14151 (04:14) Rep. Sarah McBride wants DEI back (07:24) Why CQ Brown was removed (08:24) The Air Force's 67.5% white officer goal (11:37) Recruiting rebounds after quotas end (13:09) Elite colleges lose minority students, others gain (16:21) Med schools, pilots, and merit (18:36) Costco, Apple, and United hold the line on DEI (23:02) Ilhan Omar and equal scrutiny

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From Obama.com to ActBlue: 14 Years of Foreign Cash | Ep. 289

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:07:14 +0000

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 accounts, then approved the money anyway. One supervisor overturned a rejection because the donor's X account supported Democrats.

Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers walk through the emails, ActBlue's choice to put DEI goals ahead of fraud prevention, and foreign money cases touching campaigns from Jeb Bush to Zohran Mamdani. They trace the story back to 2012, when GAI found Obama.com owned by a campaign bundler living in China and drawing two thirds of its traffic from overseas.

(00:00) Foreign money and the campaign cash pipeline (03:41) ActBlue's passport check counted characters (05:38) Internal emails: red flags, donation accepted (06:35) "All their tweets are in support of Democrats" (07:40) The CEO's letter to Congress (09:06) DEI ahead of fraud prevention (11:06) Beyond ActBlue: Trump, Mamdani, Sanders, Bush (14:43) Obama.com and GAI's 2012 investigation (16:20) Does foreign money still matter? (18:24) Foreign governments with a thumb on the scale

Big Tech Wants Rules for AI. Small Rivals Pay the Price. | Ep. 288

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:00:59 +0000

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 write regulation in their favor. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang asks why executives who fear their own product rush to raise money. Peter compares the push to Dodd-Frank, which some of the largest Wall Street firms backed and which drove out small competitors unable to afford compliance.

The hosts play President Trump, Brad Gerstner, and Bill Gates, who calls new AI law "a little bit of overhead." They cover data center power use and local opposition, Eric's figure of more than $300 million in AI company spending on the 2026 midterms, and OpenAI's purchase of the TBPN podcast. They close on tech leaders who praised China for years and now cite China as a threat to win support in Washington.

(00:00) Killer robots or a regulatory play (02:10) Executives tell government to stop them (05:09) Investor Brad Gerstner on federal AI review (07:16) Steve Eisman on the manufactured crisis (09:53) Jensen Huang asks why they rush to IPO (11:07) Dodd-Frank and the Wall Street firms behind the law (12:07) Bill Gates on "a little bit of overhead" (14:22) Data centers, power use and local pushback (20:48) AI money in the midterms and the TBPN purchase (22:45) Tech leaders flip on China

Xi Purged His Top Generals Days Before Flying to Washington | Ep. 287

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:46:23 +0000

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 party. Zhang served as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and ranked among Xi's closest allies. The purges leave the commission with two active members: Xi and the man running his investigations. More than 45 Chinese generals and admirals have gone missing in two years.

Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers lay out the numbers Beijing stopped publishing. China's economy is on pace for its slowest growth since 1991. Total debt sits near 300% of GDP. Domestic car sales fell 20% from a year earlier. Housing sales fell 14%. Business confidence and real estate data went dark.

Then the agenda. Trump wants help on Iran. China, the largest backer of the Iranian regime, lost its discounted oil from Iran and Venezuela and has drawn down its reserve for six months. On AI, Peter walks through the COVID record: the NIH grant terms, the Wuhan lab biosafety protocols, the WHO access commitments. China signed each one and broke each one. An AI agreement with Beijing binds the United States and nobody else.

(00:00) The press says Xi is strong and Trump is weak (01:55) Summit protocol and the purge the media ignored (04:09) 45 generals and admirals missing in two years (05:49) Xi's father tried to poison his teacher (07:49) Beijing stops reporting its own economic data (08:46) China's debt hits 300% of GDP (10:42) Trump gets called a dictator. Xi gets Disney. (12:50) China broke every COVID agreement it signed (15:26) Why China needs Hormuz open more than we do (17:42) China is an enemy. Talk, but don't trust.

Mississippi Passed California in Reading. Here's the Law They Wrote | Ep. 286

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:12:59 +0000

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, thinking critically.

Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers walk through three reports released this month. PISA found "hasty reading" has doubled, with nearly 10% of students now reading fast and wrong. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute found 76% of high schoolers use school devices for something other than school every day, and 26% use AI during quizzes and tests. The GAO found 19% of districts closed a school last year over a plumbing failure, a flood, or a 110-degree classroom.

Then there's Mississippi. Long ranked at the bottom, it copied Florida's third-grade reading law, set a passing threshold students have to clear, and tested new elementary teachers on the science of reading. Mississippi now ranks ninth in the country in reading and sits well ahead of California.

The countries holding their scores steady share one trait: stricter device discipline in the classroom.

(00:00) Mississippi is excelling and California is not (01:43) PISA: US scores fall three quarters of a year of learning (02:33) "Hasty reading" doubles, and the countries it skipped (05:08) Chromebooks stay at school, LA County caps devices at 10 hours a week (06:26) Fordham: 76% admit daily illicit device use, 26% use AI on tests (07:47) The technology was built for the teacher, not the student (09:08) GAO: 1 in 5 districts closed a school over facilities (09:58) The problem is not money, it's the approach (11:57) Mississippi copies Florida's third-grade reading law (15:16) 44% of below-average SAT scorers get A's

9/11 Families to New York's Mayor: Do Not Come | Ep. 285

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:46:06 +0000

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 disagreed with the tactic and agreed with the goal. Their alternative is civilizational jihad: immigration, political organization, elected office, cultural pressure. No explosives required, and no moment of national alarm to trigger a response.

Start with the cost of the first method. 9,677 first responders and survivors have since died of 9/11 related illness, according to federal figures. More than 57,000 documented cancer cases trace back to the toxins released by the burning and collapsing towers. Firefighter Tim Brown was invited to 21 funerals in a single day. The attack itself ran roughly $100 billion in damage, insurance, cleanup and lost business. The war it launched ran $10 trillion, by Brown University's estimate, near 35 percent of the national debt at the time. The Department of Homeland Security was announced 11 days later.

Then look at New York. Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed the city's 9/11 commemoration order and handed the ceremonial pen to a legal aide who had represented an al Qaeda member held at Guantanamo Bay. Victims' families collected 101,000 petition signatures asking him to stay away from the 25th anniversary ceremony. Council member Vickie Paladino told him to stay in City Hall. Hezbollah's newspaper in Lebanon called his election good news for Islamists and floated him as a future Secretary of Homeland Security.

Schweizer draws the line where the episode draws it. The issue is not faith. Zuhdi Jasser, a former Navy physician running in Arizona, is Muslim, loves the country, and names the radicals out loud. The issue is a worldview: officials who defend the goal while softening the method, and a Democratic Socialists of America apparatus giving them a party structure to run in. CAIR reports a record 255 Muslim elected officials now serving across 26 states.

Eric Eggers closes on the intelligence failure of 2001. The CIA and the FBI each held a piece and nobody assembled the picture. The pieces are on the table again.

(00:00) Where you were on September 11 (01:53) The day the news crawl was born (04:21) 9,677 dead after the towers came down (05:33) The $10 trillion war on terror (06:41) Why DHS exists: the pieces nobody connected (08:22) Two jihads, one end goal (10:24) Families tell Mamdani to stay away from Ground Zero (13:32) The ceremonial pen and the al Qaeda lawyer (17:22) Hezbollah's paper wants Mamdani at Homeland Security (19:22) 255 Muslim officials, the DSA, and the red-green alliance

Inside the Meta Settlement: No Admission, No Zuckerberg, No Trial | Ep. 284

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:16:37 +0000

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 trillion in damages. The final deal admits no wrongdoing, keeps Mark Zuckerberg off the witness stand, and sunsets its safety commitments after five years. Florida refused to sign.

Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers break down what Meta bought, what the trial would have exposed, and why the attorneys general folded. A former Meta engineer testified he sent Zuckerberg internal data showing teens encountered violent or graphic content at rates up to 400 times higher than the company admitted publicly. None of it reached a jury.

Then follow the money. OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon have given more than $2 million to attorney general campaigns since the start of last year, including $200,000 from Meta to each party's AG association in a single quarter. Meta is spending an estimated $65 million this year to back state politicians friendly to its industry.

Compare it to tobacco. In 1998, 47 states won $200 billion. Meta pays 12 to 18 billion, admits nothing, and gets a clause raising its payment if YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat make their own products less attractive to kids.

(00:00) Two quotes about lawyers (01:33) What Meta agreed to pay (01:56) CNBC reacts: the lawyers beat the states (04:05) From $1.4 trillion to $18 billion (05:15) How this compares to Big Tobacco (07:26) Zuckerberg avoids the witness stand (09:52) Under oath: correlation is not causation (13:17) The algorithm concession, and what it sidesteps (15:46) AI companies fund the AGs investigating them (20:07) Big government and big business as collaborators

7,800 Donations From One 85 Year Old: Inside the Democrat Spam Machine | The Drill Down | Ep. 283

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:17:55 +0000

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 months preparing an investigation for The New York Times. Fact checkers cleared it. Lawyers cleared it. Then the Elias Law Group sent cease and desist letters on behalf of Democratic committees, and the paper walked away.

What the research found: a spam text pipeline built to squeeze a captive pool of elderly donors. An 85 year old man in Oxford, Ohio gave 7,800 times, nearly $650,000, more than double the value of his house. A 90 year old woman in an Indiana senior living facility gave more than 25,000 times, $250,000 in total. Fewer than 1% of Democrat donors account for almost half of the $1.4 billion these PACs have raised since 2017. One network alone pulled in $390 million. Most of the money never reaches a candidate. It recycles back into the fundraising operation.

Hakeem Jeffries shows the shift in one chart. In 2018, his average donor was 54 and 21% were 65 or older. This cycle, his average donor is 73 and 86% are senior citizens.

Then the midterm ledger. Ripple and Coinbase sit at the top of $230 million in special interest spending, ahead of Big Tech and Wall Street. FanDuel and DraftKings make the top six. George Soros has given more than $102 million this year. AIPAC drew headlines for $30 million behind Haley Stevens in Michigan, while the money moving against her opponent's opponent stays far harder to trace: a $200,000 super PAC check from Abdul El-Sayed's father-in-law, an Islamic Society of North America figure; $25,000 from an Egyptian American activist sentenced to life in absentia; $115,000 tied to people affiliated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Saudi Arabia spent $92 million on Washington lobbying last year with roughly 148 registered foreign agents.

Peter and Eric close on Sharia law, Jesse Watters' interview with El-Sayed, and whether the red-green alliance holds long enough to make Michigan competitive.

(00:00) Cold open (00:31) Votes from the poor, money from the rich (02:33) The DNC has $16 million and $17.9 million in debt (04:43) Granny's Social Security check funds the campaign (06:34) The New York Times kills the story after legal threats (07:33) One donor, 7,800 gifts, $650,000 (09:30) Hakeem Jeffries' donor base ages 20 years in eight (12:27) Crypto, gambling and AIPAC lead the midterm spending (15:25) The influence money nobody tracks (20:14) CAIR cash, Jesse Watters, and the Sharia law question

Birth Tourism & Fake Weddings: How China Buys American Citizenship | The Drill Down | Ep. 282

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:42:14 +0000

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 same coalition from Barbara v. Trump went back to the same judge for a restraining order. Brett Kavanaugh already signaled a pathway for limiting 14th Amendment abuse, so the left should not assume a win at the Supreme Court.

The Justice Department charged a network selling green cards through fake weddings. Chinese nationals paid facilitators up to $100,000. Facilitators paid American citizens up to $30,000 to stand at the altar. One prenuptial agreement instructed the bride never to speak to the groom again.

Then there is Mexico. Former Mexican tourism official Simón Levy published a report on how Mexicans are manufactured in Mexico. Civil registry employees took $4,000 per migrant to forge birth certificates for Cuban, Haitian and Chinese nationals. Mexico deleted the database field recording when a passport was issued in 2021, so the forgeries are untraceable. A Mexican passport drops your US visa refusal rate by 49.5 points. A Chinese national in Beijing becomes a Mexican citizen, then walks into the United States under a new name.

The declassified Swalwell file closes the loop. Eric Swalwell admitted a physical relationship with Chinese intelligence asset Fang Fang. She placed interns in his office and laundered money into his campaign. He joked to friends his girlfriend worked for the Chinese CIA. He stayed on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Nancy Pelosi kept him there. The FBI, which the committee oversees, kept trying to recruit Fang Fang and never moved on Swalwell.

(00:00) China thinks in dynasties, not decades (01:13) Trump's August 6 executive orders on birth tourism (03:23) The ACLU coalition sues again, and Rob Bonta calls it a tantrum (05:35) Birth tourism is an industry term, not a slur (07:03) DOJ charges the $100,000 sham marriage ring (08:46) Staged attacks and weaponized immigration (11:58) Simón Levy's report: Mexicans manufactured in Mexico (15:17) The passport database field Mexico deleted in 2021 (17:56) Eric Swalwell, Fang Fang, and the warning signs he ignored (24:13) The FBI knew, kept recruiting her, and never touched him

270 Investigators. 32 Indictments. California's Fraud Math. | Ep. 281

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:14:10 +0000

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 from Minnesota and 1.3B from California. Alabama employs seven fraud investigators. Minnesota employs 28. Chapters: (02:33) The federal numbers (07:58) California's 32 indictments (10:37) Alabama has seven (15:01) 1.9B to the Virgin Islands, zero homes (19:09) Minnesota and Feeding Our Future (26:13) What happens when the money stops

One Third of Democrats Now Call Themselves Socialists | Ep. 280

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:20:45 +0000

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 Eggers go through what that result says about where the Democratic Party is headed. The DSA is 85 percent white and 4 percent black by its own membership surveys, a black-led advocacy group put $2 million into ads warning that its agenda threatens decades of progress built by black Americans, and one third of Democratic voters now tell CNN they identify as Democratic socialists. The DNC is carrying debt and borrowed against its own headquarters while left wing superPACs stay flush with Soros money. Schweizer's read: nobody in the party is going to confront the socialists, because Democrats cannot retake the Senate in November without holding that Michigan seat.

00:00 A socialist wins Michigan and the party has to live with it
00:55 The first DSA statewide win outside New York and California
02:17 $83 a vote for Stevens, $40 a vote for El-Sayed, and she still lost
02:58 Why there will be no Sister Souljah moment this time
04:22 The Teamsters are gone and the unions that replaced them are left wing
07:39 Elite overproduction and the $150,000 comparative lit degree
09:48 The DSA is 85% white, 4% black, and losing black voters
12:00 Clarence Thomas on who hands out your rights
15:02 The DNC is broke while the left wing superPACs are flush
17:43 The 2028 calendar, the Michigan AG, and a cider house that apologized

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CODE RED: The AI That Broke Out and Hacked a Tech Company | Ep. 279

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:04:57 +0000

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 Schweizer and Eric Eggers sit down with Wynton Hall, GAI distinguished fellow and author of the New York Times bestseller "Code Red: The Left, the Right, China and the Race to Control AI," to explain what actually happened and why it will keep happening.

Also in this episode: the quarter of a billion dollars flooding into the midterms over one question of who writes the AI rules, why Anthropic's push for regulation looks a lot like Goldman Sachs and Dodd-Frank, how California can set AI policy for Florida and Idaho without a single federal vote, the universal basic income groundwork being laid before the job losses arrive, and whether China is stealing its way forward or genuinely out-innovating us.

278,000 Noncitizens on the Rolls: What DHS Just Found | Ep. 278

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:30:26 +0000

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 limited state data—a number likely much higher
China's breach of at least 18 states, accessing voter files across the country (covered up by intelligence agencies)
Why states resist cleaning voter rolls and how federal pressure is escalating
The media's failure to cover the story and what it reveals about institutional accountability

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SCOTUS Brings Life to the (Political) Parties

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:07:00 +0000

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 nominees are,” he says.

Birth Tourism Wins at the Supreme Court

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:43:00 +0000

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 Trump’s executive order to federal immigration agencies not to automatically grant citizenship to every child born to a foreigner on US soil. The decision, although expected by many, is absolutely terrible for American sovereignty, Schweizer believes.

American Patriotism or Socialism?

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:32:00 +0000

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 of those surveyed saying they have a positive view of socialism, compared with a minority – 42 percent – saying the same about capitalism and the free market system, a flip of their sentiments from 15 years ago. Is this caused by their hatred for President Donald Trump and his populist turn, or is it a longer-term trend?

Iran Sent an IRGC Commander to the World Cup?

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:30:00 +0000

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 networks in Africa that were designed to provide birth tourism,” Schweizer says. “This is where foreign women, wives or girlfriends of people in these countries are sneaking into the United States to give birth so their child will be born a US citizen. We have exposed this as it relates to China, Russia, Turkey, and other countries. But this is a positive development – exciting news.”

Schweizer: “Is it still election fraud when it’s legal?”

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:13:00 +0000

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 still fraud?”

“Defund the Data”: The Secret Amendment That Could Blind Fraud Investigators Forever

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:32:00 +0000

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 networks. Critics call it the "digital defunding of the police."

Plus: a $14B Russian Medicare bust, the IRS keeping your biometrics while fraud cops get cut off, and Washington State chaos — a ballot box that exploded, 360 blank ballots in a dumpster, and voter cards where 92% of names were Chinese.

Take away the data, and investigators go back to a notepad and pencil. Here's who benefits.

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The DNC Tried to Bury This Report — Here’s Why

Fri, 29 May 2026 21:57:00 +0000

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 episode, Peter and Eric dig into the leaked DNC "autopsy" of the 2024 election — a 152-page report so damning that DNC chair Ken Martin tried to bury it before releasing it anyway. Wait until you hear what its "conclusion" section actually says. Plus: why Trump now owns the Republican Party outright, why the Democrats' biggest names can't win back rural America, and the foreign adversaries quietly funding the chaos.

Schweizer: Gerrymandering is as old as the United States

Thu, 21 May 2026 12:20:00 +0000

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 voters into different districts. Packing is the reverse of that – when you pack your opponent's voters into a single district.” They discuss the long history of politicians trying to choose their own voters.

Schweizer: Sheinbaum has made her choice

Tue, 12 May 2026 15:54:00 +0000

How Mexican Consulates Are Engaged in Political Interference in the US

Schweizer: Spirit Air collapse a “classic Democrat problem”

Fri, 08 May 2026 11:13:00 +0000

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 classic Democratic problem,” says author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. “They don’t understand the implications of their decisions, the costs and repercussions that affect real people’s lives.” On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers tie a neat bow around Spirit Airlines, California oil refineries, and chip-maker Intel Corp.

Schweizer: “Political violence will get worse” until we deal with cancerous rhetoric

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:50:00 +0000

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 24 hours. When emcee Johnny Carson opened the broadcast by wishing Reagan well in his recovery, there was thunderous applause from the Hollywood audience. All those years later, two days before the attempt, liberal talk show host Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about the First Lady having the “glow of an expectant widow,” which he later defended as a joke aimed at her age difference to the president. Some prominent Democratic influencers on Bluesky began peddling a theory that the whole incident was somehow “staged.”

How California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Law Threatens Investigative Journalism

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:10:00 +0000

How California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Law Threatens Investigative Journalism

Swalwell’s Sudden Political Death a Strategic Hit Job

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:06:00 +0000

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 Down podcast, Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers review the body count and identify which ethically challenged members will be next to go.

Schweizer on Birthright Citizenship: “The Constitution is Not a Suicide Pact”

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:04:00 +0000

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 who once lived in Virginia to vote in the state’s elections.

Schweizer: “John Thune is Making a Huge Mistake”

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:36:00 +0000

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 require voters to show a photo ID to vote. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, host Peter Schweizer asks “will either of these issues determine the outcome of November’s elections?”

Insider War Trading and “Killed to Order”

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:08:00 +0000

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 barbaric crime by the Communist Chinese.

Left vs Right vs China: Wynton Hall’s “Code Red” details the AI Power Struggle

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:27:00 +0000

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 intelligence (AI) is so thick and constant that people are fatigued by it. Unfortunately, though, that fatigue will allow bad actors to dominate the race to AI dominance, which would be a very bad thing. More than the quick answers AI can give us now, who controls the inputs it will use to provide those answers matters far more. That important question is the subject of a brand-new book by Wynton Hall, who speaks with host Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.

Schweizer Tells Senate Committee: “Birth Tourism is a Major National Security Threat”

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:59:00 +0000

“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 constitutional lawyers and a US Marine, Schweizer told senators that China has created an “industrial scale” way of creating American citizens who are born in the US and quickly whisked back to China where they are raised and indoctrinated in the Chinese Communist Party’s ways. He cited Chinese government and academic estimates that between 50,000 and 100,000 Chinese have been on US soil since 2013, meaning they are only a few years away from being old enough to vote.

How Trump’s Iran Strike Reshapes Global Power Dynamics

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:17:00 +0000

How Trump's Iran Strike Reshapes Global Power Dynamics

Buck Sexton: “Menticide” in America

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:54:00 +0000

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, and the concept of menticide dates to a Dutch psychologist who studied how totalitarian governments control the thoughts of their populations. Joost Meerloo witnessed and studied the way Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong used the insights from Pavlov’s experiments on dogs against people. His most famous work is called The Rape of the Mind.

Schweizer and Halperin Discuss Future of Media

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:26:00 +0000

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 mine who used to be a producer on 60 Minutes said he thought that journalists became less interested in actual hard news coverage.” On the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast, his guest Mark Halperin, who had a front row seat to see it happening, agrees.

Bad Bunny

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:47:00 +0000

Bad Bunny

Mexican Government Denies “Reconquista” Intentions -- Schweizer Responds

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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 off multiple quotes from numerous Mexican politicians and consular officials themselves. In a statement released by her office, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said, “I categorically deny any involvement or attempt by Mexico to interfere in the internal affairs of the United States.” Schweizer has already been asked to testify at a Senate hearing in March on several of The Invisible Coup’s most eye-popping revelations. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Schweizer responds to the Mexican government’s denials.

Schweizer One Million Chinese “US Citizens”

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:47:00 +0000

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 first place? The Department of Homeland Security said its largest immigration enforcement operation ever, called “Operation Metro Surge,” was tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents, which The Drill Down has discussed previously. Massive defrauding of aid programs including daycare, food, housing, and ambulance services was perpetrated largely by Somalis living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

The Invisible Coup - Weaponized Migration in America

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:31:00 +0000

The Invisible Coup - Weaponized Migration in America

Credit Policy and Avoiding “Big Vito”

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:23:00 +0000

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 idea.” She joins The Drill Down to discuss good financial sense.

Minnesota’s Fresh New Fraud Hell – Ballot Cheating?

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:09:00 +0000

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 not only welfare and child care fraud but vote fraud as well. Minn. Gov. Tim Walz, who was the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee in 2024, just abandoned his bid for a third term in the wake of the growing scandal, which exposed potentially billions of dollars in fraud committed mostly by Somalis in the Minneapolis area through fake feeding programs, daycare centers, and other social programs. Reporters have also identified political contributions to many of the state’s most prominent politicians from Somali immigrants who have been implicated and/or prosecuted in the scams.

2025 Highlights

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:13:00 +0000

2025 Highlights

Guardrails

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:47:00 +0000

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 there are safeguards to prevent it. Those three separate issues all prompt us to ask… What happens when those “guardrails” are missing, the “vetting” is left undone, or the “safeguards” ignored?

Legal or Illegal - The Debate on Military Strikes

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:51:00 +0000

Legal or Illegal - The Debate on Military Strikes

Unmasking Welfare Fraud - The Minnesota Scandal and Its Implications

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:52:00 +0000

Unmasking Welfare Fraud -The Minnesota Scandal and Its Implications

Thanksgiving Politics - A Family Affair

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:50:00 +0000

Thanksgiving Politics - A Family Affair

Unpacking the Arctic Frost Investigation Political Scandal

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:37:00 +0000

Unpacking the Arctic Frost Investigation Political Scandal

Schweizer: They Want a Nation of Renters

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:55:00 +0000

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 the idea of introducing 50-year mortgages to lower the entry cost of buying a home. Is that a good idea?

SNAP Judgments

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:02:00 +0000

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 cards issued to people who never existed. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as food stamps are formally known, has been around since the 1930s but ballooned during the Biden administration years and now serves 42 million people in the US, one-eighth of the population. What’s happening? Is the program running efficiently and properly? Will the shutdown really “starve children” as the Trump administration’s critics are charging?
Joining host Eric Eggers on The Drill Down podcast is returning guest Andrew McClenahan from the United Council on Welfare Fraud. McClenahan’s organization represents state-level investigators of welfare fraud. And it turns out there is a lot of it to investigate.

Schweizer: Litter Boxes in the Classroom for “Furries?” Blame our Schooling

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:49:00 +0000

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 called “social emotional learning” (SEL), and a new book by Priscilla West warns that it will take decades to undo the damage it has done to childhood education.

Schweizer: Rigging Elections Before the First Vote is Cast?

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:38:00 +0000

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 shenanigans that can happen during an election, but about how congressional districts are both drawn and apportioned. Two things recently in the news raise questions about how we do those things, and whether it’s still the best way.

Riot Inc - The Hidden Networks Fueling Unrest

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:54:00 +0000

Riot Inc - The Hidden Networks Fueling Unrest

Schweizer: Yes, Immigrants ARE Getting Health Care Payment

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:45:00 +0000

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?

Bannon to Schweizer: Charges Against Comey “Are Just the Appetizers.”

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:52:00 +0000

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 during and following his first term. One of those targeted during the first Trump terms, Steve Bannon, joins The Drill Down podcast on the most recent episode.

The TikTok Dilemma - A Deal in the Making

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:36:00 +0000

The TikTok Dilemma - A Deal in the Making

Bill O’Reilly on Confronting Evil

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:49:00 +0000

“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, O’Reilly thinks.

The NFL’s Hidden Agenda - Wokeness or Profit

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:31:00 +0000

The NFL's Hidden Agenda - Wokeness or Profit

Is George Soros a Racketeer?

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:49:00 +0000

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 ago, President Donald Trump threatened Soros and his son, Alex, with prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a 1970 law providing for extended criminal penalties against participants in ongoing criminal organizations. The law was meant to be a weapon for prosecutors against the Mafia, but it has been used in other contexts as well. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss.

The National Guard’s Role in Crime Control

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:17:00 +0000

The National Guard's Role in Crime Control

Insider Trading by Congress

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:32:00 +0000

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 has for more than a decade been the poster child for members of Congress who became rich by trading on inside information to predict the movement of the stock market. Pelosi has long tried to deflect criticism by saying that her husband makes all the stock moves, but the numbers don’t lie: While the S&P index is up by 240 percent over the last 10 years, Pelosi and her husband are up an eye-popping 745 percent.

On Power with Mark Levin

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:49:00 +0000

On Power with Mark Levin

Schweizer: Trump Was Right to Fire Jobs “Expert”

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:52:00 +0000

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 don’t know? On their most recent podcast episode, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers of The Drill Down take the experts out to the woodshed.

Margaret Roberts - FBI’s Role in Domestic Terrorism

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:09:00 +0000

Margaret Roberts - FBI's Role in Domestic Terrorism

Legislative Priorities on Capitol Hill Post-Major Bill Passage With Congressman Wesley Hunt

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:46:00 +0000

Legislative Priorities on Capitol Hill Post-Major Bill Passage With Congressman Wesley Hunt

Secret Service Failures Exposed - With Susan Crabtree

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:45:00 +0000

Marking the first anniversary of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., the US Senate released two reports on failures by the Secret Service both during and prior to the attempt. The level of incompetence shown in the reports has caused some to wonder whether Secret Service was really even trying to prevent it.

Schweizer: Feds have had Epstein list since 2019

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:23:00 +0000

Whatever the truth may be about Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide or “client list,” he was engaged in the business of human trafficking and that leaves a paper trail. As Peter Schweizer noted on the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, Investment bank JP Morgan Chase turned over the records it had, worth over 1 billion dollars, to the federal government in 2019. Why haven’t those records been released? “We have more than $1 billion were used for purposes of human trafficking,” JP Morgan wrote to the Justice Department after Epstein’s death, Schweizer says. As Eric Eggers notes, we “follow the money.” So, why has no one else been investigated in light of JP Morgan’s disclosures?

Jason Chaffetz - How Deep State Spies, NGOs, and Woke Corporations Plan to Push You Out of the Economy

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:23:00 +0000

Jason Chaffetz - How Deep State Spies, NGOs, and Woke Corporations Plan to Push You Out of the Economy

Trump’s Disruption of Foreign Policy Ends Iran’s Nuclear Threat

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:36:00 +0000

President Donald Trump just blew up Iran’s nuclear program. That was the easy part. What Trump has done in arranging a tenuous ceasefire between Iran and Israel, after hammering the table with 14 MOPs dropped on Iran’s most critical underground nuclear enrichment plants, is “a return to 19th Century Great Power projection,” says author and investigative reporter Peter Schweizer on the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast. Co-host Eric Eggers adds, “the rizz is back.”

Schweizer: No Kings Lesson For Leftist Billionaires – You Can’t Buy an Uprising

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:25:00 +0000

No Kings? No problem. The weekend protests called “No Kings” produced crowds of a few thousand in some reliably “blue” cities like Portland, Boston, Seattle, and others, but not much else. Tragically, though, a killer who was once a political appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz shot and killed the former state House speaker and her husband and seriously wounded a state senator and his wife – and killed his dog – in an act of politically motivated violence. On the latest episode of The Drill Down, co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers look at the protest campaign and follow the money behind it.

LA Riots Coming to You Soon?

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:35:00 +0000

As the riots raged in Los Angeles, four things became clear – LA’s leaders are feckless; foreign money is behind the rioters; protesters are expressing a soup of different grievances, and all this may happen elsewhere. As with the BLM riots in 2020, the LA disturbances are not spontaneous or chaotic. They have been planned, supported, and even staffed by activist organizations whose goals have nothing to do with immigration law or the plight of day laborers lingering in Home Depot parking lots. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers break down these connections and follow the money to Mexican cartels, China, taxpayer-funded NGOs, and even teachers and service employee unions.

Congressman Chip Roy on Fiscal Responsibility

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:44:00 +0000

Congressman Chip Roy on Fiscal Responsibility

The current state of civil rights in America with Harmeet Dhillon

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:47:00 +0000

The current state of civil rights in America with Harmeet Dhillon

Schweizer: Media Still Lying About Biden

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:57:00 +0000

While recent news of former President Joe Biden’s dire cancer diagnosis certainly inspired sympathy, it also has raised suspicions about the timing and motivation of the disclosure. As Peter Schweizer notes on the most recent episode of The Drill Down, the lack of honesty about Joe Biden’s health and the media’s coverage of it extends even to a new book by Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios. “We have lies upon lies upon lies upon lies,” says Schweizer, who exposed the Biden family’s influence-peddling back in 2018. “Even by Washington standards, these are some serious whoppers.”

Qatar vs Qvar

Wed, 14 May 2025 04:52:00 +0000

Qatar vs Qvar

Clinton Cash - A Decade of Impact With Special Guest Steve Bannon

Wed, 07 May 2025 11:07:00 +0000

Clinton Cash - A Decade of Impact With Special Guest Steve Bannon

Schweizer: Even for non-Catholics, the Next Pope Matters

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:41:00 +0000

Even for non-Catholics, the pope is a figure of world significance who can affect politics in every nation around the globe, as Francis, the first pope from Latin America, clearly did. On the latest episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute avoid theology but instead follow the money the church received from the Biden administration, and it leads to the church’s role in the immigration crisis in the US.

Harvard Fights to Discriminate

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:40:00 +0000

The Trump administration’s fight with elite universities might be its toughest yet because it’s about money—federal research funds that have been given to major universities for decades. On the most recent podcast of The Drill Down, host Peter Schweizer approves of the effort: “We say that’s a good thing.” President Donald Trump’s budget hawks seek to cut wasteful spending, but that is only part of their goal. What they really want is to see elite universities return to merit-based admissions and viewpoint diversity in faculty and students, an end to campus antisemitism and elimination of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Billy Long at the IRS

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:49:00 +0000

No one likes tax time, but one fresh character might offer at least some entertainment.

Former congressman Billy Long of Missouri, who famously deployed his skills as a professional auctioneer on the House floor during a debate, is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service after its acting director Melanie Krause’s resignation over the administration’s effort to use tax information to identify people in the country illegally.

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers take a post-tax filing deadline look at the history of the IRS being used to go after political opponents.

The Real Issue Behind the Tariffs

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:36:00 +0000

President Donald Trump unveiled a full slate of eye-popping tariffs on countries large and small last Friday, and the reactions over the weekend have been intense. Welcome to “Tariff Panic Week.” Many people have noted the precipitous drop in the stock market and their own IRAs since the tariffs were announced. One reporter who questioned Trump aboard Air Force One over the weekend even asked him whether he’d call off the tariffs if the Dow Jones index kept dropping. “That’s a stupid question,” Trump snapped.

MAHA, Pharma Ads, and Soda

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:01:00 +0000

What do Big Pharma ads on TV and Diet Coke have in common? Both are targets of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new head of the Health and Human Services department. In his early efforts to press the “Make America Healthy Again,” Kennedy has singled out two seemingly different issues: those ubiquitous television ads for pharmaceuticals, and whether people on federal food assistance programs should be able to buy soda and junk food on the taxpayer dime.

Schweizer: Activist Judges Buying Time for “The Resistance”

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:06:00 +0000

The new administration of Donald Trump has been a whirlwind of activity in its first one hundred days but is running into resistance from men in black – activist federal judges.

DOGE Going After SNAP Fraud

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:45:00 +0000

As DOGE’s efforts shift to eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in social welfare problems including SNAP, Social Security, and Medicaid, The Drill Down podcast welcomes a nationally recognized expert in spotting how those programs are rife with fraud. Andrew McClenahan is, among other things, intergovernmental committee co-chair for an organization called the United Council on Welfare Fraud, and has investigated fraud in the food stamp program, including one bust several years ago that stopped a $100 million fraud scheme in South Florida. The group is made up of welfare fraud investigators from every state.

“Fool’s Gold” Blows Lid on Cali Corruption

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:01:00 +0000

If you think you know how bad things are in California, you don’t. If you think you know how corrupt the state’s leading politicians are, it’s worse than that. Sticky-fingered pols pushing woke policies have turned the Golden State into fool’s gold. That’s the title of a new book out March 11 by two investigative reporters—Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics, and the Government Accountability Institute’s own Jedd McFatter. Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All exposes the shocking truth behind California’s fall from grace, and how progressives want to do it to the rest of the nation. The book exposes the corruption of California’s leading Democratic lights—Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Adam Schiff, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In the DOGE era, the Pentagon holds all the (credit) cards

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:39:32 +0000

“Tooth and tail.” That’s the phrase new defense secretary Pete Hegseth uses to describe how money is spent (and wasted) by the Pentagon. It captures the difference between spending money to support warfighters and spending it on the mushrooming support operations that are supposed to keep the troops ready.

DOGE is more than tough love

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:37:47 +0000

In the annals of government reform efforts, the efforts of Elon Musk and his task force of DOGE techies are more than tough love. Because the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has (mostly) been given access to the books of government agencies, it has spotted billions of dollars in questionable grants, make-work programs, and outright gifts to politically connected activists who provided political support to their government paymasters. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss a few examples, but also address a deeper question: “So what?”

The New Face of Resistance - Lobbying Against Trump

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:59:00 +0000

The New Face of Resistance - Lobbying Against Trump

Schweizer: DoGE, “Big Balls,” and the End of the World (As We Know It)

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:12:00 +0000

“Big Balls,” Chris Coons and a “constitutional crisis.” For out-of-power Democrats and many in the press, the pace of Donald Trump’s new administration has them shouting, “It’s the end of the world as we know it!” Drill Down host Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers feel fine, but as Elon Musk’s small posse of DoGE analysts, including a 19-year-old hacker who goes by the name of “Big Balls” online, continues to find large examples of fraud and wasteful spending in federal agency budgets, Eggers suggests another song by the band R.E.M. for angry Democrats: “Everybody Hurts.”

FoodBabe: FDA Was Captured By Big Food

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:25:00 +0000

As the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to the full Senate, healthy food activist and entrepreneur Vani Hari is thrilled by the attention his focus on “Making America Healthy Again” is getting.

Through her blog, called FoodBabe, she and has been a relentless advocate for healthier, safer products from America’s largest food companies, and frustrated by the capture of the Food and Drug Administration by lobbyists for Big Food.

Schweizer: Is China’s DeepSeek a Deep Con?

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:33:00 +0000

Is DeepSeek really a deep con? A psyop tossed out to shake up the financial markets?

The release of a Chinese-made artificial intelligence engine called DeepSeek sent a bulldozer through Wall Street this week. Rival AI companies lost hundreds of billions of dollars in market value after sell-offs, once the new kid came on the block. But as Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers note on this episode of The Drill Down, the timing is suspicious. “This could be a replay of the lab leak back in 2020,” Schweizer says. “We're going to simply discuss the reality of how this thing unfolded, the claims that were made, the claims that are not true.”

Comer: AG Pam Bondi Could Nail The Bidens

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:52:00 +0000

On his way out the door of the White House, former President Joe Biden pardoned five members of his family not named “Hunter.” All five – brother James and his wife, Sara; sister Valerie and her husband, John; and brother Frank – were implicated in various influence-peddling schemes just like the previously pardoned Hunter. It was Joe Biden’s last act of loyalty… to his family co-conspirators.

Schweizer: The Only Opinion on TikTok That Counts is China’s

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:53:00 +0000

Schweizer: The Only Opinion on TikTok That Counts is China's

Uncorrupting the FBI

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:07:00 +0000

It’s a tale of three attacks. The murderous rampage through the French Quarter, the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas, and the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol. To a former FBI and Justice department guy like Kenneth Strange, who spent time on the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), each of those incidents are very different, with unique causes and motives. Strange believes the FBI has lost its way and allowed political pressure to distort how it allocates its resources. He joins Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.

The Right Wing’s Outlaws – Captured as Art

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:31:00 +0000

Pictures make ideas real. And portraits make people real. Artist and photographer Dan Fleuette joins the Drill Down to describe how he creates art through personalities on the political right. A self-described “art school lunatic,” Fleuette was the artist that turned Peter Schweizer’s bestselling investigative book Clinton Cash into both a documentary and even a graphic novel.

Citizen Clinton and the “Blur”: Bill Clinton’s Memoir Attacks Peter Schweizer

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:20:00 +0000

Bill and Hillary Clinton were once masters of the “dark arts” of politics – spinning history and enriching themselves while running a global charity that became famous as a grift machine. Their skill even had a name: “The Clinton Blur.” Though long out of office himself, former President Bill Clinton is at it again. “The news for GAI is that Bill Clinton is back,” says author Peter Schweizer, whose 2015 bestseller Clinton Cash exposed the financial shenanigans behind the Clinton Global Initiative. “Bill’s back, he’s mad, and he’s mad at me!”

Eggers and Bruner: Liberals Raging About Health Care Should Look in the Mirror

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:39:00 +0000

The cold-blooded murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has produced some ugly reactions. Liberal politicians and commentators seized upon Thompson’s murder as an excuse to complain about insurance companies. But their outrage should be directed at the federal government, says Seamus Bruner on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.

Schweizer: The Truth About the Hunter Pardon – A Proxy Deal for the Whole Family

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:33:00 +0000

Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of his son, Hunter, was really a proxy pardon for the whole Biden family that hamstrings ongoing investigations into Biden family influence peddling schemes, according to Peter Schweizer.

In the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast, Schweizer points out that the schemes implicated not just Hunter but Joe himself, his brothers Frank and James, and other members of the Biden family. The pardon, “historically unprecedented” in its scope, is “a stunning acknowledgment of how corrupt this family is,” Schweizer says.

Storming the Ivory Tower - A Call for Educational Reform with Richard Corcoran

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:38:00 +0000

Storming the Ivory Tower - A Call for Educational Reform with Richard Corcoran

Trump Wins - Demographics Shift and Future Elections

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:38:00 +0000

The election was a week ago, and we know a lot. But we still don’t know the results of 17 congressional elections across the nation, half of them in California. On The Drill Down podcast, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss why California is so far behind other large states in completing the counts of its congressional races. Schweizer notes that the 13th Congressional District has only counted 61.6 percent of its votes, a full week after the election.

The Rightward Shift - Analyzing National Trends

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:19:56 +0000

The Rightward Shift - Analyzing National Trends

Election Lawyer Marc Elias is “Master of Political Dark Arts”

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:03:39 +0000

He’s the man with the biggest influence over the last several elections that you’ve probably never heard of. His influence over how Americans vote, and how those votes are counted, has made him a Democratic “super-lawyer,” and his handiwork has been on elections around the country for more than a decade. He is a man who understands that elections can be won in the days or weeks after voting has completed. He is Democratic election law specialist Marc Elias, and he’s the topic on the last pre-election episode of The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer.

The Deep State’s Role in Modern Politics

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:26:48 +0000

The Deep State's Role in Modern Politics