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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

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Government corruption doesn't announce itself. It hides in shell companies,foreign contracts, and campaign finance filings that nobody bothers to read. The Drill Down does the reading.

The weekly podcast The Drill Down is hosted by Peter Schweizer, New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash, Secret Empires, Red-Handed, Blood Money, and The Invisible Coup. Co-hosted with GAI Vice President Eric Eggers, the author of Fraud, the show follows the money trails behind Washington's biggest scandals: foreign influence operations, CCP capture of American institutions, insider deals, and election integrity failures. Every episode breaks down a real investigation, the paper trail behind it, and who benefits.

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#292
Wednesday · 30 min
Inside DHS’s Push to Clean Voter Rolls Before Election Day | Ep. 292
California mailed a ballot to every registered voter for the Nov. 3 election. Federal officials flagged about 20,000 of those voters as likely noncitizens. The Justice Department gave Los Angeles County 48 hours to review the list and set those ballots aside, not cancel them. California refused, and DOJ sued. Heather Honey, senior counselor to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, joins Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers to walk through the numbers. About 25 states ran their voter rolls through the free SAVE system and found almost 500,000 dead registrants and about 30,000 noncitizens. More than half the states refused to run the check. Many of those same states send Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and full motor vehicle files to ERIC, a private NGO, every 60 days. Honey explains how a July review of California's public voter file matched 190,000 names to immigration records, why USCIS verifies each case by hand, and how FEMA grants now push states toward manual post-election audits and SAVE checks. She also lays out the federal work underway before Election Day while the SAVE America Act sits stalled in the Senate. (00:00) Election security heading into Nov. 3 (01:27) Why DHS works on election security (04:09) SAVE finds dead and noncitizen voters (07:10) States refuse DOJ, share data with an NGO (08:32) DOJ's 48-hour letter to Los Angeles County (12:55) Where the 20,000 came from (14:25) FEMA grants and election security rules (17:20) Why Democrats resist voter roll cleanup (20:21) ERIC and the privacy double standard (25:07) Progress before Election Day 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#291
October 22 · 24 min
The Immigration Questions Ilhan Omar Dodged for a Decade | Ep. 291
Federal agents executed search warrants tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar and her relatives in an immigration fraud investigation. Barack Obama answered with a public statement calling the probe political targeting. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers walk through the record Obama left out. Questions about Omar's immigration history date to 2016. Minnesota attorney Scott Johnson of Power Line documented a 2002 Islamic marriage, a 2009 legal marriage, and a divorce Omar never filed before her third marriage. The Star Tribune chased the story and dropped it. The current probe turns on Omar's age when her father became a citizen. At 17, she would have received status with him. At 18, she would have needed to apply on her own. Then Peter and Eric play audio of Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan saying she wants young people to think twice before working for the Trump administration because of the legal problems they would face. You hear the deterrence message in her own words. The episode traces lawfare from the war on terror to Donald Trump, follows the line from a 2022 New York Times report on Joe Biden to the Alvin Bragg indictment, and looks at what a Democratic House means for investigations after January. (00:00) Ilhan Omar under federal investigation (02:29) Obama defends Omar (02:54) Marriage questions unanswered since 2016 (06:08) Why 17 or 18 decides her status (08:34) Why Obama stepped in (10:44) The press looked away (12:10) Slotkin's deterrence message (14:41) How lawfare came home (17:28) Biden, Bragg, and the Trump indictment (18:15) Investigations after the midterms 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#290
October 14 · 27 min
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 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#289
October 8 · 20 min
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 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#288
September 29 · 25 min
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 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#287
September 24 · 20 min
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 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. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#286
September 15 · 19 min
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, 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#285
September 10 · 25 min
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 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#284
September 2 · 21 min
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 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#283
August 26 · 27 min
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 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
#282
August 19 · 26 min
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 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 📕 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd 📗 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 👇 🌐 https://thedrilldown.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 📸 https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 𝕏 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 📘 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV 🟢 https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣 https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer 🎧 Listen on the go: https://thedrilldown.podbean.com Also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart and Amazon Music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 👇 The Drill Down is produced by the 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. 🌐 https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ 𝕏 https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst 📸 https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst 📘 https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute 📖 More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com 📖 The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
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August 12 · 27 min
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 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
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August 6 · 22 min
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 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 The Drill Down is the flagship podcast channel of the Government Accountability Institute. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 👇 Peter Schweizer The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon (2026) https://amzn.to/3LcenCd Eric Eggers Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election (2018) https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20 Follow us on your preferred social media site: https://www.instagram.com/TheDrillDown1 https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 https://facebook.com/DrillDownTV https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrillDown 🟢https://rumble.com/c/TheDrillDown1 🟣https://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer
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July 28 · 33 min
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 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.
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July 23 · 24 min
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 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 Listen & Explore The Drill Down - https://thedrilldown.com/ Peter Schweizer - https://www.peterschweizer.com/ Government Accountability Institute - https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ Follow the Show X - https://twitter.com/TheDrillDown1 Facebook - https://facebook.com/TheDrillDownwithPeterSchweizer Instagram - https://instagram.com/drilldownwithschweizer YouTube - https://youtube.com/@TheDrillDown Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/DrillDownwithSchweizer/ Follow Peter Schweizer Website - https://www.peterschweizer.com/ X - https://twitter.com/peterschweizer Follow Government Accountability Institute: Website - https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ X - https://twitter.com/Govt_Acct_Inst Facebook - https://facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute Instagram - https://instagram.com/govt_acct_institute YouTube - https://youtube.com/@governmentaccountabilityin2277 Rumble - https://rumble.com/@GAI
July 8 · 26 min
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 nominees are,” he says.
July 3 · 24 min
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 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.
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June 23 · 25 min
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 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?
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June 18 · 27 min
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 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.”
June 10 · 28 min
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 still fraud?”

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