The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Peter Schweizer is the author of, among other books, "Clinton Cash," "Extortion," "Throw Them All Out," and "Architects of Ruin." He has been featured throughout the media, including on "60 Minutes" and in the "New York Times." He is the cofounder and president of the Government Accountability Institute.

Episodes

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

June 25, 2025 • 28 mins
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....
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Schweizer: No Kings Lesson For Leftist Billionaires – You Can’t Buy an Uprising

June 17, 2025 • 28 mins
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 polit...
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LA Riots Coming to You Soon?

June 11, 2025 • 25 mins
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 ...
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Congressman Chip Roy on Fiscal Responsibility

June 4, 2025 • 29 mins
Congressman Chip Roy on Fiscal Responsibility
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The current state of civil rights in America with Harmeet Dhillon

May 28, 2025 • 31 mins
The current state of civil rights in America with Harmeet Dhillon
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Schweizer: Media Still Lying About Biden

May 21, 2025 • 30 mins
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 ...
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Qatar vs Qvar

May 14, 2025 • 25 mins
Qatar vs Qvar
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Clinton Cash - A Decade of Impact With Special Guest Steve Bannon

May 7, 2025 • 39 mins
Clinton Cash - A Decade of Impact With Special Guest Steve Bannon
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Schweizer: Even for non-Catholics, the Next Pope Matters

April 30, 2025 • 27 mins
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...
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Harvard Fights to Discriminate

April 22, 2025 • 25 mins
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...
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Billy Long at the IRS

April 16, 2025 • 27 mins
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 resignation over the administration’s effort to use tax information to identify people in the c...
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The Real Issue Behind the Tariffs

April 8, 2025 • 27 mins
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 i...
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MAHA, Pharma Ads, and Soda

April 2, 2025 • 24 mins
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 th...
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Schweizer: Activist Judges Buying Time for “The Resistance”

March 26, 2025 • 27 mins
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.
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DOGE Going After SNAP Fraud

March 19, 2025 • 28 mins
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 s...
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"Fool's Gold" Blows Lid on Cali Corruption

March 13, 2025 • 25 mins
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 G...
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In the DOGE era, the Pentagon holds all the (credit) cards

March 5, 2025 • 25 mins
“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.
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DOGE is more than tough love

February 26, 2025 • 28 mins
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 govern...
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The New Face of Resistance - Lobbying Against Trump

February 19, 2025 • 29 mins
The New Face of Resistance - Lobbying Against Trump
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Schweizer: DoGE, "Big Balls," and the End of the World (As We Know It)

February 12, 2025 • 33 mins
“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 exampl...
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