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

Birth Tourism Wins at the Supreme Court

July 3, 2026 • 24 mins
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 chil...
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American Patriotism or Socialism?

June 23, 2026 • 25 mins
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 – say...
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Iran Sent an IRGC Commander to the World Cup?

June 18, 2026 • 27 mins
More than a million people are coming to America this summer for this year’s World Cup soccer matches. It’s “sports tourism.” At The DrillDown, however, host Peter Schweizer is more interested in stopping what he has called “birth tourism.” “The Trump administration announced actions against networks in Africa that were designed to provide birth tourism,” Schweizer says. “This i...
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Schweizer: “Is it still election fraud when it’s legal?”

June 10, 2026 • 28 mins
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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"Defund the Data": The Secret Amendment That Could Blind Fraud Investigators Forever

June 2, 2026 • 27 mins
They caught $200 billion in fraud — now Congress wants to take away the tools that found it. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers are joined by fraud investigator Andy McClanahan to expose a buried amendment that would ban federal agencies from buying the data they use to hunt criminal fraud networks. Critics call it the "digital defunding of the police." Plus: a $14B Russian Medicare bust, the IRS keeping your biometrics wh...
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The DNC Tried to Bury This Report — Here's Why

May 29, 2026 • 23 mins
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 ...
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Schweizer: Gerrymandering is as old as the United States

May 21, 2026 • 27 mins
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 ...
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Schweizer: Sheinbaum has made her choice

May 12, 2026 • 21 mins
How Mexican Consulates Are Engaged in Political Interference in the US
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Schweizer: Spirit Air collapse a “classic Democrat problem"

May 8, 2026 • 24 mins
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. &ld...
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Schweizer: “Political violence will get worse” until we deal with cancerous rhetoric

April 29, 2026 • 29 mins
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 Ho...
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How California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Law Threatens Investigative Journalism

April 22, 2026 • 27 mins
How California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Law Threatens Investigative Journalism
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Swalwell’s Sudden Political Death a Strategic Hit Job

April 15, 2026 • 30 mins
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 ...
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Schweizer on Birthright Citizenship: “The Constitution is Not a Suicide Pact

April 8, 2026 • 26 mins
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.
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Schweizer: “John Thune is Making a Huge Mistake

April 1, 2026 • 23 mins
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 eit...
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Insider War Trading and “Killed to Order”

March 25, 2026 • 26 mins
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.
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Left vs Right vs China: Wynton Hall's "Code Red" details the AI Power Struggle

March 18, 2026 • 28 mins
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 all...
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Schweizer Tells Senate Committee: "Birth Tourism is a Major National Security Threat"

March 12, 2026 • 28 mins
“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&rdquo...
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How Trump's Iran Strike Reshapes Global Power Dynamics

March 4, 2026 • 30 mins
How Trump's Iran Strike Reshapes Global Power Dynamics
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Buck Sexton: “Menticide” in America

February 25, 2026 • 29 mins
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 con...
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Schweizer and Halperin Discuss Future of Media

February 19, 2026 • 25 mins
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.&rdqu...
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