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. No spin. No talking points. Just the documents, the disclosures, and exposing the people who would prefer you didn't know about it. New episodes weekly from the Government Accountability Institute.

  1. 4 hr ago

    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

  2. 12 Aug

    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

  3. 6 Aug

    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

  4. 28 Jul

    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.

  5. 23 Jul

    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

  6. 8 Jul

    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.

  7. 3 Jul

    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.

  8. 23 Jun

    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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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. No spin. No talking points. Just the documents, the disclosures, and exposing the people who would prefer you didn't know about it. New episodes weekly from the Government Accountability Institute.

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    2021 - 2026
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