The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

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 cal

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-asi

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

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 rul

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 t

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, Cana

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

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

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 an

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

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

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,

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 sandb

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

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 Supr

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’

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

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 Schwe

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

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

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 McCl