The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

By Government Accountability Institute

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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.

Episode Date
The Risks The Big Banks Continued Taking
1530
The Risks The Big Banks Continued Taking
Mar 27, 2023
The Emails that Prove the Biden Family Pay to Play Scheme
1530
The net is tightening. House Republicans are acquiring more evidence that connects Hunter Biden’s China business dealings to other members of the Biden family including his father, the current president of the United States. Peter Schweizer first exposed many of the connections and the coincidences all the way back in 2018, and the Government Accountability Institute continues to uncover new details. Peter and co-host Eric Eggers detail the latest revelations on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.
Mar 21, 2023
Government is a Loose Cannon
1805
Peter and Eric return to the topic of COVID-era restrictions on the most recent episode of The Drill Down with more proof that when the government rushes to do things, it becomes a loose cannon. “March madness” for most people might refer to the college basketball tournament, but the madness of the restrictions thrown on Americans to control the COVID virus by the federal government also celebrates its third anniversary this week.
Mar 14, 2023
Is the Fight in Ukraine Winnable?
2151
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine moves into its second year, Peter and Eric welcome to The Drill Down the author Rebekah Koffler, a Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert who served as a Russian strategy specialist in the Defense Intelligence Agency and with the CIA's National Clandestine Service to analyze the war’s likely outcome and ask questions about the Biden administration’s strategy for helping the Ukrainians.
Mar 07, 2023
Did the Clintons Inspire The Bidens?
1465
On this episode of The Drill Down, Eric Eggers takes over the pilot’s seat and welcomes Seamus Bruner, director of research here at the Government Accountability Institute. Seamus is an investigative journalist and the author of two books on corruption within the FBI and other parts of the federal government and has been one of GAI’s biggest investigative stars since our founding in 2012. His third book, “Controligarchs,” will hit stores soon. Seamus joins the podcast today to talk about his research on Chinese government money flowing to the “Biden Center” at the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Feb 28, 2023
How Government Failed East Palestine
1685
The environmental catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio had many causes. Government incompetence and neglect played a role, as did both excessive regulation and deregulation under different administrations. Corporate “efficiencies” as well as domestic politics created the conditions that caused a terrible accident. The response was to prevent one type of disaster by creating another type of disaster.
Feb 22, 2023
Biden's Social Security Lie and The Nations Debt Crisis
1580
There’s a huge balloon floating over the nation. Everyone wants it gone, and we all worry what it might do to us. It’s the national debt, currently about $30 trillion dollars. Your hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers tackle ways Congress might start to reduce the federal debt, much of which is the fault of spending on programs such as Medicare and Social Security, on the Drill Down with Peter Schweizer.”
Feb 14, 2023
Is China Spying on All The Farmland They Just Bought
1632
When Peter and Eric open this week’s show by talking about balloons and popcorn, you might be imagining wide-eyed little children at the county fair, not a sneaky communist regime committing economic and military espionage on America. But that’s what popcorn and balloons mean here at The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer. Of course, the big story of the past week was Communist Chinese government’s spy balloon that floated across the US through Montana and 10 other states before being shot down by a missile fired by an F-22 fighter jet off the coast of Myrtle Beach, SC. Not since 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite shot into Earth’s orbit, has a foreign government’s flight activity so captured attention and rattled so many Americans.
Feb 07, 2023
The Dark Side of Diversity at Harvard
1770
Kenny Xu joins Peter and Eric on The Drill Down to talk about the dark side of “diversity and inclusion” efforts in America’s schools and universities. It’s a subject he knows very well as an Asian American who is president of a nonprofit group called “Color Us United.” Kenny, 25, is also the author of the fascinating book, An Inconvenient Minority: The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence, which takes a deep dive into that dark side at what was once America’s premier university. In the case of Harvard, it shows up in a hazy admissions metric that no one at the university can really explain known as the “personality score.”
Jan 31, 2023
Big Government Keeps Shattering The Debt Ceiling
1530
The federal debt ceiling needs to be raised. Again. The White House says it won’t negotiate with Congress over raising the amount of money the US government can borrow, and Congress has not passed a normal budget since 1996. Peter and Eric welcome financial commentator and investment manager David Bahnsen to talk about big debt, big government, big mistakes, and why he believes there is still hope. 
Jan 24, 2023
Where Didn't Biden Leave Classified Documents
1680
On the most recent episode, Eric Eggers admits to misplacing his keys. We all misplace things. But not all of us keep classified documents in a box in the garage. President Joe Biden did.
Jan 18, 2023
Chaos on Capitol Hill Disrupts the Typical Corruption
1572
Two things are worth remembering when you read about the long fight to elect a House Speaker. First, the dissenters were a mixed bag of principled conservatives and publicity hounds. Second, some good came out of the repeated voting to select Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the new leader of the House. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers explore the positive things that came from the chaos.
Jan 10, 2023
Pork Has Returned to Washington in Full force in this Omnibus Bill
1780
On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Peter and Eric shake off some holiday crud and plunge back into Washington crud. They start by breathing in the sooty exhaust of the Omnibus.
Jan 04, 2023
Not Just Complaining- How to Take Action On Government Corruption
1279
On our most recent podcast, Peter and Eric introduce you to two unlikely muckrakers who take local corruption very seriously. And there are about 560 former officials in Illinois who have seen the business end of that seriousness.
Dec 27, 2022
How China Uses Money To Control Those in Power With Guest Congressman Mike Garcia
1312
Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) is a badass who flew 30 combat missions more than 30 combat missions during Operation Iraqi Freedom in the skies above Baghdad, Fallujah, and Tikrit. Now a congressman, Garcia confronts a greater adversary as a member of the House GOP’s China Accountability Task Force. He joins Peter and Eric on the most recent episode of The Drill Down to give us a preview of what the new majority will be focused on starting next year with respect to America’s “peer threat,” the People’s Republic of China.
Dec 20, 2022
Should We Be Trading Weapon Dealers For Basketball Players
1595
On this week’s show, Peter and Eric discuss the recent prisoner swap of basketball player Brittney Griner for a Russian arms dealer known as “The Merchant of Death.” Is a former Olympic medal-winner and LGBTQ activist worth unleashing one of Russia’s most notorious weapons purchasers? And when American citizens choose to travel to dangerous parts of the world and get in trouble overseas, do they have a right to expect help from America?
Dec 13, 2022
The Twitter Files Prove GAI Right Once Again
1832
Peter and Eric draw a parallel between stories you wouldn’t ordinarily put together: Hunter Biden’s laptop and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s doubletalk. Connections await on the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast. The online world is abuzz over journalist Matt Taibbi’s Twitter revelations. Twitter’s new owner, billionaire Elon Musk, turned over thousands of internal documents to Taibbi to show what happened at the social media giant in 2020 when Twitter took extraordinary steps to censor any mention or links to the New York Post’s devastating expose on the contents of an abandoned laptop computer previously belonging to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
Dec 06, 2022
The Lessons Learned And Cultural Shifts Following Covid
1700
As the nation awakes from its turkey-induced tryptophan coma, Americans remain a thankful and forgiving people. The mood and the time are right to forgive those bad decisions – but on the most recent Drill Down episode, Peter and Eric reflect on what went wrong in America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as the first step to granting forgiveness. Take Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), for example. In February of 2020, early in the outbreak, he first urged people not to mask unless they had symptoms. Two months later, he reversed himself and issued general masking orders regardless of any symptoms. Why?
Nov 29, 2022
How FTX used billions to influence The Swamp --- and then collapsed
1525
“A massive crash and burn.” That is how Peter Schweizer describes the collapse of crypto-currency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried and his ill-fated company, FTX. The company has filed for bankruptcy, and reports indicate it owes its fifty largest creditors $3.1 billion dollars. Quite a cautionary business story. But here on The Drill Down, we explore the political side of this story – the corruption and “regulatory capture” that allowed Sam Bankman-Fried to create such a house of cards. In the latest episode of the podcast, Peter and co-host Eric Eggers dig in on the Washington side of this.
Nov 22, 2022
Committee Assignments and Rules For the New Congress
1625
Former congressman Jason Chaffetz joins Peter and Eric to talk about what might happen next year if Republicans take over the House of Representatives. Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, was the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, which investigates what the executive branch does with the money Congress appropriates. And if the GOP takes over control of the House, as most observers expect, offers a sneak peek of what House Republicans might do with control of that committee. It will all come down to what insider’s call the “rules package.”
Nov 15, 2022
Is the Freedom of Speech on the Ballot?
1680
Doesn’t the Department of Homeland Security have better things to do than police lies posted by users of Twitter? After 9/11, DHS was created to better coordinate America’s defenses against terrorist attacks on the homeland – to promote cooperation among law enforcement agencies and fill in the gaps in domestic security. Yet, today as those threats have receded, the department is in search of a new mission. It has gotten into the business of being “speech police.” On the latest episode of The Drill Down podcast, co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers take a look at the Biden administration’s efforts to clamp down on speech they call either “misinformation,” or “disinformation,” or even “malinformation.”
Nov 08, 2022
Where the Teachers Unions Send Their Money
1545
Last year the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) collected approximately $575 million in dues from their members. How did they spend these funds?
Nov 01, 2022
Big Pharma Seeking COVID Profits, Liability Limits
1380
While American politicians are pushing the Covid vaccine for American children, other countries are warning against it. In Denmark, the government has actually made it impossible for those under 18 to receive a COVID-19 vaccination without a doctor’s recommendation since children are at such a low risk of symptoms. The Swedish government no longer recommends the vaccine for those under 17 years old. Since September 1, the British government has limited COVID-19 vaccination to children under 12 to just those at high risk. Why the difference? On the most recent episode, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers explain there are two key motivations guiding this: profits and liability protections.
Oct 25, 2022
Bipartisan Support For Insider Trading
1560
Insider trading by members of Congress and senior officials of the executive branch demonstrate the sort of corruption that enrages voters. Co-host Eric Eggers starts this week’s episode of the Drill Down off with a fitting observation: “Behind every powerful and successful woman… is a husband with incredibly well-timed stock trades.”
Oct 18, 2022
The Environmental Destruction Of the Green Movement
1621
As more US states and European countries commit themselves to pushing electric cars, the nagging questions about mining become more pressing. Electric cars need lots of rare-earth minerals. As demand for EVs grows, so does the need to find, mine, and refine these minerals into service. And this leaves a lot of questions, and a lot of room for America’s adversaries to exploit the demand. On the latest episode of The Drill Down, co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers talk sense about the problems this creates.
Oct 12, 2022
Voter Fraud is Enabled By Bad Policy
1815
October is election season. Campaigning and early voting are already proceeding across the nation, absentee ballots are in the mail. And election fraud news is breaking. Peter and Eric update us on the latest election fraud news in this week’s episode of The Drill Down.
Oct 04, 2022
Food Fraud Costing Taxpayers Millions
1600
When the government gives away food money, some of it ends up buying carts full of gold and even supporting terrorists overseas. Peter and Eric detail the criminal waste in the SNAP program.
Sep 28, 2022
The Podesta Cronyism Inflation Climate Act
1475
The Podesta Cronyism Inflation Climate Act
Sep 20, 2022
The Rise of the Police State
1400
The Rise of the Police State
Sep 13, 2022
The Government Mob with Special Guest Michael Franzese
1760
The Government Mob with Special Guest Michael Franzese
Sep 07, 2022
Facebook and Its Impact on Our Elections
1498
Aug 30, 2022
The Celebrities and Politicians Who Profited Off of PPP Loans
1525
The Celebrities and Politicians Who Profited Off of PPP Loans
Aug 23, 2022
How To Fix Our Dysfunctional Elections
1560
How To Fix Our Dysfunctional Elections
Aug 16, 2022
Democrats Pass IRS Audits, Green Engery Money For China, and No Plans To Stop Inflation
1560
Democrats Pass IRS Audits, Green Engery Money For China, and No Plans To Stop Inflation
Aug 09, 2022
Is Congress Voting Their Way to Wealth?
1515
Is Congress Voting Their Way to Wealth?
Jul 27, 2022
Foreign Adversaries Influence Elected Officials' Family Members
1750
Foreign Adversaries Influence Elected Officials' Family Members
Jul 20, 2022
Big Government Intervention Causing Travel Nightmares
1515
Big Government Intervention Causing Travel Nightmares
Jul 12, 2022
The Possible Corruption of Dr. Fauci and Others
1470
The Possible Corruption of Dr. Fauci and Others
Jul 06, 2022
Do You Want China to Have Your Child's Data?
1632
Do You Want China to Have Your Child's Data?
Jun 29, 2022
The War on Fossil Fuels is Destroying Everyday Americans
1560
The War on Fossil Fuels is Destroying Everyday Americans
Jun 21, 2022
The DC Elites on the Payrolls of Foreign Adversaries
1896
Jun 15, 2022
The Fight for Election Integrity with Catherine Engelbrecht
1810
The Fight for Election Integrity with Catherine Engelbrecht
Jun 07, 2022
Big Governments Baby Formula Shortage
1390
Big Governments Baby Formula Shortage
Jun 03, 2022
The Ministry of Whose Truth
1627
The Ministry of Whose Truth
May 24, 2022
The Rise of Political Intimidation
1695
The Rise of Political Intimidation
May 18, 2022
EBT-SNAP Corruption and Fraud
1595
EBT-SNAP Corruption and Fraud
May 10, 2022
Rags To Riches - A Stacey Abrams Story
1570
Rags To Riches - A Stacey Abrams Story
May 04, 2022
10 Years of GAI Draining The Swamp and Exposing The Rats
1680
10 Years of GAI Draining The Swamp and Exposing The Rats
Apr 27, 2022
Who is Really Responsible For The Historic Inflation
1800
Who is Really Responsible For The Historic Inflation
Apr 19, 2022
Crooks and Spies AKA Hunters Business Associates
1800
Crooks and Spies AKA Hunters Business Associates
Apr 12, 2022
The Department of Cronyism or Commerce?
1575
The Department of Cronyism or Commerce?
Apr 05, 2022
The Elites Attack On Free Speech
1820
The Elites Attack On Free Speech
Mar 31, 2022
Why The NYT's Admits Hunters Emails Are Real
1920
Why The NYT's Admits Hunters Emails Are Real
Mar 25, 2022
Race to the Bottom with Luke Rosiak
1690
Race to the Bottom with Luke Rosiak
Mar 17, 2022
The Clinton Global Initiative Is Here To Save the World From Putin
1613
The Clinton Global Initiative Is Here To Save the World From Putin
Mar 11, 2022
How Russia uses DC to influence the US
1604
How Russia Uses DC to influence the US
Mar 04, 2022
The World Leaders Who Admire Dictators
1530
The World Leaders Who Admire Dictators
Feb 25, 2022
Hollywood and China With Erich Schwartzel
1635
Hollywood and China With Erich Schwartzel
Feb 17, 2022
The Media Blackout of the #1 Book in The Country with Alex Marlow
1630
The Media Blackout of the #1 Book in The Country with Alex Marlow
Feb 11, 2022
How Chinese Intelligence Leaders Use the Elite Class
1659
How Chinese Intelligence Leaders Use the Elite Class
Feb 04, 2022
Red-Handed - How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win (Part 1)
1730
Red-Handed - How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win (Part 1)
Jan 27, 2022
Understanding The Fed with guest Chris Leonard
1490
Jan 21, 2022
The Growing Power Of The Teachers Union
1565
While the cat’s away, the mice will play. For the sake of this metaphor, the cat represents school parents and their children — waylaid by a global pandemic — with little to do save for purchasing better webcams and hope the tiny picture inside the screen knows what it’s talking about. That leaves our mice — fascinating little buggers. For example, did you know the most prominent temperament associated with mice is dominance? …and so we have our teachers unions, flexing on the nation’s education system, whilst parents juggle a job, remote learning, and the never-ending search for that Google Classroom login info. All that’s to say, we’ve been distracted. And teachers unions like the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have been making some controversial changes — expanding their influence and power over policy — while most of us can’t even muster the strength to get out to a PTA meeting.
Jan 13, 2022
The Washington Healthcare Institutions Failed America
1582
The Washington Healthcare Institutions Failed America
Jan 06, 2022
Senator Karen Attack Elon Musk and Democrats Lie About Taxes
1619
Senator Karen Attack Elon Musk and Democrats Lie About Taxes
Dec 23, 2021
Politicians Are Not For Sale They Are For Rent
1500
Politicians Are Not For Sale They Are For Rent
Dec 16, 2021
Inflation, Supply Chain Woes, and IRS Audits
1577
Inflation, Supply Chain Woes, and IRS Audits
Dec 09, 2021
Biden's Vaccine Mandate Attacks Border Security
1380
Biden's Vaccine Mandate Attacks Border Security
Dec 02, 2021
Thanksgiving Day Awards Show
1960
Thanksgiving Day Awards Show
Nov 24, 2021
Corporate Connections to China with Alex Marlow
1633
Corporate Connections to China with Alex Marlow
Nov 18, 2021
Corruption, China and Green Energy
1783
Corruption, China and Green Energy
Nov 11, 2021
Election Integrity with Mollie Hemingway
1720
Election Integrity with Mollie Hemingway
Nov 04, 2021
Education Discussion and latest on Virginia Governor Election with Luke Rosiak
1498
Education Discussion and latest on Virginia Governor Election with Luke Rosiak
Oct 28, 2021
Hypocrites on the Right and Hypocrites on the Left
1640
Hypocrites on the Right and Hypocrites on the Left
Oct 22, 2021
The Looming National Debt Crisis Threatening Our Nation
1587
The Looming National Debt Crisis Threatening Our Nation
Oct 14, 2021
Is Corrupt Money Funding The Obama Library?
1544
Is Corrupt Money Funding The Obama Library?
Oct 07, 2021
Are Generals Looking Out For The USA?
1818
Are Generals Looking Out For The USA?
Sep 30, 2021
Big Business Loves Big Government
1792
Big Business Loves Big Government
Sep 23, 2021
Teachers Unions Are Destroying American Education
1722
Teachers Unions Are Destroying American Education
Sep 16, 2021
20 Years After 9-11: The Government Is Watching You
1896
20 Years After 9-11: The Government Is Watching You
Sep 09, 2021
The Ruling Class Failed Afghanistan
1619
The ruling class failed Afghanistan
Sep 02, 2021
Bipartisanship at the Cost of Taxpayers
1528
Bipartisanship at the Cost of Taxpayers
Aug 26, 2021
DRILL BITS: American Toilets All Over
45
American Toilets All Over
Aug 20, 2021
Afghanistan Corruption and Biden Withdrawal Disaster
1698
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers unpack the withdrawal disaster in Afghanistan
Aug 19, 2021
DRILL BITS: Paid To Pour Concrete and Remove It
35
Paid To Pour Concrete and Remove It?
Aug 19, 2021
DRILL BITS: School house rock bill got mugged on the way to Capitol Hill
60
School House Rock Bill Got Mugged On The Way To Capitol Hill
Aug 16, 2021
DRILL BITS: Is your Limo safe? The government needs to know
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Is your Limo safe?  The government needs to know.
Aug 13, 2021
In DC, Limos, Yachts and Pot are all Infrastructure
1754
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers explain how In Washington DC, limos, yachts and pot are all Infrastructure
Aug 12, 2021
DRILL BITS: Infrastructure Bill was paid by selling off part of strategic oil reserve
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Peter Schweizer explains how the Infrastructure bill was paid by selling off part of the strategic oil reserve
Aug 11, 2021
DRILL BITS: Lobbyists Have Too Much Power
28
The Drilldown gang explain why lobbyists have too much power
Aug 11, 2021
DRILL BITS: Lobbyists Are Like Cockroaches
44
What are lobbyists like cockroaches?  The Drilldown team explains.
Aug 10, 2021
DRILL BITS: What Happens When Multi-Trillion Dollar Bills Get Passes
48
What Happens When Multi-Trillion Dollar Bills Get Passes?
Aug 09, 2021
DRILL BITS: A Lobbyists Only Asset Is His Phone Number
40
Aug 06, 2021
Lobbyists Rake In Millions With Their Connections
2096
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers expose lobbyists who rake in millions with their connections.
Aug 05, 2021
DRILL BITS: New Drug or Lobbying Firm?
23
Eric and Peter Play a New Game Sure to Sweep the Nation
Aug 05, 2021
Who Is The American Rescue Plan Enriching?
2038
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers reveal who is really benefiting from the American Rescue Plan.
Jul 29, 2021
Jesse Watters Saves The Drilldown - And The World
1491
Fox News' Jesse Watters joins the The Drilldown
Jul 22, 2021
Politicians Ferraris And Insider Trading
1790
Jul 15, 2021
The Safety Net Has Become A Hammock
1405
How the safety net has become a hammock
Jul 08, 2021
Hunter Van Gogh Biden
1365
Jul 01, 2021
The High Profits and Corruption of the Marijuana Industry
1429
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers uncover the "high" profits and corruption of the Marijuana industry.
Jun 24, 2021
Who is Profitting from the COVID Vaccine?
1660
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers uncover who is profitting from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Jun 16, 2021
Why the CDC and NIH Failed to Control COVID-19
1576
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers explain how and why the CDC and NIH both failed to control COVID-19
Jun 10, 2021
How corrupt officials enrich their families
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Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers explain how corrupt government officials enrich their families.
Jun 03, 2021
Buying Underwear and Gazeboes With Taxpayer Money
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Jason Chaffetz joins Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers to expose the waste in Biden's "Covid Relief" Bill
May 27, 2021
The Hunter China Connection
1510
Documents show that while Joe Biden was Vice President, his family entered into a series of partnerships with possible adversarial companies and countries. GAI has access to the emails and documents that prove that President Biden was aware of his family's business practices, and may have even been part of Biden Inc.
May 17, 2021
Greedy Green Energy
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It's not Easy Being Green....at least that's what Kermit says.
May 12, 2021