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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

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Summary

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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Episodes
  • El-Sayed Heads to the Senate With Questions Unanswered | Ep. 293
    Nov 5 2026

    Democrats won the House and the Senate on Nov. 3. They flipped Senate seats in Texas, South Carolina, and Kansas. James Talarico beat Ken Paxton by about 12 points to become the first Democrat Texas has sent to the Senate since 1988.

    Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers break down why. Prices stayed high, and voters punished the party in power. Republicans also ran weak candidates in red states. Florida held, but by narrow margins, while a property tax relief amendment passed.

    Now Democrats hold the gavels and the subpoenas. Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming House Oversight chairman and a onetime California youth coordinator for the 2000 Bush campaign, posted two words on election night: lawyer up. Rep. Jamie Raskin, in line to chair Judiciary, says Democrats are not afraid to impeach Trump a third time. Peter backs oversight of real corruption, including the $100,000 Amex allegation against former Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle. A third impeachment is a different matter.

    The episode closes on Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. GAI research places him at a February 2022 meeting in Colombia with leaders of U.S. Muslim nonprofits, many tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Many of those leaders later backed his Senate run. Rep. Haley Stevens broke with her party over an outside ad blaming grocery prices on U.S. aid to Israel, and the Michigan Democratic Party chair says she is no longer a member.

    (00:00) Democrats sweep the midterms (01:35) Cost of living decided the vote (03:24) Bad candidates in red states (05:37) Red undertow and Florida's property tax vote (07:29) Robert Garcia: "Lawyer up" (11:37) Guilfoyle and the $100,000 Amex bill (12:41) Raskin floats a third impeachment (13:27) Historic firsts and Abdul El-Sayed (17:04) Haley Stevens and the Israel ad (19:02) The Islamophobia double standard

    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

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    26 mins
  • The Immigration Questions Ilhan Omar Dodged for a Decade | Ep. 291
    Oct 22 2026

    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 calling the probe political targeting. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers walk through the record Obama left out.

    Questions about Omar's immigration history date to 2016. Minnesota attorney Scott Johnson of Power Line documented a 2002 Islamic marriage, a 2009 legal marriage, and a divorce Omar never filed before her third marriage. The Star Tribune chased the story and dropped it. The current probe turns on Omar's age when her father became a citizen. At 17, she would have received status with him. At 18, she would have needed to apply on her own.

    Then Peter and Eric play audio of Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan saying she wants young people to think twice before working for the Trump administration because of the legal problems they would face. You hear the deterrence message in her own words. The episode traces lawfare from the war on terror to Donald Trump, follows the line from a 2022 New York Times report on Joe Biden to the Alvin Bragg indictment, and looks at what a Democratic House means for investigations after January.

    (00:00) Ilhan Omar under federal investigation (02:29) Obama defends Omar (02:54) Marriage questions unanswered since 2016 (06:08) Why 17 or 18 decides her status (08:34) Why Obama stepped in (10:44) The press looked away (12:10) Slotkin's deterrence message (14:41) How lawfare came home (17:28) Biden, Bragg, and the Trump indictment (18:15) Investigations after the midterms

    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

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    24 mins
  • Inside DHS’s Push to Clean Voter Rolls Before Election Day | Ep. 292
    Oct 28 2026

    California mailed a ballot to every registered voter for the Nov. 3 election. Federal officials flagged about 20,000 of those voters as likely noncitizens. The Justice Department gave Los Angeles County 48 hours to review the list and set those ballots aside, not cancel them. California refused, and DOJ sued.

    Heather Honey, senior counselor to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, joins Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers to walk through the numbers. About 25 states ran their voter rolls through the free SAVE system and found almost 500,000 dead registrants and about 30,000 noncitizens. More than half the states refused to run the check. Many of those same states send Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and full motor vehicle files to ERIC, a private NGO, every 60 days.

    Honey explains how a July review of California's public voter file matched 190,000 names to immigration records, why USCIS verifies each case by hand, and how FEMA grants now push states toward manual post-election audits and SAVE checks. She also lays out the federal work underway before Election Day while the SAVE America Act sits stalled in the Senate.

    (00:00) Election security heading into Nov. 3 (01:27) Why DHS works on election security (04:09) SAVE finds dead and noncitizen voters (07:10) States refuse DOJ, share data with an NGO (08:32) DOJ's 48-hour letter to Los Angeles County (12:55) Where the 20,000 came from (14:25) FEMA grants and election security rules (17:20) Why Democrats resist voter roll cleanup (20:21) ERIC and the privacy double standard (25:07) Progress before Election Day

    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

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    31 mins
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Peter Schweizer always has great insights and keeps both of the corrupt parties on notice. I have listened to all their available podcasts and it is a must listen to.

Great podcast for anyone interested in government corruption.

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Love the series. Each topic gets to the heart of the issue. Great job. Looking forward to next podcast.

Informative and fun to listen to current interests

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Their information is well reasearched and credible. I do like the relationship the two hosts have with one another.

They really "drill down" on the corruption. They are very credible sources.

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