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.
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.”
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 ...
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 prem...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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?
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...
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 th...
“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 lat...
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 co...
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 Dr...
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?
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 t...
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.”
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 problem...
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.
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.
The Podesta Cronyism Inflation Climate Act
The Rise of the Police State
The Government Mob with Special Guest Michael Franzese
The Celebrities and Politicians Who Profited Off of PPP Loans
How To Fix Our Dysfunctional Elections
Democrats Pass IRS Audits, Green Engery Money For China, and No Plans To Stop Inflation
Is Congress Voting Their Way to Wealth?
