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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

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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.
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How Big Tech is swaying elections and indoctrinating kids

Censorship comes in many obvious forms, but the subtler type works by not showing you things that the censor doesn’t want you to see, or making it much harder for you to find them yourself. That, according to psychologist and Big Tech researcher Dr. Robert Epstein, is what Google is doing every day, but especially around election time. For the past eleven years, Epstein has studied what he called the “search engine manipulation effect,” by monitoring how Google uses its vast storehouse of knowle...

Sep 12, 2023•32 min

Can government intervention make natural disasters worse?

Any time fire destroys a paradise, fingers point. The wildfires that killed 115 people and ravaged the village of Lahaina, Maui, exposed corruption, incompetence, and distracted bureaucracies that failed Hawaii. It could have been prevented. It could have been mitigated. It could have been stopped. On the most recent episode of The DrillDown podcast, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers show how governmental corruption, incompetence, and misdirected incentives made the wildfire disaster on Maui worse...

Sep 06, 2023•26 min

Kenny Xu: Reclaiming Our Schools From CRT

School boards across the country, facing pressure from racial equity activists, teachers’ unions, and politicians have spent millions of taxpayer dollars on training and curriculum changes that push a fringe ideology known as critical race theory on K-12 students in American public schools. Parents who saw these changes play out during virtual school classes were horrified and began a national movement to get rid of it. At angry school board meetings since then, outraged parents asked their scho...

Aug 29, 2023•25 min

Schweizer: Appointment of Special Counsel “A Massive Favor to the Bidens”

Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer says the Department of Justice did President Joe Biden and his son Hunter a “massive favor” by appointing David Weiss to the rank of Special Counsel. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment last week of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as a special counsel to continue his prosecution of Hunter Biden opens a new, politically fraught chapter in the long-running legal drama as his father, President Biden, campaigns for re-election. Schweizer and Eri...

Aug 15, 2023•29 min

Peter Schweizer: Political Media are suffering from "Spouse Abuse"

Peter Schweizer doubled down on his criticism of the mainstream media’s shoddy reporting of the Hunter Biden story on the latest episode of The Drill Down podcast. “Spousal abuse is an apt analogy,” Schweizer tells co-host Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute. “You hear these horrible stories about a spouse who is abused but won’t bring charges, and they make excuses… You find the same kind of excuses being made by these journalists,” Schweizer said, calling the reporting of CN...

Aug 07, 2023•29 min

Schweizer on Archer Testimony: “The Noose is Tightening”

With Devon Archer spilling to the House Oversight Committee about the Biden family’s sketchy foreign business deals, Peter Schweizer says in the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast that Democrats and the White House are running out of plausible defenses. “This starts to get real hinky for the Bidens, it’s really troublesome for them,” Schweizer says. “The noose is tightening, because I haven’t seen any evidence pop up that counters this narrative” – that Hunter Biden and his business partne...

Aug 01, 2023•28 min

The End of Joe Biden's Political Career

Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, says that truth, like a hungry pack of wolves, is closing in on Joe Biden. In the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast, Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers look at the three-piece assault on President Joe Biden’s claims that he had nothing to do with his son Hunter’s business dealings, and Schweizer concludes: “We are seeing the end of Joe Biden’s career.”

Jul 25, 2023•27 min

The GOP Begins To Put FBI-DOJ Corruption In The Spotlight

The last few weeks have not been good for the FBI. New findings from two congressional inquiries have exposed several instances where FBI personnel actively impeded investigations and tipped off Hunter Biden’s attorneys to a planned search of a storage facility belonging to him. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) challenged current FBI Director Christopher Wray last week about approving surveillance of parents who spoke up against policy decisions at local school board meetings and about a local field offic...

Jul 18, 2023•30 min

It Just Keeps Getting Worse For The Bidens

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer says that new revelations from the investigation into Hunter Biden spell “doom and gloom” for the presidency of Joe Biden.

Jun 27, 2023•30 min

Will Political Prosecutions Destroy The USA

Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers review the 37 felony indictments against former President Donald Trump on the latest episode of TheDrillDown podcast. The indictment, after more than a year of interactions between Trump, the Department of Justice, and the National Archives, raises serious questions the fairness of the justice system and whether Trump’s own reckless actions should be defended.

Jun 20, 2023•34 min

Who is Really in Charge of Washington DC?

Who’s really running the government? And why does so much of it seem untouchable? It’s because Democrats made a concerted effort over the last 15 years to put as much government spending on “auto-pilot,” taking programs and entire agencies off the budget. Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz joins Peter and Eric Eggers to discuss his new book, “The Puppeteers.”

Jun 14, 2023•31 min

The Debt Deal - Will Congress Ever Stop Spending

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy might be proud of the “Fiscal Responsibility Act” debt ceiling deal he worked out with President Joe Biden, but the lack of hard spending cuts means there is little to celebrate for conservatives.

Jun 06, 2023•30 min

Punishing Americans With Good Credit

“Home equity” for most Americans is how much of their home they have currently paid off through their mortgage. But a new rule by the Biden administration cites “equitable and sustainable access to homeownership” as the reason to raise mortgage fees on borrowers with good credit, while making it easier for those with bad credit to get a mortgage they can afford. Host Eric Eggers explores this issue on this episode of The Drill Down.

May 03, 2023•26 min

SCHWEIZER: “Dirty Business” Behind the Battle Over TikTok

TikTok is lawyering up. The embattled social media app has 150 million users in the US, but dancing teenagers don’t have the kind of pull that TikTok needs. So, they are spending millions on the most connected Washington lobbyists they can get, high-priced, “well placed names” who can speak to Republicans or Democrats. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer, Peter and co-host Eric Eggers detail the impressive lineup of former politicians and staffers from previous Whit...

Apr 04, 2023•29 min

The Emails that Prove the Biden Family Pay to Play Scheme

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 Dr...

Mar 21, 2023•27 min

Government is a Loose Cannon

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•31 min

Is the Fight in Ukraine Winnable?

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•37 min

Did the Clintons Inspire The Bidens?

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 res...

Feb 28, 2023•26 min
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