The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

The Biden administration is using federal government resources, and taxpayer money, to conduct the sort of mudslinging that has traditionally been done by political campaigns. The tactic is known as “lawfare.” That’s the focus of the most recent episode of The Drill Down, where hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers go into the weeds to show how the Biden administration is coordinating all four of the legal prosecutions against Biden’s opponent in the November presidential election, former President Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new report by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has validated a key claim in Peter Schweizer’s latest book, Blood Money – finding persuasive evidence that China has been subsidizing the manufacturing and exporting of illicit fentanyl precursor chemicals and other synthetic narcotics through tax rebates and other means. Schweizer welcomed the validation of his book’s central theme --that Communist China is at war with the United States, poisoning American youth with fentanyl, American minds with TikTok, American streets with automatic weapons, and American health with engineered viruses like COVID-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Peter and Eric on the Drill Down podcast, Justice responded to recent statistics showing the average rate of chronic absenteeism from school nationwide has risen from a pre-pandemic level of 15% to 26% last year. This means missing at least 10 percent of a school year, or about 18 days, for any reason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is wrong with registering people to vote? Who could be against that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Government Accountability Institute just discovered that one of the most notorious Chinese gangsters, a man known as “White Wolf,” was somehow left off a 2021 executive order by President Joe Biden listing persons and companies sanctioned against doing business here. That may be because “White Wolf” has connections. Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers welcome Price Sukhia, the GAI researcher who made this discovery, to the most recent episode of The Drill Down. Price’s article, linked above, was also published by The Daily Caller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Election integrity usually revolves around ballot access, the handling of absentee ballots, and voter ID. But beyond the issues of “ballot harvesting,” there’s another means of tampering with elections – Big Tech censorship, much of it done by Google, the dominant search engine on the internet. Outkick’s Bobby Burack joins Peter and Eric to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The revelations about China’s “cognitive warfare on America found in Peter Schweizer’s newest book, “Blood Money,” continue to spur action in Washington. In the past week, the House Government Oversight Committee has announced an investigation into China’s ongoing efforts to infiltrate and influence the US. And the full House just overwhelmingly passed a bill that would force the owners of TikTok to divest the online app or be banned in the US. That bill moves to the Senate where its prospects are less certain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Peter Schweizer's new book names China’s fentanyl strategy after a Chinese proverb: "Murder with a borrowed knife." On this week’s episode of The Drill Down, Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers speak to Derek Maltz, the former Special Agent in Charge of Special Operations at the Department of Justice and the Chief of the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force. In his work, Maltz saw that "borrowed knife" from the sharp end. Maltz has high praise for Schweizer's book, saying, "I was so excited to see somebody put the entire picture together," when it comes to China’s role in America’s fentanyl crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Watch a fire from across the river.” China has been busy sowing and fanning social division in the Unted States. It is part of their war strategy to undermine America’s social fabric and there are several different fronts in that war. On the latest episode of The Drill Down, host Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers take us through the battle plans and show us some of their tactics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blood Money China's Role in the Fentanyl Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Drill Down crew from the Government Accountability Institute is back behind the mic to talk about the latest on James Biden, a failed healthcare company, and a shady $200,000 "loan." James Biden testified before the House Oversight Committee this week as part of the ongoing GOP investigation into the Biden family influence-peddling scheme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Peter's New Book Shake Up the Biden Campaign? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The cultural Marxism that wrecked so many of our universities claimed another victim: America’s spies. That is the premise for a powerful new book on the CIA and the FBI that takes on the question: how they went from being Cold War heroes to deep state villains? Author Michael Waller, himself a longtime veteran of the intelligence world, has just published a book called Big Intel, He joins Peter and Eric on the DrillDown to discuss his time in El Salvador with the CIA in the 1980s, and the state of America’s spooks today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Morgan on The Border: It's Already An Invasion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Newt Gingrich: Left Wants to Eliminate American History, Raise Kids to Despise Their Own Country Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Election fraud – even the suspicion of it – is poisonous to democracy. That is the stated reason why Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is bringing a case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia under the anti-racketeering statute known as RICO that was written to go after criminal gangs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former House Speaker John Boehner is one of politicians who cash in after leaving office. In Boehner’s case, he opposed all efforts to legalize cannabis while he was in Congress, then promptly went into business as a pro-marijuana lobbyist, earning millions pushing for legalized pot around the country. So, fresh off spending the holidays watching sports and all the commercial tie-ins for legalized sports betting, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers open the first episode of The Drill Down for 2024 by asking, “Who is the ‘John Boehner’ of legalized sports betting?” Turns out it’s . . . John Boehner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Young people at our nation’s colleges and universities are not as radical and left-wing as the media would have you believe, but it’s not for a want of trying by woke administrators and radical faculty members. That’s the take of New College of Florida president Richard Corcoran and former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. They joined Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers who guest-hosted Sean Hannity’s radio show this week. In the battle for free speech on campus, both Walker and Corcoran want to go on offense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate Hypocrites Say We Have One Year Left.... AGAIN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Follow the Money and Apply the Law to The Biden Family Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Israel exchanges Palestinian criminals and terrorists for innocent Israelis taken captive by Hamas during the 10/7 massacres, we learned that at least one American was among the freed hostages – a four-year-old little girl named Abigail Edan. Abigail’s parents were murdered by Hamas during the attack. This is welcome news, of course, and President Joe Biden took some personal credit for her release, but there’s an interesting coincidence that the Drill Down’s hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers can’t ignore: Abigail’s great aunt is Elizabeth (Liz) Naftali, a wealthy real estate investor in Los Angeles’s fashion district and a large contributor to the Democratic Party and to the Biden family. How? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Best Holiday Movies Throwing Money Out of a Helicopter And the Gov Wants to Kill Switch Cars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The people who want you to “just eat the bugs” are controlling more than you think. Some call them “global elites.” But author Seamus Bruner offers a better description for them: Controligarchs. Bruner exposes the billionaires who control the levers of power that dominate every aspect of your life. He joins Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers on the latest episode of The Drill Down podcast to discuss fake meat, patented seeds, and the dark forces who are profiting from the world’s blind rush towards a “greener future.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elections, Investigations and Prosecutions Have Consequences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do Hamas, fentanyl, North Korea, China, and the US debt have in common? They are all funded in part by a cryptocurrency called Tether Tether is now the world’s most heavily traded cryptocurrency by volume. The stablecoin, also known as USDT, maintains a 1:1 exchange ratio with the dollar. It is the main way Hamas has been funded by Iran and other terrorist sympathizers around the globe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite Joe Biden’s mumbling and stumbling, the checkered pasts of brothers Frank and James Biden, and the lurid, embarrassing details found on Hunter Biden’s laptop documenting his drug addictions and frequenting of prostitutes, the Biden family “actually run a very sophisticated and, I would argue, criminal enterprise that is designed to extract wealth and to leverage Joe’s power, but to keep him at arm’s length so that it is harder to connect him to it,” says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. The Biden family got rich by leveraging Joe’s rising political power while keeping him at arm’s length from the lucre, Schweizer says on the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast. Alex Marlow is his guest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The massacre of more than 1,300 Israelis by Hamas terrorists still outrages most of the world. The focus on Hamas, Hezbollah, and their deep ties to Iran exposes the brutality of all three, and Israel’s fearsome, ongoing response enjoys broad support. But the role played by Iran is complex, deadly, and insidious, as explained by Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the US House of Representatives selecting a new Speaker, Peter Schweizer reminds us that the choice was never about policy. “The speakership is all about money,” Schweizer says on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. “It’s an open secret.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The Department of Energy is being weaponized to reward the political supporters of the administration,” Peter Schweizer concludes on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. With the government poised at the brink of a shutdown last week, the Department of Energy (DoE) last week doled out another batch of “green energy” spending on projects in eleven states. This is a portion of a $2.3 billion program the Biden administration created to advance its clean-energy drive, according to the Wall Street Journal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Count Peter Schweizer among the “doubters” of the Biden administration’s choice of former Commerce Secretary and major Democratic donor Penny Pritzker to lead U.S. efforts to channel private sector reconstruction assistance to Ukraine. Pritzker, the heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune and a real estate mogul herself, was corrupt and self-dealing during her commerce department tenure under President Barack Obama, which Schweizer documented in a 12-page chapter of his book, Secret Empires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Founded by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the foundation put its annual “Clinton Global Initiative” on a hiatus for a few years when their relevance ebbed and fundraising dried up, but their scandal-plagued charity has returned with a plan to provide humanitarian relief to warn-torn Ukraine, complete with a benediction from Pope Francis. The Clinton Foundation’s shady dealings were exposed in 2015 by Peter Schweizer in the bestselling book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. On the most recent podcast of The DrillDown, Schweizer commented on the return of the Clintons and their historical gift for grift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Biden's secret bank accounts and people blaming Peter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 knowledge of individual to bias the results of searches done by its users. He and his team monitor how Google’s search algorithm weights and ranks the results of searches done of its search engine, which controls an overwhelming 93% of the online search market. His findings strongly suggest that Google is cooking its search results in favor of Democratic candidates and liberal causes that the company supports, and he has the receipts to back it up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 but inevitable. Fires will happen, but governments need to re-learn old lessons of how to avoid them or make them less severe, and that means focusing on their real missions, not chasing the latest environmental fads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 school boards, “How could you let this happen?” On the most recent episode of The DrillDown, author Kenny Xu takes on how Critical Race Theory (CRT) made its way into K-12 education, dragging down educational progress and indoctrinating millions of American kids while making a class of “diversity consultants” rich. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will The Real Robert Peters Please Stand Up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Eric Eggers break down the latest developments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 CNN in particular “laughable.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 partners were cashing in on Joe’s political influence, and that Joe knew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 office’s surveillance conducted against Latin-Mass Catholics as possible “domestic terrorists.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter Biden Is An Expert in Hiding Money and Escaping Justice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Hunter Sink Joe's Presidency? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Confidence in the FBI and the Media is Sinking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will The Clinton Crime Family Finally Face Justice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where The Biden Family Investigation Is Going Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should We Ban Lobbyists From Representing China? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How DC Keeps Getting Richer With OpenTheBooks.com CEO Adam Andrzejewski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Death of Journalism With Michele Tafoya Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Payoffs and Presidential Candidates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 White House administrations who are making money defending what some critics and computer security professionals call “Chinese spyware.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Risks The Big Banks Continued Taking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Podesta Cronyism Inflation Climate Act Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rise of the Police State Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Government Mob with Special Guest Michael Franzese Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Celebrities and Politicians Who Profited Off of PPP Loans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How To Fix Our Dysfunctional Elections Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Democrats Pass IRS Audits, Green Engery Money For China, and No Plans To Stop Inflation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Congress Voting Their Way to Wealth? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Foreign Adversaries Influence Elected Officials' Family Members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Government Intervention Causing Travel Nightmares Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Possible Corruption of Dr. Fauci and Others Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do You Want China to Have Your Child's Data? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The War on Fossil Fuels is Destroying Everyday Americans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Fight for Election Integrity with Catherine Engelbrecht Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices