The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

As America approaches its 250th birthday, the media insists we're hopelessly divided and on the brink of a second Civil War. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers ask the question nobody in Washington wants answered: is that actually true — or is someone profiting from making you believe it?
In this episode, Peter and Eric dig into the leaked DNC "autopsy" of the 2024 election — a 152-page report so damning that DNC chair Ken Martin tried to bury it before releasing it anyway. Wait until you hear what its "conclusion" section actually says. Plus: why Trump now owns the Republican Party outright, why the Democrats' biggest names can't win back rural America, and the foreign adversaries quietly funding the chaos.

With important mid-term elections coming in November, “the latest rage in politics is cracking and packing,” says Peter Schweizer. “Gerrymandering is in the news right now,” says co-host Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. “Cracking is when you spread out your opposition's voters into different districts. Packing is the reverse of that – when you pack your opponent's voters into a single district.” They discuss the long history of politicians trying to choose their own voters.

How Mexican Consulates Are Engaged in Political Interference in the US

Whether it is interfering with airline mergers, off-shoring a state’s oil refineries to Asia, or placing bets on chip makers, the nine scariest words in English are, in President Ronald Reagan’s immortal phrase, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” The fall of Spirit Airlines “is the classic Democratic problem,” says author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. “They don’t understand the implications of their decisions, the costs and repercussions that affect real people’s lives.” On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers tie a neat bow around Spirit Airlines, California oil refineries, and chip-maker Intel Corp.

The shots that rang through the ballroom at the Washington Hilton last week bounced off the same walls as when President Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed 45 years ago. But the reaction to the two events says how much our culture has degraded. In 1981, the Academy Awards were postponed for 24 hours. When emcee Johnny Carson opened the broadcast by wishing Reagan well in his recovery, there was thunderous applause from the Hollywood audience. All those years later, two days before the attempt, liberal talk show host Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about the First Lady having the “glow of an expectant widow,” which he later defended as a joke aimed at her age difference to the president. Some prominent Democratic influencers on Bluesky began peddling a theory that the whole incident was somehow “staged.”

How California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Law Threatens Investigative Journalism

Rep. Eric Swalwell’s sudden political death was no accident, but a strategic hit job by an unethical California Democratic Party and its media enablers. “Swalwell was pushed out for strategic purposes,” says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. Call it the law of the jungle. On the Drill Down podcast, Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers review the body count and identify which ethically challenged members will be next to go.

Foreign interference in our elections is the broad theme on today’s episode of The Drill Down, as hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, ActBlue’s foreign donor problem, and a lawsuit in Virginia over allowing the foreign-born children of people who once lived in Virginia to vote in the state’s elections.

The Supreme Court looks ready to overturn a Mississippi law that allows absentee ballots to be collected as late as five days after the election. Meanwhile, Congress is struggling to consider a bill called the SAVE Act that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in all states and require voters to show a photo ID to vote. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, host Peter Schweizer asks “will either of these issues determine the outcome of November’s elections?”

Are there administration insiders profiting from knowing news about the war with Iran before the public does? Recent news stories from the world of “prediction markets” seem to indicate that may in fact be happening. That story and an interview with the author of a new book that details a barbaric crime by the Communist Chinese.