“Big Balls,” Chris Coons and a “constitutional crisis.” For out-of-power Democrats and many in the press, the pace of Donald Trump’s new administration has them shouting, “It’s the end of the world as we know it!” Drill Down host Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers feel fine, but as Elon Musk’s small posse of DoGE analysts, including a 19-year-old hacker who goes by the name of “Big Balls” online, continues to find large examples of fraud and wasteful spending in federal agency budgets, Eggers suggests another song by the band R.E.M. for angry Democrats: “Everybody Hurts.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to the full Senate, healthy food activist and entrepreneur Vani Hari is thrilled by the attention his focus on “Making America Healthy Again” is getting. Through her blog, called FoodBabe, she and has been a relentless advocate for healthier, safer products from America’s largest food companies, and frustrated by the capture of the Food and Drug Administration by lobbyists for Big Food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is DeepSeek really a deep con? A psyop tossed out to shake up the financial markets? The release of a Chinese-made artificial intelligence engine called DeepSeek sent a bulldozer through Wall Street this week. Rival AI companies lost hundreds of billions of dollars in market value after sell-offs, once the new kid came on the block. But as Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers note on this episode of The Drill Down, the timing is suspicious. “This could be a replay of the lab leak back in 2020,” Schweizer says. “We're going to simply discuss the reality of how this thing unfolded, the claims that were made, the claims that are not true.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On his way out the door of the White House, former President Joe Biden pardoned five members of his family not named “Hunter.” All five – brother James and his wife, Sara; sister Valerie and her husband, John; and brother Frank – were implicated in various influence-peddling schemes just like the previously pardoned Hunter. It was Joe Biden’s last act of loyalty… to his family co-conspirators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Schweizer: The Only Opinion on TikTok That Counts is China's Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s a tale of three attacks. The murderous rampage through the French Quarter, the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas, and the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol. To a former FBI and Justice department guy like Kenneth Strange, who spent time on the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), each of those incidents are very different, with unique causes and motives. Strange believes the FBI has lost its way and allowed political pressure to distort how it allocates its resources. He joins Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pictures make ideas real. And portraits make people real. Artist and photographer Dan Fleuette joins the Drill Down to describe how he creates art through personalities on the political right. A self-described “art school lunatic,” Fleuette was the artist that turned Peter Schweizer’s bestselling investigative book Clinton Cash into both a documentary and even a graphic novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bill and Hillary Clinton were once masters of the “dark arts” of politics – spinning history and enriching themselves while running a global charity that became famous as a grift machine. Their skill even had a name: “The Clinton Blur.” Though long out of office himself, former President Bill Clinton is at it again. “The news for GAI is that Bill Clinton is back,” says author Peter Schweizer, whose 2015 bestseller Clinton Cash exposed the financial shenanigans behind the Clinton Global Initiative. “Bill’s back, he’s mad, and he’s mad at me!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The cold-blooded murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has produced some ugly reactions. Liberal politicians and commentators seized upon Thompson’s murder as an excuse to complain about insurance companies. But their outrage should be directed at the federal government, says Seamus Bruner on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of his son, Hunter, was really a proxy pardon for the whole Biden family that hamstrings ongoing investigations into Biden family influence peddling schemes, according to Peter Schweizer. In the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast, Schweizer points out that the schemes implicated not just Hunter but Joe himself, his brothers Frank and James, and other members of the Biden family. The pardon, “historically unprecedented” in its scope, is “a stunning acknowledgment of how corrupt this family is,” Schweizer says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Storming the Ivory Tower - A Call for Educational Reform with Richard Corcoran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The election was a week ago, and we know a lot. But we still don’t know the results of 17 congressional elections across the nation, half of them in California. On The Drill Down podcast, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss why California is so far behind other large states in completing the counts of its congressional races. Schweizer notes that the 13th Congressional District has only counted 61.6 percent of its votes, a full week after the election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Rightward Shift - Analyzing National Trends Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He’s the man with the biggest influence over the last several elections that you’ve probably never heard of. His influence over how Americans vote, and how those votes are counted, has made him a Democratic “super-lawyer,” and his handiwork has been on elections around the country for more than a decade. He is a man who understands that elections can be won in the days or weeks after voting has completed. He is Democratic election law specialist Marc Elias, and he’s the topic on the last pre-election episode of The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Deep State's Role in Modern Politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Deep Dive Into Election Integrity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Politics of Disaster Relief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smurfing the Election - What does it mean? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With Joe Biden forced out of the presidential race, why should anyone still care about the corruption story that implicated him, his brothers, and his son, Hunter Biden? Because “the same people in the same crooked institutions that protected him and allowed him and his family to do business and make millions of dollars from our adversaries, particularly from China, are still there,” journalist Miranda Devine declares on the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast. “They're still committing bad deeds. They still have mal-intent and they still don't have America's best interests at heart,” Devine tells co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Battle Over Truth in Politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
JL443
@7:30 ... perhaps polling places should put up signs stating that non US citizens are not allowed to vote?
Donald Papier
Pete Rose is laughing.
Jeff Martin
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TS 7:30 Shadow Stats website on real inflation number calculated as done in the 80s. 17% inflation.
Franco M
Ol' Jo was only deprived of reasonable thought.. his policies put millions in prison, umm, that's about all he did until this year.. they haxe BAD Karma but they still benifit at our cost ...