- 26 minutes 23 secondsBirth Tourism & Fake Weddings: How China Buys American Citizenship | The Drill Down | Ep. 282
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers track three fronts in China's campaign against American immigration controls, and the officials in Washington who look away.
Trump signed two executive orders on August 6, narrowing his birthright citizenship push to birth tourism and surrogacy. Five days later the same coalition from Barbara v. Trump went back to the same judge for a restraining order. Brett Kavanaugh already signaled a pathway for limiting 14th Amendment abuse, so the left should not assume a win at the Supreme Court.
The Justice Department charged a network selling green cards through fake weddings. Chinese nationals paid facilitators up to $100,000. Facilitators paid American citizens up to $30,000 to stand at the altar. One prenuptial agreement instructed the bride never to speak to the groom again.
Then there is Mexico. Former Mexican tourism official Simรณn Levy published a report on how Mexicans are manufactured in Mexico. Civil registry employees took $4,000 per migrant to forge birth certificates for Cuban, Haitian and Chinese nationals. Mexico deleted the database field recording when a passport was issued in 2021, so the forgeries are untraceable. A Mexican passport drops your US visa refusal rate by 49.5 points. A Chinese national in Beijing becomes a Mexican citizen, then walks into the United States under a new name.
The declassified Swalwell file closes the loop. Eric Swalwell admitted a physical relationship with Chinese intelligence asset Fang Fang. She placed interns in his office and laundered money into his campaign. He joked to friends his girlfriend worked for the Chinese CIA. He stayed on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Nancy Pelosi kept him there. The FBI, which the committee oversees, kept trying to recruit Fang Fang and never moved on Swalwell.
(00:00) China thinks in dynasties, not decades (01:13) Trump's August 6 executive orders on birth tourism (03:23) The ACLU coalition sues again, and Rob Bonta calls it a tantrum (05:35) Birth tourism is an industry term, not a slur (07:03) DOJ charges the $100,000 sham marriage ring (08:46) Staged attacks and weaponized immigration (11:58) Simรณn Levy's report: Mexicans manufactured in Mexico (15:17) The passport database field Mexico deleted in 2021 (17:56) Eric Swalwell, Fang Fang, and the warning signs he ignored (24:13) The FBI knew, kept recruiting her, and never touched him
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19 August 2026, 4:42 pm - 27 minutes 40 seconds270 Investigators. 32 Indictments. California's Fraud Math. | Ep. 281California pays 270 people to investigate Medicaid fraud. In 2024 they returned 32 indictments. Arizona pays 33 people and returned 82. ย PeterSchweizer and Eric Eggers break down 'the summer of fraud' on ep. 281 of The Drill Down. ย Federal Medicaid recoveries went from 1.4B to 2B. CMS withheld 351M from Minnesota and 1.3B from California. Alabama employs seven fraud investigators. Minnesota employs 28. ย Chapters: (02:33) The federal numbers (07:58) California's 32 indictments (10:37) Alabama has seven (15:01) 1.9B to the Virgin Islands, zero homes (19:09) Minnesota and Feeding Our Future (26:13) What happens when the money stops12 August 2026, 3:14 pm
- 22 minutes 58 secondsOne Third of Democrats Now Call Themselves Socialists | Ep. 280
Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, and his own party's establishment spent roughly $83 per vote trying to stop him. Haley Stevens had the governor, Jim Clyburn, AIPAC money, and most of the state's Democratic leadership behind her. She lost anyway.
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers go through what that result says about where the Democratic Party is headed. The DSA is 85 percent white and 4 percent black by its own membership surveys, a black-led advocacy group put $2 million into ads warning that its agenda threatens decades of progress built by black Americans, and one third of Democratic voters now tell CNN they identify as Democratic socialists. The DNC is carrying debt and borrowed against its own headquarters while left wing superPACs stay flush with Soros money. Schweizer's read: nobody in the party is going to confront the socialists, because Democrats cannot retake the Senate in November without holding that Michigan seat.
00:00 A socialist wins Michigan and the party has to live with it
00:55 The first DSA statewide win outside New York and California
02:17 $83 a vote for Stevens, $40 a vote for El-Sayed, and she still lost
02:58 Why there will be no Sister Souljah moment this time
04:22 The Teamsters are gone and the unions that replaced them are left wing
07:39 Elite overproduction and the $150,000 comparative lit degree
09:48 The DSA is 85% white, 4% black, and losing black voters
12:00 Clarence Thomas on who hands out your rights
15:02 The DNC is broke while the left wing superPACs are flush
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๐ฃhttps://truthsocial.com/@DrillDownwithSchweizer6 August 2026, 5:20 pm - 33 minutes 23 secondsCODE RED: The AI That Broke Out and Hacked a Tech Company | Ep. 279
An OpenAI model sat inside a sealed testing environment with one job: pass a cybersecurity exam. It decided the fastest route to the answers was to break out of the sandbox, get onto the open internet, and hack Hugging Face, the central repository for AI models. No human directed it there.
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers sit down with Wynton Hall, GAI distinguished fellow and author of the New York Times bestseller "Code Red: The Left, the Right, China and the Race to Control AI," to explain what actually happened and why it will keep happening.
Also in this episode: the quarter of a billion dollars flooding into the midterms over one question of who writes the AI rules, why Anthropic's push for regulation looks a lot like Goldman Sachs and Dodd-Frank, how California can set AI policy for Florida and Idaho without a single federal vote, the universal basic income groundwork being laid before the job losses arrive, and whether China is stealing its way forward or genuinely out-innovating us.
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28 July 2026, 10:04 pm - 24 minutes 32 seconds278,000 Noncitizens on the Rolls: What DHS Just Found | Ep. 278
Donald Trump's recent speech on election integrity, followed by a Department of Homeland Security briefing, generated more heat than light. But what was actually revealed? Peter and Eric cut through the rhetoric to examine the real findings:
- Over 270,000 noncitizens identified on voter rolls from limited state dataโa number likely much higher
- China's breach of at least 18 states, accessing voter files across the country (covered up by intelligence agencies)
- Why states resist cleaning voter rolls and how federal pressure is escalating
- The media's failure to cover the story and what it reveals about institutional accountability
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23 July 2026, 6:30 pm - 26 minutes 35 secondsSCOTUS Brings Life to the (Political) Parties
Political parties may soon make a comeback. A new Supreme Court decision โcould fundamentally change the equation in American politics,โ says Peter Schweizer about a Supreme Court decision on campaign finance. โThis will allow the parties to have more influence and more direction on who their nominees are,โ he says.
8 July 2026, 7:07 pm - 24 minutes 10 secondsBirth Tourism Wins at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Courtโs decision in the birthright citizenship case is โa monumentally terrible decision,โ says author Peter Schweizer, whose latest bestseller exposed Chinaโs efforts to exploit birth tourism on an industrial scale. In Trump v. Barbara, The Court this week threw out President Donald Trumpโs executive order to federal immigration agencies not to automatically grant citizenship to every child born to a foreigner on US soil. The decision, although expected by many, is absolutely terrible for American sovereignty, Schweizer believes.
3 July 2026, 11:43 am - 25 minutes 25 secondsAmerican Patriotism or Socialism?
America is about to celebrate its 250th birthday, but some left-wing Democrats plan to skip the party. โWhen you forget who you are, itโs easy to be talked into becoming something else," says GAIโs Eric Eggers. A new CNN poll found surprising support among Democrats for socialism, with 66 percent of those surveyed saying they have a positive view of socialism, compared with a minority โ 42 percent โ saying the same about capitalism and the free market system, a flip of their sentiments from 15 years ago. Is this caused by their hatred for President Donald Trump and his populist turn, or is it a longer-term trend?
23 June 2026, 10:32 pm - 27 minutes 54 secondsIran Sent an IRGC Commander to the World Cup?
More than a million people are coming to America this summer for this yearโs World Cup soccer matches. Itโs โsports tourism.โ At The Drill Down, however, host Peter Schweizer is more interested in stopping what he has called โbirth tourism.โ โThe Trump administration announced actions against networks in Africa that were designed to provide birth tourism,โ Schweizer says. โThis is where foreign women, wives or girlfriends of people in these countries are sneaking into the United States to give birth so their child will be born a US citizen. We have exposed this as it relates to China, Russia, Turkey, and other countries. But this is a positive development โ exciting news.โ
18 June 2026, 10:30 pm - 28 minutes 27 secondsSchweizer: โIs it still election fraud when itโs legal?โ
Californiaโs glacial counting of primary election votes is a feature, not a bug. The stateโs election laws are deliberately designed to make elections as untraceable and lengthy as possible. As author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer asks, โIf you make election fraud legal, is it still fraud?โ
10 June 2026, 11:13 am - 27 minutes 20 secondsโDefund the Dataโ: The Secret Amendment That Could Blind Fraud Investigators Forever
They caught $200 billion in fraud โ now Congress wants to take away the tools that found it.
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers are joined by fraud investigator Andrew McClenahan to expose a buried amendment that would ban federal agencies from buying the data they use to hunt criminal fraud networks. Critics call it the "digital defunding of the police."
Plus: a $14B Russian Medicare bust, the IRS keeping your biometrics while fraud cops get cut off, and Washington State chaos โ a ballot box that exploded, 360 blank ballots in a dumpster, and voter cards where 92% of names were Chinese.
Take away the data, and investigators go back to a notepad and pencil. Here's who benefits.
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