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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Bill O’Reilly on Confronting Evil

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“Evil is on the rise in America, and overseas,” says author and talk show host Bill O’Reilly. “Evil is very simple: It's when one human being hurts another human being on purpose with no remorse.” Like Charlie Kirk’s killer. Like Vladimir Putin. And about 15 percent of the world’s population, O’Reilly thinks.

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.0

He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.

0:09.0

Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably

0:16.0

done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. The very prescient Eric Eggers.

0:22.6

Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.

0:27.6

We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,

0:31.6

and we're going to try to go further.

0:34.6

Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it.

0:37.6

Thank God.

0:38.5

Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,

0:43.4

The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

0:45.7

This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

0:49.8

Hi, it's Peter Schweitzer, and welcome to The Drill Down.

0:52.6

You know, there is so much tragedy in the world, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, wars around the planet. The world evil gets tossed around a lot and rightfully so. What is it and how do we confront it? We're going to talk about that with the one and only Bill O'Reilly. And the co-host of this program, of course, is Eric Eggers. Eric,

1:11.2

how are you? I'm excellent. Very excited to be speaking with Bill. The timing on the release of this

1:16.5

book is out of this world, just in terms of the coincidence. It comes out the day before

1:21.9

Charlie Kirk's assassination. Also, his Charlie Kirk's assassination happening on Bill

1:26.1

O'Reilly's birthday birthday just a lot of weird

1:27.9

timing things that i'm sure he have a very interesting perspective to share with us well bill thanks

1:32.9

for joining us you've got this terrific book out called confronting evil um i want to ask you

1:38.4

first of all could you help us understand and define evil i think of the Supreme Court Justice who was asked to define pornography, and he said,

1:46.7

I know it when I see it.

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