Schweizer on Birthright Citizenship: “The Constitution is Not a Suicide Pact

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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.

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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.
0:22.8	Be very prescient, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.
0:31.9	We're going to take information that we've learned, that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,
0:34.2	and we're going to try to go further.
0:36.3	Great investigative reporting, Peter.
0:38.3	You're the only one doing it. Thank God. Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.3	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:49.3	Hi, it's Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down. Well, we pick our national leaders to a process of
0:55.4	elections that includes campaigns, the funding of those campaigns, citizens voting for our leaders,
1:02.6	and the counting of those votes. But the integrity of that process is under threat. And we're
1:07.5	going to unpack that today on the podcast. I'm going to do that with Eric Eggers. Eric how are you you're going to unpack it i'm just here to hype you up peter schweitzer
1:14.7	leader of national conversations i mean for the first time in our country's history you may or
1:22.2	may not have heard we're coming up on a pretty big birthday yeah 250 250 so we've been around for a
1:27.2	minute yep for the first time in 250 years, the president of the United States sat in a hearing of the Supreme Court based on an issue that you, Peter Schweitzer, were the first to report in your most recent book. Yeah. No, it's, it was uh pretty amazing it's a book that we actually
1:44.6	sorry a book that we actually talked to the president about in the oval office before it came out
1:49.3	and bd and uh he was particularly captivated with the chinese abuse the systematic abuse of
1:57.2	birthright citizenship and right before he went into the court, he sent out something on
2:01.2	social media about, you know, American citizenship is for the people. It's not for Chinese
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