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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In its first week, Peter Schweizer’s new book, The Invisible Coup, is the number one book in the country. A little celebration might be in order, but Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers relate the book’s blockbuster revelations to what is happening now in Minneapolis. Why is ICE even there in the first place? The Department of Homeland Security said its largest immigration enforcement operation ever, called “Operation Metro Surge,” was tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents, which The DrillDown has discussed previously. Massive defrauding of aid programs including daycare, food, housing, and ambulance services was perpetrated largely by Somalis living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

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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. Be 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.
0:33.6	Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it. Thank God.
0:38.5	Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled Down with
0:44.2	Peter Schweitzer. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to
0:51.7	the drill down. Well, there's battle on the streets in Minneapolis, but is this part of a larger war, a class of clash of cultures that is taking place in the United States, a clash of civilizations, as it were. We're going to talk about that today with Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you?
1:08.3	Well, I'm great, Peter. My book is actually number one on all of Amazon, if you can believe it. Tell us about it. Oh, wait, that's not me. That's you. You're the one with a new book out, which is literally the number one book in all the country. Congratulations. It's a really big deal. Well, thank you very much. A great team effort, as always, and we're thrilled. We'll be number one for all
1:28.3	books sold on Amazon for eight straight days, so we're very excited about that. But we raise
1:32.7	really important issues in the book, and we want to talk about some of those today because
1:36.7	people are watching what's happening in Minneapolis, horrified what's happening, but it's part
1:42.1	of a larger problem that we want to talk about
1:44.7	and especially involving maybe some countries we don't always think about in terms of
1:49.6	weaponized immigration.
1:51.1	Yeah, I think you raise an important point in the book, and to be very clear, I think
1:54.9	the reason why the book is doing as well as it is as the reason why all your books do so
1:58.6	well is because they raise issues that people
2:02.0	like, yeah, I wonder like why that seems like it's happening.
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