I had to learn Spanish so I could understand the Super Bowl halftime show. I m not a fan of the Bad Bunny performance, but I did enjoy Lady Gaga's rendition of the song, Shakira's performance, and the kids falling asleep on the chairs.
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00:00:49.000Overall, honestly, like great production value.
00:00:52.000This halftime show is not aimed at me.
00:00:54.000I listened to classical music, and there was the usual plethora of butts on the screen, which again has become common to all halftime shows, unfortunately.
00:01:04.000But overall, in terms of the production value, production value, incredible, incredible.
00:01:09.000I was very much in favor of a couple actually getting married, like a straight couple getting married in the middle of the halftime show.
00:01:14.000And by the way, I did enjoy the entire wedding production dance with Lady Gaga as the wedding singer and even the kid falling asleep on the chairs, which I've been told by some of my producers, producer Savvy, is of Latina extraction.
00:01:30.000And also, Fabi, the makeup lady, is Puerto Rican.
00:01:34.000And so they told me that this is like a common thing at Latino weddings.
00:01:39.000It is also a common thing at Jewish weddings where everybody goes too late and the kids are all sleeping on the chairs.
00:02:44.000I did not understand a word he was saying.
00:02:46.000Frankly, it seemed to me as a person who, again, does not traffic in this music and doesn't listen to this music that when I was watching the aforementioned Bad Bunny walking through the screen, holding a football, gaining more yards than the New England Patriots the entire first half, and kind of saying things to me in Spanish.
00:03:06.000I will admit that it felt to me like perhaps I had been in a car crash and there was a person walking at me telling me that I needed to get out my insurance card in a language I did not understand.
00:04:10.000No English where people who don't speak Spanish don't understand what is going on.
00:04:15.000I mean, he could have been saying literally anything, and I would have had no idea what he was saying.
00:04:20.000And second of all, to pretend that Bad Bunny is an apolitical figure is, of course, very, very silly.
00:04:25.000Bad Bunny is not an apolitical figure.
00:04:27.000He has never pretended to be an apolitical figure.
00:04:31.000So, for example, when he showed himself on the Grammys and then him giving a Grammy to a little kid who looked precisely like an iced detainee, don't tell me that this wasn't on purpose.
00:05:06.000The entire, I keep coming back to the production value because just as a person who enjoys a good show, the production value, incredibly high.
00:05:13.000Building like an entire sugar cane field out in the middle of the Super Bowl.
00:05:18.000All those sugar canes, by the way, were people inside the sugar cane.
00:05:20.000So it was like the March of the Ents when they were setting that thing up.
00:05:23.000People just kind of wandering into the middle of the field.
00:05:28.000Obviously, one of his songs is about the failure of electricity in Puerto Rico.
00:05:32.000And so people falling off of telephone lines, which if you have no frame of reference, which I really did not until I actually looked it up, I have no idea what's going on.
00:05:39.000And then when I found out, I feel like that's a very weird way to sort of tout your home culture is, and also our electricity fails a lot.
00:05:48.000If I were to do one for Jewish culture, I would be like, also, Ashkenazic food is totally tasteless.
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00:08:42.000The big, the big thing that happened, right?
00:08:44.000The thing that kind of I think was the tell was that the very end of the halftime show, after he's done all of this, and of course, it had its little political touches here and there.
00:08:53.000I already mentioned the where's waldo of human butts that happened.
00:08:57.000Apparently, some of those butts were famous butts, but there's a where's waldo of human butts.
00:09:01.000There was also, of course, a little bit of LGBT content and that you had some two dudes rolling on each other.
00:09:07.000It happened fairly quickly, but of course was there.
00:09:10.000The tell, the tell, and this is where the real critique comes in.
00:09:14.000The tell was the end of the halftime show.
00:09:16.000So the end of the halftime show, Bad Bunny, again, a less than good bunny, he's walking through and he's followed by apparently the entire World Cup contingent from the Western Hemisphere.
00:09:29.000So he walks through and he announces every single country in the Western hemisphere, starting geographically with Argentina, like starting there and finishing up with Canada.
00:09:38.000And as he does, a bunch of people follow him carrying flags from various other countries that are not the United States.
00:10:33.000One of the amazing things about America, truly amazing things, is you can both assimilate to the values of the United States and still keep the flavor of your old culture, of your common culture.
00:10:44.000And one of the great things about America over the course of the last couple of hundred years is that you have lots of cultures that merge into the gigantic stream that is the United States, which is why every American has eaten Mexican food and Italian food and Chinese food.
00:11:00.000Now, the fact that you have weddings where you have people dancing salsa and you have weddings where you have people dancing the horror, that's wonderful.
00:12:04.000The political left has the opportunity to grab the upper hand culturally with a lot of people and simultaneously celebrate the country.
00:12:12.000He could have done this entire show almost identically with American flags everywhere saying America means that you can have salsa dancing at your wedding.
00:12:21.000But that's what's amazing about America.
00:12:23.000You can do all that and still be an American who loves football and still be an American.
00:12:27.000Football is a uniquely American sport.
00:12:28.000You can still be an American who is doing all the American things and you can also enjoy these cultural variants.
00:12:35.000He could have done that, bringing out the flags of foreign nations, places, by the way, that are not purely Latino.
00:12:40.000So it wasn't just a celebration of Latino culture at the end because Canada is not Latino.
00:12:46.000Canada is a bunch of white people, Canada, generally speaking.
00:12:53.000There are a bunch of countries in the Western Hemisphere that are actually not predominantly Latino.
00:12:59.000So what he's doing there, this kind of United Nations routine, is not a celebration of America or a celebration of cultures that coexist peacefully in America or a celebration of Latino culture in America.
00:13:11.000It is a celebration of apparently everyone being American.
00:13:18.000Well, you're an American if you're in America's borders and your loyalty is to America.
00:13:22.000You're not American if you are Peruvian and you live in Peru and you spent your entire life in Peru.
00:13:29.000And his attempt to say we are all Americans by making some sort of pedantic geographic point that the Americas encompass like the continents of North America and South America, that's silly.
00:14:00.000This performance at the World Cup would have made perfect sense.
00:14:03.000It would have, because that's an international event with a bunch of different at the Olympics, this would have made perfect sense.
00:14:08.000Doing it at the halftime show and then basically saying that America is one of many.
00:14:15.000Saying that what is happening on the stage is not a representation of the greatness of America in being able to capture many different cultures and draw from many different cultures to merge in our assimilative American values.
00:14:29.000Not doing that, but instead doing these sort of country separatism and then saying we are all Americans while flying the flags of countries that are not American.
00:14:38.000Like, again, that last part was, I think, to tell.
00:14:40.000And that was the part I think that people are really reacting to on a sort of gut level.
00:14:44.000Now, again, none of this is to say that for the third time, there aren't parts of the show that were kind of enjoyable.
00:14:50.000Again, I'll bring up the sort of wedding part of it, which I thought was kind of charming.
00:14:55.000Here's some of the wedding stuff that was happening.
00:15:05.000This is an actual wedding that happened on the stage.
00:15:10.000And yeah, exactly a dude marrying one.
00:15:12.000And then they drew aside and suddenly the whitest lady I've ever seen, Lady Gaga, who's Italian, she started singing a salsa version of one of her songs, Die With a Smile.
00:15:27.000And then you had all the salsa dancing.
00:15:28.000And again, I think the Super Bowl needs to take it down a couple of notches in terms of the fleshly pursuits, but that's not unique to this particular show.
00:15:36.000But the salsa dancing at the wedding, I thought was charming.
00:15:38.000And the little kid who's like lying asleep and they have like the old, the old grandfather or grandmother who's like moving the kid.
00:16:01.000And then when I notice that it's happening, you tell me that I'm crazy.
00:16:05.000That's the part I think that's getting people.
00:16:06.000If you go to the Wall Street Journal review of the show, they say in a history-making halftime show, performed almost entirely in Spanish.
00:16:14.000So as soon as you say a history-making halftime show, you're already saying there is something uniquely important about this halftime show.
00:16:20.000So don't pretend that this is, you know, Bon Jovi playing a halftime show a few years ago.
00:16:27.000If you're saying it's history-making, clearly you're saying that it's important in a cultural political way.
00:16:32.000In a history-making halftime show performed almost entirely in Spanish, the Puerto Rican star paid tribute to his heritage and the many countries from Brazil to Mexico, whose people have come to shape the modern day U.S.
00:16:42.000And again, this is one of the weird conflicts about giving that list of countries and including, for example, Canada.
00:16:47.000It's kind of strange because if you're just celebrating immigration, then theoretically a lot of immigrants from other places all over the world who come to the United States.
00:16:55.000But as the Wall Street Journal review points out, just a week ago, Bad Bunny denounced ICE and customs enforcement while accepting a Grammy Award.
00:17:02.000But on the halftime stage, he offered up a buoyant celebration of Latino culture.
00:17:06.000The elaborate stage design included a maze of sugarcane and a single-story house similar to the one he used during his 31-day residency in San Juan, Puerto Rico last summer.
00:17:14.000As Bad Bunny strutted through the greenery, he passed by old men playing dominoes, women chatting in a nail salon, and boxers sparring a montage of scenes from life in Puerto Rico.
00:17:22.000And then there were a stream of celebrities who showed up to offer their support.
00:17:25.000I will admit that I did not recognize any of them except for Ricky Martin showed up.
00:17:30.000And I mean, I think we're all getting old because I'm old enough to remember when Ricky Martin was pretending to be straight.
00:17:35.000So he showed up flanked by a bunch of bananas, which was a little strange.
00:18:40.000The thing that I am concerned about is the innate argument that is being made that the greatness of America somehow must be subsumed under the rubric of all countries are awesome and America is somehow equivalent in some way to other countries.
00:19:56.000And unfortunately, it now shows up in nearly every sporting event.
00:19:58.000The sort of bump and grind dancing that you see from cheerleaders at a normal basketball game is so much more than a 14-year-old boy would have been able to take in 1983.
00:20:09.000This show is just a slap in the face to our country, says the president, which is setting new standards and records every single day, including the best stock market in 401ks in history.
00:20:16.000There's nothing inspirational about this mess of a halftime show and watch.
00:20:19.000You'll get great reviews from the fake news media because they haven't got a clue of what is going on in the real world.
00:20:23.000And by the way, the NFL should immediately replace its ridiculous new kickoff rule.
00:20:26.000Make America great again, President Trump.
00:20:30.000And again, I see where he is coming from when he does not like the halftime show.
00:20:34.000I think that there's a better way to articulate that.
00:20:38.000And this is, again, we'll get to this a little bit later on in the show.
00:20:42.000This goes to the Republican Party's inability to articulate good critiques in a thoughtful way that will tend to broaden the coalition rather than narrowing it.
00:20:49.000Well, while all this was going on at the Super Bowl halftime show, all the cultural chaos and all the argument, Turning Point USA held its All-American Super Bowl halftime show.
00:20:58.000You could have seen that over at Daily Wire Plus.
00:21:00.000We were one of the places that was streaming it.
00:21:02.000The show featured Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, and Gabby Barrett.
00:21:05.000And apparently, it is one of the most viewed shows in the history of YouTube.
00:21:12.000The numbers soared to as many as 5 million people concurrently tuning into the live stream on YouTube.
00:21:19.000Now, again, they're doing that on a fraction of the budget of the Super Bowl, of course.
00:21:24.000They're doing it in a closed room that does not involve 70,000 people.
00:21:28.000So that's a pretty astonishing, a pretty astonishing showing there from TPUSA.
00:21:33.000And as I say, you could head on over to Daily Wire Plus as a subscriber and watch it.
00:21:38.000And I think that speaks to the amount of antipathy that people have for the sort of politics that are being promoted by Jay-Z and team over at the Super Bowl.
00:21:45.000It's Jay-Z's team that handles the logistics for the halftime show.
00:21:50.000There are a lot of people who decided that they were going to tune on over to the TPUSA show.
00:21:54.000And that's astonishing, I mean, to go from nowhere to those kinds of numbers.
00:22:02.000Again, there's a reason that right-wing media have been on the upswing for quite a while.
00:22:07.000And that answer is left-wing media and the infusion of left-wing politics into what used to be at least apolitical entertainment.
00:22:14.000Meanwhile, over at the Super Bowl, one of the sort of more bizarre ads of the evening came when Mike Tyson suddenly appeared on your TV and told you to eat real food.
00:22:23.000That was the thing that happened in our lives.
00:22:25.000So that was put up by the Make America Healthy again part of the Trump administration.
00:22:32.000Now, Maha's doing a lot of amazing things.
00:22:34.000I'm not sure that Mike Tyson, who most famously dieted on human ear, is necessarily your best pick for a person to promote healthy eating.
00:22:42.000He talked about how his 25-year-old sister died after a heart attack, and then it showed him biting into an apple and it said processed foods kill.
00:22:54.000I'm just not sure that Mike Tyson is the best person that you could trot out theoretically for that.
00:22:59.000It's kind of a strange pick, shall we say.
00:23:02.000With that said, the Maha movement is doing some fascinating things.
00:23:05.000And we're going to be joined in just a minute by the First Lady of Florida, where they have their own Maha movement, actually pushing forward what is eating healthy and checking into foods that may not be good for your kids.
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00:23:24.000As I mentioned, I had the opportunity to sit down with the First Lady of Florida a little while ago to talk about what the state of Florida has been doing.
00:23:30.000They're testing a lot of the foods that you are probably eating or feeding to your kids, and the results are not always wonderful.
00:23:39.000Thanks for having me, and thanks for taking an interest in all of this.
00:23:42.000So let's talk about what you've been doing and some of the results that you've been getting.
00:23:45.000So as I say, the FDA, they give the go-ahead to particular products.
00:23:50.000But then I think everyone assumes that what you're eating is now safe because the FDA has said that it is safe, but there's no sort of follow-up testing.
00:23:56.000And that was the basis for the Healthy Florida First Initiative.
00:24:22.000And what we want to do is trust the integrity of that product to ensure that there are no contaminants like heavy metals, leads, or pesticides or anything like that.
00:24:32.000And I think through the states in a federalist type way, we can help be a force multiplier to the federal Maha movement, give our data and our evidence to the FDA and say, hey, listen, here's some actors here that are problematic, like glyphosate, which we found in the bread, which is weed killer, commonly found in Roundup, right?
00:24:52.000And so we want to help provide truth and accountability and just give consumers the information so they can make informed decisions.
00:25:00.000And some of these results are pretty astonishing.
00:25:02.000So far, you guys have done baby formula, you've done candy, and you've done bread.
00:25:06.000The candy results, I think, were the ones that actually got the most attention because, again, we all know that when we hand our kids candy, it ain't great for them, but we don't think that there's arsenic in it.
00:25:14.000But it turns out that actually some of these candies have a non-insignificant portion of arsenic, apparently.
00:25:23.000We're not talking about one piece of candy on one day, but no child is eating one piece of candy on one day and not eating candy for the rest of the year, right?
00:25:32.000When we look at it through our risk analysis, it is how much candy are they eating and consumption over the course of a year?
00:25:38.000And what does that mean as far as the intake of arsenic and being problematic?
00:25:42.000So what we saw, for instance, with nerds, if you eat more than 86 nerds over the course of a year as a child, you are exceeding the allowable safe threshold, as I put in air quotes, of arsenic for a child.
00:25:53.000If you eat more than six Jolly Ranchers, you are exceeding the allowable level of arsenic for children.
00:25:59.000And so when you think about Halloween and Valentine's Day coming up and Christmas, and even yesterday, I made the example of when I was in a store with my daughter in CVS and, you know, she's, you know, pulling at my shirt sleeve because she wants a candy, you know, and I just want to try to pacify her so I don't cause a big scene.
00:26:18.000You know, you will just instinctively like, okay, sure, what is one piece of candy and how can it be problematic?
00:26:23.000Well, when you make those decisions in aggregate, you know, every week or every month or over the course of a year, you can see how this adds up.
00:26:29.000And it goes back to this fundamental principle that parents have a right to know what is in the food so they can make informed decisions to protect their health and certainly the health of their children.
00:26:40.000So what's been the reaction from some of the candy companies to all of this?
00:26:45.000I assume that they're not particularly happy with people believing that if you eat too many nerds, that you're going to be consuming unsafe levels of arsenic.
00:26:56.000Well, you know, I'll let them speak for themselves.
00:26:58.000I don't think that they're arguing that there is indeed arsenic in the products.
00:27:01.000And so when we look at it in our analysis, it is in aggregate.
00:27:05.000The silver lining, though, in a lot of this, Ben, is yes, while we found a lot of the name brand candies did have problematic levels of arsenic when you're eating it in aggregate over the course of a year, there are candies that didn't have any trace levels of arsenic in it.
00:27:19.000And also we saw candies in the healthy side, right?
00:27:22.000It sounds a little oxymoronic, but the healthier varietal or the organic varietal that didn't have it, which tells you a couple of things.
00:27:34.000And also, I see as more parents get informed about this, they will vote with their pocketbook, right?
00:27:40.000They're going to go and buy the things that they deem to be better for their children.
00:27:44.000And that by inertia is then going to hopefully kind of tip the scales a little bit of these companies to make better decisions as it pertains to their products.
00:27:52.000So we have a safer, safer array of food out there.
00:27:56.000And the organic and the healthy ones, by and large, of the ones we tested, and I think there were eight or nine, two were a little bit problematic, but not by much, but the rest of them were good.
00:28:05.000So I can see, you know, as more of the consumer gets consumer folks get more educated about all of this, that companies hopefully will want to start shifting down this road because they're going to see there's this huge market of informed consumers that just want better options.
00:28:34.000And that's why we started with baby formula, because these are obviously, this is all that kids are going to be consuming sometimes for the first year or two of their life.
00:28:42.000Like I tried to breastfeed as long as I could, but there came a point when I went back to work where I had to supplement.
00:28:48.000You know, I was going down store aisles and I was looking at baby formula, making an assumption based on trust that everything there was safe, right?
00:28:56.000So when you find problematic levels of arsenic, cadmium, mercury, you know, all of this arsenic, like it's really unnerving.
00:29:05.000But here's the other unnerving part of it.
00:29:08.000So if you go back to last year, Consumer View came out with a review of a lot of these baby formulas and they found there were problematic levels of these contaminants, right?
00:29:17.000And you remember, rightfully so, Secretary Kennedy, President Trump, they went out and did Operation Storkspeed and they said, we need to go in and test, right?
00:29:31.000Here we are with the independent testing of the Florida Department of Health and there's no change, right?
00:29:36.000We're seeing still problematic levels and it's not okay.
00:29:41.000So now we're trying to say, hey, guys, you need to do a better job.
00:29:45.000And so I think through the accountability and the sunlight, going on and talking to, you know, your viewers, going on and just informing the consumer base to make better informed decisions, I think that that can help push.
00:29:56.000I do think that there might be some statutory reforms that might be done.
00:30:00.000For instance, right now, they are required by law to test for things like salmonella before the formula leaves the factory.
00:30:08.000Well, my thing is, is could we not just have them also test for lead and mercury and arsenic?
00:30:14.000I mean, you know, we're talking about babies here, right?
00:30:16.000And the ramifications of having these heavy metals in food is really problematic.
00:30:22.000It doesn't just simply leave the system.
00:30:24.000And our surgeon general would say your risk of getting cancer over the course of your lifetime by consuming these heavy metals and pesticides early in life, that risk goes up by 20%.
00:30:52.000And meanwhile, on the sort of, it's okay to be proud of America storyline.
00:30:57.000Over at the Olympics, controversy broke out over the last couple of days when USA Freestyle Skiers Chris Lillis and Hunter Has were asked about representing the United States and they talked about their mixed emotions.
00:31:27.000I feel heartbroken about what's happened in the United States when, you know, I'm pretty sure you're referencing ICE and some of the protests and things like that.
00:31:37.000I think that as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody's rights and making sure that we're treating our citizens as well as anybody with love and respect.
00:31:47.000And I hope that when people look at athletes compete in the Olympics, they realize that that's the America that we're trying to represent.
00:31:54.000It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now, I think.
00:32:18.000You can say, listen, my politics have nothing to do with my pride in representing my country, which is the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:32:42.000And again, I think a huge percentage of Americans, all we're asking for, truly, all we're asking for is a baseline level of love of country, like true love of country.
00:33:02.000And honestly, it is the reason why President Trump has been so successful because he does not have politically consistent positions, the president.
00:33:10.000But what he does have is a gut-level patriotism.
00:33:13.000And I think the vast majority of Americans share that, which is why the Make America Great Again movement has been successful.
00:33:18.000Now, going back to the things that will make the Make America Great Again movement not successful, one of those things would be tweeting out idiotic and terrible videos showing the Obamas as monkeys.
00:33:28.000That would be a terrible, stupid thing to do.
00:33:30.000Truly, it was taken down from Truth Social.
00:33:42.000The video, which I think was unverified in terms of its actual content, talked about voting machines in Georgia and the flaws in the voting machines.
00:33:50.000And the president, of course, is very caught up in all of the hubbub about voting machines in Georgia because he still maintains he won the 2020 election.
00:33:59.000He's at the very tail end of that video.
00:34:01.000There's a graphic that popped up of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
00:36:04.000The day the Latino, African-American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning because we are the majority in this country now.
00:36:20.000We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone.
00:36:28.000See, that seems to be much more problematic just in terms of thoroughgoing ideology than President Trump tweeting out a racist meme, not having watched the end of it, which is legitimately what happened.
00:36:38.000If your thoroughgoing ideology is all minorities against the white guy, that is a massive, massive issue in American life.
00:36:45.000And the left seems to be embracing this more and more.
00:36:47.000This is why, again, the biggest thing for the Trump administration is make your policy choices, which are designed to benefit Americans, all Americans.
00:36:56.000Make those clear, be consistent in their application, take down the rhetoric, just enforce, just do the baseline business of governing, and let the left spin out.
00:37:06.000That would be the advice to the Trump administration for 2026.
00:37:09.000Thank God the Trump administration is now doing that with regard to sanctuary cities by putting Tom Homan, an adult, in charge of the policy.
00:37:16.000Here is Tom Homan over the weekend criticizing politicians' doublespeak on sanctuary cities.
00:37:22.000But for the politicians that say, we want you to arrest the criminals, we want you to target criminals, but not let me in the jails, you can't square that.
00:37:31.000If you really want to arrest the criminals and target the criminals, which I do, then let us do it in the safety and security of a jail or a prison where it's safer for the alien, safer for the community, and safer for the agents.
00:37:44.000So, for those, and there's many of them on both sides of the aisle, says public safety threats are what you should be concentrating on.
00:37:52.000So, everybody should come together and make that happen and give us access to the jails.
00:37:59.000Again, this sort of low-key advocacy for the basic intervention of law enforcement, that's the way to go.
00:38:08.000That's the thing that the Republicans should be doing right now, especially because Democrats continue to spin out on the immigration issue, truly spin out on it.
00:38:15.000Over the weekend, Zor Mamdani in New York signed an executive order to restrict ICE in New York City.
00:38:20.000He restricted access to city property, barred the federal government from accessing city data, and mandated training for city employees on where they do and don't need to cooperate with ICE.
00:38:29.000And then he went ahead and cited the Quran in support of anti-ICE policy, which, dude, Madud.
00:38:38.000The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.
00:38:48.000Surah Nahal 1642 tells us: As for those who immigrated in the cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.
00:38:59.000Or as the Prophet Muhammad said, Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange.
00:40:08.000That's a lot of bored white people out there in Minneapolis in the cold, throwing sex toys that presumably they got from their nightside stands at the ice vehicles.
00:40:19.000And of course, you have Don Lemon, who's still out there.
00:40:21.000No one is happier than Don Lemon about what happened to Don Lemon comparing himself to civil rights leaders of the past.
00:40:26.000Yes, you too are a civil rights leader if you allegedly coordinate with people to go inside a church and harass the parishioners.
00:40:34.000In my time when I was there, I thought about all the people who'd come before me.
00:40:38.000I thought about all of the people who fought for civil rights, who fought for gay rights, all of the people who were at Stonewall, Marsha P. Clark.
00:40:48.000And so what's happening to me, I have at least in this time that I'm living now, more agency, more resources, more rights, and I would hope than the people who are fighting for our freedom and our civil rights.
00:41:40.000With all that said, when it comes to, for example, employment, there is a deep freeze that has enveloped the U.S. labor market, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:41:48.000The pace of hiring in America has dropped precipitously.
00:42:28.000AI is wiping out certain value in the market while propping up value in the AI end of the market.
00:42:32.000So software companies took it right on the chin last week because there are so many things that AI is now doing that used to be the preserve of software companies.
00:42:41.000So the president is trying to run the economy hot, apparently, running up to the election.
00:42:45.000So that is why presumably he wants the interest rates lowered.
00:42:48.000He is hoping that there will be more liquidity available and that will mean more hiring.
00:42:52.000The question is whether the uncertainty over AI is preventing people from hiring up because they believe that AI is going to develop such that they don't need to hire a lot of other people.
00:43:10.000But the biggest thing the Trump administration can do, speak rationally to the American people, show that you are doing things on the topics that they care about, and be calm and collected in your approach to the American public, considering that the left is spinning out.
00:43:22.000Joining me on the line is Winston Marshall, host of the Winston Marshall Show, co-founder of the Dissident Dialogues Festival of Ideas, and a former member of the Grammy Award-winning folk rock band Mumford and Sons.
00:43:31.000Winston, of course, covers everything political in the UK as well.
00:43:35.000Winston, thanks so much for taking time.
00:43:41.000So, one of the things that's really fascinating that's been going on, obviously, is what's surrounding Keir Starmer and team in the UK because of Jeffrey Epstein.
00:43:49.000So, while the focus in the United States has been on large-scale, unsupportable conspiracy theorizing about what Epstein did, didn't do, the suggestion that Jeffrey Epstein is the head of an international intelligence ring on behalf of a foreign power, trafficking in little girls or whatever.
00:44:04.000There actually is, there is supportable scandal, right?
00:44:13.000But the one thing that we do know is that there were members of the Keir Starmer administration in the UK who have been forced to resign because of their connection with Jeffrey Epstein, not necessarily because of trafficking in women or girls, but because of actual business corruption.
00:44:34.000Well, I'm going to try and fill you in.
00:44:35.000I've just spent the last four or five days in full whiteboard meme mode trying to piece this all together.
00:44:44.000It is quite literally a bottomless pit of information.
00:44:47.000And it seems that Jeffrey Epstein might indeed be taking down the Starmer government from beyond the grave.
00:44:54.000Some people might think that he is saving Britain actually from beyond the grave, although there could be much worse things around the corner.
00:45:01.000Now, I joke about it, but it is an absolutely disgusting story.
00:45:04.000It's been brought me no pleasure whatsoever going into this, but it is not just a case that Starmer, this might be the last week of Starmer's as prime minister, but it is also a corruption scandal, as you say.
00:45:21.000It's got political sleaze in it, but it's also the epitome, maybe I should say the nadir of crony capitalism, all in one story.
00:45:30.000So I'm going to attempt to break this down for you.
00:45:50.000I need to explain to you who Peter Mandelson is.
00:45:53.000Peter Mandelson is a Labour Party grandee.
00:45:57.000His grandfather was part of setting up the Labour Party at the beginning of the last century.
00:46:03.000His grandfather, Herbert Morrison, was also in Churchill's war cabinet and famously had many clashes with Churchill.
00:46:11.000They were sort of ideologically opposed from each other.
00:46:14.000But not only that, Mandelson is regarded, was regarded at the time as the dark prince behind Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and the new labor movement from 97 to 2010.
00:46:29.000The dark prince is a name, by the way, that he embraced very happily.
00:46:32.000He is known as being sort of the archetypal Machiavelli.
00:46:37.000And in fact, I actually met him once when he was ambassador, and that was my experience.
00:46:41.000He seemed to me to be a total Machiavell.
00:46:45.000So having had his political career where he started as doing campaigning, then became an MP for a while, got himself up to being deputy prime minister under Gordon Brown, and had various ministerial roles up until 2010 when the Tories took power in the coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
00:47:10.000At which point he pivots to the private sector, which we'll come back to.
00:47:15.000The point, though, is that in that period, even then, his career was filled with scandal, which I'd love to go into, but there's too many other present scandals for us to address.
00:47:27.000So he became, he was appointed in February 2025 as ambassador to DC.
00:47:38.000Now, in February 2025, it was in the public domain already, as revealed by the FT in June 2023, that Mandelson had maintained a post-conviction relationship with Epstein, i.e., after Epstein had been convicted in 2008.
00:47:57.000Mandelson continued his friendship with him.
00:48:00.000In that 2023 expose by the FT, we learned that he even stayed at Epstein's Paris apartment during Epstein's prison time and that they had communications after which Epstein would call him Petey.
00:48:20.000Then he becomes ambassador in February 2025.
00:48:27.000September 2025, we have the first tranche of Epstein files.
00:48:32.000Famously, the birthday message, the big birthdays.
00:48:37.000I don't know if you've gone through that book.
00:48:39.000It's like a 250-page document of sort of memories of Epstein and messages from friends.
00:48:46.000And in that birthday book, he says Mandelson calls Epstein his best pal and that he loves him.
00:48:56.000And what's important to remember, though, is that birthday book was from 2003, so pre-conviction.
00:49:02.000So you might say, oh, well, you know, it's not necessarily the case that he knew about the sort of dastardly disgusting behavior.
00:49:11.000But it was also the case then that there was evidence of a post-2008 relationship.
00:49:18.000And it was also evidence that he flew on Epstein's jet.
00:49:21.000And it shows an ongoing communication.
00:49:26.000So in other words, we knew that they were friends post-conviction.
00:49:31.000Why this is important is because although there is new information that's been released over the last week in this new tranche from January 30th, and it's pretty disgusting information, when it comes to the sleaze, we've actually known the core salient issues all along.
00:49:50.000And why this is also important, that your American viewers might not have picked up on is in the British media and across the British nation, it is the sleaze that everyone is focusing on.
00:49:58.000The bottom line in all of this is that Peter Mandelson was a close deputy of the Prime Minister, Kier Starmer.
00:50:04.000He was appointed, even though it was clearly public that he had a relationship with Epstein.
00:50:08.000The things that we're finding out right now are that there were actual law-breaking activities happening between Mandelson and Epstein going back years.
00:50:17.000As you mentioned, a criminal investigation into Mandelson for having leaked insider government information to Epstein that he then used to trade off of.
00:50:23.000And this could bring down Kier Starmer's government.
00:50:26.000Just today, his chief of staff had to resign over all of this.
00:50:30.000Morgan McSweeney, his chief of staff, who had to resign over his role in the appointment of Mandelson.
00:50:36.000If Starmer were to go down right now, according to virtually every opinion poll, the leader in the clubhouse right now is the Reform Party, if there were to be a new election that were to hold, if he weren't to be replaced simply as prime minister, if there were to be an actual collapse in his coalition and suddenly there were a new election to be held, the Reform Party is the chief beneficiary.
00:50:53.000The Labour Party is in quite low odor.
00:50:55.000It has now fallen in many polls below the Conservative Party, which was basically dead as a doornail just a couple of years ago.
00:51:01.000And some of this has to be due not just to Kier Starmer's poor governance, but also to the Epstein scandal.
00:51:08.000Yes, except I think it's very unlikely that Labour Party will have an election.
00:51:15.000That means that all of them will lose their job.
00:51:18.000They also hate reform because they think reform are far right.
00:51:22.000They won't have an election because they know reform will sweep through and have a stonking majority in Parliament, making Nigel Farage prime minister.
00:51:33.000So I don't think we're going to see an election.
00:51:35.000What I think is more likely is that Starmer will either resign or say that he'll resign after the May council elections.
00:51:43.000Now, there's two other things going on with regards to party politics.
00:51:47.000There's a by-election going on in South Manchester, in Bornton and Denton, where I was just on the weekend visiting voters.
00:51:55.000But there's also these council elections, which probably Labour will get smashed.
00:52:02.000And at that point, it will be seen that he is untenable to stay as prime minister.
00:52:09.000So then there'll be, he'll stay probably until there's inter-party elections and they decide between themselves who the new prime minister and leader would be.
00:52:20.000I can run through some of the likely candidates if you want there, but suffice to say that all of them are further left than Pierce Starmer.
00:52:30.000He is actually the best of a bad bunch.
00:52:33.000And they are also seem far less competent than Starmer.
00:52:38.000So that's why I say Epstein, and I joked at the beginning, actually might have made things much worse for Britain.