It's Monday, November 17, 2025.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Just really big headlines over the weekend, and even as the weekend was approaching, there's some big stories we knew we're just going to get bigger.

One of them is about Jeffrey Epstein.

More on that.

And just a moment.

First, we're going to talk about President Trump and the scandal at the BBC.

That's the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Now, the BBC is almost 100 years old.

It is in many ways kind of the gold standard.

When you think of the emergence of major media in the whole world. And the BBC World Services, it was known,

was actually a representation of the British Empire. And the BBC came right out of the Empire.

Empire was even in the original name of the organization.

And the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, became a major voice for freedom, for dignity,

for news, and a major shaping factor in Western civilization in the 20th century.

It was just about essential, for instance, in the period of the Second World War

and the aftermath of the Second World War and the BBC World Service along with other big global

broadcasters, and that would include from Germany Radio Deutsche Welle and others in the United States,

the Voice of America, but the BBC was far larger

in its influence, partly because it had all of the structure of the old British Empire

to draw upon. When I was a teenager, I thought the BBC was almost magical as a news source.

And in order to get the BBC, when I was a teenager, you had to have shortwave radio.

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