All right, Alexander, let's do an update on what is happening in the UK with Kier Stommer and

Mandelson and the Epstein files. I believe we've had an additional investigation that was conducted

in the UK connected to Mandelson's hiring and his connection to Epstein,

and all roads lead back to Stommer. Is that a correct summary of what's going on?

It is a correct summary, but let me supplement and explain exactly what has happened.

If you can remember about,

well, about a month ago, there was a big crisis. It became clear that Mandelson had been deeply

involved with Stama, with, sorry, with Epstein, that he'd been supplying Epstein with classified

government documents, that he'd been receiving money from Epstein, all of these things.

And in fact, Mandelson is now under criminal investigation, and he's been arrested, and he's facing possible prosecution for misconduct of public office.

So this created a huge scandal, and over the course of it,

Stama had to sack or ask for the resignation of his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney,

implying that it was somehow all Morgan McSweeney's fault.

Morgan McSweeney published a letter of resignation, which I passed very carefully, both on a

program we did at the time and in a program I did on my channel.

I pointed out that Morgan McSweeney basically said that Stama was implicated in the decision

to appoint Mandelson to the post of ambassador, British ambassador to Washington, up to his

ear tips, that he was even more deeply implicated, more deeply implicated, in fact,

than Morgan McSweeney was, even though it was Morgan McSweeney, who was being forced to lead the government.

I said that this was an unexploded bomb. And over the last two days, that unexploded bomb has

partially exploded in exactly the way that I said. Now, in order to understand what has happened,

it's important to explain what Stama's defense to his decision to appoint

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