prime minister had taken part in theirfirst live prime minister had taken part in their first live televised debate. candidates were asked a range of questions from the studio audience including tax and the nhs. now on bbc news, the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello and welcome. today we are asking what role the media has in choosing the next conservative leader. how do you cover an election campaign that most of the public doesn t have a say in? and what might all this mean for a channel 4 s planned privatisation? next week s media bill, which would have included details of the sale has now been delayed. my guests today, fraser nelson, editor of the spectator, a publication at the heart of the conservative establishment. famously, borisjohnson was an editor of the magazine, kemi badenoch also work there for a bit. fraser, hello, will you be anointing a leader? we re going to find out a five o clock. and apparantlyjeremy hunt is struggling t
about trump s plans, which would move the country away from democracy and into full-blown autocracy. also tonight, expelled from the house of representatives, former congressman george santos begins his revenge tour. and he s already cashing in on his infamy. we begin tonight with notes on a florida scandal. a hot mess sending shock waves through the state s republican party. the florida man in question is not donald trump for once. instead, this is a scandal involving christian ziegler, the chairman of florida s republican party. this is ziegler, a longtime party official who served as vice chairman of the state party prior to his election as chair. he is now under criminal investigation for allegations related to sexual battery, including rape according to a complaint filed with the sarasota police department. ziegler has denied the allegations. a heavily redacted report was released thursday. as you can see, it includes mention of rape, sexual assault complaint, and se
he s in the position to make an announcement. you heard, obviously, tim scott is doing that. now they are looking at the potential opportunity in this field because the space has been left a little bit more wide open by wrong desantis. the culture war thing is a very narrow lane. the translation, so youngkin can make a case this way, the translation, if you were to look at, what i m doing as governor, what it took for me to, win in a better narrative for a youngkin than it is for a desantis. because of the banning of florida. the banning of books, going after corporate america. all youngkin did was show up and say, hey, we support moms and dads to our parents. we want them to be able to educate their kids. but a bed to national resonating message than watching what is happening playing out in florida for young people. so you mentioned glenn youngkin, nicholas
voted for trump a couple of times, maybe republican, they re not into the whole culture war thing, they like me, this guy is not our people. we need an ass kicker, not an ass kisser, they know the whole thing with donald trump. they watched what happened in youngstown, when trump emasculated the guy on stage in youngstown and ten minutes later he gets on the stage, goes to the microphone, and says aren t we having a great time here tonight. that s not ohio. mike, it s fascinating that people like j.d. vance are always talking about the war on masculinity, and the very people who talk about that the most are the ones who donald trump emasculates. like the war on their own masculinity comes from donald trump. and again, it s fascinating, these ivy league boys that are so concerned about their masculinity. i don t know if just the southern state school thing.
county. in fairness, this was much before that. he spent millions of dollars in taxpayer money to do that for some culture war thing. i think in time, this will help him and may help him through the re-election. he seems to be comfortably ahead. in times this is going to daunt him. he s going to have to answer hard questions. what s your take? politically if you look at hurricane sandy that s exactly what i was thinking about. that s where you want to go? right. i think chris christie s handling in that was both a lesson in how to do it and how not to do it depending where you are in the political structure and. i don t think . you re looking at chris christie with his arm around barack obama. let s take this back to when this was. it s the final days of the 2012 presidential campaign. mitt romney is republican nominee, chris christie thinking