The State of It USA has now launched.
That's with my brilliant colleague Katie Balls in Washington and Jerry Baker in New York.
And I urge you all to listen.
Hello and welcome to the State of It USA, the podcast with the same take on US politics.
I'm Jerry Beaker, editor at Large The Wall Street Journal and Times columnist here in New York City.
And I'm Katie Balls, Washington editor and columnist for The Times and Sunday Times.
And I think it's fair to say that we try to give a...
transatlantic view on this extraordinary, extraordinary events here in the United States.
And I don't think probably we've had a more transatlantic story than you could possibly ever imagine.
And the story that's broken in the last few days around,
of course, Lord, formerly Lord, now just plain old Peter Mandelson.
You'll have seen all the extraordinary stuff about leaking cabinet secrets to his dear friend Jeffrey Epstein in extraordinary ways.
We're going to try and understand the lesson here, what it tells us about politics,
what it tells us about the world economy, if you like,
and what it tells us about the way the world works.
Katie Balls really had quite a scoop in the course of the last week
as she actually interviewed Peter Mandelson both before and after immediately before and immediately after these extraordinary revelations.
Yeah, it's a slightly surreal couple of weeks thinking back on it.
I've been talking to him about a sit-down interview really going into what had happened and we eventually agreed that I would head to Wiltshire and I was already back in the UK to interview the speaker,
Mike Johnson, then to go to Davos.