The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Jefferey looks back at the 20-year legacy of “An Inconvenient Truth” highlighting long-standing factual disputes, court rulings on bias, and how climate narratives have been used to justify sweeping policies. Hear new research on polar bears, natural climate cycles, and the emerging risks of AI-engineered viruses—raising questions about which threats are real and which are manufactured through nar...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joins Del to discuss his new investigation into financial incentives that may influence pediatric vaccination practices. He outlines concerns about reimbursement structures, insurance policies, and COVID-era mandates that critics say altered medical decision-making and weakened informed consent. Paxton also weighs in on federal liability protections for vaccine ma...

Major policy, investigative, and public-health battles are accelerating across America. With 700+ vaccine-related bills introduced nationwide in just the opening months of this year, Dawn Richardson of the National Vaccine Information Center joins The HighWire to explain what’s driving this unprecedented legislative surge — and what it could mean for states, families, and the future of health poli...

This week on The HighWire, a precedent-setting $2 million malpractice verdict signals a turning point in how courts are treating medical interventions performed on minors. As more states extend statutes of limitations, accountability is finally entering a space long shielded from liability. Jefferey Jaxen also unpacks how powerful narratives—pandemic, climate, and beyond—are constructed, defended,...

The U.S. Navy issued a rare and revealing apology tied to its COVID-era policies—quietly acknowledging the damage caused by mandates and disciplinary actions imposed on service members. Once unthinkable, the apology signals a deeper reckoning as institutions begin to confront the real-world consequences of pandemic decision-making. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...

Autism provider and Holland Center founder Jennifer Larson joins Del Bigtree to expose how Minnesota’s sweeping response to a massive Medicaid fraud scandal is punishing the wrong people. Not just targeting criminal actors, the state has frozen payments and deployed AI-driven systems that delay reimbursements, pushing legitimate autism care providers to the brink of closure. As legitimate centers...

On today’s HighWire, Former CDC Director Robert Redfield is now saying the quiet part out loud, admitting we were right about mRNA and spike protein. Also, Del Celebrates RFK Jr.’s Announcement of 21 new members of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), the committee responsible for coordinating the government’s autism research and response. This is huge, and Del has the details. Th...

Liz James, Founder & President of Blessed by His Blood, and Tanya Lair—a physician assistant and mother of two daughters who require lifelong transfusions—share the fight to protect patients’ right to direct to donor blood after a decade-long donor arrangement was suddenly revoked. They unpack how a system meant to save lives can prioritize bureaucracy and profit over individualized care, and...

The rapidly accelerating AI revolution raises profound questions about jobs, human purpose, and economic survival as white-collar work is quietly displaced at scale. As universal basic income shifts from theory to political reality, a deeper question emerges: what happens to motivation, creativity, and freedom when human labor is no longer essential? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www...

A major court ruling in Canada has declared Prime Minister Trudeau’s use of emergency powers against the trucker convoys illegal, including freezing bank accounts and silencing dissent. Is this a turning point for government overreach worldwide? Del and Jefferey Jaxen report. Jefferey Jaxen examines growing claims from Senator Rand Paul that the Department of Justice may be blocking accountability...

Unresolved questions surrounding COVID-19 vaccine injuries have been brought into focus by contrasting public polling with official reporting systems, revealing how many serious adverse events may have gone uncounted. Jefferey exposes the glaring contradiction of vaccine architect Stanley Plotkin now calling for better detection, prevention, and compensation of vaccine injuries—after decades of de...

This week, Del opens on the media backlash to the CDC’s shift toward shared vaccine decision-making. Is the panic really about safety, or about empowering Americans with choice? Jefferey Jaxen delivers a wide-ranging investigation into COVID vaccine injury data, exposing massive underreporting through VAERS and V-safe, new polling that shows widespread harm, and even admissions from legacy vaccine...

A historic shift is underway. Del opens with CDC’s unprecedented move to slash the routine childhood vaccine schedule nearly in half, aligning the U.S. with the Denmark model. What prompted this change and what does it mean for families nationwide? Then, Jefferey Jaxen reports on HHS flipping the food pyramid, signaling a monumental reset in nutrition policy. He also investigates the escalating gl...

Happy New Year! The HighWire is kicking off 2026 by releasing ‘Jefferey Jaxen Investigates: A Rush to Green Energy, Part 1’ — normally exclusive to HighWire+ subscribers — for free. We’ve been told that climate change is the greatest threat to our planet, and that it’s our fault. But what’s really driving the rush to green energy? Jefferey Jaxen pulls back the curtain on the politics, the money, a...

This Christmas, HighWire Plus is releasing a special gift to our audience: Part 1 of Jefferey Jaxen’s documentary investigation into polio — normally exclusive to HighWire+ subscribers. As more vaccines come under scrutiny and the hepatitis B shot is removed from the recommended schedule for healthy babies, questions about polio are inevitable. This documentary provides the history, the science, a...

Today’s HighWire pulls no punches. Del breaks down HHS’s decision to withdraw funding from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the media reaction to RFK Jr.’s bold move. Jefferey Jaxen reports on the quiet return of flu lockdowns overseas—and the next pandemic narrative already taking shape. Then, Jefferey examines what’s truly at stake as the AI race threatens to replace human labor at scale....

ICAN lead counsel Aaron Siri, esq., breaks down ACIP’s historic decision to end the recommendation of universal Hepatitis B vaccination at birth for babies of healthy, Hep-B–negative mothers—moving it to age 2 months and “shared decision making.” He details major gaps in the safety data, evidence of harm buried in our federal injury programs, and an ethical crisis in the U.S. of pressuring parents...

Ryland and Mollie Engelhart sit down with Del to share the hard lessons learned as their celebrated plant-based restaurant empire ran headlong into the realities of today’s food system. From Café Gratitude’s rise to their unexpected shift into regenerative farming, they reveal how bureaucracy, restrictive policies, and cultural pressures forced them to rethink what sustainability truly means. Thei...

Leave a ReplyLeave a Reply You must Register or Login to post a comment. A major shift in federal policy is emerging as HHS moves to strengthen parental rights, religious exemptions, and informed consent in children’s medical decisions. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Office of Civil Rights is investigating reports of a child with a religious exemption being vaccinated without parental co...

The fallout from last week’s HISTORIC ACIP meetings continues. Attorney Aaron Siri joins Del in-studio to break down his powerful presentation to the committee and the panicked response from doctors. JEFFEREY JAXEN REPORTS: President Trump signals major changes ahead for the vaccine program, telling reporters, “We’re going to be reducing it very substantially.” We break down what this means for Am...

Day one of this week’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting revealed a stunning shift in the hepatitis B debate. For the first time, panel experts openly acknowledged they do not have the data to justify giving every newborn a hepatitis B shot on their first day of life. Hear how this new advisory group challenged inflated risk assumptions, admitted the evidence for newborn...

Carrie Bigford of Texans for Vaccine Choice unpacks how to talk about medical freedom without blowing up relationships. Drawing on her mental-health background, Carrie walks through her “prepare, connect, inform, allow” framework and explains why tone, body language, and genuine curiosity matter more than “perfect facts” when you’re trying to change hearts and minds. Get a HighWire exclusive promo...

A new wave of headlines claim the HPV vaccine “prevents cancer,” but a Cochrane Collaboration review behind those headlines never actually studied cancer outcomes. Jefferey exposes what the review really admits, the pharma-funded conflicts buried in the fine print, and the true natural history of HPV—revealing how clever marketing was spun into so-called “proof.” Become a supporter of this podcast...

Pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears joins Del to unpack ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine debate, the near-total absence of long-term safety data for newborn vaccination, and why the U.S. is an outlier in giving this shot on day one of life. He discusses the Physicians for Informed Consent’s new Silver Book “Vaccines and the Diseases They Target”, designed to give doctors and parents clear, side-by-side numbers o...

Jefferey unpacks a leaked FDA memo written by Dr. Vinay Prasad, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics and Research, which revealed at least 10 child deaths linked by internal analysts to the Covid vaccine, an admission the agency has never made publicly. He exposes how career scientists quietly raised alarms, how corporate media scrambled to distort the story, and why this marks a turning point i...