Luke Vargas

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The Super Bowl is this weekend.

Seahawks fans and Patriots fans, myself included, will be glued to their screens.

So will ad lovers, sports bettors, and fans of the most streamed musical artist in the world last year on Spotify, Bad Bunny.

Journal reporter Sabrina Rodriguez has been keeping an eye on the run-up to what's become one of the most controversial and hotly anticipated halftime shows in years, and she joins me now with more.

Sabrina, you are a politics reporter, we should be clear, not a music reporter.

So why then are you on the bad bunny beat, if you will?

We are.

And we should point out, in addition to speaking out last year, Bad Bunny held the highest grossing concert tour in the world and avoided the mainland U.S.

on that tour.

saying that he was concerned that law enforcement would be targeting his fans at those events, so instead had a big residency in Puerto Rico.

You mentioned the backlash that his comments have generated.

Let's play a clip here from White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt.

Sabrina, I'm curious what you make of that, what that might tell us about the impact these comments are having and frankly, whether this is a political stance from a celebrity that could actually matter compared to, shall we say, the many that through the years kind of have not.

And finally, Sabrina, I'm curious what the reaction has been on the other side of the aisle to this from Democrats.

We've reported that Democratic lawmakers, for instance, have been far from united on whether they embrace calls to abolish ICE.

I'm wondering if there's sort of a similar conundrum for them here.

I've been speaking to Wall Street Journal politics reporter Sabrina Rodriguez.

Sabrina, thank you so much.

And finally, the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are officially underway with the opening ceremony set for tonight.