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The John Batchelor Show

16: Colonel McCausland Discusses Postponed Budapest Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Instability, and Pentagon Information Control Jeff McCausland with John Batchelor Colonel McCausland explained the Budapest summit postponement, noting Putin demands Ukrainian surrende

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Colonel McCausland Discusses Postponed Budapest Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Instability, and Pentagon Information Control Jeff McCausland with John Batchelor Colonel McCausland explained the Budapest summit postponement, noting Putin demands Ukrainian surrender before a ceasefire. He considered Tomahawks an escalation of firepower, but not a game-changer, with delivery now on hold. McCausland described the Gaza ceasefire as precarious, lacking discussion or plan for Hamas disarmament, which he views as the necessary "red line" for stability. He criticized the Pentagon's new policy blocking journalists from soliciting unauthorized information as an attempt by Secretary Hegseth to control information flow and increase opacity.

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0:00.0

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0:28.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:29.8

Here's John Bachelor.

0:34.2

I welcome my good colleague, Jeff McCausen,

0:36.4

United States Army retired colonel,

0:40.1

artillery men, CBS News, Dickinson College,

0:48.6

visiting scholar, and Diamond Sixth Leadership and Strategy CEO, Budapest, Tomahawks.

0:52.1

In these last days, we've had changing directions.

0:55.3

Right now, we're going to do both directions.

1:01.9

Thumbs up or thumbs down. Budapest. Jeff, a very good evening to you. I think it's postponed.

1:09.5

I think it's called off. I think we haven't decided. All three possibilities. What was Budapest to be about? What was the mission before it was,

1:12.6

well, one of the above? Good evening to you. Well, good evening to you, John. Budapest was

1:16.9

ostensibly about the same thing that the Alaska summit was about. And that was Mr. Trump

1:22.3

trying to intervene very directly and bring to at least a ceasefire the war in Ukraine.

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