GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Braddock, Pennsylvania at the home of John Fetterman, who is hosting David McCormick and Salena Zito.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 1 March 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915 #KEYSTONEREPORT: FETTERMAN MCCORMICK AND THE THREE LEGGED PIT BULL. SALENA ZITO, MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE, @DCEXAMINER PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, NEW YORK POST, SALENAZITO.COM
915-930 #LANCASTER REPORT: Eggs dearly expensive and rationed. JIM MCTAGUE, FORMER WASHINGTON EDITOR, BARRONS. @MCTAGUEJ. AUTHOR OF THE "MARTIN AND TWYLA BOUNDARY SERIES." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
930-945 1/2: #WATERGATE AND ERIC ADAMS. JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, UT.
945-1000 2/2: #WATERGATE AND ERIC ADAMS. JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, UT.
SECOND HOUR
10-1015 #PACIFICWATCH: TOXIC WASTE AT MALIBU. #VEGASREPORT: VEGAS A'S PROSPER IN SACRAMENTO. @JCBLISS
1015-1030 CALIFORNIA: KAMALA HARRIS OUTFRONT FOR SACRAMENTO IN '26. BILL WHELEN
1030-1045 SPACEX: MONDAY 3 LAUNCH TEST #8. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
1045-1100 JUNO: MAGMA LAKES OF IO. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115 1/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Troublemaker-Became-Billionaire-Greatest-Dissident/dp/1668027690 Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled and often slept overnight on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the United States, from Polo to The Limited. His ideas about retail led him to create Giordano in 1981, and with it "fast fashion." A restless entrepreneur, as Giordano prepared to go public, he was thinking about a dining concept that would disrupt Hong Kong's fast-food industry. But then came Tiananmen Square democracy protest and the massacre of 1989.
1115-1130 2/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford (Author)
1130-1145 3/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford (Author)
1145-1200 4/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford (Author)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215 #RUSSIA-CHINA: REVERSE NIXON, HENRY SOKOLSKI, NPEC
1215-1230 ITALY: CARNIVAL IN VENICE. PRAYER FOR THE POPE. LORENZO FIORI.
1230-1245 1/2: JAPAN: HELPFUL LETTER TO THE US AMBASSADOR. GRANT NEWSHAM
1245-100 AM 2/2: JAPAN: HELPFUL LETTER TO THE US AMBASSADOR. GRANT NEWSHAM
1912 Allentown
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in the Keystone State in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:09.8 | My conversation with my good colleague, Selina Zito, of the Washington Examiner, a columnist, |
| 0:15.3 | of the Washington Post, a special correspondent. |
| 0:18.3 | Selina sat down in Braddock, Pennsylvania, sometime before, with the two senators, |
| 0:23.6 | Senator David McCormick, Republican, Senator John Federman, Democrat. Agreeable, and there was a |
| 0:30.8 | three-legged pit bull in the room as well, being quite clever. What we talked about is working together, said |
| 0:40.8 | Selena. They also have thoughts about the Nippon Steel, U.S. Steel deal that was blocked by the U.S. under |
| 0:49.7 | Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump and may be revived without giving domination to U.S. to Nippon's deal. |
| 0:58.0 | There were other happy topics as well. And then we turn to the Lancaster report with Jim |
| 1:03.8 | McTay, eggs or deer. Costco is selling them 16, not 24 anymore, 16. About 35 cents each, says Jim, which is much better |
| 1:15.6 | than the 75 cents you'll pay at the cafe. Eggs are struggling because of the bird flu epidemic |
| 1:23.0 | that's wiping out flocks. They're also greatly in demand. |
| 1:28.5 | I speak with John Yu of Civitas Institute, |
| 1:31.0 | a professor at Berkeley law, |
| 1:33.9 | about the Watergate comparison |
| 1:36.0 | to Eric Adams' dilemma, |
| 1:39.3 | the White House directing the charges to be dismissed, |
| 1:43.0 | prosecutors in the Southern District of New York resigning. |
| 1:46.3 | It is not Watergate, reminds John Yoo, |
| 1:49.8 | and then we explore what it is, |
| 1:52.7 | which is good old Tammany Hall at work. |
| 1:59.2 | Democratic mayors take contributions from people who are not who they say they are. |
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