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GOOD EVENING. The show begins in Frankfurt with Janet Yellen speaking. Then to Berlin, Helsinki, and Slovakia. Next, to The Hague, Jerusalem, DC, London, and Brussels. To the Queen Mary mid-Atlantic, then to Tehran and the crash site. On to Nigeria, DR Co

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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GOOD EVENING. The show begins in Frankfurt with Janet Yellen speaking. Then to Berlin, Helsinki, and Slovakia. Next, to The Hague, Jerusalem, DC, London, and Brussels. To the Queen Mary mid-Atlantic, then to Tehran and the crash site. On to Nigeria, DR Congo, Moscow, and Beijing. To Normandy on June 6th with the King, Queen, and Prince of Wales. Then to New Caledonia, Delhi, and back to The Hague.

1837 The Hague

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0:00.0

Good evening. The show begins tonight in the markets in Frankfurt.

0:04.0

I have a speech by Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the Treasury to Germans, German dignitaries, German burgers, German

0:11.7

bankers, especially the German coalition in Berlin attending Kristen Lydner, the finance chief,

0:21.3

appealing to the Europeans and especially the Germans to participate in the

0:25.0

tariffs the Biden administration has declared against Chinese

0:31.5

green technology from the reporting in the Financial Times, this is

0:36.2

not going well. The EU will protect itself, but not with what Ursula Vandelline calls blanket tariffs.

0:45.0

It then moved to campaigning.

0:48.0

The Vice President Kamil Harris mocked for many years by the Democrats for not representing their idea of a vice president.

0:57.0

He is outpacing everyone on the campaign trail now.

1:01.0

Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, working Pennsylvania, knowing that the man who wins

1:09.2

Pennsylvania wins the election, she's working very hard, very effectively and getting flawed it's from the election. She's working very hard, very effectively, and getting plaudits from the Democrats.

1:16.0

Remember, Joe Biden re-elected makes Camilla Harris eligible for another eight years in the White House, maybe 12.

1:27.0

Same for the Vice President under Mr. Trump, we'll see.

1:32.7

Off to the EU to talk to Judy Dempsey at Carnegie

1:38.1

in Berlin about the EU race for the election in early June for the Brussels 720

1:48.5

members of the Brussels Parliament.

1:50.7

At the same time I talked to Judy about the assassination attempt against Fizzo, the Prime Minister of Slovakia.

1:57.0

Jerry, Judy makes it very clear that all the leadership of Europe is prime now to worry about

2:03.8

shooters about assassinations temperatures are rising in the European Union

2:09.4

vote. Mary Kistle joins to talk about the Mao's Stalin duo of what 70, more than 70 years ago.

2:20.0

Stalin was contemptuous and arrogant towards Mao. Mao was bitter and

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