GOOD EVENING: The show begins in LA, where Colleague John Yoo comments that POTUS has law and SCOTUS authority for deploying National Guard and Marines and more.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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1863 DRAFT RIOT NYC
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 LA: POTUS and SCOTUS determinative authority. John Yoo, Civitas Institute. 9:15-9:30 SCOTUS: And the ABA. John Yoo, Civitas Institute. 9:30-9:45 Turkey: Erdogan's Syria project. Sinan Ciddi, FDD. 9:45-10:00 Turkey: The Kremlin model.
SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 Iran: Suspect nuclear weapons program. Andrea Stricker, FDD. 10:15-10:30 Iran: Suspect nuclear weapons program. Andrea Stricker, FDD. 10:30-10:45 Africa: ISIS in Uganda and Congo. Caleb Weiss, Bill Roggio, FDD. 10:45-11:00 Africa: ISIS in Uganda and Congo. Caleb Weiss, Bill Roggio, FDD.
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 PRC: Needs a trade deal. Andrew Collier, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. 11:15-11:30 USAF: What about drone attacks? General Blaine Holt USAF (Ret.), @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. 11:30-11:45 CCP: Xi Jinping in eclipse. Charles Burton, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. 11:45-12:00 Biowar: Smugglers from the PRC. Brandon Weichert, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.
FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 #France: Plum tree ripens. Simon Constable, Occitanie. 12:15-12:30 POTUS: Hoover signed Smoot-Hawley June 1930. 12:30-12:45 POTUS: Space regulations arrive. Bob Zimmerman behindtheblack.com. 12:45-1:00 AM Big Astronomy: Colliding galaxy clusters. Bob Zimmerman behindtheblack.com.
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| 1:00.6 | This is John Batchler. |
| 1:02.4 | The show begins tonight in Los Angeles. |
| 1:04.5 | Well, the law of Los Angeles and Texas too now included in the deployment of National Guard, although California is a special |
| 1:13.2 | case. I speak with John Yoo of the Civitas Institute. He teaches at the University of Texas and |
| 1:19.2 | Berkeley Law, not only about the power of the presidency, Article 2 of the Constitution, |
| 1:25.7 | but also the Armed Forces Act. |
| 1:29.9 | It empowers National Guard and or military under the direction of the president |
| 1:36.3 | in the case of the words use as invasion or rebellion. |
| 1:41.9 | John U.S. also introduces a Supreme Court case from 1990, derived from a decision by Michael Dukakis |
| 1:52.3 | in 1988, the governor of Massachusetts, refusing to permit his National Guard from participating in Central American maneuvers, exercises, |
| 2:06.5 | ordered by Ronald Reagan. |
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