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The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
- 9:00-9:15: MARKETS: UP & DOWN Guest: Liz Peek (The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business)
- 9:15-9:30: MARKETS: VANCE GOES TO EUROPE Guest: Liz Peek (The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business)
- 9:30-9:45: BERLIN: CDU HOLDING OFF THE AFD? Guest: Judy Dempsey (Senior Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin)
- 9:45-10:00: EU: NOT INVITED Guest: Judy Dempsey (Senior Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin)
- 10:00-10:15: LONDONCALLING: MERZ DOING JUST ENOUGH TO HOLD FIRST Guest: Joseph Sternberg (@WSJOpinion)
- 10:15-10:30: LONDONCALLING: VANCE JARS GERMANY Guest: Joseph Sternberg (@WSJOpinion)
- 10:30-10:45: GAZA: CAIRO'S PLAN IGNORED Guest: Jonathan Schanzer (FDD)
- 10:45-11:00: LEBANON: REARMING HEZBOLLAH Guest: Jonathan Schanzer (FDD)
- 11:00-11:15: MOSCOW: TRADING CHINA Guest: Ekaterina Zolotova (@GPFutures)
- 11:15-11:30: MOSCOW: RUSSIA FASHION DESIGNERS PROSPER Guest: Ekaterina Zolotova (@GPFutures)
- 11:30-11:45: RUSSIA: PUTIN IS THE PEASANT WHO ASKS TO KILL HIS NEIGHBOR'S COW Guest: Ivana Stradner (FDD)
- 11:45-12:00: SERBIA: FEAR OF DEMONSTRATIONS Guest: Ivana Stradner (FDD)
- 12:00-12:15: RUSSIA: TALKING AS A POWER Guest: Gregory Copley (Defense & Foreign Affairs)
- 12:15-12:30: SERBIA: BETWEEN SPHERES Guest: Gregory Copley (Defense & Foreign Affairs)
- 12:30-12:45: PRC: XI HANGS ON QUIETLY Guest: Gregory Copley (Defense & Foreign Affairs)
- 12:45-1:00 AM: KINGCHARLES: PROMULGATING AMITY Guest: Gregory Copley (Defense & Foreign Affairs)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in the markets with Liz Peake. Calm in the markets, |
| 0:06.4 | making Liz and I a puzzle. Since the beginning of the year, the magnificent seven have moved sideways |
| 0:12.1 | to down. The S&P 493 has not distinguished itself, though we continue to set new records for the S&P 500. |
| 0:21.8 | The earnings are good, is Liz's explanation, and I like it. |
| 0:26.5 | The Federal Reserve is quiet, out of the way, and the tariff talk from the Trump administration, |
| 0:33.1 | at first it was jarring Canada and Mexico, but since then it doesn't seem to move markets. It |
| 0:39.4 | doesn't move markets, not seem, it doesn't move markets. None of the tariffs yet have bitten into |
| 0:45.3 | trade war. There's much talk of a trade war. In any event, not yet. Liz and I then speak of |
| 0:51.6 | Vice President Vance in Europe, speech in Munich, remarks in Paris, |
| 0:57.0 | and then there was the visit to Alice Vidal, the leading candidate for the election list of AFD in the Bundestag election on Sunday. |
| 1:11.9 | AFD is doing very well. |
| 1:14.2 | It's said to be coming in second. |
| 1:15.9 | We shall see. |
| 1:16.9 | Can do better. |
| 1:18.5 | Better than second? |
| 1:19.8 | There are surprises. |
| 1:21.0 | Brexit. |
| 1:22.2 | Trump. |
| 1:23.2 | There are surprises. |
| 1:26.8 | Commenting with Judy Dempsey about the German election, she's in Berlin, |
| 1:31.3 | talking about peace, not just in Berlin, not just in Europe, but in Ukraine. |
| 1:41.4 | Also talking about the election. |
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