GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the Kursk Salient where the North Korean deployment is reported in combat operations with casualties...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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1930 Kursk
# CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
## FIRST HOUR
**9:00-9:15** #POTUS: The Trump Administration and the Middle East battle spaces
- Bill Roggio, FDD
- Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
**9:15-9:30** #POTUS: Continuation
- Bill Roggio, FDD
- Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
**9:30-9:45** #ISRAEL: Battling Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, HTS, Hostage-takers
- David Daoud, FDD
- Bill Roggio, FDD
**9:45-10:00** #ISRAEL: Continuation
- David Daoud, FDD
- Bill Roggio, FDD
## SECOND HOUR
**10:00-10:15** #ISRAEL: The succession struggle in Tehran, led by Mojtibai Khamenei
- Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
- @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
**10:15-10:30** #ISRAEL: Jerusalem under Houthi barrage every night
- Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
- @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
**10:30-10:45** #UKRAINE: Kursk Salient and fresh Russia advances
- John Hardie
- Bill Roggio, FDD
**10:45-11:00** #UKRAINE: Manpower shortages and the refusal to draft 18-24 year-olds
- John Hardie
- Bill Roggio, FDD
## THIRD HOUR
**11:00-11:15** #PacificWatch: The Santa Ana winds strengthening, Palisades and Eaton fires most threatening
- @JCBliss
**11:15-11:30** #RUSSIA: The elite and the population exhausted by the war and ready to deal
**11:30-11:45** #PRC: Building landing craft
- Steve Yates, Heritage
- @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
**11:45-12:00** PRC: Iran needs the dollars, PRC pays out
- Rebecca Grant, Lexington Institute
- @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
## FOURTH HOUR
**12:00-12:15** #NewWorldReport: Rogue Venezuela threatens the continent
- Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc
- Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil
**12:15-12:30** #NewWorldReport: Brazil, Bolsonaro and the Trump Inauguration
- Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc
- Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil
**12:30-12:45** #NewWorldReport: Panama Canal is national security and at risk
- Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc
- Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil
**12:45-1:00** #NewWorldReport: Argentina is the good news from the Americas
- Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc
- Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in the Middle East, anticipating the change of administration in |
| 0:05.3 | Washington in these next hours. What will the Trump administration bring to the conflicts still raging? |
| 0:12.8 | Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, the Houthis in northern Yemen, and of course Iran, the brain of the octopus. |
| 0:22.1 | Maximum pressure once upon a time will it return. |
| 0:24.8 | I speak to Bill Rajo and Assane Akone of the FD and the Hudson Institute about anticipation, Mr. Trump, |
| 0:34.7 | and then National Security Advisor Waltz and Secretary of State Mr. Trump, and then National Security Advisor Waltz and Secretary of State, Mr. Rubio, |
| 0:43.0 | new directions. |
| 0:44.3 | We then turned to David D'Audor, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, for details on the conflict zone. |
| 0:51.5 | The fresh news is there is a president in Lebanon didn't exist a week ago. |
| 0:57.4 | And Mr. Aoun has an opportunity to name a prime minister and use the Lebanese armed forces |
| 1:05.0 | to disarm Hezbollah, South Lutani, that will end the conflict for the immediate future. |
| 1:12.4 | Mr. Diyud also addresses Hamas in its hostage negotiation. |
| 1:17.6 | The Houthis who continue to pepper Israel with ballistic missiles and drones that don't get through, |
| 1:22.7 | but the Shatnal gets through. |
| 1:24.8 | And then there's Syria. |
| 1:26.5 | What is to be done with al-Qaeda members who haven't |
| 1:29.5 | forsorn the jihad, and yet now dress in Italian suits and trim their beards? Turn to the question |
| 1:36.9 | of the whole of the Middle East with Malcolm Honleine, who's returned from Israel, and my colleague |
| 1:42.1 | Thaddeus MacArthur, of great interest is Iran. The currency has |
| 1:47.5 | collapsed to $800,000 or more to a dollar. The deal with Iran and China is sustaining some of the |
| 1:56.6 | efforts, cash paid for oil, but not everything. Iran is in a decline that maybe makes it more |
| 2:04.9 | dangerous, unknown. There's also a succession struggle. The Ayatollah, his age is compelling him to |
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