Good evening: The show begins in the markets, asking after the silence of the Federal Reserve...
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
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Good evening: The show begins in the markets, asking after the silence of the Federal Reserve...
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#MARKETS: SILENCE OF THE FED. LIZ PEEK THE HILL. FOX NEWS AND FOX BUSINESS
915-930
#MARKETS: RETURN OF RAHM EMANUEL LIZ PEEK THE HILL. FOX NEWS AND FOX BUSINESS
930-945
GAZA: GUNFIRE AND INFORMATION WAR. JONATHAN SCHANZER. FDD.
945-1000
LEBANON: WAITING FOR THE LAF.
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
PRC: TIANANMEN RECALLED. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1015-1030
POLAND: VEERS SURPRISE RIGHT POPULISM. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1030-1045
EU: POLAND AND NETHERLANDS HEADING TOWARD ELECTIONS? JUDY DEMPSEY, SENIOR SCHOLAR, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN BERLIN.
1045-1100
BERLIN: MERZ UNBOUND. JUDY DEMPSEY, SENIOR SCHOLAR, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN BERLIN.
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
#LONDONCALLING: EU: ITS OWN TARIFFS BARRIERS. @JOSEPHSTERNBERG @WSJOPINION
1115-1130
#LONDONCALLING: FARAGE RISING @JOSEPHSTERNBERG @WSJOPINION
1130-1145
SYRIA: NOT TRUSTED. SINAN CIDDI, FDD
1145-1200
TURKEY: NO EU OBSTACLE TO ERDOGAN SINAN CIDDI, FDD
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
UKRAINE: PROVOKING THE RUSSIAN BEAR. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1215-1230
KING CHARLES RESORT: CANADA COMITY, GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1230-1245
1/2: POTUS: RETURN OF PAUL MANAFORT. CRAIG UNGER
1245-100 AM
2/2: POTUS: RETURN OF PAUL MANAFORT. CRAIG UNGER
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. |
| 0:06.0 | The show tonight begins in the markets. |
| 0:08.4 | The silence of the Fed. |
| 0:10.4 | The ECB is lowering rates one more time despite having surpassed the ambition for 2% inflation. |
| 0:17.7 | It comes in 1.9. |
| 0:19.0 | The Fed is silent, knowing the housing market is sluggish, |
| 0:25.4 | knowing the jobs number is strong, knowing the inflation number is moving in the right |
| 0:29.9 | direction down, just like the ECB. The Fed sits on the sidelines. In fact, the OECD, in expectation, anticipating 25 to be a |
| 0:40.6 | slowing year globally, remarks that the Fed is not likely to raise rates even once in 2025. |
| 0:49.8 | Then the return of Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff of the president, Obama, |
| 0:55.3 | former Congress leader from Chicago, former mayor of Chicago, |
| 1:00.3 | former ambassador to Japan, well-brothered by Hollywood and a health executive, |
| 1:09.3 | a man who is running for president, Liz Peake explains. |
| 1:14.1 | And he has a lane all to himself in the Democratic Party right now. |
| 1:19.0 | Conservative man from Chicago who has experience and is feisty. |
| 1:25.8 | Gunfire and information war. |
| 1:27.5 | Jonathan Shenzor comments on the allegations that are thrown around by the European press about the IDF and Gaza. |
| 1:35.9 | Are we citing health officials, Palestinian health officials, Gaza health officials? |
| 1:43.0 | What that is is Hamas' information war. |
| 1:47.8 | Lebanon, waiting for the Lebanese armed forces to act. |
| 1:53.7 | Hezbollah is decapitated. |
| 1:55.5 | The Lebanese armed forces are reluctant. |
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