GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the markets, excited by POTUS and waiting for Chairman Powell...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9-9:15 MARKETS: Fed pause. Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business 9:15-9:30 MARKETS: POTUS momentum. Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business 9:30-9:45 GAZA: POTUS recommends resettlement of Gazans 9:45-10:00 LEBANON: The LAF collaborates with Hezbollah. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
SECOND HOUR 10-10:15 Ukraine: Deploying the Army on the Mexican border. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol 10:15-10:30 Ukraine: IRON DOME and POTUS. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol 10:30-10:45 LondonCalling: POTUS gives license to the EU to discard Global Tax and Net-Zero. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion 10:45-11:00 LondonCalling: POTUS asks how much for Greenland? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 AI: End of AI supremacy. John Cochrane, Hoover 11:15-11:30 HOUSING: Government made housing prices. John Cochrane, Hoover 11:30-11:45 BERLIN: CDU entertains a coalition with AFD. Judy Dempsey, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin 11:45-12:00 BERLIN: Trump and Germany. Judy Dempsey, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin
FOURTH HOUR 12-12:15 JAPAN: Watching the PRC from Tokyo Bay. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 12:15-12:30 AFRICA: ECOWAS crumbles; Rwanda attacks; Africa Alone. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 12:30-12:45 Panama and Greenland: Defense of the Americas. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 12:45-1:00 am KING CHARLES REPORT: The King to Auschwitz. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. Good evening. The show begins tonight in the markets with Liz Peake looking at the Federal Reserve. |
| 0:08.0 | Likely not going to get an interest rate cut in the next 24 hours. Likely, the data will demonstrate what the Federal Reserve will comment upon. |
| 0:16.9 | The economy is doing fine. Everybody's moving along. We haven't brought inflation down to 2% |
| 0:23.3 | our target yet. And so, no cut in January. Will there be a cut in 2025? Unknown. The economy |
| 0:30.8 | is doing strong, going strong, and there is lots of excitement in general about the Trump administration, lifting |
| 0:39.2 | regulations, cutting taxes, or at least sustaining the 2017 tax cut and jobs act, and doing |
| 0:46.8 | away with the unwieldy spending that's been going on for three years by the Biden |
| 0:52.8 | administration. Within these hours, we have an |
| 0:55.6 | announcement from the federal government that every federal worker can leave his job, his or her job, |
| 1:02.2 | momentarily as of February 6th, and receive pay all the way to September 30th of this year. Go away, |
| 1:10.0 | take your money, find another job in the private sector. |
| 1:13.7 | Or reapply to the federal government. In any event, this is a doge-like move. I don't know that it's |
| 1:20.2 | Mr. Musk's idea, but it's a good one. Take your money for what is that? Nine, eight months, |
| 1:28.2 | and go. |
| 1:34.0 | That might avoid this conflict over who has to go back to the office or not. |
| 1:39.5 | So we discussed the markets quite aside from the federal government. |
| 1:44.0 | Then Liz and I also discussed the momentum that the White House is building up because Mr. Trump is going at a frantic pace signing executive orders, directing traffic, talking to the press, constantly commenting on any question the press wants to ask. |
| 1:57.1 | Surprisingly young press corps, surprisingly lacking manners odd it is odd let me try what i believe is |
| 2:08.4 | the correct approach to a president of the united states excuse me sir yes sir yes sir i follow you exactly |
| 2:17.4 | thank you very much sir that. That's it. And if you're a member of the media, excuse me, sir, I ask if you are comfortable with this policy, if you're happy with this policy, if this policy annoys you. You have said that. And therefore, thank you, sir. There, that was simple. |
| 2:37.9 | It's not a generational thing. It's just that the word sir comes to the office of the presidency |
| 2:43.3 | pretty naturally. Moving on to Gaza, I talked to Jonathan Shanzer about the proposal by the president to clean it out. |
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