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The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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1909 NYC
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 Markets: American Economy by Far the Strongest on Earth Guest: Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business
9:15-9:30 Markets: Denver in Disrepair Guest: Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business
9:30-9:45 Syria: The US/UAE Make Assad an Offer He Can Refuse Guest: Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
9:45-10:00 Gaza: The Hostages and POTUS-Elect Guest: Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 State Thinking: Asia in Turmoil, Europe in Turmoil Guest: Mary Kissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State, Executive VP Stephens Inc.
10:15-10:30 State Thinking: Levant in Turmoil Guest: Mary Kissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State, Executive VP Stephens Inc.
10:30-10:45 EU: Can Germany De-industrialize? (Part 1) Guest: Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, Berlin
10:45-11:00 EU: Can Germany De-industrialize? (Part 2) Guest: Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, Berlin
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 London Calling: Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend Guest: Joseph Sternberg, WSJ Opinion
11:15-11:30 London Calling: Dickens Christmas Lights Up the City Guest: Joseph Sternberg, WSJ Opinion
11:30-11:45 Georgia: Divided Between the EU and Moscow Guest: Ekaterina Zolotova, GP Futures
11:45-12:00 Russia: The Nuke Bluff & What Is to Be Done? Guest: Ivana Stradner, FDD
FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 PRC, Koreas, Japan, Taiwan: Well Defended Guest: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
12:15-12:30 Ukraine: Can Europe Field an Army? Guest: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
12:30-12:45 Turkey: Neo-Ottomanists on the March Guest: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
12:45-1:00 AM King Charles Report: Welcome the Emir of Qatar Guest: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. Good evening. Tonight the show begins in markets. |
| 0:07.5 | Elizabeth Peake joins to celebrate the American economy, the strongest on earth. |
| 0:12.8 | The strongest in the solar system. Envy, admired, competed with. |
| 0:20.0 | The shopping is good. The shopping is good. |
| 0:21.8 | The consumption is vast. |
| 0:24.3 | And the inventiveness, the creativity, the risk-taking, all celebrated by Europe and by America as well. |
| 0:33.1 | Good enough. |
| 0:34.7 | And then a conversation about Denver, challenged by the number of people without |
| 0:40.7 | documents who planted themselves on the city services of Denver forcing the mayor, or obliging |
| 0:47.5 | the mayor, to cut back on services and rationalize the cutback. Other cities are way down with the |
| 0:53.8 | same problem, including New York. |
| 0:56.6 | The politics of this are confusing. So I just mentioned that Denver's hard-pressed. |
| 1:03.0 | Asian turmoil, European turmoil. Mary Kissel joins to talk about the same thing that Jonathan Shanzer |
| 1:09.3 | features in his presentation. |
| 1:12.2 | The U.S. and the UAE have made an offer to Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria, |
| 1:17.1 | to come over to the Allied side and away from Tehran and Moscow. |
| 1:23.8 | He can refuse it. |
| 1:25.2 | He'd be in serious risk of his life if he accepted it. |
| 1:29.4 | But hostages and the potus electorate said the hostages must be returned by the time he's president or else. |
| 1:38.8 | It's not a threat, it's a warning. |
| 1:41.4 | Or else. Iran or else. |
| 1:45.5 | Also Turkey Or else. Iran, or else. Also Turkey, or else. |
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