Good evening: The show begins in Ukraine waiting for a final ceasefire...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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1900 FRANCE
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
- 9:00-9:15: UKRAINE: IMMINENT CEASEFIRE? (Part 1/2) Guest: Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
- 9:15-9:30: UKRAINE: IMMINENT CEASEFIRE? (Part 2/2) Guest: Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
- 9:30-9:45: DOGE: NIK GRANTS INTERRUPTED Guest: Richard Epstein, Civitas
- 9:45-10:00: DOGE: CLUMSY Guest: Richard Epstein, Civitas
- 10:00-10:15: ISRAEL: UNFINISHED WAR Guests: Alex Traiman (JNS), Malcolm Hoenlein (@Conf_of_pres @MHoenlein1)
- 10:15-10:30: GAZA: EGYPTIAN PLAN Guests: David Shankar (Washington Institute), Malcolm Hoenlein
- 10:30-10:45: IRAN: IAEA STALLING Guests: David Albright, Malcolm Hoenlein
- 10:45-11:00: HAMAS: SKILLFUL PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE Guests: Rob Schleifer (ICGS), Malcolm Hoenlein
- 11:00-11:15: CANADA: TRUMP IN THE CAMPAIGNS Guest: Conrad Black, National Post
- 11:15-11:30: ARGENTINA: MILEI STUMBLES Guest: Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
- 11:30-11:45: RUSSIA: SINKING BRENT CRUDE Guest: Michael Bernstam, Hoover
- 11:45-12:00: NEW ZEALAND: PRC THREATENS Guest: Reuben Steff, Waikato University
- 12:00-12:15: UKRAINE: ENFORCE A CEASEFIRE Guest: Cliff May, FDD
- 12:15-12:30: DOGE: WHAT WOULD MILTON FRIEDMAN DO? Guest: Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus
- 12:30-12:45: WAR ENDS: THREE FAILURES Guest: Grant Newsham, NY Sun
- 12:45-1:00 AM: AI: MUTUAL ASSURED AI MISCALCULATION Guest: Brandon Weichert, National Interest
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins in Ukraine, an imminent ceasefire, credible, possible. I speak with |
| 0:10.9 | Anto-Levin. We look beyond the ceasefire to what this means for Moscow, what this means for the Europeans, |
| 0:20.5 | watching the U.S. and Russia speak of arms control or something akin to cutting back on the defense budgets, looking to Beijing to come into the conversation. All these are ambitions for Mr. Trump, using the word denuking in that first true social posts he sent out after the disappointment in Mr. Zelensky at the Oval Office. |
| 0:48.4 | Ceasefire Plus. Ceasefire forgotten. Seasfire a platform to talk about arms control one more time, this time, three of them. |
| 1:01.3 | And then Richard Epstein joins to talk about Doge. |
| 1:04.2 | First, the cancellation of NIH-Carned grants or the interruption of them or the pause of them, Richard finds fault with it, extreme fault. |
| 1:16.7 | Same way he finds fault with the interruption of active USAID contracts. |
| 1:23.3 | Richard is a practiced contract lawyer. |
| 1:26.8 | He has very little patience for breaking contracts. |
| 1:29.9 | None, actually. None whatsoever. |
| 1:33.1 | And then Israel, we call Tel Aviv, talked to Alex Trayman. |
| 1:37.6 | The nation is waiting for the unfinished war in Gaza. |
| 1:41.6 | Mr. Trump has issued a remark, return all the hostages or else. Hamas is not listening. |
| 1:51.2 | In the martyr mode, perhaps, or just deaf? You speak to David Shankar of the Washington Institute |
| 1:57.1 | about the Egyptian plan, which is the same old, let's rebuild Gaza and do it all over |
| 2:01.9 | again. Not going anywhere. Egypt put it up to make a show. That's what Egypt does. I'm told. |
| 2:11.4 | Iran, the IA, the warped dog from the UN, is stalling. Where is the UN? Where is it? It's in New York. Simple answer. Reading through the Korean War today, that was a UN operation. What world was that? That's where we thought we were going. Not NATO, not EU, not bickering, not frontier logic. Well, |
| 2:38.8 | Iran has a nuclear weapon capability. Will it be permitted to withstand the end of the Gaza war? |
| 2:48.7 | Unknown. On to speaking of matters that end of the Gaza war, unknown. |
| 2:57.8 | On to speaking of matters that come home, Canada's got an imminent election. |
| 3:02.4 | Mr. Trump's named all the time by the candidates. |
| 3:07.3 | Mr. Carney is likely to be the Liberal Party candidate. |
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