GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Ukraine, where Putin is said to have approved a war of attrition.
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Ukraine, where Putin is said to have approved a war of attrition.
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FIRST HOUR
9:00-9:15 #Ukraine: War of Attrition. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
9:15-9:30 #GAZA: Cairo and the Philadelphi Corridor. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
9:30-9:45 #POTUS: Immunity and the NY State Court. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins to tonight in Ukraine. A war of attrition, says the Institute for the Study of War, |
| 0:07.0 | a war of attrition is Putin's idea. |
| 0:10.0 | Continue to feed his troops into the Dunbar salient. |
| 0:15.0 | Continue to force the Ukrainians to answer. |
| 0:19.0 | Casualties climb. |
| 0:21.0 | Russia has more men to push in than Ukraine does, a war of attrition, similar |
| 0:26.9 | to what happened in the front lines of the first war. |
| 0:31.6 | We then turn to the question of Israel and the Philadelphia route. |
| 0:35.8 | It is the smuggler's corridor, the Philadelphia corridor, between Gaza and Egypt. |
| 0:42.8 | the dispute is obviously about the future. |
| 0:46.0 | Will Hamas re-arm? |
| 0:47.8 | Will it be prevented from re-arming? |
| 0:49.9 | Will Cairo continue to take money or whatever it is that Cairo takes in order to allow the |
| 0:55.8 | smuggling, sell the arms to the Hamas. |
| 0:59.7 | I don't know the answer to these questions. |
| 1:02.4 | That's what's at issue. The Philadelphia |
| 1:04.7 | route is the way forward for Hamas. If they get it back without supervision, they'll |
| 1:10.3 | rebuild. We then turn to the New York State Court where Mr. Trump, the |
| 1:16.9 | former president is to be sentenced sometime in these next days. There's a calendar |
| 1:22.2 | and the district attorney of and brag and the judge |
| 1:25.8 | Juan March on are using the calendar to put Mr. Trump in an uncomfortable position |
| 1:31.0 | about immunity. We then turn to the Department of Justice |
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