SHOW SCHEDULE 7-31-25 The show begins in Damascus with John Bolton -- doubting President al Sharaa. CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
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SHOW SCHEDULE
7-31-25
The show begins in Damascus with John Bolton -- doubting President al Sharaa.
1870 DAMASCUS
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
SYRIA: UNTRUSTED DAMASCUS AL SHARAA. JOHN BOLTON.
915-930
RUSSIA: INNER MONGOLIA TRADE. MICHAEL BERNSTAM, HOOVER
930-945
STARBUCKS: TURNAROUND SECURITY. #SCALAREPORT: CHRIS RIEGEL CEO, SCALA.COM @STRATACACHE.
945-1000
BRAZIL: LAWFARE AND MYSTERIES. MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY, WSJ
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
ISRAEL: NYT FALSE PHOTO. AMBASSADOR YECHIEL LEITER, MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1
1015-1030
ISRAEL: NYT FALSE PHOTO. AMBASSADOR YECHIEL LEITER, MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1
1030-1045
YEMEN: MICHAEL RUBIN.
1045-1100
PA, PLO: TEACHING ANTISEMITISM. ITAMAR MARCUS
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
#NEWWORLDREPORT: TAIWAN IN THE AMERICAS. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS
1115-1130
#NEWWORLDREPORT: BRAZIL LAWFARE. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS
1130-1145
#NEWWORLDREPORT: PETRO AND MADURO. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS
1145-1200
#NEWWORLDREPORT: MEXICO AND ARGENTINA. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
EUROPEAN DOUBTS. ANATOL LIEVEN, QUINCY
1215-1230
BRITAIN DOUBTS, ANATOL LIEVEN, QUINCY
1230-1245
HOTEL MARS: DORMANT BLACK HOLES AWAKEN. MEGHAN MASTERSON, MIT; DAVID LIVINGSTON, SPACESHOW.COM
1245-100 AM
HOTEL MARS: DORMANT BLACK HOLES AWAKEN. MEGHAN MASTERSON, MIT; DAVID LIVINGSTON, SPACESHOW.COM CONTINUED
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Damascus with John Bolton asking is Al-Qaeda, the reports from Sueda province in the south of a massacre of the droos by gunmen. Who were the gunmen? |
| 0:18.1 | The report from Hussein Abdul-Hussein of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy points to the government. The report from the St. Abdul-Hussein of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy |
| 0:22.7 | points to the lieutenants around Al-Sharah hiring their native tribes from northeast Syria to wear |
| 0:31.2 | the clothing of the Bedouin and to attack and massacre for money and then return to their haunts in the northeast of |
| 0:40.2 | Syria. It's a report. Hasn't been refuted yet. I'll watch it. In an event, who is Al-Shaara? He was Al-Qaeda. Is he |
| 0:50.1 | still Al-Qaeda? Question. And then Michael Bernstom joins to talk about Manchow, a city on the border between |
| 0:59.1 | Inner Mongolia and Mongolia and Russia, the trading port for many Russian goods, $280 billion |
| 1:07.5 | of trade estimated by the New York Times report. |
| 1:12.8 | How did Russia avoid the catastrophe of the economy crashing after sanctions? |
| 1:20.2 | Because of places like Manjo. |
| 1:23.0 | It looks like a Disneyland in the middle of a desert. |
| 1:26.5 | It is not. |
| 1:30.0 | It is a very serious trading place where nobody asks hard questions. Michael Bern-Stabham explains. Starbucks, the turnaround underway, |
| 1:38.4 | Chris Regal joins to talk QSR and the decision by fast food franchises in America to go all robot as much as they can all |
| 1:48.5 | the time because of the mandates of minimum wage because machines never sleep. It is the phase |
| 1:57.5 | that we're moving into now. Brazil lawfare and mysteries about lawfare directed against the previous president of |
| 2:05.0 | Bolsonaro by men named DeMarice, the Supreme Court Justice, who is working closely with |
| 2:10.4 | the ruling itself of the present president. |
| 2:13.0 | Mary O'Grady asked questions about the lawfare, about what's going on in Brazil. Certainly, |
| 2:19.3 | the Trump administration has no patience for it, sanctioning demerice and threatening the tariffs |
| 2:27.0 | on Brazil unless demerice backs off persecuting or pursuing or harassing or containing former President Bolsonaro in his circle. |
| 2:40.0 | Israel, the ambassador from Israel joins, Eichael Leiter, Malcolm Conlon and myself. |
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