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SHOW SCHEDULE TUESDAY 17 JUNE, 2025. Good evening: The show begins IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM at the Federal Reserve, waiting for the Fed board to see data that move it to reduce the high rate of borrowing -- the cost of money.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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SHOW SCHEDULE TUESDAY 17 JUNE, 2025.

Good evening: The show begins IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM at the Federal Reserve, waiting for the Fed board to see data that move it to reduce the high rate of borrowing -- the cost of money...

1917 EDERAL RESERVE BOARD

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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #Markets: What is the Fed waiting to see? Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business 9:15-9:30 #Markets: What was "No Kings?" Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business 9:30-9:45 1/2: Iran: The nuclear weapons makers. Andrea Stricker FDD 9:45-10:00 2/2: Iran: The nuclear weapons makers. Andrea Stricker FDD

SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 #Berlin: Chancellor Merz success so far. Judy Dempsey, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin. 10:15-10:30 #EU: Global Euro and its possibility. Judy Dempsey, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin. 10:30-10:45 Harvard: The fail of 2020. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution 10:45-11:00 PRC: Quiet remarks about its Iran oil supplier and weapons customer. Jack Burnham, FDD

THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 #AUKUS at the G-7: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 11:15-11:30 #ECOWAS: In failure. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 11:30-11:45 Iran: After the fall down. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 11:45-12:00 Charles III: Modern kingship works. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 5/8 The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping Hardcover – 3 June 2025 by Joseph Torigian (Author)

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China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world—and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than seven decades. He worked at the right hand of prominent leaders Zhou Enlai and Hu Yaobang. He helped build the Communist base area that saved Mao Zedong in 1935, and he initiated the Special Economic Zones that launched China into the reform era after Mao's death. He led the Party's United Front efforts toward Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese. And though in 1989 he initially sought to avoid violence, he ultimately supported the Party's crackdown on the Tiananmen protesters.

The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a sweeping story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People's Republic of China and a deeply personal story about making sense of one's own identity within a larger political context. Drawing on an array of new documents, interviews, diaries, and periodicals, Joseph Torigian vividly tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands. Through the eyes of Xi Jinping's father, Torigian reveals the extraordinary organizational, ideological, and coercive power of the CCP—and the terrible cost in human suffering that comes with it.

12:15-12:30 6/8 The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping Hardcover – 3 June 2025 by Joseph Torigian (Author) 12:30-12:45 7/8 The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping Hardcover – 3 June 2025 by Joseph Torigian (Author) 12:45-1:00 8/8 The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping Hardcover – 3 June 2025 by Joseph Torigian (Author)


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0:00.0

Good evening. The show begins to tonight as the Federal Reserve, speaking with Liz Peake,

0:07.1

puzzling what is Mr. Powell waiting for to follow through on cuts to the Federal Reserve rate?

0:13.1

The inflation is headed in the right direction. The jobs market is not strong, not weak, but not strong.

0:20.1

Goldilocks jobs market. In addition, the growth spending of

0:25.7

the Biden years has abated. The big beautiful bill hasn't been passed yet, but there are reasons

0:31.6

to like it, reasons to dislike it. At the same time, there's reason to wonder whether the tariffs are ever coming.

0:39.2

It seems to be a threat that never quite gets here.

0:42.3

So anticipating inflation from a threat that hasn't arrived is, well, it's planning of a sort.

0:49.6

I then move on to discuss the nuclear weapons makers in Tehran the night of the Israeli strike with

0:57.2

Andrea Stricker, a long list of names, physicists, men who were trained by Russia to make weapons.

1:05.4

That's their purpose, weapon makers of nuclear energy.

1:15.5

Take the ore, turn it into 90% enriched and load it into a bomb that's compacted

1:18.7

and weaponized and miniaturized,

1:21.7

drive into the core with explosions and a bomb.

1:28.4

They're gone now, but that was the bomb plan, no denying it.

1:33.2

And Andrea goes through the sites as well that we've talked about that Iran forbid inspection,

1:39.4

especially the site that was said to be the scene of high-energy tests of exploding, of explosions,

1:46.6

what you need for a bomb. In any event, all gone now in the fourth or fifth or sixth day of the

1:54.4

Israeli attack. Return to Chancellor Merritt at G7. He is new to the leadership in Berlin.

2:03.2

I speak to Judy Dempsey about it.

2:04.7

He's well liked.

2:06.0

His foreign policy is applauded.

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