TONIGHT: Moving from Canberra and the search for Voyager2 to Chernobyl in the first days of the attack. Attention to the Trump defenses. And conversation about (and with) the 17th Century England, when my forbear, Richard, emigrated to the Virginia Colony
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 August 2023
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TONIGHT: Moving from Canberra and the search for Voyager2 to Chernobyl in the first days of the attack. Attention to the Trump defenses. And conversation about (and with) the 17th Century England, when my forbear, Richard, emigrated to the Virginia Colony as an indentured servant...
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| 0:00.0 | With BT Broadband and TV, you can say goodbye to boredom and hello to... |
| 0:04.6 | Huh? |
| 0:30.2 | Good evening, this is John Bashler. |
| 0:32.4 | Tonight on the show, a lengthy conversation with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover |
| 0:36.3 | Institution about the allegations by the Special Counselor Mr. Smith against former President |
| 0:41.3 | Trump. |
| 0:42.6 | To do with the conduct of the President before and after the January 6th events, starting |
| 0:48.5 | in November, continuing December, January, when the President, when he was still President |
| 0:53.3 | of the United States before the inauguration of Joe Biden. |
| 0:57.2 | The President, the Professor, entertains four possible defenses suggested by the Wall Street |
| 1:02.6 | Journal. |
| 1:03.6 | The first is freedom of speech, free expression remarks by the President. |
| 1:09.4 | The second is he consulted with his counselors and his lawyers advised him to go ahead and |
| 1:17.0 | conduct himself in this fashion. |
| 1:19.9 | The third is that no matter what else is said, the President believes what he's maintaining, |
| 1:27.5 | which is that the election was a regular stolen illegitimate and that he remains the President |
| 1:34.2 | of the United States, or should be. |
| 1:37.0 | The fourth possible defense raised by an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal is that the |
| 1:42.3 | President is immune from prosecution for any act he commits while President of the United |
| 1:47.5 | States. |
| 1:48.5 | Richard speaks to each of these defenses. |
| 1:52.2 | Also tonight, a happy version of the search for Voyager 2. |
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