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Good evening. The show begins tonight with John Bolton reminding Churchill's ambition for the war when asked.

Simple, victory. Same for Israel in the Gaza War. Victory. Simple straightforward. At the same time there is

question about how the war continues whether we're in the beginning, the middle,

or the end stage.

Mr. Bolton observes that initially the Biden administration was encouraging Israel to take its time.

Now it wants it to speed up. As John says, can't do both speed up and take

it slow. The hostage exchange is inexact fog of war. So I go on to the rumors of negotiation in Ukraine War, speaking with

Katrina Vandenhovel, the article in Foreign Affairs some weeks past about a new ambition or new mission for Kief to accept less than regaining

all of its territory, suggested there was conversation going on in Washington and we learn now also in

Berlin to bring Mr. Zelensky to the negotiation table with Russia and to stop the

bloodletting as we go into the third winter of war.

Then a conversation with Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution writing at real

clear politics about anti-Semitism and what is to be done on our elite campuses,

on all the campuses, but especially those who have conducted themselves oddly these last

weeks looking at an article in Bloomberg about

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