TONIGHT; The show begins in Paris and Berlin where the leaders, Macron and Scholz are debating Ukraine. Then to Moscow where Putin is debating NATO. To SCOTUS accepting the oral arguments for the immunity question the week of April 22. To Moscow and th

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

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TONIGHT; The show begins in Paris and Berlin where the leaders, Macron and Scholz are debating Ukraine. Then to Moscow where Putin is debating NATO. To SCOTUS accepting the oral arguments for the immunity question the week of April 22. To Moscow and the price of gasoline; to Brussels and confiscation debate. To NYC where sharp CRE price declines are daily news. To Mexico City and the culture of extortion, says Economist Luis de l Calle. To 1842 and mutiny aboard USS Somers, a new-built brig, where the captain suspects the worst and tragedy follows. To the 1980s. To 18th Century Scotland and Adam Smith's composition. To the Asteroid Belt for prospecting a metal abundance.

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0:00.0	Good evening. This is John Bachelor.
0:02.0	Tonight the show begins in Paris and Berlin,
0:05.0	the debate between President Macron and Chancellor Schultz
0:09.0	about remarks sending NATO troops to Keith,
0:12.0	then turn to Vladimir Putin in Moscow, speaking to the Russian
0:16.7	elite about the possibility of having to use nuclear weapons if and when NATO attacks. Putin interpreted NATO's
0:27.0	attacking to NATO troops in Ukraine. Then to the question of the Supreme Court taking up the question of immunity for the President of the United States when in office against criminal charges.
0:44.0	If I understand correctly right now, the immunity question has never been settled by the court.
0:50.0	The hearing for, the oral hearing will be the week of the 22nd of April, meaning according
0:56.6	to Andrew McCarthy's calendar.
1:00.3	Special Counsel Smith cannot begin the trial for the January 6th events against former President
1:06.3	Donald Trump until June, at least July, August, somewhere in there.
1:13.4	It's a puzzle about the calendar.
1:16.8	And then off to Far Away.
1:20.5	This is confiscation in the EU at Brussels being debated the frozen assets of the Russian Federation
1:27.2	300 billion approximately is collecting interest in other words's gaining each week, some fantastic amount of money each day.
1:37.6	The proposal is to use the windfall gains for ammunition and support for Ukraine.
1:45.0	There's also a proposal to use all of it, and there's the observation that it's never going back to Putin,
1:51.0	even if the war is settled, the amount of money will be much talked about
1:58.6	in terms of reparations.
2:01.4	And then the question of the US Congress money. I speak with Cliff May about that.
2:08.0	Members of the Freedom Caucus are the dissenters. The overwhelming majority of the Senate approves both parties, the overwhelming
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