USAF:ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL. BLAINE HOLT, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Rural communities are being squeezed from every side. |
| 0:05.0 | From rising health care costs to crumbling hospitals, |
| 0:08.0 | from attacks on public schools to the fight for paid family and medical leave. |
| 0:13.0 | Farmers and small businesses are reeling from the trade war, |
| 0:18.0 | and now Project 2025 is back with a plan to finish what Elon Musk started. |
| 0:24.8 | Trump and the Republicans won rural votes, then turn their backs on us. |
| 0:30.8 | Join the One Country Project for the Rural Progress Summit, July 8 through the 10th. |
| 0:36.8 | This free virtual event brings together leaders |
| 0:39.9 | like Senator Heidi Highcamp, Secretary Pete Buttigieg, |
| 0:43.9 | Governor Andy Beshear and others |
| 0:46.0 | for real talk and real solutions. |
| 0:49.2 | Together we'll tackle the most urgent issues |
| 0:52.4 | facing rural America. |
| 0:54.1 | Register today or learn more at RuralProgress.com. |
| 0:59.0 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm John Batson with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang. |
| 1:09.0 | And we're very pleased to be joined by General Blaine |
| 1:12.0 | Holt, United States Air Force, retired to help us understand aircraft acquisition. I'm going to turn |
| 1:18.9 | this to Gordon because he's got very specific information about two particular aircraft. One old, |
| 1:25.6 | one new to me. Gordon, a very good day to you. You worry about the |
| 1:30.0 | Warthog. What is that, Gordon? The Warthog is the A-10. It's an attack aircraft known as a |
| 1:37.1 | tank killer. It's been in the Air Force inventory for decades. It's perhaps the most effective |
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