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WEEKEND: Conversations with my colleagues over the weekend: with Michael Yon about the Panamanian Darien Gap flooded with migrants; with Jeff Bliss about the missing in the Maui tragedy, and a sudden outbreak of wildfire; with Michael Vlahos about the DC

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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OVER THE WEEKEND: Conversations with my colleagues: with Michael Yon about the Panamanian Darien Gap flooded with migrants; with Jeff Bliss about the missing in the Maui tragedy, and a sudden outbreak of wildfire; with Michael Vlahos about the DC discouragement at the Ukrainian advances; and with Thaddeus McCotter aboutt the first GOP debate.


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Good evening, I'm John Bachelor.

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I mention over the weekend I spoke to several of my colleagues,

0:34.0

different parts of the map when it comes to the challenges

0:38.0

to the United States right now.

0:40.0

I went to Michael Yon who's travelling between Las Vegas

0:44.0

and the Darian Gap about the surprisingly large number of young people

0:51.0

coming through the Darian Gap now.

0:53.0

Very kidded out for camping, for hiking the dangerous Darian Gap

0:58.0

and for proceeding by bus from the Panama side of the Darian Gap

1:04.0

to Costa Rica and then making their way north to Mexico

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and then to the American border, large numbers.

1:11.0

Michael had comments also about what he discovered on the Texas border

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between Brownsville and McCallan.

1:19.0

He also said that he's looking to return to the Arizona border

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