The John Batchelor Show

Monday 1 April 2019

Air Date: 
April 01, 2019

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, the Great Voice of the Great Lakes
 
Hour One
Monday 1 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Terrorism
Monday 1 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block B: Jed Babbin, American Spectator, in re:  League of Nations
Monday 1 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block C: Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: China. Uyghur and now Tibetan, concentration camps in which many are dying.  The US must have a morally-based foreign policy again.  China sent warplanes across the Taiwan Strait past the median line; President Tsai Ing-wen announced that the next time Beijing does that, the jets will be forcibly removed – and this US Administration is selling F16s to Taiwan, meaning that the US will aid in Taiwan’s defense.   Meanwhile, Google is kowtowing to Beijing to make a buck; and as it foolishly goes along to get along, will again [see: Project Dragonfly] be restricted so it can't make much money, will be stolen from in enormous amount, and again pushed out of the Chinese market by the CCP.  Not popular with Google employees.
Monday 1 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block D: Christian Whiton, senior Fellow for strategy and public diplomacy at the Center for the National Interest; in re: Professor Susan Shirk. Chinese funding in American institutions: need transparency.  US must publicize all foreign-state-funded enterprises. Any funding from a primary adversary – China. Iran, Russia – must be publicly scrutinized
 
Hour Two
Monday 1 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block A:  David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, & John Fund, NRO, in re:  Domestic politics: Joe Biden’s brain aneurism.  Beto O’Rourke.  Pete Buttigieg.  Kamala Harris. Elizabeth Warren.
Monday 1 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block B:  John Fund, NRO, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, in re:  Domestic politics. House Democrats seek everything about the Mueller report.
Monday 1 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block C:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  Israel
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 2, Block D: Indiana Hoenlein, in re: Israeli antiquities.
 
Hour Three
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 3, Block A:  Paul Gregory, Hoover, in re: Ukrainian presidential race
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 3, Block B: Michael Ledeen, FDD, in re;  Michael Flynn
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 3, Block C: Andrew C McCarthy, Fox News, in re: The Mueller report
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 3, Block D: Andrew C McCarthy, Fox News, in re: The Mueller report
 
Hour Four
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 4, Block A:  Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg (1 of 4)
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 4, Block B:  Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg (2 of 4)
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 4, Block C:  Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg (3 of 4)
Monday 1 April 2019 / Hour 4, Block D:  Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg (4 of 4)