The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 13 February 2020

Air Date: 
February 13, 2020

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Sebastian Gorka, America First radio, Fox News
 
Hour One
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 1, Block A:  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re:  Pelosi had little choice but to go along with AOC and her crew; then Pelosi outsourced her future to incompetents such as Nadler and Schiff. Trump has had the best week of his presidency (and the Democrats one of their worst):  by Friday, the acquittal. The Democratic debate, with almost no one watching. New Hampshire; the leading Democratic contender is not a Democrat, not in favor of North American capitalism, is in weak health, has never had a job outside government, goes on and on about the charms of the Soviet Union. Fifty-fifty chance he could be the nominee. If he has an opponent, the opponent would do well to say, “I’m a Democratic contender, not in a suicide pact.” Trump might pick up 30 per cent of the Latino vote, possibly 25 per cent of the Black vote.
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 1, Block B:  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re:  CNN’s Anderson Cooper: Mass Senator says, “We demand the resignation of the Attorney General.”  Same crew that ran the impeachment. You’d think someone in the House would notice that during the impeachment melodrama, Trump’s favorable rating went up six points. Bernie merely wants to make a statement; if he goes down in flames, doesn’t mind if the Democratic Party (which is not his) joins him.  Scares the daylights out of the actual Democrats.
James Carville just said, “Y’all are crazy, you’re destroying the Party.”  Had Pelosi calmed down AOC and her group, she wouldn’t be in the pinch she’s in today.
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 1, Block C:  Conrad Black, NRO & author; in re: Liz Warren and cohort are trying to impeach AG Bill Barr.  Biden has collapsed but Sanders hasn't [gained enough purchase].  Buttigieg has no chance of winning.  Will Klobuchar become the stop-Bloomberg candidate and inherit some of Bernie’s vote; or will the Party have to choose between an overt Marxist and a fifty-billionaire?  He’s come back from a coronary; doesn't disguise his convictions. Michael Bloomberg is quite able and nice, but a convert to Democrats—and no one has ever bought votes on this scale; he’s prepared to spend $2 billion. Piketty – an imposter, a charlatan and a crackpot.  Front page of the Financial Times, of course.  Will Bloomberg come out for a wealth tax?  Liz Warren and cohort are trying to impeach AG Bill Barr: are the Democrats capable of going down that road again?  No, I don't think so. The Dems are sometimes on suicide watch, but I don’t think they’ll go that far. Mr Durham of Connecticut will present his report between now and summer.   (Sanders vs The Democrats.  America tempted by the Left?)  
In an impeachment, no one person is in charge, unlike other levers of government, so once it’s started, no one can stop it.
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 1, Block D: Atabek Nazirov, Director, Capital Markets of Uzbekistan [Uzbek SEC]; in re:  Uzbekistan goes to market. Planning for the state-owned enterprises to go private in the near future, starting with banks and insurance companies.  Washington has committed to help Uzbekistan develop capital markets, including the SEC and Treasury and Commerce Departments.  We’re improving our legal system in this realm.  We want to raise at least 10% of GDP, being $5 billion, in the next few years. First IPO, which we want to do yesterday, will probably be in place by Q3 of this year.
 
Hour Two
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  Sebastian Gorka, America First radio; in re: As the child of someone who fled the Soviet Union, it’s hard for me to understand why Americans are ready to embrace a Socialist/Communist.
There’s something inherently deeply corrupt in the way the DNC selects candidates.  The company that created the app—“Shadow”—is owned by Clintonistas. Buttigieg: he’s a Rudolph Valentino heartthrob but in no way credible.  Liz Warren, Mass Senator: demands the impeachment of Wm Barr—the rhetoric of someone who understands that her candidacy is troubled.  Biden campaign is dead man walking, and rule out Warren.  How much love can Bloomberg buy with his billions.
Journalist asked, “Will we see two billionaires fighting for the presidency?”  “Who’s the other one?” responded Bloomberg.
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  Sebastian Gorka, America First radio; in re: Not implausible that the Chinese economy will collapse under the Wuhan scandal.  It’d tale time t impact on the US, so President Trump is not likely to be able to blamed for it. He’s added $11 trillion to the economy; amazingly small unemployment, very high actual employment. Trump has created the jobs economy.
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Andrew C McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, in re: State authorities normally hold an illegal alien who’s committed a crime under state laws, and notify the federal government, ICE.  AG Barr points out that the matter does not concern people who simply go out about their life and do nothing illegal. Chesa Boudin will decriminalize in San Francisco; open the jail cells.
“Chesa Boudin was sworn in Wednesday night as district attorney of San Francisco as his mother, Kathy Boudin . . .   Chesa Boudin, the son of anti-war radicals sent to prison for murder in the Brinks armored car robbery in Nyack when he was a toddler, has won San Francisco’s tightly contested race for district attorney after campaigning to reform the criminal justice system.”
This is a recrudescence of the Confederate theory of nullification. States say: Not only are we not going to help you enforce federal law; we’ll block your enforcement.  
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 2, Block D: Andrew C McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, in re: Elizabeth Warren demands that AG Barr be fired; or, if not, impeached.  It’s absurd to say that Barr “meddles in prosecutions”—he’s entirely responsible for them.  Preposterous.
 
Hour Three
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 3, Block A:  Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland  
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 3, Block B:  Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland  
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 3, Block C: Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland   
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 3, Block D:  Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland   
 
Hour Four
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 4, Block A: Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland  
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 4, Block B: Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland  
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 4, Block C: Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland  
Thursday 13 February 2020  / Hour 4, Block D:  Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland