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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com.  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents.
Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent, in re: the curious case of Mrs Clinton's using her own serer in a place unknown, perhaps the basement of her Chappaqua home. This would be well outside the legal requirements for government email; it also would make available her mail to hackers from anywhere in the world. Further, she constantly received encrypted email; to utilize it and forward it: if she did that on her own, unencrypted server, then secure information became available to governments and clever hackers everywhere.  This is so deeply extralegal that it raises questions of core competency.  It’s impossible for a Secretary of State not to know the rules. Raises uncomfortable questions about ethics.  DMD: If you’re a pol, look in your own closets for skeletons and bring 'em out yourself, early. 
Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 1, Block B: Charles Blahous, Hoover & Mercatus Center, e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century; in re:   CBO admonished former House and Senate . . . A Solid Choice for CBO Director
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Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 1, Block D:  Sohrab Amari, WSJ London, in re: Napoleon's advisor was a Jew, perhaps leading Napoleon to explain that French Jews were an intrinsic part of French culture. THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW France’s Anti-Terror, Free-Market Socialist
Hour Two
Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 2, Block A: Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-8), on Armed Services & Judiciary Committees, Chair of the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus; in re: Polls show that a large majority of American people both favored inviting PM Netanyahu to speak in Congress, also that if the situation worsens then military action may be appropriate.  Want results.  Did the PM convey he gravity of the matter?  Yes, one of the most powerful statesmen's speeches I've heard; and yes, Congress responded with a depth of enthusiasm I've never seen her before. Timely and critical.  I was profoundly disappointed in the Administration and some of my friends on the Democratic side of the aisle.  Ed Royce: a threat to the existence of Israel. Chris Smith: Seeing the US trying to close a deal favorable to Rouhani.  A security issue for the US; a survival issue for Israel.  Bewildering that this Administration won’t notice Iran's willingness to roe-a-dope the US.  Iran has enrichment capability such that soon it will be able to produce dozens of warheads a year.   Iran currently can hit Israel in 11 minutes; its ICBM program is aimed not at Israel but at the US. Exactly right: Bibi's speech crystallized a ot of the information to make it compelling; I think it was fresh information to many listeners.  I flew with a Codel (Strategic Forces Subcommittee) on the first day he was PM five years ago; when w e left an hour later, everyone was convinced because A man's words are heard in context of his character and credibility; Netanyahu's are Churchillian.  Iran: capacity plus ideology: intent and capacity are married; or  marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons. A lethal danger to the entire free world.
Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 2, Block B: Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) (western Palm Beach Co & Broward Co; asst Whip to Steny Hoyer; in re: Egypt. Jordan. Gulf Cooperation Council.
Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 2, Block C: Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations; former natl security advisor; in re:  Manufactured crisis: Obama dislikes Netanyahu both in a left-right snit, and also that Bibi criticizes iran and he deal; and third, that the president wants Israel to become a partisan issue, for the first time in the US.  Dem support has stayed at about the same level since the 1970s, but GOP support has increased.  It helps the Obama Administration to do these on a personal basis: the Iran deal is his only possible foreign policy accomplishment. Trash-talking Bibi is what the resident thinks will help his own public-relations image. The deal has to be approved by Khamenei, of course, but he so detests the US he may not do so.. Should Congress have a say on the vote?  Constitutionally, Congress has a role.  Nancy Pelosi went out of her way to be rude to Bibi, and we have zero leadership from Chuck Schumer.  Can he relations with Egypt be righted?  There's an enormous amount of repression – 42,000 people in jail in Egypt for political offenses.  All the Arab neighbors wonder: What is US foreign policy?  Kerry is mishandling this stupendously: he wasn’t to be at the table, and he's not a negotiator, and procedural error: negotiating experts need t be at he table and then report back, A set-up for a bad outcome for the US.  His deputy negotiator is Wendy Sherman, who’s let North Korea have 20, soon to be 100, nuclear weapons. Also, how much is the Saudi king in change? . . .  A deal with Iran shd have Congressional support. Why is the president rushing? Because the more this deal is examined the less support it'll have.  The profound problem of the Twentieth Century was that Woodrow Wilson chose not to take a member of the Senate with him to negotiate the Versailles Treaty.   Congressmen are saying; If there's no Congressional approval, then it’s a deal only between Obama and Iran and is not binding, The next Congress can abjure it. 
Common Sense and Courage on Egypt   Senator John McCain is a rare voice both of common sense and–because common sense on Egypt is so rare–of courage when it comes to U.S. relations with that key Arab country.  Last week he issued this statement about human rights in Egypt:
I was encouraged to hear Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi acknowledge on Sunday that some ‘innocent youths may have been wrongfully imprisoned’ and that they would soon be released. Yet days later, a court in Egypt sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a liberal democratic activist, to five years in prison along with 20 other human rights activists. Many more prominent youth leaders including Ahmed Douma, Ahmed Maher, and Yara Sallam, as well as American citizen Mohamed Soltan, remain behind bars under a deeply restrictive anti-protest law that infringes on internationally recognized rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. Such actions are not in keeping with President al-Sisi’s stated commitments, and in fact call into question the direction in which Egypt is headed.
Egypt has legitimate security concerns, and I strongly believe that the United States must support the Egyptian government’s fight against terrorism and extremism. But there does not have to be a trade-off between democracy and security, and the need to defeat ISIL and other extremists groups in the region must not blind us to our human rights commitments.
Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 2, Block D: Mohsen Sazegara, in re: Supreme Leader Illness, internal politics in Iran, sanctions, activity in the region.  At age 76 the Supreme Leader has poor health, has gone to a Teheran hospital for a check-up for his cancer.  The Iranian people heard he controversy of Netanyahu's speaking to Congress while the president and VP turned away:  Bibi spike of a Persian king but not of Cyrus, who favored Jews, which was not a good move. Otherwise, the speech spoke of several things that were true: terrorism, involvement of Iran in Middle East, other, I thought he could speak of regime's change of behavior.  He did speak of human rights under Rouhani: executions increase, other brutality also.  Economic problems in Iran are a "tsunami"; succession is also critical.  Iran has overrun Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Sanaa, and Khartoum. Iran thinks if it create a dual-function organizations such as Hezbollah – political party-cum-militia, that it can achieve domination I expect more aggression in the coming year.   IRGC wants to show that they run everything and Rouhani has no authority to reconciliation with the US or reduce crisis. 
Hour Three
Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 3, Block A:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: PLO Central Council votes to end security cooperation  with Israel: because after PA went to ICC (illegally), Israel withheld funds.  Desalination plant, billion-dollar deal, from Red Sea into t he Dead Sea to replenish the Dead Sea and Israel wd give Jordan double the Sea of Galilee allocation; sharing desalination with Jordan.  At end of XVIII century Napoleon  walked across Sinai with exhausted troops, didn't realize that the water table there is very high.  Egypt-Saudi relations now questionable, esp in GCC mtg: Council criticized statements by the Egyptian amb for his statements on Qatar; later, it backed Egypt's actions in Libya (Qatar had rejected Egypt's bombing Libya for burning alive Egyptian Copts.   Egypt is under attack from both East and West, and internally from the Muslim Brothers, and from MB in Turkey.   Propose a Joint Arab Task Force – were massively disappointed by Washington's very recent conference; Sisi flew to Riyadh to confer with King Salman.   Iran in Khartoum: smuggling weapons from Libya to Sudan, now back into Libya, and Iran supports through cutouts both MB in Libya and Egypt; and in West Africa; bldg air defense system in Khartoum w IRGC.  [Pres Obama is committed to Iran and the Ikhwan. Is using ISIS as a cut-out, will be sure that ISIS can’t enter Shi'a space {which is what’s going on in Tikrit}.  Diversion of troops from Sinai cd be serious.]
Thursday  5 March 2015  / Hour 3, Block B: Dore Gold, in re:  
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Hour Four
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