JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Sebastian Gorka, Fox; and Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents
 
Hour One
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 1, Block A: Congressman Devin Nunes, CA-22, Ranking in House Intell Committee; in re:   The president spoke to Devin by name during his speech this morning, One of the components of the speech’s success was that he listed the election promises he’d made and those he’d already delivered. The other success was that the president spotlighted the hundred-year-old Tuskegee airman and his young great-grandson, and the little girl who’ll get to attend the school of her choice, and the Afghanistan hero who returned at the president’s request and happily surprised his wife and children during the speech. During a hearing today, one of the Democratic Congressmen said that the Russians may have destroyed the Iowa app.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 1, Block B: Dr Henry Miller, Pacific Research Institute, in re: South China Morning Post headlines on the coronavirus. “After chaos, Dr Li Wenliang, coronavirus whistleblower, confirmed dead at 34.“ Also, factories to stay closed many extra days.  Survival can depend on “co-morbidities,” such as other maladies, compromised immune system, pulmonary problems, et al.   We have tens of thousands at risk. Have we learned the transmissibility, the mortality rate?  We’ve learned nothing new yet.  This virus doesn't mutate as rapidly or radically as influenza virus does; incubation, from several days to two weeks.  The fatalities are disproportionately in Hubei Province, where Wuhan City is. Outside there, 1.7%, which is low.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 1, Block C:  Seb Gorka, America First radio, in re:   The president’s remarks at the White House and the prayer breakfast on the acquittal. State of the Union speech.  The Iowa vote.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 1, Block D: Seb Gorka, America First radio, in re: “Dr Li Wenliang, coronavirus whistleblower, confirmed dead at 34“ – he was one of eight to brought the virus to the world’s attention, and he was arrested and persecuted by the regime for that.   It both represents a real danger to all of us, and is antithetical to everything we stand for.  We don't even know for sure that he died of the virus; he may have been a simple enemy of the state as he continued his social media information flow. This constitutes a very serious challenge to the tyranny of China. Meanwhile, the US has integrated its economy into the same supply chain.
The world economy, supply chain, and China untrustworthy. Low expectations that Xi and his mafiya cliques will ever be transparent. They still have labor camps.  Al Qaeda: it’s tough being a [honcho], dangerous with Trump as president.  Recall the days when they attacked all the time under a different Administration?
 
Hour Two
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 2, Block A:  Lee Zeldin, in re: Legislation: Never Again Education Act; and multiple other bills passing though with bipartisan support. . . . Pastor Brunson. Religious freedom in Iraq and around the world—and, as a first priority, freedom of religious practice in the US.
●        https://zeldin.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/house-passes-never-...
●        https://www.jns.org/us-house-passes-never-again-education-act-on-interna...
●        https://zeldin.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/zeldin-meng-deutch-...
●        https://zeldin.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-zeldin-cicilli...
●        https://zeldin.house.gov/sites/zeldin.house.gov/files/01.27.20_FINAL%20L...
●        https://zeldin.house.gov/sites/zeldin.house.gov/files/Israel%20Anti%20Bo...
Congressman Lee Zeldin has represented New York’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. Currently, Congressman Zeldin serves on two House Committees: Financial Services and Foreign Affairs, where he serves as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Additionally, Congressman Zeldin serves as co-chair of the Long Island Sound Caucus and founding member of the National Estuary Program Caucus and as one of two Jewish Republicans in Congress, also serves as co-chairman of the House Republican Israel Caucus, which has over 100 members.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 2, Block B:  Aykan Erdemir, in re: Escalations in Idlib-Turkey; update. The new Istanbul airport is spectacular.  Erdogan threatens retaliation against Syria because of the “murder” of Turkish soldiers by Syrians — on Syrian soil. Assad forces move further into Idlib, sending waves of refugees into Turkey.  Putin tries to defuse tensions, but it’s really a test of tensions between Russia and Turkey in their new alliance. In Nov 2015, Turkey downed a Russian jet; now, the biggest such crisis since then. Only Russia can stay Assad; and hundreds of thousands of Idlib residents continue to escape toward the Turkish border. Balancing acts.  Mike Pompeo’s “wayward ally, Turkey.” 
 ●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-usa-idUSKBN1ZZ2QY?taid...
●        http://info.washingtoninstitute.org/acton/rif/19961/s-0aad-2002/-/l-0085...
●        http://www.aymennjawad.org/2020/02/sarmin-in-idlib-interview
●        https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/fdd-report-trump-midterm-...
●        https://www.state.gov/ambassador-james-jeffrey-on-the-situation-in-syria/
●        https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/02/russia-syria-turkey-i...
●        https://www.voanews.com/europe/turkish-russian-tension-over-syria-opens-...
Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior Fellow at FDD, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. As an outspoken defender of pluralism, minority rights, and religious freedoms in the Middle East, Aykan has been at the forefront of the struggle against religious persecution, hate crimes, and hate speech in Turkey. 
 
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 2, Block C:  David Pollock, in re: Arab—Egyptian, Moroccan, and Gulf—reactions to the Trump peace plan. “A peace plan with lots o f money attached” uniformly rejected by Palestinians; others – fixed Arab monarchies—initially embraced parts of the plan.  The OIC meeting in Saudi did not. The opening basically lasted a few days.   The question is, even if they don't like all parts of the plan, can they agree on some of it?   The Arab public in many countries are weary of this conflict and the demands of Palestinians, Iranians, et al.?  However, Arabs are nervous about being outflanked by Iran’s or Malaysia’s, more extreme positions. Does the Arab League care what Europe thinks? Not much.  It’d help if Europe took a more active stance – but Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic have all prevented the EU from taking a unanimous stand against the Trump peace plan.  Boris Johnson favored the plan.  Zarif called Abbas, may visit Gaza.
●        https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/egypts-public-backs-...
●        https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/arab-reactions-to-tr...
●        https://en.radiofarda.com/a/in-rare-move-iran-s-zarif-calls-palestinian-...
●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-iran/iran-wi...
●        https://www.state.gov/escalation-of-violence-in-idlib/
David Pollock, the Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute, focuses on the political dynamics of Middle East countries. He is the director of Project Fikra, a program of research, publication, and network-building designed to generate policy ideas for promoting positive change and countering the spread of extremism in the Middle East.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 2, Block D:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Israel’s influence in Azerbaijani elections may be visible in the sense that 5,000 polling stations, 113 parliamentary candidates, all betoken accountability and transparency.  Possible normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel, including overflight rights. Azerbaijani elections are inspiring as it learns transparency; with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and other Central Asian countries, all are forging ahead. 
 
Hour Three
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 3, Block A:  Shamkhal Hasanli, president, Azar TV; in re: General Azerbaijani TV programming
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 3, Block B:  Shamkhal Hasanli, president, Azar TV; in re: Azerbaijani TV political programming.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 3, Block C:  Rovzat Gasimov, Head of the International Relations Department of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in re:  Current parliamentary elections (1 of 2)
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 3, Block D: Rovzat Gasimov, Head of the International Relations Department of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in re:  Current parliamentary elections (2 of 2)
 
Hour Four
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 4, Block A: Congressman Devin Nunes, CA-22, Ranking in House Intell Committee; in re:   The president spoke to Devin by name during his speech this morning, One of the components of the speech’s success was that he listed the election promises he’d made and those he’d already delivered. The other success was that the president spotlighted the hundred-year-old Tuskegee airman and his young great-grandson, and the little girl who’ll get to attend the school of her choice, and the Afghanistan hero who returned at the president’s request and happily surprised his wife and children during the speech. During a hearing today, one of the Democratic Congressmen said that the Russians may have destroyed the Iowa app.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 4, Block B: Dr Henry Miller, Pacific Research Institute, in re: South China Morning Post headlines on the coronavirus. “After chaos, Dr Li Wenliang, coronavirus whistleblower, confirmed dead at 34.“ Also, factories to stay closed many extra days.  Survival can depend on “co-morbidities,” such as other maladies, compromised immune system, pulmonary problems, et al.   We have tens of thousands at risk. Have we learned the transmissibility, the mortality rate?  We’ve learned nothing new yet.  This virus doesn't mutate as rapidly or radically as influenza virus does; incubation, from several days to two weeks.  The fatalities are disproportionately in Hubei Province, where Wuhan City is. Outside there, 1.7%, which is low.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 4, Block C:  Seb Gorka, America First radio, in re:   The president’s remarks at the White House and the prayer breakfast on the acquittal. State of the Union speech.  The Iowa vote.
Thursday 6 February 2020 /Hour 4, Block D: Seb Gorka, America First radio, in re: “Dr Li Wenliang, coronavirus whistleblower, confirmed dead at 34“ – he was one of eight to brought the virus to the world’s attention, and he was arrested and persecuted by the regime for that.   It both represents a real danger to all of us, and is antithetical to everything we stand for.  We don't even know for sure that he died of the virus; he may have been a simple enemy of the state as he continued his social media information flow. This constitutes a very serious challenge to the tyranny of China. Meanwhile, the US has integrated its economy into the same supply chain.
The world economy, supply chain, and China untrustworthy. Low expectations that Xi and his mafiya cliques will ever be transparent. They still have labor camps.  Al Qaeda: it’s tough being a [honcho], dangerous with Trump as president.  Recall the days when they attacked all the time under a different Administration?