The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 26 March 2019

Air Date: 
March 29, 2019

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 1, Block A: Liz Peek, The Hill and Fox News; in re: Economics, and American politics.
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 1, Block B: Liz Peek, The Hill and Fox News; in re: A Republican tout says that the Final Four will be Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke, and Kamela Harris.  Voters are interested in their healthcare and their jobs, and tend to give Donald Trump credit for the ragingly good economy.  . . . Dems talking about Medicare for all – a trillion dollars – and open borders. Abortion at full term, and increasing accommodation of anti-Semitism.
    GOP in New York is jubilant that there’s no evidence of collusion with Russia.
 
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 1, Block C:   John Tamny, Forbes, and RealClearPolitics, in re:  Steve Moore’s ascension to nominee for the Federal Reserve.
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 1, Block D:   Robert M Cutler, Carleton University, & Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (Boston), & Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (Dubai); in re: Nordstream
 
Hour Two
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: War with Russia?; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; “He sowed discord among the left”;  in re: Shooting the prisoners – Democrats haven’t decided yet, are stalling on the Mueller report. The Polar Bear expedition, where Americans slaughtered Russian peasants. Called them “Bolos,” as in Bolsheviks. French and Brits, as well, were just shooting peasants as they prepared to winter over in 1918-1919 in Archangel.  Horrendous.
          Four-hundred-plus-page Mueller report.  Russiagate  has nt expired; may, in fact, just be beginning Can live n in myth and somebody’s narrative: Putin put Trump in the White House, making Trump a Russian asset. Mueller found otherwise, but Russiagate will never end, as new political blood will be fed to this vampire.   Began based on the totally bogus Steele dossier.
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block B:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: War with Russia?; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re: Russiagate and US-Russian relations
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block C:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: War with Russia?; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:  Russiagate and US-Russian relations
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block D:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: War with Russia?; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; in re: Russiagate and US-Russian relations
 
Hour Three
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 3, Block A:  Bill McGurn, WSJ, in re:
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 3, Block B:  Terry Anderson, PERC Montana and Hoover; in re: Supreme Court decision on the Yakima Nation
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 3, Block C:   Andrew C McCarthy, NRO, and Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, the Great Voice of the Great Lakes; in re: January Obama mtg, and on its heels another with Rice, Biden, and several others. “The information we can’t give to the incoming team”, then the Memo to Self from Rice. 
    The two words:  collusion and obstruction.  Collusion is much bandied about, but “obstruction”  — Mr Mueller chose not to make a decision on obstruction.  Did the president obstruct justice by firing Comey in May 2017?  . . .  Evidently the Special Counsel informed Bill Barre some weeks ago . .  . a dereliction of duty by Special Counsel Mueller. He’d been brought on board immediately after Comey’s firing to make a prosecutorial decision on this; he did not, and dumped it in the lap of the AG. If there was no reason for him to make the decision, then he needed [not to take on the responsibility.] A novel theory of obstruction not for traditional reasons, but on the premise that you could make a case against the president of the US in pursuing his lawful [deeds] on the basis of his projected intent. The new AG seemed not to be interested in novel theories’ requiring reading someone’s mind, so Mueller punted and dumped it on the AG.
      The whole endeavor was an insurance policy in case Trump won. Hamstringing Trump was one the main goals of the Obama Administration.
htps://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-mccarthy-report/episode-39-arrival/
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 3, Block D: Andrew C McCarthy, NRO, and Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, the Great Voice of the Great Lakes; in re: . . . Nine days in May between the firing of Comey and the hiring of Mueller. 
      Page was McCabe’s legal counsel, so any important legal interpretation he made would have involved her.
tps://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-mccarthy-report/episode-39-arrival/
 
Hour Four

Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block A: The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent, by Michael Pullara  (1 of 4)
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block B:  The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent, by Michael Pullara  (2 of 4)
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block C:  The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent, by Michael Pullara  (3 of 4)
Tuesday 26 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block D:  The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent, by Michael Pullara  (4 of 4)