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VIDEO: Obama for General Secretary
Thursday 22 September 2016 / Hour 2, Block A: Amb. John Bolton, in re: UNGA. Rouhani with Chuck Press this afternoon: Todd asked about the secret nuke facility in Iran, supposed to have been closed entirely, but it now has a first-rate ground-to-air system. Why is that there? “Iran has a right to defend itself.” Was formally agreed to be converted to a research facility, but now Russia ships the S-300 missile defense system. It's utterly clear that the regime is moving along toward nuclear prowess.
VIDEO: Debate Prep
Tuesday 20 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, in re: Fox News map* of electoral votes: HRC 260; JDT: 170. Winner must have 270. Trump has all the ammo on key issues; I don't know what Mrs C’s message is. Trump is in the driver’s seat; will he have the discipline and knowledge of issues; and to handle Mrs C in a gingerly fashion?
VIDEO: Terror USA
Monday 19 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD, in re: The weekend bomber left bombs in Manhattan with apparently no concern for videocams everywhere. New Police Commissioner today. Ahmad Khan Rahami Is Arrested in Manhattan and New Jersey Bombings He seems to have made some trips to Afghanistan in the past years; seems to be a well-enough planned and poorly-e
VIDEO: 15 Years Later
Monday 12 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD, in re: The Egyptian al Zawahiri, the most underrated jihadi of all time: he’s still standing, has been hunted by world intell svcs since the 1980s and here in 2016 we’re still speaking of him, and he’s in control of large forces; an evil genius. After al Baghdadi left al Qaeda, Zawahiri went on to build the largest standing paramilitary army perhaps in the world. Al Q has loyal followers from West Africa through the Levant and down to Southeast Asia.
VIDEO: North Korea Nuke
Thursday 8 September 2016 / Hour 2, Block B: One Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: DPRK missile launch? 5.3 earthquake seismology in Pyongyang: consonant with a missile test. USGS said: artificial. Yonhap: An explosion – 20 to 30 kilotons. North Korea making a lot of progress.
VIDEO: Return to Vietnam
Wednesday 7 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Cleo Paskal, visiting Trudeau Fellow, University of Montreal, and associate Fellow, Chatham House, in re: The Vietnam War taught my generation to doubt ad challenge.
VIDEO: JFK & the Reagan Revolution
Tuesday 6 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block D: Larry Kudlow, in re: A Philip Randolph in the early 1960s: poor economic growth was blocking any economic progress for African- Americans after Brown V Board. The 1967 Civil Rights Act was limited. Needed to break up an unholy alliance of unions; voted against tax cuts, wanted the status quo of segregation. LBJ got George Meany (AFofL-CIO) on board. See the book. Growth is essential to the American psyche.