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VIDEO: Mars vs. Venus

Thursday  29 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: David Davenport, Hoover Institution &Stanford, in re: post-debate analyses.  Trump was on more comfortable ground n economics; more so than Hillary on trade. She first said TTP was the gold standard before she was against it.  He does best when he...
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VIDEO: Post Debate

Monday 25 September 2016 / Hour 2, Block D: Sean Wilentz, Princeton, and Harry Siegel, Daily Beast and New York Daily News, in re:  “She’s been fighting ISIS her entire life” – um, hunh?  Mr Trump as strong during the law an order portion, but otherwise rather incoherent. Without a rally behind him...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. Significance...
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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. Two members of that generation are now running for the presidency.  Meanwhile,...
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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;...
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VIDEO: Paul Ryanism

Thursday  1 August 2016 / Hour 1, Block A:John Fund, NRO, in re: Congressman Ed Whitfield in ofc for 20 years, but his wife became a lobbyist for The Humane Society. An ethics committee decided he’d given her special access (but no enrichment or quid pro quo alleged); Paul Ryan sent him away – “It’...

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