705P Eastern Time: Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, House Lifts
the Lid
On Its Expenses Pelosi
directed House officials to post office-expense reports online in the wake of
disclosures that lawmakers spent some taxpayer money on luxury-car leases,
big-screen TVs and flowers. |Video
720P Eastern Time: Jeff Green, Bloomberg, GM Bonds Signal Market
Value Topping Ford's on Federal Bailout: General
Motors Corp. bond trading shows investors are betting its government-backed
bankruptcy will create a company with a higher market value than Ford Motor
Co., the only major U.S. automaker to shun a federal rescue.
735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, John Anderson, author, "Follow the Money." re Sotomayor nomination, re GM bankruptcy, re Chrysler deal, re FDIC cracks down after the fact on 19 big banks.
750P Eastern Time: Continued, re What really happened to Bear and Lehman? re state of banks and fate of TARP money, re is Wall Street in a rally mode? Do we go positive for the year next week?
805P Eastern Time: Keith Perine CQ re Sotomayor
Senators meetings, re Sotomayor Hearings
Likely in July Democrats want the
Senate to vote on Sotomayor before the August recess, scheduled to begin on
Aug. 7. Republicans have said they want more time to prepare for her
confirmation hearing.
820P Eastern Time; Gordon Cucullu is a retired
army colonel and the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea
Became the Evil Twin, re the Kim regime and the provocations. Re GITMO: Gordon Cucullu, a retired
army colonel, was so appalled by these reports that he decided to see for
himself. In a series of visits he inspected every corner of the camp and
interviewed dozens of personnel, from guards and interrogators to cooks and
nurses. The result--coming just as the Obama administration wants to close the
facility--is a riveting description of daily life for both prisoners and guards.
Cucullu describes the six camps reserved for different levels of compliance,
details the treatment of prisoners, and examines their experiences in detail,
including the techniques used to interrogate them, the food they eat, their
medical care, how they communicate with one another, and the many ingenious
ways they contrive to assault and injure their guards
835P Eastern Time: Wesley Gray, author "Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army," re the author's assignment to advise an Iraqi battalion in the turmoil of Anbar Province in 2006.
850P Eastern Time: Continued with Wesley Gray, re the risks and lessons of the US Marines in Anbar Province during 2006 along the Euphrates River, re confronting the Sunni Arab tribes and clans with a Shia-based Iraqi army of amateurs.
905P Eastern Time: Melik Kaylan, Forbes,com and Wall Street Journal, re the POTUS embassy to Arabia and to Cairo, re the ambitions of the Ummah and the search for "respegnity." Re the POTUS speech at Cairo.
920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re POTUS confab with Faisal of Arabia, re POTUS speech and visit in Cairo, re the Obama administration policy demand that the Netanyahu government cease development of settlements on the West Bank.
935P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, re the Sotomayor week of meetings with senators, re POTUS Cairo speech, re the next big adventure of Democratic healthcare.
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Sarah Palin's unusual campaign style language.
1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg, Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), Livonia, re Chrysler's deal with Fiat paused by courts, re what does Chrusler's sale to Fiat mean for GM and unemployment in Michigan?
1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Laura Litvan, Bloomberg, House Democrats are
weighing health care overhaul legislation that would require Americans to have
health insurance, with some exceptions, according to an outline circulating in
Washington.
1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Roundtable re Afpakia and North Korea. Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, MAry Kissel, Wall Street Journal Asia, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the Pakistan army offensive in Swat Valley, re North Korea provocations. North Korea Succession. re China Tiannamen Square.
1050P: (750P Pacific Time) Continued re Robert Joseph of Bush administration recommends dumping Six-Party and appeasement and getting rough on China re cut-offs to Kim.
1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable. John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Jim McTague, Barron's, re POTUS in Cairo, re FDIC gets tough on Citi, re what really happened when Bear and Lehman failed, do we know?
1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re the Obamicans, the GOP joins the Obama administration, re Obama worries about GITMO.
1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Gerald Martin, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life," re the new biography of the now 82-year-ol Nobel Lauerate, from rural Colombia, re the rise of the LAtin American Boom writers, re "One Hundred Years of Solitude," re GCM's grandfather and grandmother as the well of magical realism.
1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," There's going to be a
wedding in zero-g: re the founder of
Cirque du Soleil is going to be a space tourist: Also, Virgin Galactic has
begun engine tests of SpaceShip Two's engines:
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): John Bolton, AEI, re North Korea and the Kim regime succession, and what it means for the provocations, re Robert Joseph recommends discarding the Six PArty Talks and pressuring China to cut off aid to the Kim regime, re the threat of the Pyongyang-Tehran axis.
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, from Seoul Korea, re the Kim regime succession, re the trial of the two American journalists and rumors of Al Gore to the region to negotiate the relase of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Kate Kelly, author, "Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, The Toughest Firm on Wall Street," re the first failure of a New York player in the housing bubble game of 2002-2008, re the self-pity, blame-shifting, recklessness, sloppy greed, ordinary stupidity, and over-bearing self-election of men who paid themselves fortunes for trading risk and lost their sense of proportion when the music stopped. Systemic failure is a non-confrontational way of saying that the lords of Wall Street were naked fools long enough to wreck all of us.
1255P: (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt re Saturn to Penske, Hummer to China.
Hey it's 7PM and WABC is hosting Jeff Lickmen... where is My muse Mr. Batchelor?
Hope all is well on the home front Mr. B
Peace b w/ You
Yes, and where are the lovely podcasts? After six hours last week, I need to load up again! Thanks for the great work!
My error on the WMAL start. Technical Goldberg machine is always creative. Feed from New York was overriden by NY live for the first segment. All repaired by the second segment. The whole WMAL show, plus the others shows, are on the podcasts. I will get them to the website by tonight. I hope. Thanks for waiting. J
John-
Although I like listening to Jeffrey Lichtman, I need my JB fix on Sunday night. In NY, your show (and you) are a breath of sanity.
So get those podcasts up ASAP.
Thanks in advance.
Podcasts are up. :)
Maybe not the place to ask but I’ll ask. Are there plans to go back on to XM Radio or is this due to the 6 hours now. I just have to wait for the podcast I guess. My Sunday nights won’t be the same anymore but then again I now have 6 hours of podcasts.
Thanks Gene. The show is changing. We are adding and subtracting and reorganizing. The XM/Sirius was cool. We cannot keep everything. Hope we get to a formula that suits you. Regards and cheers. J