The John Batchelor Show

Friday 16 June 2017

Air Date: 
June 16, 2017

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 1, Block A: Dan Henninger, WSJ Wonder Land and editorial board; in re: Growing Washington legal matters, now: obstruction. 
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 1, Block B: Seb Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump; in re: Counterterrorism; the attempted murder of Rep Scalise.  What we must do hencefoth.
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 1, Block C: Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review; former Asst United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; in re: Mueller, and the open warrant, carte blanche, that a special counsel has.
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 1, Block D: Liz Peek, Fiscal Time and Fox; in re: the appalling state of uncivil American discourse and resultant physical danger.
 
Hour Two
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:  In the US Senate, the caning of Charles Sumner in 1856*, when Preston Brooks beat Sumner so brutally that his gutta-percha cane broke in pieces.  . . .  2016 election: 150 counties went blue, all the others in the country were red.  A stratification in America where people who do well create bubbles that are impermeable to normal citizens. 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 2, Block B:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:  Agonistes. 
. . . The idea that there’s a dominant US elite that cannot cede any of its power and economic leverage; will not recognize the democratic rights of those who've been left behind. An existential conflict waiting to happen. 
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 2, Block C:  Max Holland, Weekly Standard and author, Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat;  in re: Watergate break-in occurred in June 1972.  Pres Nixon eventually fired his special counsel, precipitating other major problems. 
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 2, Block D: Max Holland, Weekly Standard and author, Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat;  in re: Watergate break-in.
 
Hour Three
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 3, Block A: Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com and author, Commercial Space; in re:  Space.
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 3, Block B: Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com and author, Commercial Space; in re:  Space
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:  Andrew Roberts,  Napoleon: A Life
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 3, Block D:  Andrew Roberts,  Napoleon: A Life
 
Hour Four
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 4, Block A: Steve Warner, Dark City, in re: Alex Jones.
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 4, Block B: Jim McTague, Barron’s Washington, in re: Job numbers and he state of the US economy.
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 4, Block C:  Hotel Mars, episode n.  ______, in re: The age of stars.
Friday 15 June 2017 / Hour 4, Block D:  Bernard L. Weinstein, Assoc Dir, Maguire Energy Inst; & Cox School of Business; at Southern Methodist University; in re: Energy subsidies.