JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: John Catsimatidis, Cats Roundtable radio
Colleague: Sebastian Gorka, America First radio and Fox
 
Hour One
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 1, Block A: The final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee 1 of 8
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 1, Block B: The final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee 2 of 8
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 1, Block C: The final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee 3 of 8
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 1, Block D: The final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee 4 of 8
 
Hour Two
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  The final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee 5 of 8
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  The final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee 6 of 8 
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Debate analysis by Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack, publisher, littérateur, commentator; and John Catsimatidis,  @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable.
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 2, Block D:  Debate analysis by Salena Zito: @SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics; New York Post, CNN; Middle of Somewhere column; and John Catsimatidis,  @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable. 
 
Hour Three
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 3, Block A:  Debate analysis by Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution; John Catsimatidis,  @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable.
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 3, Block B: Debate analysis by Bill Whalen: @Hooverwhalen, @HooverInst, Area 45 blog; and John Catsimatidis,  @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable.
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 3, Block C:  Debate analysis by Sebastian Gorka, @SebGorka, America First radio, and John Catsimatidis,  @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable: in re: . . .  Biden denied having said what he clearly said on his video at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he explained how he’d told the Ukrainian PM that he would not get a billion dollars if he didn’t fire, within six hours, the Ukrainian Prosecutor who was investigating Biden’s son Hunter.    Allegations of genuinely horrendous deeds in China.   . . .  They [the eminences grises] know that Biden is a damaged candidate, are using him in order to push him over a cliff and make Harris president.  Bobulinski.  A non-denial denial.    Have taxes been paid on any of the income from China to the Biden family? Biden’s encomium to James Eastland, a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, was, “A distinguished gentleman.” DNI John Ratcliff:  There is zero evidence of Russian interference in [the matter of] Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 3, Block D:  Debate analysis by  Brett Arends: @BrettArends; @Marketwatch ROI column; and John Catsimatidis,  @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable: in re:  The Ruger Metric: when it goes up, Democrats are winning and people are buying weapons.  It’s been going down a good deal in the last few days.  Two hundred thousand dead by January?
 
Hour Four
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 4, Block A: Farzin Nadimi, @WashInst, in re: Iran. Now that the sanctions have expired what will the predator state of Iran do? Technically, it's free to export arms; but hurdles, esp US sanctions and its effort to prevent other countries from doing business with Iran. North Korea: will it pour missile weapons systems into Iran?  Not directly.  The main suspect is China.  . . . Syria, Lebanon.    A likely [Iranian] attack no matter who wins, merely sooner if Trump wins; and later if Biden wins, because he’ll be unable to negotiate a modus vivendi.   
Farzin Nadimi, an associate Fellow with The Washington Institute, is a Washington-based analyst specializing in the security and defense affairs of Iran and the Persian Gulf region. He has written previously for the Institute regarding Tehran's asymmetric naval warfare strategy.
·         https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/tehran-eyes-lifting-of-arms-embargo
·         https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/flare-up-in-nagorno-karabakh-the-iranian-dimension
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 4, Block B: Yossi Kuperwasser, @yossikup, @JerusalemCenter; in re: A new attack tunnel.  Hamas keeps working hard. While we’ve all been consumed with peace with UAE and Bahrain, Hamas has been digging, infilrtrat4ed into Israeli terriroty; discovered only because our new wall has sensors that found it.  A good achievement.   Gaza/PA, Syria, Arms Embargo 
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was formerly Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs and head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence.
●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/army-chief-uncovered-gaza-attack-tunnel-was-major-asset-to-the-enemy/
●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-qatar-ties-warming-amid-joint-efforts-to-ensure-gaza-calm-israeli-tv/
●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/treating-saeb-erekat/
●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/things-happen-defense-minister-seems-to-hint-israeli-behind-syria-strike/
●        https://jcpa.org/the-end-of-the-arms-embargo-on-iran/
●        https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Iran-To-Import-North-Korean-missiles-In-25-Year-Military-Deal-With-China
 
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 4, Block C: Jonathan Schanzer, @FDD, in re: Sudan. The surprising good news is that “an agreement between Israel and Sudan may have edged closer.”  Under Bashir, Sudan was condemned as a genocidal state, constantly committing war crimes; but the people toppled him, drastically changed national policies.
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD, where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. Jonathan previously worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the US Treasury Dept, where he played an integral role in the designation of numerous terrorist financiers.
●        https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/israels-next-peace-deal-will-be-with-sudan/
●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/dont-expect-uae-style-warmth-when-ties-established-with-sudan-opinion-646350
●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-israel/sudanese-strains-surface-as-u-s-pressure-triggers-debate-on-israel-idUSKBN2751GW
●        https://www.axios.com/us-israeli-delegation-secretly-visits-sudan-40425373-0595-4f8e-be90-91b09aea48d3.html
●        https://www.axios.com/sudan-government-state-sponsor-terror-list-israel-3e0e5a18-8bd1-42e2-ad9a-d3a44cf7f241.html
Thursday 22 October 2020  / Hour 4, Block D:  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:  North Korea selling weapons to Iran again.  Police raids in France.