The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 4 April 2019

Air Date: 
April 04, 2019

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Sebastian Gorka, Fox; and Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents
 
Hour One
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block A:  Sebastian Gorka, Fox News and America First radio, in re: Democrats and pocketbook; and 202,000 jobs is the current employment number. Spectacularly good, better than any since 1969.  . . .  Herman Cain to be nominated to the Fed.
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block B:  Christian Whiton,  Center for the National Interest;  in re: Joe Biden
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block C:  Andrew C McCarthy, Fox News, in re: Russiagate & ethics.
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block D:  Andrew C McCarthy, Fox News, in re:  Russiagate & ethics.
 
Hour Two
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block A:  Ehud Yaari, in re: Israeli elections
·       https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium.MAGAZINE-i-want-likud-but-i-m-fed-up-with-bibi-the-undecided-who-will-swing-the-vote-1.7085440
·       https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-why-this-is-the-most-difficult-israeli-election-to-predict-in-23-years-1.7087020
·       https://www.timesofisrael.com/blue-and-white-releases-its-political-platform-no-second-disengagement/
·       https://kafeknesset.substack.com/p/kafe-knesset-election-nine-days-away?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxODA4NDQwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NDU5MywiXyI6InFqSnVlIiwiaWF0IjoxNTU0Mzk2NzA0LCJleHAiOjE1NTQ0MDAzMDQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01NDUyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.2eDnqcIGFZi4-QB_Fd_GOH1U206rcXzbK0soIpEfILw
Ehud Yaari is an Israel-based Lafer international Fellow of The Washington Institute and author of Toward Israeli-Palestinian Disengagement and Peace by Piece: A Decade of Egyptian Policy and Sinai: The New Front? A Middle East commentator for Israel's Channel Two television and former associate editor of Jerusalem Report, Mr. Yaari has been a Middle East commentator for Israeli television since 1975.
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block B:  Congressman Josh Gottheimer, in re:  Antisemitism; US-Israel relations
https://www.jta.org/2018/11/13/united-states/hate-crimes-jews-rise-37-fbi-reports
http://www.policyconference.org/pdf/2019/PC2019_LobbyingAgenda.pdf
Josh Gottheimer represents New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District in the northernmost part of the state, which includes parts of Bergen, Passaic, Sussex, and Warren counties. He was sworn in on January 3, 2017. In Congress, Josh serves on the House Financial Services Committee where he works on three Subcommittees: National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy Subcommittee, the Capital Markets, Securities, and Investments Subcommittee, and the Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee.
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block C:  Steve Cook, in re:  F35s, S400; Sisi/Trump
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/04/01/in-stunning-upset-turkish-opposition-takes-ankara-istanbul/
 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-03/turkish-elections-do-not-allow-erdogan-to-annul-the-results
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-erdogan-wobbled-but-can-he-really-be-toppled-1.7085786
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/04/01/s-400-or-f-35-turkeys-erdogan-must-choose/
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/memos/2019/04/01/the-prospect-of-u-s-sanctions-exacerbates-turkeys-political-and-economic-risks/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/nato-not-capable-of-defending-turkey-s-airspace-minister-says
Steven A. Cook is the Eni Enrico Mattei senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is the author of False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is also the author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ruling but Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Cook contributes regularly to foreign policy journals such as Foreign Affairs
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block D: Aykan Erdemir, in re:  Turkish elections, S-400/F35/NATO
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/04/01/in-stunning-upset-turkish-opposition-takes-ankara-istanbul/
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-03/turkish-elections-do-not-allow-erdogan-to-annul-the-results
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-erdogan-wobbled-but-can-he-really-be-toppled-1.7085786
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/04/01/s-400-or-f-35-turkeys-erdogan-must-choose/
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/memos/2019/04/01/the-prospect-of-u-s-sanctions-exacerbates-turkeys-political-and-economic-risks/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/nato-not-capable-of-defending-turkey-s-airspace-minister-says
Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior Fellow at FDD, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. As an outspoken defender of pluralism, minority rights, and religious freedoms in the Middle East, Aykan has been at the forefront of the struggle against religious persecution, hate crimes, and hate speech in Turkey. He is a founding member of the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief, and a drafter of and signatory to the Oslo Charter for Freedom of Religion or Belief (2014), as well as a signatory legislator to the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism.
 
Hour Three
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 3, Block A:  Malcolm Hoenlen, in re:  Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia; Russia as the marionetteer. A fuse awaiting to be lit to engulf the region. The return of the remains of an Israeli soldier from Syria to Israel.
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 3, Block B:  Haisam Hassanein, in re:  Israel/Egypt’s 40th anniversary. Trump-Sisi meeting.
·       https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-second-step-in-egypt-israel-peace-is-a-tall-one
·       https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Trump-to-meet-Sisi-at-the-White-House-on-the-eve-of-Israeli-elections-585258
·       https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/29/trump-al-sisi-white-house-egypt-1243491
Haisam Hassanein is a policy analyst based in Israel and a former Fellow at the Washington Institute. 
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 3, Block C:  Clifford May, FDD, in re: Budapest migration
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 3, Block D:  Robert M Cutler, Carleton University,  & Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (Boston), and Non-Resident Scholar, Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (Dubai);  in re:  Central Asian oil & gas pipelines.
 
Hour Four
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 4, Block A:  Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership, by Barry Strauss (1 of 4)
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 4, Block B:  Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership, by Barry Strauss (2 of 4)
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 4, Block C: Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership, by Barry Strauss (3 of 4)
Thursday 4 April 2019/ Hour 4, Block D:  Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership, by Barry Strauss (4 of 4)
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