GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Lebanon as the guns fall quiet for the first hours of a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanon government...

1836 Lebanon

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR (9:00-10:00 PM)

• 9:00-9:15: HEZBOLLAH Part 1: Ceasefire and Side Letter with Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
• 9:15-9:30: HEZBOLLAH Part 2: Ceasefire and Side Letter with Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
• 9:30-9:45: ANTISEMITISM Part 1: University Failures with Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution
• 9:45-10:00: ANTISEMITISM Part 2: University Failures with Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution

SECOND HOUR (10:00-11:00 PM)

• 10:00-10:15: PRC: Inadequacies with Anne Stevenson-Yang and Gordon Chang
• 10:15-10:30: HUAWEI: Theft with Brandon Weichert and Gordon Chang
• 10:30-10:45: TARIFFS: Unknown to Unwelcome with Fraser Howie and Gordon Chang
• 10:45-11:00: USMCA: New Trade Representative with Alan Tonelson and Gordon Chang

THIRD HOUR (11:00 PM-12:00 AM)

• 11:00-11:15: UKRAINE: ATACMs and Mines for Kyiv with Col. Jeff McCausland
• 11:15-11:30: UKRAINE: Hybrid Warfare with Col. Jeff McCausland
• 11:30-11:45: NASA: Manned Risks with Bob Zimmerman
• 11:45-12:00: MOON: Moon Buggy Contracts with Bob Zimmerman

FOURTH HOUR (12:00-1:00 AM)

• 12:00-12:15: AI: Talk or Transformation? with Chris Riegel
• 12:15-12:30: CANADA: Green in Eclipse with Conrad Black
• 12:30-12:45: RUSSIA: Ruble Collapses with Michael Bernstam

#Y2K: The Tech Bubble of 2000. Simon Constable, Occitanie.

1927 NYSE

TARIFFS: unknown to unwelcome. 
Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/business/trump-tariffs-us-china-currency.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/26/trumps-tariff-threats-signal-start-of-a-wild-ride-in-currency-markets.html

1905 Shanghai

8/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 
by  Max Boot  (Author)

1983 Afghanistan

https://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Life-Legend-Max-Boot/dp/0871409445


The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor.

The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift.

Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age.

With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

7/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 
by  Max Boot  (Author)

March 1981, the shooting
https://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Life-Legend-Max-Boot/dp/0871409445


The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor.

The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift.

Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age.

With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

6/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 
by  Max Boot  (Author)


 1981 Inauguration Speech



https://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Life-Legend-Max-Boot/dp/0871409445


The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor.

The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift.

Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age.

With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

5/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 
by  Max Boot  (Author)

1981 Inauguration

https://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Life-Legend-Max-Boot/dp/0871409445


The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor.

The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift.

Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age.

With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

#INDIA: Teaming with  Australia to recover spacecraft Gaganyaan. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM

1957

#SPACEX: Making Brownsville a tourist destination. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

1952

  #LANCASTER REPORT: Pancake Farm packed with holiday spirit. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ.  Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series."  #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

1949 

#PACIFICWATCH: #VEGASREPORT:  FORMULA 1 WEEKEND.  @JCBLISS

1957 Formula 1

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Battle over WFH.  @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

1941 FDR New Deal

#SmallBusinessAmerica: The approaching storm of tariffs. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

1880s New Orleans

HUAWEI: Theft.and State Security
Brandon Weichert, author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower.
@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/21/salt-typhoon-china-hack-telecom/
https://www.ft.com/content/cf6bbaed-00f3-4e7c-a932-4a4382e9751e

1906 War of the Worlds

#CA: vs FlL. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution

1926 Orange County

#KeystoneReport: Casey strikes out. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com

1910 Scranton

Preview: Ronald Reagan: Soviet Union: Author Max Boot, "Reagan: His Life and Legend," speaks with George Shultz, the Reagan Administration Secretary of State, and asks if there was a plan to topple the Soviet empire. More tonight.  

1928 Moscow

Preview: INFLATION: Colleague Jim McTague (former Washington Editor, Barron's: @MCTagueJ, Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series") samples food prices both at retail dining and the marketplace and finds food inflation unsolved. More later.

1941 Pennsylvania

Preview: DOJ: Colleague Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution measures the Attorney General's conduct and record at Justice for POTUS Biden. More tonight.

1890 SCOTUS

Preview: Las Vegas: Hollywood: Colleague Jeff Bliss reports that Warner Brothers is looking to move its headquarters to Clark County to team up with UNLV for Hollywood 2.0 -- film school, production facilities. More later.

1940 Clark County

Preview: SpaceX: Brownsville: Colleague Bob Zimmerman comments on the popularity and the value of SpaceX in the Brownsville area. More tonight.

1956

Preview: Work From Home (WFH): Colleague Gene Marks comments on the expectation that DOJ may require federal employees to return to the office five days a week. More later.

1939 NYSE

GOOD EVENING: The show begins with the roll-out of the Trump Administration's national security team as reported by Cliff May of FDD...

1955

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15: POTUS: Trump Administration National Security team roll out. Cliff May, FDD 9:15-9:30: #BRAZIL: Lula da Silva's ambition to be a hegemon. Mary Anastasia O'Grady 9:30-9:45: #PRC: Stock Bubble building at the hands of the CCP. #SCALAREPORT: Chris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache 9:45-10:00: #INDIA: No generalities suit on the polling and voting 2024. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ

SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15: #LEBANON: Hezbollah seeks separate peace. Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Research Fellow at FDD 10:15-10:30: #IRAQ: Shia militias firing drones and rockets. Dr. Michael Knights, Jill and Jay Bernstein Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute 10:30-10:45: #ANTISEMITISM: Dion J. Pierre, Campus Correspondent, The Algemeiner 10:45-11:00: #ISRAEL: ICC attacks; Bernie Sanders fails; EU and UN sanction. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15: #NewWorldReport: APEC, G-20 and Xi 11:15-11:30: #NewWorldReport: Milei and Xi 11:30-11:45: #NewWorldReport: Sheinbaum and Trump 11:45-12:00: #NewWorldReport: US and Maduro All segments with Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute @revanellis

FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15: #ICC: Global Lawfare targeting Netanyahu and Gallant. Richard Goldberg, FDD 12:15-12:30: #MRMARKET: FTC vs. Bigness, failing. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus 12:30-12:45: #RUSSIA: Provocation parade (Part 1). Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute 12:45-1:00 AM: #RUSSIA: Provocation parade (Part 2). Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

2/2: #RUSSIA: Provocation Parade. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

1945 Zhukov im Red Square

PRC: inadequate. 
Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.ft.com/content/a897109d-8af2-480b-9138-4d8592078f2f

1926

1/2: #RUSSIA: Provocation Parade. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

1945 Poles Victory Parade, Red Square

#MRMARKET: FTC vs. Bigness, failing. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus

1912 Waiting for Bryant to speak.

#ICC:  Global Lawfare targeting Netanyahu and Gallant. . Richard Goldberg, FDD

1550 The Hague

#NewWorldReport:US and Maduro.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

1902 Caracas

#NewWorldReport:  /Sheinbaum and Trump.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

1905 Guaymas Mexico

#NewWorldReport: Milei and Xi. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

1895 Argentina

#NewWorldReport: APEC, G-20 and Xi. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

19454 Lima Peru

#ISRAEL: ICC attacks; Bernie Sanders fails; EU and UN sanction.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

1925 Hague

#ANTISEMITISM: 
Dion J. Pierre is the Campus Correspondent for The Algemeiner. He has previously worked at the National Association of Scholars and is the author of "Neo-Segregation at Yale."

1850 Nassau Hall

#IRAQ: Shia militias firing drones and rockets: 
Dr. Michael Knights is the Jill and Jay Bernstein Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute, specializing in the military and security affairs of Iraq, Iran, and the Gulf states. He is a cofounder of the Militia Spotlight platform, which offers in-depth analysis of developments related to Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.

Tigris River

2/2: ANTISEMITISM: The university failure continues. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

1930 STANFORD

#LEBANON: Hezbollah seeks separate peace: Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at FDD. He focuses on the Gulf region and Yemen, including on Gulf relations with Iran and Gulf peace with Israel. Hussain earned a degree in History and Archeology from the American University of Beirut, after which he worked as a reporter, and later managing editor, at Beirut’s The Daily Star. 

1970 Beirut

#INDIA: No generalities suit on the polling and voting 2024. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ

1840s Bombay

##PRC: Stock Bubble building at the hands of the CCP. #SCALAREPORT: Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache. 

1940 Wuhan University

#BRAZIL: Lula da Silva ambition to be a hegemon. Mary Anastasia O'Grady.

1928 Rio

POTUS: Trump Administration National Security team roll out: Cliff May, FDD

1944 UK National Security

PREVIEWS: INDIAN-AMERICANS: Colleague Sadanand Dhume of AEI and WSJ reports that the recent election indicates that Indian-Americans vote on the pocketbook, and increasingly so, more than identity.

1860s Delhi

PREVIEW: PRC: THEFT: Conversation with colleague Chris Riegel of #SCALAREPORT asking if the PRC aims to steal high end chip making, such as what ASML, NVDA and TSMC can produce? In the same way it steals the designs for high performance warplanes?

1907 Peking

PREVIEW: ISRAEL: SENATE: WHITE HOUSE: Colleague Malcolm Hoenlein reports on efforts by members of the US Senate and also by the White House to sanction the Netanyahu government in some fashion. More tonight.

Old City Jerusalem

PREVIEW: IRAQ: SAUDI ARABIA: Colleague Michael Knights of the Washington Institute examines the competing Shia gangs that continue to launch drones and missiles into Israel from Iraq and sometimes from Saudi Arabia. More tonight.

1917 Baghdad

PREVIEW: NATIONAL SECURITY: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: Colleague Cliff May of FDD evaluates the promising entrance of Marco Rubio at State to lead the Trump team on geopolitics and national security along with NSA Mike Waltz of Florida. More tonight.

1940

1/2: ANTISEMITISM: The university failure continues. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

1906 STANFORD

 PREVIEW: RUSSIA: NATO: Colleague Anatol Lieven of Quincy Institute comments on the opinion of Russians he has interviewed or spoken to about what NATO troops in Ukraine would trigger.  More later.

1936 Moscow

GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Hong Kong at the show trial of Jimmy Lai...

1930 Hong Kong

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 1/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for speaking of freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 915-930 2/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for advancing freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
930-945 #FRANCE: The Roman Empire city of Toulouse welcomes farmers. The Roman Empire City of Londinium provokes farmers. . Simon Constable 945-1000 #SPACEX: Starship No 6 test and the floating plastic banana. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #NUKES: What is the threshold? Peter Huessy, Deterrence Studies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
1015-1030 #TAIWAN: Small arms to millions. Brandon Weichert, National Interest. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
1030-1045 #PLA: significance of China's J-35A, J-20, J-10. General Blaine Holt , USAF (retired). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
1045-1100 #OPCW: Russia accused of CD gas drone dropped on Ukraine trenches. Andrea Stricker, FDD THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #DOGE:  Poor idea, won't work -- and why.  Tom Modly, American Thinker. 1115-1130 #RUSSIA: Inflation level accelerating. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution 1130-1145 1/2: #PRC:  Recommendations for confronting and containing and even combatting CCP in the New Year. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution. 1145-1200 2/2: #PRC:  Recommendations for confronting and containing and even combatting CCP in the New Year. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution. FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 1/2: #HOTEL MARS :The end of SLS? Eric Berger Ars Technica. David Livingston SpaceShow.com
1215-1230 2/2: #HOTEL MARS :The end of SLS? Eric Berger Ars Technica. David Livingston SpaceShow.com
1230-1245 1/2: #RUSSIA: Abkhazia and the Black Sea railroad link to Eurasia. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures.
1245-100 AM
2/2: #RUSSIA: Abkhazia and the Black Sea railroad link to Eurasia. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures.p

2/2: #RUSSIA: Abkhazia and the Black Sea railroad link to Eurasia. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures.

2006