A Special Briefing on Looming War With Iran
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 236 minutes
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Summary
Since his interview with President Trump on January 8, Hugh has conducted a series of longer interview with American and Israeli experts not currently in intelligence jobs, on the likely war with Iran. They are collected in this podcast. The guests are President Trump, Haviv Rettig Gur, Mark Dubowitz, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Rear Admiral Mark C Montgomery (USN, Ret), Danielle Pletka, Dr. Michael Oren, former Senator Jim Talent, Richard Goldberg, Eli Lake, Abe Greenwald, and Karim Sadjadpour.
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| 0:48.0 | Morning and evening, Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Special Emergency Pod this week is Warlooms with Iran. |
| 0:54.6 | It's in addition to the big weekend pod, which will be available over wherever podcasts are, |
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| 1:03.0 | But this is the emergency podcast to get you up to speed if you've been on vacation or just sleepwalking through the last three weeks. |
| 1:09.8 | President Trump came on my program on January 8th and talked some tough talk about Iran. |
| 1:17.1 | He followed up that night with a conversation with Sean Hannity in which he doubled down on it. |
| 1:21.5 | Then a couple of days later with Tony DeCopal and on CBS. |
| 1:25.8 | And then a few more times, both at True Social on X and drop bys with reporters on the way in and out. |
| 1:32.6 | From that time forward, I've been devoting a lot of my program to thinking about exactly what would that mean, what would it look like. |
| 1:39.1 | And I found the very best experts I can. |
| 1:41.9 | Now, I can't put all 15 experts together onto one podcast. |
| 1:45.9 | It's going to be a pretty long podcast as it is. |
| 1:48.6 | But I got for you the part from my interview with President Trump about Iran, |
| 1:53.9 | and then we have lined up. |
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