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Glory and Even Grace, America.

I'm Hugh Hewitt. Welcome.

We are five hours away, less than five hours away from the deadline that President Trump has put to the Iranian regime to come to terms that are acceptable to him in the United States.

I begin the program with Congressman Dan Harrigan, representing North Carolina's 10th Congressional District.

Pat Harrigan, excuse me, himself a green beret. Pat, welcome. You know, I want to remind the audience who's new. You have the distinguished David Dreyer chair on the U.S. show. For 25 years, we had a regular congressman. It was David Dreyer, then was John Campbell, then it was Tom Cotton, then it was Mike Pompeo, then it was Mike Olegger, then it was Mike Wals.

Now we just got to have a warrior, so you're it, Pat.

What did you make of Saturday's rescue?

I thought it was incredible, Hugh.

I mean, look, if you had any doubt about the capability of the United States military, whether it was after the

midnight hammer operation from a year ago highlighting our deep strike, whether it was

snatching and grabbing Maduro, the president of Venezuela out of his own country. There's just

not much else that I think could really impress you other than the operation

that happened on Saturday.

I mean, we spent every resource that we had to spend an awful lot of money, but we brought

that man home.

And I think that that's instructive to the rest of the world.

Number one, our capabilities, number two, our commitment to our people.

We're never, ever going to leave you behind.

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