Election Day, The Passing of Dick Cheney, and Artic Frost updates
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Hugh discusses the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney, the elections underway today, the Arctic Frost scandal, and talks with Senators Shelley Moore Capito, Joni Ernst, and Eric Schmitt, as well as Bret Baier, Byron York, James Lileks, and John Ashbrook.
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| 0:48.2 | Good morning, glory, and evening grace, America. I'm Hugh. It is Election Day, and I will cover it extensively throughout the program. |
| 0:56.6 | But I want to begin on a sad note. Former Vice President Dick Cheney died today. He has been |
| 1:03.7 | the equal of any public servant in the United States for more than 40 years, one of the great |
| 1:10.5 | weight-bearing walls of the Republic, and in a variety of the United States for more than 40 years, one of the great weight-bearing walls of the |
| 1:12.7 | Republic, and in a variety of posts. |
| 1:16.5 | The youngest chief of staff in the White House ever for President Gerald Ford, a staunch |
| 1:25.8 | conservative and leadership member of the House of Representatives, |
| 1:30.0 | including ranking member on the very important Iran-Contra Committee, backed up by future |
| 1:35.6 | federal judge Dick Leon, he and his steady leadership helped President Reagan guide through that. |
| 1:43.1 | When George H.W. Bush became president, and he needed a Secretary of Defense. |
| 1:50.6 | After John Tower withdrew, the senator from Texas, he turned to the congressman from Wyoming, |
| 1:56.4 | and Dick Cheney became the model of a successful Secretary of Defense, |
| 2:04.4 | oversaw the planning and execution of the first Gulf War, |
| 2:10.1 | and then after H.W. was defeated in 1992, |
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