Inspector Javert testifies on Capitol Hill
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Hugh discusses former Special Council Jack Smith at the House Judiciary Committee hearing, this year's Oscar nominated movies, Greenland, Iran, and talks with Noah Rothman, Eliana Johnson, Jim Talent, Josh Kraushaar, and Jim Geraghty.
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| 0:48.1 | Glory, and Evening Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt on this Thursday. Jack Smith, former special prosecutor of Donald Trump, had his day being prosecuted by the House Oversight Committee today. |
| 0:59.0 | Here's Jim Jordan of Ohio talking with America's Javert, Jack Smith. Cut number two. |
| 1:04.1 | You and Mr. Chairman, I yield back to you. |
| 1:05.9 | Gentleman, yields back. |
| 1:07.0 | Mr. Smith, is Cassidy Hutchinson a liar? |
| 1:14.7 | She was their star witness, January 6th committee, |
| 1:19.5 | their star witness in one of those staged and choreographed hearings, they paid the former president of ABC News to put together. She was fact the only witness at this special |
| 1:25.6 | prime time hearing Tuesday, June 28th, 22, 8 o'clock in the evening. |
| 1:32.8 | And she told some stories. |
| 1:34.9 | I mean, these were, these were some stories. |
| 1:37.4 | She talked about President lunged across the back seat, grabbed the steering wheel, tried to drive the car to the Capitol. |
| 1:46.5 | And I just want to know, you think she was lying? |
| 1:52.9 | Chairman Jordan, my assessment of that particular issue is that with respect to the testimony about someone, the president lunging towards |
| 2:04.2 | the driver, my recollection of her testimony about that is that it was secondhand. |
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