NATO, the Pope, the Ceasefire, and the Reconciliation Bill
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Hugh talks with Senators Jon Husted and Tom Cotton, Eliana Johnson, Victorino Matus, Seth Mandel, and Haviv Rettig Gur.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at |
| 0:04.3 | Hillsdale.edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. |
| 0:08.8 | And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com |
| 0:13.0 | or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. |
| 0:17.0 | I hope you're having a good one. I am, and I'm beginning the program with the United States Senator John Houston from my home state of Ohio. |
| 0:24.2 | Senator, welcome back. Always good to see you. I want to start by complimenting you and Senator Marino on working with the White House to nominate Ben Flowers to the Sixth Circuit. |
| 0:34.9 | The former Ohio Solicitor General is a fine judge. |
| 0:37.8 | Have you figured out how the whole judicial business works yet in your second year? |
| 0:44.4 | So, yes, it's a learning process that I am living, and Ben Flowers will do great on the Sixth Circuit. |
| 0:53.3 | I have fortunately and fortunately been to the Sixth |
| 0:57.2 | Circuit many times as Secretary of State on election law issues, and it's going to be great to have |
| 1:02.3 | somebody who has a conservative worldview on law and the Constitution join the Sixth Circuit. |
| 1:10.7 | He's going to take for Jeff Sutton, who's stepping up to senior status. |
| 1:14.6 | And I've been doing this long enough. |
| 1:15.9 | I remember when Jeff Sutton was confirmed, and that's a good following a good. |
| 1:19.4 | That's a great following a great. |
| 1:21.1 | Second local question, I have not asked you about East Liverpool in a while. |
| 1:24.8 | You're on Environmental and Public Affairs. |
| 1:27.6 | Has East Liverpool been made whole? Have we taken care of East Liverpool in a while. You're on Environmental and Public Affairs. Has East Liverpool been made whole? |
| 1:29.7 | Are we, have we taken care of East Liverpool? |
| 1:32.6 | Yeah, East Palestine with the train. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah. Yeah. We have two. We have East Palestine and East |
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