President Trump in Davos
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Hugh discusses President Trump's trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos and talks with Rep. Jason Smith, Rep. Lisa McClain, Mary Katharine Ham, Charles C. W. Cooke, and Sarah Bedford.
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| 0:49.8 | Welcome back, America. I want to introduce you to the name of the impossible task. |
| 1:09.9 | Chairman, I'm sorry to say it that way. Representative Jason Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Meads Committee, has the impossible task of getting a second reconciliation through the House Republican Caucus with losing only two votes. |
| 1:11.8 | Can it be done, Mr. Chairman? |
| 1:20.1 | It's great to be with you. I said all along that we needed to do one big, beautiful bill, |
| 1:26.5 | to put as much of the items we could possibly get in to deliver the president's campaign promises for the American people. |
| 1:28.2 | It is very, very difficult, very difficult to do two reconciliation bills. |
| 1:35.4 | And when you can only lose two people and one member of our conference is going to be a no on, you know, whether you support oxygen. Yes. |
| 1:44.6 | That creates a very, very. |
| 1:48.0 | Let me guess. Is his name, I want to Kreskin, is his name Massey? |
| 1:51.4 | Yes. |
| 1:51.9 | Go ahead. |
| 1:53.8 | I won't be saying any names, but I will just say that the records, the voting records speak for themselves. |
| 2:02.1 | But it is so important that the American people know what we have delivered in the big, |
| 2:08.0 | beautiful bill. |
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