President Trump returns to discuss Cuba, Iran, SCOTUS and more
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Hugh interviews President Trump about Iran, Cuba, the SCOTUS, much more, and talks with callers.
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| 0:32.3 | Good morning, Lori, and Amy Grace America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, proud to welcome back to the Hugh |
| 0:36.7 | Hewitt show. President Donald Trump, happy New Year, Mr. Trump. Good to have you back. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, thank you very much, Hugh. Thank you very much. I don't want to waste your time, so I'm going to dive right in and begin with Iran. Michael Duran of the Hudson Institute says the regime there is failing. They have fuel shortages, electricity shortages, water shortage. |
| 0:56.6 | Karim Sadjuport Carnegie is posting the videos of the spreading protests. |
| 1:01.3 | Mark Dubovitz, so this is a quote, |
| 1:03.4 | if President Trump brings down the Islamic Republic of Iran, he will cement his place as the greatest foreign policy. |
| 1:09.5 | President since Ronald Reagan. |
| 1:12.7 | I thought I already did that. |
| 1:15.6 | I was just about to add, with Midnight Hammer, you did that. How much more can I do? |
| 1:16.9 | You know, we just had Venezuela. |
| 1:18.6 | We just had Midnight Hammer. |
| 1:20.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.0 | We settled eight wars. |
| 1:22.9 | Eight in a quarter. |
| 1:23.8 | But I'm willing to accept that. |
| 1:25.7 | I'm willing to accept it. |
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