President Trump to Iranians: "Help is on the way"
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Hugh discusses Iran and talks with Tim Shaw, Mike Rogers, Daniel Darling, Comfortably Smug, Rich Lowry, David Zavagno, Sarah Bedford and Amb. Olga Stefanishyna.
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| 0:48.6 | Literally two minutes ago, President Trump announced in the Oval Office prior to saying the whole milk for Healthy Kids Act, the first statute of the year. |
| 0:58.4 | He said that the killing had stopped in Iran and that the execution that had been scheduled had been put off, had been stopped, |
| 1:07.5 | and that he would alert people if that changed. |
| 1:10.9 | This runs contrary to everything he said over the last week, including last night when he |
| 1:17.0 | arrived at Andrews, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, Iran signaled today it was |
| 1:23.2 | preparing to conduct swift trials and the execution of anti-government protesters defying President |
| 1:29.7 | Trump as it intensifies its crackdown on nationwide demonstrations. Now, either or both, |
| 1:37.8 | President Trump and the Iranian government spokespeople may be blowing smoke in our eyes. |
| 1:42.9 | Either or both of them might be saying A, and when |
| 1:46.5 | it's not A, or B, when it's not B, or not B or not B, or not A, when it is A, when it is A, |
| 1:51.6 | that's part of the great game, the wilderness of mirrors. That's where we are right now. |
| 1:56.2 | And the key is to keep the demonstrations going and stop the killing of the demonstrators or provide them with the ability to strike back. |
| 2:04.4 | Now, that's what the president just said. The killings have stopped. And it's nighttime now in Iran. They're always about, it's about midnight. |
| 2:13.0 | And very little information has come out. I follow everything I can. |
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