"Regime change" in Iran and a long conversation with Brit Hume
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Hugh discusses Iran and talks with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Mary Katharine Ham, John Podhoretz, Gov. Greg Gianforte, Salena Zito, Robert C. O'Brien, and Brit Hume.
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| 0:48.1 | Supreme Leader in Iran be worried right now? |
| 0:51.2 | I would say he should be very worried, yeah. He should be. |
| 0:55.0 | As you know, they're negotiating with her. |
| 0:57.5 | Morning glory and evening grace of America. |
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| 1:00.7 | That is President Trump an hour ago. |
| 1:03.2 | NBC News released that teaser. |
| 1:05.7 | Talks have broken down. |
| 1:06.9 | They've been, they never began, but they've been canceled. |
| 1:10.1 | It's perhaps the right way to put it. |
| 1:11.9 | And the cancellation of those talks suggests very much that the armada that is building, |
| 1:17.6 | this immense gathering of American strength in the Middle East is going to be put to use. |
| 1:23.5 | And I'm going to talk now with Majority Leader John Thune about that. |
| 1:27.9 | Leader Thune, welcome. |
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