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savior who brings hope for a lifetime through rich, biblical insight, heartfelt storytelling.

You'll be reminded that God

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Good morning and glory and evening, Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt back inside the Beltway

where I feel most comfortable, especially during a war where you can

talk to people throughout the day about what's going on. We are winning. We are winning decisively,

and we will win decisively. I don't know what the end state looks like in Iran, because we are not

seeking regime change so much as we are to destroy, again, not merely their nuclear power program and their nuclear

weapons program, but the missile force that surrounds it, as well as the military structure

that supplies it, and we're well on our way to there. President Trump gave a long press conference

today. What he had to say is a lot more important than what I have to say. Let's go to cut

number one. When this is over, oil prices are going to go down very, very rapidly. So is

inflation, so is everything else. But frankly, much more important than short-term, even

long-term oil prices, you can't let the most violent, vicious country in the

last 50 years have a nuclear weapon because the Middle East will be gone. Israel will go first,

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