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Grace, America. Welcome to the big weekend pod, and what a week it was. I've talked about

pretty much everything, at least a little bit during the week,

but I would guess out of the 75 segments that make up every week of the Hugh Hewitt Show,

I devoted 60 at least to the fact that we're on the verge of a major battle with Iran,

one that could be quite dangerous to American troops, soldiers, sailors,

airmen all throughout the region could be very dangerous to Israel, to our allies. Therefore,

President Trump is surging all sorts of force into the region. The second aircraft carrier is not

going, as we thought on Thursday. By Friday morning, we were sure that George H.W. Bush

was not being dispatched with one carrier group, bunches of destroyers, lots of Aegis class cruisers

that have air defense systems, they have knocked down missiles. I don't really want to try

to see how great the missile defense is.

That's not why we're doing this.

I think President Trump is doing this because he has a red line

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