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Morning and glory in the evening, Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Welcome to the big weekend

pod. It was a very big week culminating at the Kennedy Center.

Of course, with President Trump presiding over the FIFA drawing for the World Cup

2006. It'll be played in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. We'll be talking about that

with my guest today and, of course, all the news of the week. Matt Continentie, Ben

Donovan. I have John Ellis coming in, John Garrity, all the people that make up the usual cast of characters on a Friday plus Dr. Larry Arne.

Coming along for the Hillsdale Dialogue, you got to get that over at my iTunes. I just have one request for you, one small request for you.

Please go over to the YouTube channel, if you hear you at YouTube, and subscribe, would you? We want to get the algorithm over 100,000. We need 700 more of you people who listen to this program every weekend, and there are a lot more of you who listen to this program every weekend than have to subscribe to the YouTube feed. So I know you like the podcast. Thank you. I appreciate it. Just go over to YouTube and subscribe, please. And now without further ado, the weekend review show on the Hugh Hewitt Show.

Good morning, glory, and even grace America. Good Friday to you. I hope you have a great weekend ahead. It is very, very chilly inside the Beltway. But we'll warm it up a bit with some good ideas here. John Ellis, founder and editor-in-chief of Ellis

items kicks off Friday as he does most Friday. Normally we just do the news, but John and I have

been going back and forth about, well, let me put it to you this way. Seward's Folly 1867,

Secretary of State Seward buys Alaska and is roasted for it, but we now have Ellis's

folly in the oven.

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