The Big Weekend Pod
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Hugh discusses the news of the week with John Ellis, Eli Lake, Matt Continetti, and Ben Domenech.
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| 0:29.9 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at |
| 0:34.3 | hillsdale.edu. |
| 0:35.7 | I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hillsdale.edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free |
| 0:37.5 | online courses there. And of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at Hugh for |
| 0:42.0 | Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning and Glory and Even |
| 0:48.1 | Grace, America. I'm Hugh. Welcome to the Big Weekend Pod. Quite a week. President called into |
| 0:53.6 | my program on Monday. |
| 0:55.5 | Talked to him for 30 minutes, most of which was focused on Iran. |
| 0:59.4 | And he laid it out very, very straightforward. |
| 1:01.9 | There have to be some red lines. |
| 1:03.8 | Number one, they renounce being a nuclear power, they being Iran. |
| 1:08.0 | Number two, all the enriched uranium comes to us, to the United States. |
| 1:12.5 | We'll help them get it out, but it's got to come to us. Number three, inspections of their missile |
| 1:17.1 | programs. Now, the president indicated that, hey, they live in a dangerous neighborhood. They might |
| 1:21.5 | need some, but they don't need everything that they've got. They can't grow up for us to missiles |
| 1:25.6 | to protect enrichment sites. And then, he added, and an aside, they can't grow up forest and missiles to protect enrichment sites. |
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