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And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, glory, and evening, Grace, America. Welcome to the Big Weekend Pod. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Thank you for always being here. Hopefully on your Saturday morning workout,

you've decided to take me along, as well as Ben Dominic and Eli Lake, John Ellis, Doug LeMay's,

for a little bit of football to get you going. I just thought I would start by saying,

keep your fingers crossed and say your prayers if you're a Catholic at a rosary because we really want those hostages back.

The whole world wants those hostages back on Monday, which is the day they're supposed to come.

But it's Hamas.

They're terrorists.

I don't expect it to be an easy, flawless handover, one done without drama.

But we don't know.

We can pray that it turns out that way.

I do want to call your attention like I did throughout Friday's program.

The fact, this is 100% a Donald Trump achievement.

It is Nobel laureate worthy.

The Nobel idiot went out there.

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