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Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.

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 Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, Gloria, evening, Grace, America. And here's the Big Weekend Pod. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Thank you for listening. Big lineup today. John Ellis, of course,

with the news items of great import that you may have missed this week. Be following it up with

Eli Lake. We'll be talking about Iran, as I will be with Matt Continent and Ben Dominic as well.

Look, it is possible, as I said on America reports yesterday at John Roberts. It's possible that Iran

will capitulate and simply say, hey, we're going to open up the kimono, come get our missiles, come get our uranium.

It's what Qaddafi did in 2003, December, 2003 through spring of 2004, after the invasion of Iraq, had marched up to Baghdad.

Qaddafi saw what the United States military could do.

And he said, okay, I'm out.

Come get all my bad stuff. And we did go and get all of his bad stuff. Could the Iranians make that deal? I don't know. I don't think actually a regime is capable of doing that. but could a new regime put a bullet in the back of Jimini's head and decide,

no, we're not going to go down with this ship. These people are crazy. Yeah, that's possible.

But it would be a new regime like there's a new regime in Venezuela that is cooperating with

President Trump and the rest of the administration in the transition to something new and something that doesn't

threaten the United States or the people of Venezuela.

That transition undeterminate, yet how long it will go, but I'll talk with all my guests about that today.

Plus, Japan takes a Chinese shipping boat.

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