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Welcome to the Big Weekend Pod.

I'm Hugh Hewitt.

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The weekend is going to be full of speculation about what President Trump did and what he didn't do, why he did, what he did and didn't do, what he didn't do, and the fact of the matter is.

It's all premature, all of it, because we're at the end of the beginning of the showdown with the Mullahs.

And I'm not a big believer that their regime is going to collapse anytime soon. But I believe it can be cabined. It can be trained

not to kill thousands of people, not to threaten Israel, not to threaten the President of the

United States, not to engage in the export of terrorism.

And the way you train it is the same way you train a vicious dog.

And you hit them really, really hard and put down some of them when they've bitten too often.

And we know the names and the addresses of most of the people

at the top of the regime. It's a vast structure, though, a vast structure of terrorism. It's a

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