The Big Weekend Pod
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Hugh discusses the news of the week with Eli Lake, Charles C. W. Cooke, Ben Domenech, John Elis, and Doug Lesmerises.
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| 0:00.0 | For over 30 years, Point of Grace has shared music, faith, and friendship with listeners across the country. |
| 0:05.1 | Now Denise, Lee, and Shelley are inviting you into their circle. Welcome to Circle of Friends. |
| 0:10.1 | The podcast is Point of Grace. Each week they're talking real life, current events, stories of true friendship, wisdom from God's Word, and all their favorite things. |
| 0:18.3 | If you're looking for a little company, a few laughs, and a lot of Jesus to hold it together, circle of friends. |
| 0:23.4 | The podcast is waiting for you. |
| 0:25.4 | Subscribe now wherever you listen or watch podcasts and circle up with point of grace. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale. |
| 0:34.7 | 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 Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning and evening, Grace, America. I'm Hugh, Huitt. Welcome to the Big Weekend Pod. Got a lot of great guests. You'll recognize them all. |
| 0:55.0 | John Ellis kicks us off as he always does. |
| 0:57.7 | Then I'll be joined by Charles C.W. Cook, Ben Dominic, Eli Lake. |
| 1:02.1 | It's a great shout. |
| 1:03.1 | Don't go anywhere. |
| 1:04.3 | Let me begin by telling you, though, I took a couple of hours last night to research the dates |
| 1:09.3 | of all the violence in America that might |
| 1:14.6 | be termed domestic political violence since Donald Trump won the presidency in November |
| 1:21.5 | 2016. That seems to me to be the nine-year period in which we ought to be focused in which I'll focus on |
| 1:29.8 | with Charles, for example, and with Ben Dominic. And you can divide these any way you want, |
| 1:36.8 | but the categories I think are political violence and non-political violence. It's in one of those |
| 1:41.7 | buckets. Within political violence, there's |
| 1:45.6 | left wing, right wing, and Islamists. And I think there'll sometimes be some that are difficult |
| 1:53.2 | to categorize, but I spent some time with Senator Cotton yesterday. Then I made a more |
| 1:58.6 | comprehensive list. Here's what I came up with. This is in reverse |
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