The Daring Rescue of a Downed Airman in Iran

The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Hugh discusses the rescue of the Air Force officer whose fighter jet was downed by Iran, and talks with Dr. Michael Oren, Senator Tom Cotton, Salena Zito, and takes reactions from callers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College.
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0:17.0	Glory, and Evening Grace, America.
0:19.0	I hope you had a happy Easter, a blessed Passover.
0:21.8	What a remarkable weekend.
0:23.9	Perhaps the most amazing thing I've seen the American military do in my many, many, many decades of doing the news, and I'm still astonished by it.
0:33.7	President just wrapped up a press conference.
0:35.6	I want to bring you parts of that press conference right away.
0:38.5	Here's cut number 22, President Trump answering questions at the press room.
0:42.9	Mark Meredith's Fox News.
0:45.8	I know that.
0:46.3	Oh, thank you.
0:48.1	America's watching.
0:49.3	No.
0:49.9	Can we go back to the weekend?
0:52.5	First off, was everyone on board with the operation or were there people that were trying to talk you out of going through with the operation this weekend?
0:59.0	Not everybody was on board.
1:00.0	Somebody else with any other?
1:01.0	No, there was military people, very professional, that preferred not doing it.
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