Trump endorses Paxton, SCOTUS speculation, and the SD Islamic Center shooting
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Hugh discusses the San Diego Islamic center shooting, today's primary elections, and talks with Noah Rothman, David Drucker, Bethany Mandel, Byron York, Sen. Jon Husted, James Lileks, and Matt Continetti.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. |
| 0:03.4 | All things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.edu. |
| 0:05.6 | I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. |
| 0:08.8 | And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com |
| 0:13.0 | or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. |
| 0:17.6 | Morning, Gloria, and I'm Grace, America. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Hugh Hewitt show. |
| 0:22.5 | We are not at war, or at least combat operations, have not yet resumed with Iran, |
| 0:27.2 | although it said its new proposal demands reparations, U.S. trip withdrawal, |
| 0:31.4 | and an end to a Lebanon war. |
| 0:32.7 | So stay tuned to the end of the show. |
| 0:34.4 | You never know. |
| 0:35.4 | I want to begin the show with Noah Rothman because today is publication day of this book, |
| 0:40.2 | Blood and Progress, which is a fabulous book, which I recommend every single person in |
| 0:45.2 | audience go out and order from Amazon right now. |
| 0:48.3 | Get two copies, get one for your lefty friends. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm going to start counterintuitively what happened yesterday in San Diego. |
| 0:55.8 | Three people were shot and killed at the Islamic center of San Diego, a mosque. And the two |
| 1:01.7 | killers were teenagers. I believe you would classify them, Noah, as victims of disordered thinking. |
| 1:09.0 | How would you classify them or Islamophob? |
| 1:11.2 | What would you say about them? |
| 1:13.6 | Possibly Islamophobes, possibly this certainly disordered thinking, |
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