Trump's "last chance" for Iran and updates on the budget and reconciliation
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Hugh discusses Iran, the midterm elections, leftist violence, and talks with Oklahoma Senator James Lankford, Noah Rothman, Sarah Bedford, Dr. Michael Oren, Stuart Adams, Jim Talent, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, and Seth Mandel.
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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 or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. |
| 0:17.1 | To the Wednesday edition of the Hewitt Show, I want to open up with Senator James Lankford from Oklahoma. |
| 0:22.8 | Senator Lankford, I was talking yesterday with a couple of defense-minded people, and they say the budget is going to be big. |
| 0:31.4 | It's going to go through reconciliation. |
| 0:33.5 | They're not sure how much, but the president asked for a trillion and a half dollars. |
| 0:37.3 | You're on |
| 0:37.5 | the budget committee what do you think yeah it's serving in that way we need to be able to put |
| 0:42.6 | whatever we need on national defense national events is one of those areas that we have to look at |
| 0:47.0 | okay i understand what we can afford we also understand what we need to be able to make sure that |
| 0:50.8 | we can secure the nation so we're waiting to be able to get some of the details behind that large of a request to figure out what is it. |
| 0:57.8 | For instance, drone warfare was not a thing we were talking about four years ago. It is all we're talking about right now. So we've got to look at what defense systems we're doing. We've got to keep doing. but what are we not doing we need to do |
| 1:08.6 | and to be able to figure out how to be able to make sure |
| 1:10.4 | we continue to secure the nation. |
| 1:12.3 | Now, Senator, what I listened to yesterday was Aaron McLean. What are we not doing we need to do and to be able to figure out to be able to make sure we continue to secure the nation? |
| 1:12.3 | Now, Senator, what I listened to yesterday was Aaron McLean School of War. |
| 1:16.2 | He was talking to a former staff director of Armed Services, John McCain's longtime director, Chris Brassard, I believe his name is, |
| 1:23.4 | and the barracuda missile is being produced by Andrel privately and then sold to the Pentagon trenches of 1,000. |
| 1:29.9 | That's not the way it's been done forever. |
| 1:31.9 | Do you think contracting is changing in real time to make budgeting more realistic? |
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