"Under Siege" and The Looming Shutdown
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Hugh talks with Eric Trump, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Sen. Tom Cotton, Vic Matus, Terry Pluto and Doug Lesmerises.
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| 0:00.0 | America's about to lose the AI arms race. Not because of chips or code, but power. |
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| 0:31.1 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale. |
| 0:35.6 | I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. |
| 0:39.8 | 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. |
| 0:48.2 | Thank you for joining me on this Monday. I begin with Eric Trump, Executive vice president of the Trump organization. |
| 0:55.4 | He is the author of a brand new book, Underseege, My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation. |
| 1:00.7 | I've posted the link over at X so you can pre-order Underseege. |
| 1:04.3 | Eric, welcome. |
| 1:05.7 | I want to know first, I understand you're donating portions of the proceeds from under siege to Turning Point |
| 1:11.3 | USA. What was your relationship with Charlie and why are you doing that? |
| 1:16.8 | Listen to you, Charlie was a great man. I met him when he was 21 years old. He came into |
| 1:20.2 | the Trump organization. He told me all the plans that he had for Turning Point and man, did that guy |
| 1:24.0 | ever, you know, make them materialize? We hear about a lot of BS in our lives |
| 1:27.7 | and, you know, a lot of lofty goals and aspirations. And he did every single one of them, and he did it better. And listen, the whole book under siege, the whole concept is exactly what they've tried to do to my father, what they've tried to do to me, what they've tried to do to the MAGA movement. They've tried to kill us. |
| 1:42.1 | They've tried to bankrupt us. |
| 1:44.5 | They've tried to censor our voice. |
| 1:46.1 | They've tried to gag order us. |
| 1:47.4 | They stripped us off a... to do the MAGA movement. They've tried to kill us. They've tried to, you know, bankrupt us. |
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