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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

Updates on the blockade, negotiations, and the Senate reconciliation bill

The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4610 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Hugh discusses the conflict with Iran, the Senate reconciliation bill, and talks with Mary Katharine Ham, Noah Rothman of National Review, Washington Examiner's Sarah Bedford, Jonathan Williams of ALEC, Mark Dubowitz from FDD, Alex Gray of American Global Strategies, former Senator Jim Talent, and Sarah Isgur, author of "Last Branch Standing."

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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.

0:17.9

Morning, Gloria, and evening, Grace, America.

0:20.1

I'm Hugh Hewitt inside the Relief Factor Studio, Inside the Beltway. I'd like to remind everyone at the top of the hour once in a while. I'm in the Relief Factor Studio, and I'll tell you a little bit about that at the end of the segment. But Mary Catherine Hamm is kicking off today's show. She is the host of Getting Hammered. She is the host of Normally. She is my friend. She is a Fox News contributor. But Mary Catherine, you surprised me yesterday with your getting hammered and you almost made me stumble on the trundle path because out of nowhere you're interviewing Sarah Isker and I am interviewing Sarah Isker

0:56.7

today in the third hour.

0:58.7

Yes.

0:59.1

And I never listened to interviews of authors when I've read their book because that will get

1:05.0

into my head and I'll be interviewing them about the interview they did.

1:08.7

So you need to like have a warning label.

1:12.1

I should. You know, it did say bonus, right? So it's not a traditional episode. But yes,

1:18.2

I should have personally texted one of our devoted fans. And just say, I'm doing, you're probably

1:24.8

going to talk to Sarah, because it's a book about the Supreme Court.

1:29.4

I really do recommend it to you.

1:33.8

I can't wait to talk to her about last Branch standing because she's very funny.

1:37.6

And most court books are not funny at all.

1:40.0

Even the justices when they write a book.

1:45.9

You might get a little tiny joke out of Amy Coney Barrett or Stephen Breyer, but they're not like giggle fest.

1:52.0

Yeah, she's a very gifted writer and a gifted speaker, and she's a lot of fun to listen to it.

1:53.6

So she'll be fun on your show as well.

1:58.7

And she brings out the fun and the fun facts and the good times on the Supreme Court history.

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