What is an acceptable end-game for the battle with Iran?
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Hugh covers the war in Iran, the DHS shutdown, and the SAVE America Act, and talks with Jim Geraghty, Chip Keating, Sen. James Lankford, Eliana Johnson, Jim Talent, and Shyam Sankar.
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| 0:00.0 | In times like these, we all need a word of encouragement. From pastor and best-selling author Max |
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| 0:41.4 | Q for Hillsdale.com, or just Google, Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. They now have the chance |
| 0:50.6 | that is Iran to permanently abandon their nuclear ambitions and to join a new |
| 0:56.9 | path forward. We'll see if they want to do it. If they don't, we're their worst nightmare. |
| 1:02.4 | In the meantime, we'll just keep blowing them away, unimpeded, unstopped. There's not a thing |
| 1:10.4 | they can do about it. They can't do anything about it, you know. I'll tell you if they could. If they could, you'd be hearing about it. You'd be hearing about it. You don't hear anything about it. Born and glory and evening, Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. That was President Trump in a cabinet meeting about an hour ago. I begin today's program with Jim Garrity of National Review, |
| 1:29.3 | also a columnist for the Washington Post. |
| 1:31.3 | You ought to be getting his morning daily jolt. |
| 1:34.2 | You ought to be listening to him on the editors and the three martini lunch. |
| 1:38.0 | Jim, I have been following you on the editors. |
| 1:40.6 | You're in the category of, boy, I wish he'd explained it more clearly at the beginning. |
| 1:45.5 | I understand that, but we're just crushing these people, these bad guys, and we're not killing civilians. |
| 1:52.2 | I think this is going very well, and I think it's a pivot point in history. |
| 1:56.0 | What do you think about that? |
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