WEBVTT - The Big Weekend Pod 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College, All Things 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.440 hillsdalet Hillsdale dot ed or I encourage you to take 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.920 advantage of the many free online courses there, and of 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.280 course I'll listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.560 at Hugh for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.120 iTunes and Hillsdale Morning Laura and Etan grayce America. The 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.160 first week of the war is in the books, and 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.520 the Big Weekend Pod is all about that. 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We're focused on the news 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.800 and just the news on the Big Weekend, so stay 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:08.080 tuned and don't go anywhere. Welcome back in America on 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.399 j Hewett. Matt Continetti has, of course, senior Fellow and 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.640 Domestic Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He's also the 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.559 Free Expressions columnist at the Wall Street Journal. In today's column, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.119 he writes, at the through line of Donald Trump's foreign 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:25.160 policy for forty years as been Iran, Matt, it got 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.160 a new iteration day to unconditional surrender. Dwayne did this 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.800 picture for me because I can't work chet sheetp on 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.640 the images. But the original unconditional surrender man was Grant 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.640 and he said it the Fort Donaldson and he he 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.520 just met walk out and lay everything down. What do 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.720 you think Trump meets by unconditional surrender, Well, Hugh. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.320 I think he can mean a few things. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.160 The first is that he's going to eliminate Iran's capacity 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.720 to so mayhem around the region, so decimate the Iranian 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:02.480 war machine. They're also going after Iran's apparatus of repression, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:07.120 the institutions like the IRGC and the basiege militia that 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:12.000 slaughtered the thirty thousand Iranians during the recent protests. So 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:18.639 unconditional surrender would mean a fundamental change in the Iranian government, 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.280 either a new form of government, a new leader emerges 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.560 that says that they are going to act according to 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.480 Trump's will, that sort of regime coercion that we saw 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:35.160 in Venezuela, or a popular uprising. The Iranian people take 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.600 to the streets once again at the conclusion of this 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.919 military campaign and they lay the groundwork for a new 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.799 post Mulla post Aatola Iran. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:53.680 Are Americans overconfident at this point? Because one missile at Demona, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.119 one attack on a d sal in Saudi Arabia, one 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:04.760 mass casually, event an American will be very unhappy. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.079 Will It's hard to know who exactly they'd be unhappy at. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.359 I think they'd be unhappy at Iran if Iran was 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.840 to unleash mass terrorism or asymmetric warfare in response to 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.000 this conflict. But you're right to suggest that the war 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:19.960 is not over, and of course we. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.320 Don't know what lies ahead, but we do know this, Hugh. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:30.400 I mean, the military effort by our sailors, pilots, soldiers 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.280 has been absolutely incredible, and the fact that we've seen 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:40.480 this rapid decline in Iran's capacity to fire missiles at 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.280 Israel at the eleven other countries it's fired missiles at 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.480 since the beginning of operations last week. Is a testament, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.520 I think, to the effectiveness of the military campaign so far. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:52.800 And once you've. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:57.880 Really defanged Iran's ability to shoot these ballistic missiles at 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.200 its neighbors and at our forces, then you can move 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.960 on to the regime targets. And I think we saw 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.240 that in the IDF strike earlier today on the governance 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.720 compound underground. And then it's just a matter of time 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.160 as you continue to layer on the military pressure, first 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.839 against their ability to strike back, then against the broader 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.640 institutions that support the Iranian regime, and we'll just see 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:29.760 what happens when the Ranians no longer can control their 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:34.800 military response or their own actual governance in this very 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:35.560 large country. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.960 Now, it's not a stupid country. And so what I'm 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.679 calling their Yosemite Sam strategy based upon the Warner Brothers 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.839 cartoon character who would walk into the saloon and fire 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.880 in every direction, what do you think was behind that? 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.279 They're not stupid? What did they think they were going 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.000 to get from Yosemite Sam in it? 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.479 Well, a couple things. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:02.080 I mean, I think they're clearly wanted to test whether 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.160 they could break off some of the Golf States from 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:11.080 the American Alliance and show that the Iranian military capabilities 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.080 were such that the Gulf States should pressure the United 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.280 States to end the campaign and to also Iranian Israel. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.320 That has not succeeded, and in fact, the Iran Yosemite 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.520 Sam strategy has actually created a coalition of the willing 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.760 against Iran. All the countries that it has been striking 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:34.120 with missiles or drones are now joining to various levels 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.760 the US Israeli campaign against Iran. But I think the 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.800 Iranians were also aiming for economic war, and we are 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.760 seeing that. We are seeing the price of oil increase. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.400 We are seeing the stock market take a hit because 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:54.200 of fears of potential energy crunch. Not so much in 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.720 the United States thanks to Donald Trump's energy policies over 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:02.880 the past decade, but it Europe and certainly in the Pacific. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.640 Well, I think that's where we got. Ninety dollars at 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.240 barrel today is considerably higher than sixty, and so I 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.799 assume the pump price will go up by a third, 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:14.240 don't you. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.640 Yeah, it's right, it's already increasing here. But again I 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.839 think really the people who'll bear the brunt of it 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.800 aren't necessarily in the United States, but they're in the 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:29.599 Pacific Rim, they're in Europe, so they're gonna do. The 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.120 Iranians hope exert some pressure on Trump, but what we've 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.880 seen so far is Trump is not not succumbing to 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:36.560 this pressure. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.520 He wants the campaign to succeed. He wants victory. 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.720 I'm going to talk Mark Wayne Mullin with Matt during 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.000 the break, and on the other side, we'll be talking 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.880 about what the United States has to do to prepare 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.760 for the grandest strategy implications of the state tuned America. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.000 I'm back with Matt Continetti for the big weekend pod. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.919 Matt this morning, I was up early for Fox and 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.599 Friends and asked about the Mark Wayne Mullen choice. My 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:06.200 assessment is that Donald Trump is a ruthless patriot, meaning 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.000 he's in a war now and he really cannot afford 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.760 a side show that Christy nomand become, and he's going 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.240 to be ruthless about, you know, taking out people who 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.320 are or are detracting from the war effort. Will that continue? 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.960 Do you think? Because he's generally been very reluctant to 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.200 exile people. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.520 That's true, and the Gnome to Mullen, the switch would 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.520 be the first major switch in this cabinet, which is, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.360 you know, considering the record in the first term, quite incredible. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.280 I think you know, it's a great question, Hugh. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.960 I was recently reading some of our friends, Victor Davis 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.120 Hansen's work on war, and he said, you know, a 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.480 war president needs to be ruthless about the types of 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.400 leaders that he hires to prosecute a war. And he 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.520 talked about Lincoln in the generals, and we saw George W. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:58.800 Bush in the Iraq war. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.440 Wasn't until he made that changed to David Petraeus and 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.120 that shift in strategy with the surgeon in Iraq that 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.880 the situation in Iraq began to turn around after several 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.720 years of insurgency. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:10.720 So I would hope that. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.680 President Trump would follow in the footsteps of great war 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.920 leaders and say, look, if you're not implementing the plan, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.600 if you were not furthering the cause of victory, then 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.360 we're going to have to find somebody else. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.000 And it was clear on the home front. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.720 That Secretary Gnome had become a distraction and even a 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.760 political liability, and that we needed a shift in our 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:39.679 tactics on mass deportations away from these very dramatic raids 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.160 and blue cities to a more focused approach that's been 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.760 advocated by Tom Holman. So I think this was the 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.520 correct move by Trump, and I don't anticipate that Mullen 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.720 will have any difficulty getting confirmed. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.400 Our Democrats in danger if they slow down Mullin. We 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.800 got sleepers in the United States. The hes be law 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.760 round up in New Jersey last year. For real. If 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.200 there's an attack and we haven't got DHS secretary because 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.400 of the Democrat that's going around or Ran Paul even 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:08.880 as chairman, do they pay a price? 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:12.120 Well they should. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:13.560 You know. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.160 I'm struck as I'm watching this. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:22.160 Politically from the Iran War, the Republicans are unified. You know, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.120 there are some loan dissenters, but for more or less, 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.000 the polls show, and it's reflected in the Congress, Republicans 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.760 are unified behind Trump. The Democrats, I think are unserious. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.439 It's not only that they're continuing to block funding for 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.120 the Department of Homeland Security at a time of war, 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.880 but that they're also voting on the one hand against 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.200 Trump's powers as commander in chief and on the other 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:51.240 they're admitting that Iran is the world's largest sponsor of terrorism. Well, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.760 if you think that the Iran, if you correctly, is 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.080 the world's largest sponsor terrorism, why would you limit the 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.640 US Commander in chief's ability to punish Iran, to in 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.000 fact change the behavior of Ron to end the threat 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.640 from Iran, as he's doing right now. Meanwhile, you have 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.480 Gavin Newsom saying Israel's in apartheid state, declaring war on 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.960 Israel rhetorically at a time when we were fighting Iran. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.559 It is the descent of Democratic Party rhetoric into incoherence. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.400 I'll be right back with Matt Continetti. Go nowhere except 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:29.120 to X follow Matt on act at Continetti. I'm back 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.680 with mac Continetti America. Matt, of course is at the 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.400 Wall Street Journal for Expressions column and AEI. Matt, I 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.040 have been using my Goldilock strategy. But the argument is 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.000 premised on nineteen ninety one was too little. We shouldn't 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.079 have quit after one hundred hours. We should have gone 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.440 after said am we had to go back. The too 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.960 big is two thousand and three. We went, we stayed, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.000 We stayed. In fact, we're still there. I want to 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.480 just write strategy in Iran, but I don't articulate it. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.760 What do you think about a Goldilock strategy? What's it 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.920 look like in the end in five years? 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.400 Well, in five years we won in Iran. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.080 That's not a threat to our neighbor, its neighbors, and 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.280 our allies, and then little least, it's not a threat 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.240 to Europe or ultimately to the United States because of 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.559 its missile program. That's not fomenting terrorism around the world 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.920 and is not repressing its own people. That's the goal, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.920 and I think those are achievable goals if you apply 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:28.800 the correct means. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:29.640 You're right. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.720 In nineteen ninety one, we didn't go far enough. We 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:37.240 left a week in Saddam in place, and we had 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.480 a decade where we were trying to contain Saddam ultimately unsuccessfully, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.760 and that required Operation Iraqi Freedom in two thousand and three, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:45.800 I think. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.640 I'd like to talk about with the Iraq War. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.199 Though you know, the initial Iraq War was stunning success. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:56.600 Oh yes, Saddam fell within six weeks. The regime ended 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.960 within six weeks. When people criticized the Forever War in Iraq, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:04.200 it's not the original operation, it's the years we spent 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.760 combating the insurgency, and there I would say the reason 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:12.160 we failed to combat the insurgency effectively for years was 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.360 we didn't go big enough. 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:14.079 Then. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:15.800 In fact, we didn't have the number of troops that 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.800 were necessary. In fact, we had been denied by Turkey. 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:19.160 To have it. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.120 I'm so glad you said it. I was going to 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.320 bring up and from there that the northern offensive was 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.880 shut off at the last minute by the Turks. Are 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.959 not so great allies. We are doing it again, all right. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:32.680 I mean, it's always important to remember. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:37.600 So look, I don't think we need a huge ground 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.560 force right now in Iran. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.520 I don't think we're going to need it. That's not 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:42.480 what're happening here. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.160 But what I'm saying is we need to understand how 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.439 we get to the desired political end state and what 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.360 that for Iran. What that means is first denying the 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:58.040 capability of the regime to retaliate, then to destroy from 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.560 the air all of the instant tuitions of repression that 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.520 have kept the Iranian people down, and then third doing 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.400 what's necessary to allow the Iranian people to encourage them, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.480 to give them the means to rise up and take 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.680 their country back. From the Mullas. And on that third point, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.320 I just want to say our expert here at Ai 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.719 Fred Kagan, has passionately made the case that we need 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.960 to be providing communications to the Iranian people, that the 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.200 Mullas continue to suppress Internet activity in Iran, and so 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.439 we need to do everything we can to provide starlink 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.480 to somehow restore avenues of communication so that the Iranian 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.800 people can communicate with each other and amplify the networks 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.440 of descent that will be necessary for them when the 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.319 time comes to go to the streets and take back 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:48.880 their country. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.640 Now, Fred Kagan did an Aaron McClain School of War 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.560 podcast earlier this week which was truly a lesson in 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.680 perspective on this, and I would recommend it to everyone. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.600 I want to close with grand strategy, Matt, what do 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.440 you think the Chinese are sinking and seeing right now? 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.000 Do they think and see we're running low on monitions 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.560 or do they think and see, Holy smokes, the Israeli 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.440 American Alliance is a few iterations ahead of us on tech. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.200 Well, I think the first thing they're seeing is that 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.960 there is only one country in the world that can 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:28.080 do what America is doing right now in Iran. There's 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.960 only one country in the world here that could project 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.760 this amount of power on the other side of the 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:40.560 planet in accordance or in related cooperation with this ally Israel, 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.000 this small, tiny country that has one of the most 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.840 capable air forces in the world, as Admiral Cooper stated, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.200 the two most powerful air forces in the world combining 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:53.560 forces against the regime in Iran. China is noticing that, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.520 and I think recognizing that it still has a ways 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.800 to go before it can knock the United States out 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.920 of the number one position. But I also think it 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:11.440 is looking at the new way of warfare missiles, AI interceptors, munitions, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:12.840 and will power. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.080 And so as we look ahead. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:20.200 To future conflicts, rather we look ahead to deter future conflicts, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:25.360 we have to get serious about amassing the deterrent power 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.960 that we will require to prevent any Chinese invasion of Taiwan. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.160 And that means that not only are we going to 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.000 need a supplemental for this war in Iran, We're going 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.280 to need to go and truly restock and commit I 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.480 almost sink to an emergency crash program to get our 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:45.720 ammunitions up to snuff. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.920 I'm with you, I think we should do. They could 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.440 do a reconciliation with a pure majority in six weeks 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.040 if they got the Budget Committee, Armed Services and Approaches 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.240 in both houses to say only defense, only munitions, and 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.400 here's a trust fund of a trillion dollars, build missiles 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.800 and maybe submarines. I don't think the Chinese missed the 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.000 submarine sinking Office three Lanka. You know, we don't need 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.120 a lot of submarines in this war. I think they're 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.160 all in the South China Sea. I don't know anything, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.320 of course, but that was pretty an impressive display. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:22.000 Yeah it was. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.360 And you know some of those vessels are intelligence vessels 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.800 for Iran. So that also denied the Iranians capability. They've 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.960 tried to slink away to Sri Lanka. It didn't work. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.760 We can we can find them. So the Chinese noticed that. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.600 There's no question, And again I think that's important for 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.320 us at home to recognize the kind of awesome power 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.600 of the United States here and working with Israel to 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:50.720 end a threat that has been dogging America for fifty years. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.560 So China, I think we'll look at this and say 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:54.920 it has a ways to go. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.960 Which one minute, Matt, which Democrat has been helped them 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.840 most by the last week. A Democrat who's been helped. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.800 A Democrat who's been helped the most this week. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.880 I think it's John Fetterman, to be honest with you. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:14.040 I think is one running for president. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:18.960 I mean, Hugh, I'd be interested to see. I don't 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.240 think any of them have acted responsibly. I mean we 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.159 mentioned Newsom calling our ally an apartheid state. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.000 In the middle of this operation. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:33.560 We have Kamala Harris, who endorsed Jasmine Crockett in the 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.720 Texas Democratic primary, only to see her lose. I think 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.879 jos Shapiro may have been helped. He he's kind of 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.639 ducked out of this. And then I know who you're thinking. 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.560 You're thinking our buddy Rama Manuel, And you know you 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.399 know the thing about ram is he is a font 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:51.919 of good ideas and common sense. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.919 And there's no way the Democratic Party is good at a. 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:57.120 Way. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:58.800 It took me so long to get to him. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.360 You John Ellis it said they'll nominate anyone who can 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.440 beat the son of Trump, not literally, but just anybody. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.800 And the person I'm thinking who's most formidable from Emmanuel, Hey, Matt, 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:12.879 always great to see you follow him my ax A 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.880 continenty listen to him on the Wall Street Journal question 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:18.800 say to read him rather stays. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.800 On Morning Glory and even Grace America. I'm Hugh HEWITTT. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.800 Welcome to The Hewitt Show. I hope you're watching this 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.920 on Amazon Prime or on Pluto TV World, so now 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.320 all over the place. But you're listening in your car 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.399 if you're inside the Beltway driving home and you've been 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.760 waiting for Big Ben, dominant host of the Big Ben 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.520 Podcast and now the editor of the Daily Wires brand 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:44.320 new opinion page, which I think is a fabulous breakthrough 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.080 for smart people everywhere. Ben, you are cutting into my 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.720 reading time already. I thought you'd take a couple of 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.639 weeks to kind of lounge around and pretend to be 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.359 scouting for talent. You're already pumping stuff out. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.720 Well, I'm doing that too. In sure, this is the 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:03.679 sky and the something that I will say, Hugh, that 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.520 I mean, perhaps this is unwise of me, but I 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.080 did start to do free work prior to coming on, 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.920 just because the simple fact is things that needed to 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.600 get commissioned. And so we were very happy with the 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.199 first week of our tenure and the folks that we've 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.440 had to writing interesting pieces for us, and I hope 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.240 that you will be one of them too. I already 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:27.720 sent you a suggestion. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.399 So well, you know, you've got a grand canyon sized 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:36.000 opportunity there. And it can be the replacement for BookWorld, 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.600 for the New York Times magazine. It can be everything 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.680 that's gone away that used to be good. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.280 Yeah. Well, I think that you're recognizing that this is 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:50.080 something that has been a real wasteland in the last 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.840 couple of years. It's gotten worse and worse, and I 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.719 think that you know, there's still places that can do 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.600 it well, but we kind of know what they are, 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.960 you know. And no offense to our friends all three 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.000 journal but it's one of these things that I think 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:06.720 there's an opportunity here for a variety of opinion, a 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:11.320 variety of views, young and older, more experienced and less experienced, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.040 and folks fighting it out, duking it out over all 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.800 sorts of different disagreements that happened within the conservative movement. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.280 And I think that that's something that's very healthy and 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.480 that I want to feature and promote, and I hope 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.640 folks will come and check us out at the Daily Wire. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.719 It's been a pleasure to join their team, and we're 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.119 going to have more people joining us. 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.320 Now. I believe in the market. So I thank you. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.920 And Barry Weiss are in a fight. I mean, you're 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.439 in a death match. It's a cage match because she 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:38.919 goes and grabs people and you go and grab people. 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.080 And fine, you should say that, but I can't comment 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:42.800 on this. 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:48.520 Okay, stay tuned, right, stay tuned? Are you allowed to 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.440 put a sports writer in there? 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.760 So? Actually, that's interesting because we were having that conversation 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.680 exactly this week, and that's an area that I want 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.280 to get into. We actually want to grow into having 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.760 the kind of Indian pace that features not just opinions 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:07.720 about politics, but opinions about other things as well. And 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.439 sports is definitely one where I am interested in having 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:12.920 some strong voices that we that we promote. 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.560 Now, I have a specific question followed by a general one. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:20.520 You are a Commander's fan. You are drafting seven. 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:22.440 I'm a redskin, your red skin? 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.800 Okay, Well, the Browns still the Browns and we're still 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.600 drafted in six. Who who if we draft them? Will 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:30.320 break your heart? 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.360 You know, I'm going to be completely honest with you. 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:36.080 I'm a Jeremiah Love guy. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.080 Oh well, I'm not surprised he could be. 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.719 Actually, I think, look, here's the deal. People under rate 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.560 running backs. I think it's actually it's turned the corner. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.119 They were overrated for a while, then they you know, 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.520 sort of drifted down and now I actually think they're underrated. 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.000 And I think that if you have a game changing 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:59.280 pass catching running back, who is that high up. I 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.320 think he has a potential to be Marshall Faulk. I 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.080 think he has the potential to be somebody who is 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:08.360 who is absolutely a game changer for a team that frankly, 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.960 you know, it's it's an underrated aspect of the terrible 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.399 season that they had last year, but they lost all 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.000 their pass catching running backs. They didn't have anybody who 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.840 could really get out of the backfield and catch the ball. 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.399 And that I think in this in this modern NFL, 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:25.280