Episodes
Hugh gathered reactions to the selection by former President Trump of Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate from Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Senators Joni Ernst of Iowa and Tom Cotton of Arkansas as well as Bret Baier and Byron York of Fox News.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Former President Trump’s lead lawyer Todd Blanche joined Hugh today to discuss the status of all the cases against Donald Trump in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s rulings in Trump v. U.S. and Erlinger v U.S. and Monday’s dismissal of the case brought by Jack Smith in Florida.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hugh speaks with veteran federal prosecutor and National Review senior writer Andrew C. McCarthy about the attempt to kill former President Trump and McCarthy’s analysis of where the murderer’s motives fit in the long and tragic spectrum of political violence in America over the past 60 years. Bethany Mandel, Jim Geraghty and Rich Lowry add their analysis and Mike Gallagher sets the scene in Milwaukee as the GOP convention prepares to open.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hugh reviews the attempt to kill Donald Trump Saturday and puts it in the context of political violence from at home and directed from abroad that dates to the assassination of JFK in 1963.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hugh rarely takes calls but did for the first hour this AM to allow worried Americans to voice that alarm over the president’s continued fade. Hugh also got reactions from Ben Domenech and Sarah Bedford, and then from Ohio’s GOP nominee for the Senate Bernie Moreno.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hugh wrote about the very compliant White House press in his Fox News column today and whether they will actually show up for Joe Biden’s press conference at 5:30 (on the Salem News Channel). He also opened the show by reviewing the avalanche of bad news for Biden. The same questions dominated interviews with Senators Steve Daines (R-MT) and Dan Sullivan (R-AL), former Senator Jim Talent, future senator from Wisconsin Eric Hovde, plus former Ambassador from Israel to the U.S. Dr. Michael Oren and Josh Kraushaar of Jewish Insider. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After Hugh reviews the news of the Democrats' fading hopes of forcing out the fading President Biden, he reviews the "Trump Platform" with Matt Continetti, author of "The Right," an intellectual history of conservatism. Matt is also a fellow at AEI and a regular contributor to the Commentary podcast. Plus Mary Katharine Ham and Olivia Beavers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hugh talks with David Drucker, Byron York and Bret Baier about the story shaking the White House and the Democratic Party: Is Joe Biden up to another run much less four and a half more years? Plus: Hugh speaks with Admiral James Stavridis (USN, Ret.) about the upcoming NATO summit and with Admiral Mike Studeman (USN, Ret) about the threat to Taiwan from China and his new book "Might of the Chain".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guests and callers all agreed today: President Biden should not stay president. Hugh talks with Senator Tom Cotton, Vic Matus, Salena Zito, David Bahnsen, Jim Geraghty, and callers about the erosion both of Joe Biden’s capacity to be president and the support for him in the country to keep shuffling on.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As promised, Hugh covers the mutiny of President Biden with audio clips on this special Saturday edition of Highly Concentrated Hugh.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.