• Biden Swings And Misses
    May 3 2024

    The president spent less than 5 minutes on his statement on campus violence and very little of that 5 minutes on the wave of anti-Semitic speech on campuses and in the streets. Hugh reviews the remarks, discusses them with Ben Domenech, and updates how Donald Trump is surging and Biden diving in the race for the White House. Plus: Friday at the movies with Sonny Bunch.

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    56 mins
  • Hamas says "No! But maybe if you give us more.." What will Israel's War Cabinet do?
    May 2 2024

    Ambassador Michael Oren, the Times of Israel's Haviv Rettig Gur, former Senator Jim Talent, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and Josh Kraushaar all join Hugh to discuss at length the turning point approaching Israel's government: Forward into Rafah or retreat and, in essence, defeat.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Israel’s Dilemma: Yossi Klein Halevi on the Grim Reality of Israel’s Neighbors on Its Borders
    May 1 2024

    Yossi Klein Halevi is one of Israel’s leading public intellectuals. He joined me for a long conversation on the situation in Israel today after almost seven months of war. After that long interview, Congressman Michael Waltz joined Hugh to review yesterday’s testimony on the Hill of SecDef Austin and his visit to Columbia.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Campuses Go Over the Edge, and Britain’s Conservatives Are About To
    Apr 30 2024

    Hugh talks with Senator Tom Cotton about upheavals on America’s campuses and with the Washington Post’s Dan Balz about the imminent collapse of the U.K.’s Tories who, we both agree, are going to suffer an election defeat every bit as stunning as the GOP’s in 1964 and Canada’s Progressive Conservatives in 1993. Plus, David Drucker and Byron York on the campus unrest.

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    45 mins
  • Is Israel Getting Played? What Would Trump NatSec Team 2.0 Look Like?
    Apr 29 2024

    Story after story about the hostage negotiations between Israel and the terrorists in Hamas, but Ambassador Michael Oren cleared it up for us this morning. Plus, Trey Gowdy quizzing me on the buzz around the former (and future) President Trump’s new national security team, Admiral Stavridis, Jim Geragty, Salena Zito, and former Congressman John Campbell.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • The Supreme Court and Presidential Immunity
    Apr 26 2024

    The Supreme Court held a 2 hour and 40 minute argument Thursday in the case of Trump v. U.S. and the questions from the bench made clear this will be a very complicated decision in a very important case of first impression. Hugh reviews the arguments and reactions. Plus, Ben Domenech and Sarah Bedford on the ongoing war in Gaza and the ongoing circus in the Manhattan courtroom and on campuses across the country.

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    43 mins
  • Containing Anti-Semitism on Campuses, aka Ending Ignorance About Israel
    Apr 25 2024

    Hugh reviews the visit of Speaker Johnson and other House Republicans to Columbia yesterday, as well as the real problem on campus, which is ignorance of history —especially the history of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the state of Israel— and of the end of colonialism generally.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Chaos at Columbia
    Apr 24 2024

    Speaker Mike Johnson joined Hugh to discuss his trip today to speak to Jewish Students at Columbia, plus discussions on national security and the prosecution of Donald Trump with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Congressman Michael Waltz (who has been passed the baton from the now retired Mike Gallagher), Jeff Crank and Dave McCormick. Plus, Mary Katharine Ham and Olivia Beavers.

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    1 hr and 5 mins