i'm kind of hoping they go inl that direction soon. >> hugh hewitt is our guest. his most recent book is called the fourth way, the playbook for lasting gop majority. here's how you can call us, (202)748-8200. for those of you in the eastern time zone. we will also put up her twitter address if you would like to send a tweet @booktv and facebook.and you can make comment there and you'll see a posting about the festival of books.facebook.com we will get to those calls in just a few minutes.the map re in 2006 you wrote a book painting the map red, the fight to create a republicanre majority. t does that book stand up. >> it has because like the fourth way, it calls for a border fence and immigration reform and a large navy. i have been urging the visible expression to sovereignty for quite a long time. the border fence exists in san diego. i've been there many times. it works. it's effective. i also believe once it's in place most americans will go for a sweeping regulation. no one is in the deportation mood in california. no one walks around here worrying about dep

. >> let's bring in hugh hewitt, msnbc political analyst and the host of the one and only "hugh hewittw" on the radio. good to see you, hugh. there have been plenty of suspected leaks out of this white house before, but is this something new? is this a different kind of leak, this kind of information? wouldn't this have had to come from pretty darn high up in the transition structure? >> good to see you, jacob. it would. i want to begin by saying i've been listening to a lot over the last two days. about half of what i've heard is the wildest hyperventilating speculation also predicated by if true. i would like to remind the audience of two things. one, back channels are not unique. they go back to an abc news journalist, john scally, during the cuban missile crisis sitting down with the head of the kgb. they go to february of '91 with henry kissinger and it goes to may of 2009 when president obama and secretary clinton opened up a back channel with iran that david ignatius has written about. back channels are, therefore, not radioactive. what is the bombshell in "the washington post"

festivals, and to watch previous festival coverage, click the book fair tab on our website cb.org.k >> hugh hewitt, his most recent book is called the fourth way, a playbook for a lasting gop majority. how is donald trump doing. >> he is doing great and thank you for having me back. i think it's about the 20th

hugh hewitt, host of the hugh hewitt show, and rick stengel remains with us. ayesha first tell us about the reuter's story that takes a slice of this tonight on the same general topic of jared kushner. and then something that may call for a judgment from you, how do you think the white house, which is tonight the traveling white house is going to react to tonight's wave? >> reuter's reported -- had a great scoop that there were contacts between the russians and jared kushner that have not been or that had not been disclosed. that there had been these contacts and that the fbi is looking into whether there was any sort of quid pro quo where you would have the russians saying look if you ease these sanctions maybe we could help out on some business transactions. but, that said, our story did report that there is at this point no evidence that these conversations were -- that there was anything inappropriate going on. but they are being looked at. so that's what we reported. as far as what the -- how the white house will respond, we were also reporting that they

hugh hewitt, host of the "hugh hewitt show" on the salem radio network. and white house columnist at "the hill." let me start with you on the conservative side, on the politics, you got democrats, we got the reporting here, they're looking at the republicans who voted for this, saying the polls we've seen has been poisonous on this, the effect of this could be negative for some trump voters for some swing district voters. they say the politics of this are a sure loser for republicans. what do you say to that? >> i think that'semocratic spin, steven. i don't think is as close as it looks, when you figure in karen handle winning in a couple weeks in georgia 6th, mick mulvaney's successor going to win in south carolina 5th, had a republican out on a family emergency leave. a few republicans were given passes to vote against it that they thought were politically better. what matters most is what the senate does. it would have been a disaster for the republicans not to have passed this. obamacare is falling apart. i had the head of the center for medicare and

hugh hewitt, "washington post." ashburg, virginia, republican line, go ahead. caller: hi, this is john kay. my question is, it is very short, why hasn't anybody been in jail?and put if all the things going on in the last several months, nobody put in jail. they always talk about it is a that, but is and nobody been put in jail, i just don't understand. ost: wait a minute, who should be put in jail and for what? caller: for lying. hillary clinton and her the servers know, and all that. assistant hasn't been put in jail. know, been up u there guilty for something or other, no one put in jail. is always, you know, they always talk about it, but don't i'm sorry about it, that, is my thing, i'm sorry. host: from edward this morning, writes in the comment section of financial times, trump's he says ice massacre, this, the key point, mr. trump him.d the man investigating nixon saturday night massacre the special pros cutesor was three only president, consequences. -- this calls l will amount to special prosecutor to take over the russian investigation. compelled to do

hugh hewitt and host of the appropriately named hugh hewitt show and rick remains with us.t takes a slice of this tonight on the sam general topic of jared kushner and then a judgment from you, how do you think the white house which is tonight the traveling white house is going to react to tonight's wave? >> reuters had a great scoop that there were contacts between the russians and jared kushner that had not been disclosed. there's been contacts and the fbi is looking into whether there was any sort of qui quid pro quo where you would have the russians saying look if you ease these sanctions maybe we could help out on some business transactions. but, that said, our story did report that there is at this point no evidence that there was anything inappropriate going on but they are being looked at so that's what we reported. as far as how the white house will respond, we were also reporting that they're trying set up this war room and so thaer goi they're going to try to bring in maybe some people and campaign officials and bring in others that might be able to help them to

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the author, his historian jonathan dar monday is with us tonight as is hugh hewitt and an msnbc politicaloth for coming in. we've learned people who wernt immersed in watergate have learned enough about the dissimilarities and yes, media is at the speed of light now, but as i keep saying, republicans were the here rose of watergate so i guess this calls for a judgment from you. which republicans are you looking for to stand up and be the heroes of this? >> it's a really interesting question. i mean, we think about when you say the heroes of watergate we think about that famous moment at the very end of the story when barry goldwater led a -- >> hugh scott, john rhodes. >> exactly and said mr. president you don't have the votes to survive in the senate it's over. but it's important to remember that's the end of the story and it was a long road to get there and in the beginning you had a lot of republicans who were defenders of the president and who were actuallgoing out there and saying this watergate story i really nothing, it's an invention of the liberal media and big lions in the repub

. >> let's bring in ned price and hugh hewitt, host of "the hue hewitt" show.ed, when he says "outside the scope" and i'm paraphrasing, the russian interference, what does he mean, darrell issa i should say? >> it's difficult to say what he had in mind, but what we've heard from director mueller is he's going to take a look at the issue of russian meddling in our election and the possibility of any collusion with the administration and any ancillary issues. so i think what we would include there, things like mike flynn, potential other activity on the part of paul manafort, carter page and the like. but what we don't know is where this investigation will go. i think that's the real unknown here. and it's why we so desperately needed a special counsel to turn over every rock and look in every nook and cranny. >> generally, what is the time line expected for this? >> as we all know, special counsels are notorious for going on for potentially years and years. ken starr was appointed in 1994 and it was 1998 when president clinton went through his impeachment procee

here's what the speaker of the house paul ryan said earlier today on of the hugh hewitt show, take a> i have a policy of not committing one were going to bring these votes up, were getting extremely close. were having a very, very productive conversation with our members. the vice president and his whole staff is involved. i feel very good about the progress we're making it will make the announcement when we make the announcement. >> sean: were getting close. president trump ran on a promise as that all republicans to repeal and replace obamacare and now it looks like congress is finally going to back him up and make it happen. it's better happen at some point, sooner rather than later would have been better. i've got to give credit where credit is due, the house freedom caucus deserves a lot of credit for getting it done, they never stop working behind the scenes and friday they canceled the vote. there is much to celebrate tonight finally it is important for republican congressional leaders, police learn from your past mistakes here. this can't happen again. you heard me say on the

. >> i was going to ask, have we heard from hugh hewitt lately? >> i don't know. i'm sure we will today. i was reading some articles yesterday afternoon. again, i go back to that charlie sykes article. 's so clarified. wait, they're not defending trump, but attacking media and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. what's the heart? there is no heart of the article. they simply attack people as overstating it. i know we're really late here, i would like, david ignatius, one more time please underline it for americans briefly. why is this such a critical, critical issue, perhaps the most dangerous thing donald trump has ever done. >> these are the secrets that keep us alive. presidents have to be careful with him. they're entrusted with the national security secrets we have. this is on-the-job training in the most important, sensitive job in the world. we're watching an inexperienced, undisciplined person deal with this very sensitive material. this is why we have talking points, why presidents have protocols for what they say and don't say when they meet with foreign lea

joining me now, the host of the hugh hewitt show and an msnbc political analyst.ith you. how do you feel with joe lieberman being the top contender? >> i think that he is a former u.s. senator is the most important part of this whole equation. the club of the senate rarely rejects its own. i think donald trump would have a lot of trouble pulling somebody into that matrix that didn't have the ability to go through that fraternity smell test that joe lieberman will pass. i think he is a highly problematic choice given his age and his status as a democratic politician, but the other factor they're playing to is john mccain who is a very dear deep friendship with joe lieberman and i think that's the area this is being, why this is being pushed out of there. i had heard this morning that mike rogers was the front-runner. we'll see how this shakes loose. they don't make conventional decisions on the staffing or how they sell the staffing. >> that's the caveat. you never know what donald trump will say deste wha aides may be whiering to you at the time. but i think it is

hugh hewitt. i will start with you because you heard and i felt like i was in another world under normal political circumstances and all the advice he gave, he wouldn't have had to give that advice. political practitioners 101 would be following that. they are acting guilty in the way they are dealing with kushner. >> they are acting inexperienced. i don't believe they believe they are guilty, but they believe themselves to be persecuted. they need to put points on the board in congress and go back and work on legislation and not respond to that which they cannot control which is the mueller investigation. sit down with ryan and connell and say put points on the board. we have 15 vacancievacancies. put some nominations. do some of the normal blocking and tackling of governing a get out of crisis mode. >> your beat is in many ways the substance of what they are trying to get done. you are not normally covering the characters. you are trying to get at substance. what point can they get? >> andy said

. >> hugh hewitt, you're a lawyer in addition to your radio show and political commentaries. do you agree that stuff is starting to stack up, first of all? does the president need a lawyer? >> well, he has a lawyer, chris, in the white house. it is an explosive story in the "new york times." if the memo exists, and i believe it probably does, we need to see it. i had senator ben sasse on my radio show this morning, chairman of the judiciary committee. he spent all day yesterday in an information facility, trying to organize the request not just for that memo but all comey memos. he concurred it would have been appropriate for the former director at the testimony that he gave on may the 3rd before the judiciary committee to have alerted the committee if he felt any pressure from the president to stop the investigation. i think we're a long way off from articles of impeachment. i think it is grand standing to bring them. but it is certainly very serious, and i would like to read all of the comey memo and all of the other ones, if he's been keeping a file like jay edgar hoover d

i want to bring in hugh hewitt, columnist at roll call, both are co-authors of shattered.st but not least, the managing editor at news one now. thank you all for being with us. let me start with you. there's clearly always energy around listening to hillary clinton speak. what is hillary clinton's role right now? >> i think elder statesman of a party desperately in need of direction. i think everyone is looking to 2020. we'll look for her very closely. home for her favored glances. she is in california today. i wouldn't be surprised if senator harris is out there with her. she is one of the front-runners for 2020. i think senior statesmen in a democratic party that needs senior statesmen. >> look, she is someone who lost. think about it. we now live stream things. if this was jimmy carter in 1980, if this was michael dukakis in this period, we would be covering it that way. so wrever she goes, we're still going to cover it. >> like a media flaw? >> no, she speaks, we have access to it and we cover it. but here's the piece. the democrats right now are not in need of some ki

the political analyst and the host of the hugh hewitt show. michael steele, and the president and ceo of the american, center for american progress. she was the director of policy for both the obama and clinton campaigns. good to see you. i haven't seen new while. we're talking about whether or not donald trump tried to obstruct the investigation. do you believe, if an argument is made for that, that republicans are going to have a hard time defending themselves? or defending the president against it? >> i think a lot of facts have to come into focus before we get to that opponent. i think a lot of noise that you're hearing from democrats talking about impeachment is a little bit misplaced and well pre mature. >> some republicans are doing it too. >> some republican, too. for me, this is why you need an independent party take over this so we can be clear of what the facts are. the total thing. not just one piece of it. but pitting it all together. republicans need to have that conversation with the white house. i long for mitch mcconnell is th

msnbc analyst and host of the appropriately named hugh hewitt show.tell us about the reuters story that takes a slice of this tonight on the same topic of jarrett kushner and something that may call for a judgment from you. how do you think the traveling white house is going to react to tonight's wave? >> reuters had a great scoop that there were contacts between the russians and jarreed kushne had not been disclosed. they are looking into whether there was a quid pro quo where you have the russians saying if you ease these sanctions we could help out on business transactio transactions. but that said, our story did report there is at this point no evidence that these conversations were -- there was anything inappropriate going on. they are being looked at. they will try to bring in campaign officials and others who might help them to be more proactive and go on the offense because of these things coming out. the issue is that i guess jared was supposed to be helping out. how he is helping out when he is the subject of these stories is the question. >

so the gentlemen in the studio with us, hugh hewitt is here with us.rinceton university professor eddie glau. hew, we are of a certain age. we remember the words the soviet news agency tass, that would be the mouthpiece of the government. can you possibly defend their admission, their allowance into that event today at the white house? and larger question, what is going on here? >> only if american reporters are allowed in on equal access. they are not an arm of the delegation, they are a news ency. and if they're going to be in the oval, that is a mistake by the press team that needs to be corrected. what is going on here is not the saturday night massacre. >> true. and i think we agree there are some -- >> there are no tapes or subpoenas. in fact, there is a recommendation from the justice department. there was an exchange between patry leahy and james comey. rod rosenstein is where i think we begin reporting. he's a deputy attorney general, the direct report from the fbi director. he made the recommendation. i trust he's not part of a coverup of the

michael, i had hugh hewitt on in the last hour, and he was saying he wants to see any sort of notes jim comey may have taken about president obama, because i guess republicans are starting to feel that comey may have had it out for president trump before he took office. what do you know about the meticulous notetaking that comey had done, and is that a reasonable measure of whether or not comey was doing his job or actively trying to find a way to undercut the president? >> i think what we know about what comey did in his notetaking is that he wrote memos at moments -- when he was fbi director, when he thought that down the road or at the time there was something going on that he felt uncomfortable about, or he thought may be an issue going forward. so what we don't know is what moments in the obama administration did he sit down and write memos about? we know that under the bush administration when comey was the deputy attorney general, he wrote a memo about a torture meeting that he had, and he had done that on his phone and banged that out on his bla blackberry so he had contemporane

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