time for hugh hewitt in washington. >> thank you, alex. morning glory, america. i'm hugh hewitt. msnbc is open for business when the federal government isn't thanks to the hashtag schumer shutdown. after almost every republican voted to approve a house bill passed by the house republican majority, almost every senate democrat voted to turn off the government. they shut erred the federal government. what does that mean for the country, for the military, for you? joining me to kick off days of coverage the best and brightest, fairest and most prepared reporters inside the beltway. two of the news organizations best young reporters seung min kim and tim alberto. and courtney

i'm hugh hewitt. msnbc is open for business when the federal government isn't thanks to the hashtag schumer shutdown. after almost every republican voted to approve a house bill passed by the house republican majority, almost every senate democrat voted to turn off the government. they shut erred the federal government. what does that mean for the country, for the military, for you? joining me to kick off days of coverage the best and brightest, fairest and most prepared reporters inside the beltway. two of the news organizations best young reporters seung min kim and tim alberto. and courtney kube who covers our network and following closely the impact of the schumer shutdown on our army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard, reserved forces, intelligence community. thank you three for being up early after working late. seung min kim, he got it. he was too cool for school young kids who helped president obama's speeches were questioned this last night. why did chuck schumer do this? did his base dem

i'm hugh hewitt. quite a week for news to open 2018.n my eyes, the revolt of the people of iran against the iranian revolutionary guard is the story that deserves the most attention this week. at least as much attention, if not more, than the arab revolts of a few years back. if iran were to overthrow and get rid of its rulers, the region and the world would be a much safer and prosperous place. there are lots of other stories as well. here to discuss them with me as we look back to the week that were, al weaver from the washington examiner. courtney cukube and michael warren. the first week back at the pentagon in 2018, what do you think was the dominant story of the week? >> tphoebg tphoebg, i would have to say, hugh. kim jong-un talked about how crippling the sanctions have been in this country. he made an overture to south korea saying he was willing to talk to them about the olympics specifically, about the potential for north korea to send a delegation to pyeongchang which begin in a couple of weeks. that led to south korea extend

stoddard, jake sherman and hugh hewitt. you can watch hugh's show on msnbc tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. >>> a legal longshot. the uncommon step the trump administration wants the supreme court to take on daca. >>> in the last hour, president trump shared a message with people taking part in an anti-abortion march in washington. he talked about his first year in office but not the government shutdown that is just hours away. >>> much more to come here on msnbc. hi...so i just got off the phone with our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight- four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it. >>> welcome back. i'm david gura. inside the white house right now, president trump meet with democrat chuck schumer talking about how to avert a shutdown that would take place just before midnight tonight. senator lindsey gram who we've been following

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i'm hugh hewitt.his saturday morning i'm diving into the russia investigation. that's right. plural. there are two of them. russia one is run by special counsel robert mueller and russia two which needs and deserves a second special counsel which mostly concerns the conduct of a few members of the senior level of the fbi and the department of justice during campaign 2016 and which triggered a demand for special second counsel by senators graham and grassley last week. i'll be joined by andrew mccarthy to discuss both russia probes. first, the biggest stories of the week from the congress, white house, and pentagon with francesca chambers, heather cable, and courtney kube, the pentagon and national security for nbc news. let me begin with you, courtney. in the volcano explosion of news around the president's comments about various places around the globe, you have been covering north korea. fill us in. >> we saw for the first time in years north korea and south korea down along the dmz and they had a d

i'm hugh hewitt.le much of america's business and political elite is in davos, here on msnbc following developments in the russia probe and the exploding fbi and doj controversies. after the week opened with the collapse of the schumer shutdown, a huge win for donald trump and mitch mcconnell and great shock to the democratic base about the lack of resolve among senate leadership, the news quickly turned to the continuing eruption of economic good news for workers and companies across the united states, as well as the surprising emergence of the outline of a deal on daca, border security, and defense spending. after the break, perhaps before it, we will focus on what may very well explode into the biggest story of the year next week, an escalation with turkey, our nato ally. but first a few minutes with the trio of d.c.'s best reporters they found to be the biggest stories of the week. i'm joined by courtney kube, "the daily beast" martin and for the first time alana plot. i will start with lachlan, w

joining me is julia ansley and hugh hewitt, a political analyst and the host of the hugh hewitt show. julia, this happened over the past few weeks. what brought this about? the chief justice issues a report like this every year. half of this one or more than half is focused how courts react when there are natural disasters and there's this. what led to it. >> this was kind of tucked in toward the bottom. we're reading this and this jumped out to me they're ordering a review. we have to remember just a few weeks ago, judge alex kaczynski in the ninth circuit stepped down after 15 women cape forward and told media that they had been the subject of lewd comments and harassment by judge kaczynski. this set off a firestorm in the federal judiciary community. there are a lot of people who worked under him. he was a great legal mind. a lot of people really had talk about how much he contributed to presidents over the years. but he of course, he stepped down because of this which shows that perhaps -- two things. one we're in a new era. no maer your status you're not immune when you have an i

secretary sonny perdue is traveling with the president and spoke to msnbc contributor and host hugh hewitts radio show this morning. one of the main focuses? the president's self-description of being a very stable genius. >> he tweeted yesterday that he's a genius and he's like really smart. do you agree with those assessments? >> i think politically if you defeat 16 opponents, some with well-entrenched in the republican establishment, when you defeat the clinton dynasty, i think some would characterize that as a political genius. >> joining me now, msnbc's hugh hewitt. such a good, interesting interview. secretary perdue insisted that the accounts in the book don't reflect what he knows about the president. so what's going on here? >> happy new year, chris. it was fascinating. secretary perdue is not only at the farm bureau with the president today but going down to the national football college championships. he was a walk-on several years ago. he's a walk-on star of the dogs. but i know a couple of cabinet members pretty well. reince priebus. i've interviewed many of these people. i kno

. >> we want to bring in now hugh hewitt, msnbc's hugh hewitt watching the first year of the trump presidencyhugh, obviously, the big policy change made to the economy is the tax cut which was passed and the effects of that are going to cascade possibly, negatively in many directs through the next year. would you agree the first year has been sort of remarkable in that all those factors the president president talked about last year as being signs of a weak economy are still there and things that were good are still good. >> i wrote down when he said trump is about making people think he's not president trump. there are so many similarities. tonight he's going to open i believe by going back to his february 28th speech to congress and talking about the defeat of isis in syria and iraq. i think he's going to talk about delivering on promises that he made. i think he's going to be trying to subtly distinguish his tenure in his first year from president obama's eight years. you make a good argument he inherited a rising economy. that's a little bit more difficult to do. it's not hard to do in sy

hugh hewitt of the hugh hewitt show on msnbc.'s get back out to michelle caruso-cabrera -- oh, no we're going to go to brian >> i'm right here. on deck, president trump's imposing tariffs on imported washing machines, and now whirlpool stock getting an upgrade. we'll ask the analyst if u.s. trade policies are driving more of the optimism. >> plus, why can't anybody seem to find a truck driver to hire the head of the ata is here on that and why they would be willing to pay more for gas to get better roads >> and we'll go back to davos and why blockchain may not be the digital pan sahaasya tt a lot of people think it will be imposed tariffs helping out one stock. whirlpool getting an upgrade the company stands to benefit from the tariff which targets its foreign competitors. joining us now is sam, the analyst at raymond james thank you for phoning in let me get this straight without the tariffs, whirlpool would not be an outperform >> it's a big part of the call, yes, melissa the stock historically trades based off its north americ

. >>> i'm joined now by msnbc political analyst, hugh hewitt. he is has a radio show. mr.itt, welcome, sir. >> thank you, chuck. >> you -- you've hosted quite a bit of these lawmakers making this case that there is -- that there are a lot of questions about the fbi's investigation. why not wait for the inspector general to do its job before muddying the waters here as badly as some in the house republican caucus want to muddy it? >> i've talked mostly to senators. 11 of them over two days, including today, dan sullivan of alaska and cory gardner of color and pat toomey of pennsylvania. four very responsible and all of whom want a dig deep investigation into the bureau concerning the text messages. they are willing to wait and see what comes up with. but dan sullivan was pointed, the fbi and the d.o.j. took down ted stevens in a corrupt prosecution in alaska and he has no -- no hesitation to believe that a few bad actors in the bureau or the d.o.j. can take it rogue. i personally think the republicans in the house are overselling the nunez report. they ought to lay back and

a thank you for that, hugh hewitt. have a good saturday. good morning to all of you. i'm alex witt at msnbc word headquarters in new york at precisely the half hour. a live picture of capitol hill where the next half hour congress will begin new efforts to end this government shutdown. there's no clear indication of whether and when both parties will be able to compromise on the spending bill with both sides now hurling accusations a lot each other. house speaker paul ryan calling the shutdown a dangerous political ploy by senate democrats. minority leader nancy pelosi calling republicans in competent and negligent. and here's what don bacon and yarmouth told me last hour. >> we have until march to fix the d.r.e.a.m.er program. no, people are losing their legal status every day. and it's only march 5th. so we're talking now six weeks. we have to get these things done. now, primarily we don't want to go through the entire fiscal year with a month-to-month funding mechanism. this is not how the military wants to function. general mattis already said this is a disaster f

for talk show host and columnist hugh hewitt, who had urged trump to quit the race after the "access hollywood" tape, it came down to a few key issues: >> the united states' military and its adequacy, funding, preparedness, which i thought had deteriorated to such levels that we were in danger; and the united states supreme court, the latter being more important than anything else. had secretary clinton become president clinton and filled that with, say, any of the judges who president obama appointed to the circuit courts or who were turned back, the constitution in my view would have been over. it would have become almost a parliamentary democracy, the majority vote of nine unelected justices. >> reporter: and then, exactly one year ago, the seemingly impossible became reality. >> the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. >> reporter: now, one year after the inauguration of a president who so deeply divided the right, what's the verdict? unsurprisingly, it's split. for some, particularly those focused on policy, they've been impressed by a series of vi

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i'm hugh hewitt. this saturday morning i'm diving into the russia investigation. that's right.l. there are two of them. russia one is run by special counsel robert mueller and russia two which needs and deserves a second special counsel which mostly concerns the conduct of a few members of the senior level of the fbi and the department of justice during campaign 2016 and which triggered a demand for special second counsel by senators graham and grassley last week. i'll be joined by andre

i'm hugh hewitt. quite a week for news to open 2018. eyes, the revolt of the people of iran against the iranian revolutionary guard is the story that deserves the most attention this week. at least as much attention, if not more, than the arab revolts of a few years back. if iran were to overthrow and get rid of its rulers, the region and the world would be a much safer and prosperous place. there are lots of other stories as well. here to discuss them with me as we look back to the week that were, al weave

i'm hugh hewitt.uch of america's business and political elite is in davos, here on msnbc following developments in the russia probe and the exploding fbi and doj controversies. after the week opened with the collapse of the schumer shutdown, a huge win for donald trump and mitch mcconnell and great shock to the democratic base about the lack of resolve among senate leadership, the news quickly turned to the continuing eruption of economic good news for workers and companies across the united states, as well as the surprising emergence of the

. >> thank you very much joining me now hugh hewitt, on msnbc, thank you for being with us what is theoad map there this weekend? what are they going to be talking about and what do you expect coming out of it and then we'll get to the juice of the week >> well, they got to arrange the spending agreement first the government will shut down continuing the resolution and over arching spending agreement. the leader mcconnell have said again and again, i think paul ryan makes up the best legislation team and along with john cornyn that i never seen the republicans have they're going to lay out negotiating with the democrats on a 20 months agreement how to hold down domestic spending and and decide what to do first on infrastructure i do not think enentitimetitlem reform is in the cards >> take us into the republican fraternity now in the past, the president have been disdainful and he's been bitter towards senator mcconnell but now he's functionally ex communicated the high priest of the alt-right steve bannon do you think the president is coming closer to what may call the establishment b

joining us is hugh hewitt, it is good to have you here, it kind of relates to the first question what do you make of all the drama of what president trump allegedly said or whatever he said in that meeting >> the comments were unfortunate of whatever they are we are not sure what they are. senator purdue did not remember them specifically. senator durbin confirmed they were terrible and awful and senator graham and others have said nothing we can gather that he used very awful language with regards to countries in africa, not so much about haiti or el valve contasar we can figure it out later a week ago when i was here, we are talking about michael wolff's book a week later we are talking about the president's comment of various types of countries it does not matter to most of the country's investors, the people that are watching the show right now he becomes detached from the economy and twitter feed does not matter the president's rhetoric is absolutely divorced from anything investors do think or say. >> we have seen that >> they have watched very carefully. >> we have seen that si

and we recruited a number of contributing columnists, hugh hewitt, gary abernathy, who heads a smallewspaper in ohio, and others who have been much more supportive than our regular columnists, both conservative -- >> i'm still waiting for my phone call, ruth. >> dm me, we can talk. who have been much more supportive of president trump. because we found ourselves, after the election, in this really unusual and unexpected situation, where the conservatives and the liberals were competing with each other to see of our regulars who hated trump more. >> perhaps some of you could organize some columns to explain john kelly to the president and the -- >> that is not possible. >> i mean, this feud between the president and his chief of staff today over the wall, immigration policy, it's a pretty big rift. >> it is a pretty big rift. you can't -- as trump seems to understand, you can't really have your chief of staff who is your main representative, going out there, telling congress something different from what you've said yourself. >> he's the chief negotiator right now, rich lauery, he's u

hearing it from david brooks and hugh hewitt all the time. what they're missing is the way that donald trump is poisoning the republican party, poisoning conservatives. yes, they're getting some of the things they want but for a generation people are going to look at republicans and say, you stood with donald trump. when donald trump was saying these things and acting this way, you stood with him or you were complicit by your silence and there's not going to be much of a defense to that other than saying, well, yes, but we cut corporate taxes, right? doesn't that cover for these kind of comments? no. >> good to see you. thank you both of you for joining me. >>> all right. coming up next, international condemnation of the american president. ambassador wendy sherman is here and an adult film star and $130,000 payout. that report is next. but if that's not enough, we offer innovative investing tools to prepare you for the future. looks like you hooked it. and if that's not enough, we'll help your kid prepare for the future. don't hook it kid. a

and hugh hewitt worked for president nixon and in the reagan white house. the host of "the hugh houston show" on the salem radio network and an msnbc political analyst. hugh, i turn to you first. no surprise president trump wants to talk about the strength of the markets, deregulation, gary cohn penned that speech for him in davos. gary already has put out a piece with cnn today talking about the year we've had and how strong the economy is. but it's not fair to say that this is a united white house in terms of immigration and trade because how does a president simply say, you know, we've got a lot to say when gary cohn and wilbur ross aren't even on the same page as it relates to nafta. trade hasn't been a one-way street. >> i was surprised to hear him say in that little preview that trade would be a big part of the speech tomorrow night. i will confirm a victory lap for beating isis and shoutout to neil gorsuch but mostly i'm looking for him to frame the daca deal. this is a unique opportunity for him to talk to democrats saying we have 1.8 million standin

president, i would like to call attention to an op-ed by radio host hugh hewitt that was published online yesterday by "the washington post." it is titled "how to end the senate's astonishing dysfunction." a pretty graphic title for an op-ed. mr. hewitt warns that the institution of the senate is careening toward widespread contempt as happened to its roman predecessor even before the emperors turned it into a fancy advisory council. end of quote. one might be inclined to agree, given the events of the past few days. indeed, we have reached an embarrassingly low point where a government shutdown is wrongly used as a bargaining chip for merely political gain. as mr. hewitt concludes, quote, it would be best for both parties to head off change imposed from pressure from the outside with change organically orchestrated from within by those with care for the body and its original design. again ending the quote. there are plenty of experts with ideas on how to create a more efficient and more effective senate. those ideas should be welcome now. but those of us who took an oath in this chamber