>> greg: you know what i call hugh hewitt. hewitt.ays have to have the stock answers to stuff you don't know about. sly, someone says, what about the uighurs? you go, well, we're looking into it. you want, it's really interesting was happening right now. it's even more interesting what we don't know. that's what's scary. we don't know. can i just finished my last point in the new go to the other points. >> jessica: i thought you were talking to me. >> greg: you go to the other point and by the time you get to the other point hugh hewitt has forgotten he's asked you about the uighurs. in defense. trump was good at this. we would -- he would do that. "we are looking into it. because we do have to wonder how when people giving them speed 24 actually don't care about the uighurs. we have been talking about the uighurs forever. imagine how lucky politicians were before tv and radio. what of george washington and abe lincoln were gaffe machines and we just didn't know. if you are doing more interviews. you make some mistakes. you've got to

and yet you had hugh hewitt being like he didn't even try to sell the documents. i mean, he didn't try to sell them, >> molly i will take you here. i will take your hugh hewitt, i will raise you kevin mccarthy saying at least you could knock a bathroom door, you can't lock a garage door. of course you locked bathroom doors from the inside. gwen click quick last one to you before we wrap up this segment. you were colleagues with fani willis on a personal level. how do you think she is dealing with this kind of pressure, a local prosecutor investigating a former president, especially as a black woman facing racist attacks from trump and his supporters? >> let me say this. phony as a prosecutor's prosecutor. she's the ultimate professional, she follows the law, she followed the fact so i'm fully confident that her and her team are able to withstand all of the attacks and i flatly believes she was called for a time such as this. we've seen her active professionally, you've seen her active liberally and i think we will certainly expect certainly more of the same if and

i didn't recognize the pronunciation my friend hugh hewitt used. that's on me.is ready for the national stage including the former ambassador to the u.n.. >> over a million muslim uighurs sitting in china, they are making them change their name, change their religion, sexual abuse. i mean, genocide. we promised never again to look away from genocide, and it's happening right now in china. and the fact that the whole world is ignoring it is shameful. lauren: nikki haley just spelled it out and says her policy would be to come down very hard on china. ashley: okay. thank you very much, lauren. it is time now for the wednesday trivia question. s the, indeed. it's a good one. who was first nfl player to answer, i'm going to disney world, after winning the super bowl? >> doug williams, otis anderson, phil simms or joe montana? think about it, lauren, the answer when we come back with. . . so researchers can help life underwater flourish. ♪ hive blockchain, a leading bitcoin miner and data center owner, builds infrastructure that powers the bitcoin blockchain. featuri

i didnt recognize the pronunciation my friend hugh hewitt used. that's on me. that's all for us tonight. thanks for joining us for all of that breaking news. cnn tonight with abby phillip starts right now. >> good evening everyone. tonight we begin with ida section of the tape that maybe central to the federal case against former president donald trump. the tape that he responded to today, and we will get to that, but first let's start here. >> it started right when -- the >> that we're trying to do that before you even sworn in. >> well, with milley, i'll show you an example. she said that i wanted to attack iran. isn't it amazing? i have a big pile of paper. come on, look. >> from the start, this explains why trump allegedly slashed a classified document to people who didn't have a clearance. to counter general mark mullens claim that trump was itching to attack iran. speaking of clearance, in that clip, he asked his aide to hand him papers. it's unclear who exactly did and whether that person had a security clearance either. >> they presented me this. they p

miami mayor francis suarez found himself in an awkward position during a radio interview on the hugh hewittw. he was asked a foreign policy question about china but he appeared completely unaware of the issue. listen to how it went down. >> will you be talking about the uyghurs in your campaign? >> the what? >> the uyghurs? >> what's a uyghur? you gave me homerk, hugh, i will look at -- what was it, what did you call it a weeble? >> the uyghurs, you really need to talk about the uyghurs, mayor. >> i will search uyghurs. i'm a good learner, i'm a fast learner. >> cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is here with us, also notably a fast learner. jeff, not a good look for mayor suarez, but he has issued a statement. >> he issued a statement claiming he didn't quite hear hugh hewitt on the radio this morning but he did go on to say he is well aware of the suffering of the uyghurs in china. of course, this is a persecuted minority group in china which is widely discussed, it's a hallmark of the u.s. foreign policy, china of course a central part of any presidential election. when

jessica tarlov and hugh hewitt.inks is he wait the alliance out. i think the alliance is strong right now. not as if sunak and biden are thatcher, reagan, right in the "the washington post" writes the following here quoting sunak has yet to receive an invitation for a state dinner after leaders of both france and south korea were faded with such events. later this month indian prime minister modi will also travel to washington for a state dinner. your thoughts on this, guy? >> well, i think the indian alliance is extremely important, especially vis-a-vis china so that makes sense. this special relationship, i think, is extremely important. our most important alliance in the world. so i think perhaps a state dinner for the u.k. prime minister would be a good idea. and i know we tend to focus on american politics, understandably here. but across the pond, this visit, this trip is being watched pretty closely because rishi sunak, his party, the conservatives, the tories they have been roiled with controversy and turmoi

i didn't recognize the pronunciation, my friend hugh hewitt used. that's on me and we're about six months away from the new hampshire primary it's go time this summer for these candidates after leaving the luncheon, donald trump went down the road to open up his new hampshire hid quarter quarters vivek ramaswamy and nikki haley both holding events here in the state as well. >> our thanks to vaughn for that report >>> russian president vladimir putin says his country avoided civil war this weekend when the mercenary wagner group rebelled. they persuaded yevgeny prigozhin to avoid his march on moscow >> jens stoltzenberg says he's sending a clear message to moscow and minsk by increasing military presence. the move has already alarmed neighboring poland and lithuania, and stoltenberg said it was likely some wagner forces would relocate to belarus. >>> about $200 billion was stolen according to a new government estimate. the new number is far above the 5% previously thought give ton fraudulent applicants. between 2020 and 2022, the paycheck protection

francis suarez was caught off guard today during an interview with hugh hewitt.ami mayor was stumped when asked about the plight of ethnic muslims in china known as the uighurs. >> will you be talking about the uighurs in your campaign? >> the what? >> the uighurs. >> what is a uighur. >> we will come back to that. the uighurs. you really need to know about the uighurs. >> i will search. i am a fast learner. >> china has taken criticism of its treatment of the uighurs in the western province of china. how tensions between the u.s. and china affect trade rela relations. robert lighthizer joins us. first, beyond our borders, the united nations says it has documented a significant level of civilians killed in afghanistan since the taliban takeover. there have been almost 3800 casualties including 1100 deaths since the withdrawal in 2021. a former automotive executive was convicted of fraud in germany. rupert stadler is the highest employee accused of cheating on admissions tests. france conducts some maiden tests of a prototype hypersonic glider. a rocket carrying t

breaking his silence in a radio interview as what he talked about an hour or so again, telling hugh hewitthe indictment moved forward and it will be divisive for the country. south carolina senator tim scott says this shows the scales of justice are weighted. >> our nation is the greatest nation on earth because lady justice has a blindfold on. that means republicans are not hunted and democrats are not protected. what we have seen in the last several years is the weaponization of the department of justice against a former president. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis will tweet that is administered will big accountability to the doj, asa hutchinson called on trump to drop out of the race saying this is a huge distraction. republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswami promised to pardon the former president if he is elected. all that reaction rolling in. this news on the grand jury indictment comes as three big gop names will take the stage for the gop convention. desantis will speak tonight, pens and trump tomorrow. president biden also north carolina. is campaign focused on b

hugh hewitt joins me now. the headline. it was "the new york times" that said inside the complicated reality of being america's oldest president. hugh, i won't read you the quote saying he is trim, fit, exercises five days a week, doesn't drink and exhibits striking stamina. other parts of the article made it clear this is an issue that democrats recognize is on the minds of most americans as they can see for themselves what is happening. >> this is "the new york times" tip together into what is the major story on the democratic side. two of those reporters are friends of yours and probably in the white house. they are very good reporters. they had to weave in with two other reporters the truth. the president is infirm. i'm glad he is well and didn't get injured, but his head on marine one. didn't look interjet -- i think democrats are coming to the reali realization. you don't hand the keys to the older person. it doesn't work. >> dana: we haven't been in this position before at this late stage in the game. do you think the

if you go on hugh hewitt, you have to study and pay attention and don't go into that one blind. >> bill: reminiscent. we'll see what happens. looking at the bigger picture on china. republican presidential candidates are talking tough trying to stand out. what are the leading contenders saying about the rocky relationship with beijing. rich edson has more from washington. >> over the last week the republican candidates have intensified their sparring over china. trump administration led a campaign of -- in a speech yesterday in new hampshire the former president defended his record and knocked his main rival. >> ron desantis opposed my china tariffs strongly and sided with the communists in china. >> he told fox last week he would use tariffs to get china to the negotiating table and even support tax incentives for critical industries like semi conductors, medicine and communications equipment. >> we need to declare independence from china economically and we need to make sure that we have the ability to project the appropriate strength in the pacific to work with our allies to deter ch

let's bring in our panel, syndicated radio host hugh hewitt. t about that response from tim scott and kind of the bback and forth over. this i think it was ill timed by president obama and unnecessary and inflammatory and it makes the racial divide in america deeper to attack a black man who happens to be running as a republican just because is he running as a republican. rubio new book out called decades of decadence in which he just takes apart president obama's eight years what he did to race relations in the united states and he is continuing it with that kind of a absolutely i think it's actually disruptable for the former president to attack tim scott whose story is inspiring. while he is at 5% now when we get to candidate casino, i think you will see more people start to put more money on tim scott. he has great deal of appeal. >> bret: leslie? >> well, we will see what my candidate casino bet is. [laughter] i don't agree with you. what a big surprise. look, to say that barack obama has divided this nation more so along racial lines to me

heard that the hard way, listen to republican miami mayor and republican frances soares on the hugh hewitt be talking about the uyghurs in your campaign? >> the uyghurs? >> what is a uyghur? you're giving me homework. >> you really need to know about the uyghurs mayor. >> i will search uyghurs, i am a good learner, a fast learner. >> the uyghurs, not the weevils, are the predominantly muslim ethnic minority in china that united states declared as the target of a genocide. something that i think a person who wants to be president might be expected to know. but suarez did release a statement after the fact that he was well aware of their suffering and he took a shot at to china. and he also said that he did not recognize the hosts pronunciation. it's hardly the first time that a candidate has made headlines over global issues, take 1976 as an example. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe -- >> i'm sorry, could i pause? did i understand you to say sir that the russians are not using eastern europe as their own sphere of influence and not occupying most of the countries there and

. >> and desantis was on hugh hewitt.what he had to say about donald trump's supreme court nominees. >> are you going to make the same kind of pledge to the republicans as you go around the country that your judges will be like the trump judges? >> well, actually, i would say we'll do better than that. i respect the three appointees he did. but none of those three are at the same level of justices thomas and justice alito. >> i mean, some shade thrown at gorsuch, barrett and kavanaugh, who are pretty beloved by conservatives. >> it's a very specific type of shade. this sounds to me like two people who went to harvard talking to each other about another judge who went to harvard. this is about -- this kind of hair splitting i don't think is something republican voters really do, is rate the justices against each other. but there is a tradition of this. you know, republicans worked so hard to get these justices appointed only to have them run against each other, saying they weren't conservative enough the next time. donald

i think we have a bit of this interview that he gave with hugh hewitt talking about what he wants toe indictment. let's listen to this. >> justice department i think before the sun sets today the attorney general of the united states should be standing in front of the american people, should unseal this indictment, should provide the american people with all the facts and information here and the american people be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization of the justice department or if it's something different. >> or if it's something different. what do you think of what pence is saying there? >> i do think he's correct that given the political sensitivities of this case transparency is going to be of the utmost importance for the court of public opinion because the people need to know what is in this indictment in order to make a judgment and that's why i think that the republicans like kevin mccarthy or some of the other 2024 rivals for trump that have rushed to his defense are doing it a little prematurely because w

take a look at what he had to say about all of this on hugh hewitt's show. >> how does he get that into the record without appearing as a witness? >> there would have to be -- this is why i don't think he has a defense, hew. first of all i think if you do that under the presidential records act there's got to be a document that supports it. otherwise he's got to have a witness, and it's not a defense if he charges. >> but assuming he thinks it's a relevant argument and they want to make the argument to the jury, how do they even get the assertion he declassified them in his mind into the record without him going on the stand? go ahead, we can speak through the music. >> try to play andy mccarthy off there with the music? meanwhile george w. bush aide the titled this, he writes in this part, america has been plunged into an unprecedented crisis by the indictment of donald trump on 37 felony counts. the case will further tear our country apart as it has a heavy impact on the presidential campaign and wrongly undermines confidence in our justice system. the blame for this calamity rests so

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here is what happened on the hugh hewitt show. >> ultimate question, show, will will you be talking about the uyghurs in your campaign? >> the what? >> what's a uyghur? >> okay. we will come back to that. you have got to get smart on that. >> gave me homework, hugh. i will look at what did you call it a weble. >> the uyghurs. you have got to know about the uyghurs. >> i will search uyghurs. i'm a good learner, i'm a fast learner. >> steve: i think i heard somebody on his team then say he was mystified by the pronunciation. he knew what it was but didn't identify with the way it was being said. >> ainsley: that's tough. because when you are on the presidential stage you have to know so much about different topics. something we discuss on a regular basis. but you feel sorry for him for not knowing what that was. like the aleppo moment. i felt sorry for him, too. >> brian: gary johnson. >> ainsley: high hewitt was being nice and said we will come back to that. >> steve: nobody in the world is a bigger expert on uyghurs today than he is because i'm sure a million people have told you let me t

he went on to hugh hewitt's show talking about the indictment. interesting, very top fine line where he did use words like polite tieization, weaponization of law enforcement similar to what governor ron desantis tweeted last night and then he also talked about his own experience with the justice department. remember, he also was found to have classified documents. he said he worked with the justice department and he was not indicted. he did talk about how he is concerned how this is going to be divisive. this is a line we're going to hear from the former vice president. take a listen to what he said. >> i think it's important to know that we don't know the facts in this case, no one does. my only hope is as we learn about the facts of this indictment next week, that the american people will see in this case that it would meet a high standard necessary to justify the unprecedented federal indictment of a former president of the united states by the current president of the united states justice department and by a potential rival. >> reporter: th

same with hugh hewitt. was so damning about the indictment. what is the scale of this? this wasn't the exception. this was the rule. that's one thing. second of all, that's where the obstruction charge is so important. if he had coughed them up, we would be in -- we wouldn't -- >> we wouldn't have there conversation. >> he passed on that. his attorneys offered. >> i think politically, that's the most important point. voters really aren't going to differentiate why this is so different from what other officials have done. even though they should, because it's much a greater scale. it's just the fact that he was offered an out as a privileged, powerful person offered an out that i wouldn't have gotten, you wouldn't have gotten, that you wouldn't have gotten, and he could have given them back. he was an idiot. >>> secretary of state antony blinken is getting ready to make a trip to china. we will get the latest from beijing amid strange relations between the two countries. "morning joe" is coming right back. i