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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Return of Neo-Appeasement: Are We Doomed to Repeat History?
"The neo appeasement that's in the water. And everyone takes that as an insult. I don't mean it as an insult. I mean it is a genuine ideology that dominated in the 30s from Stanley Baldwin through Neville Chamberlain, which is you can satisfy dictators. You can actually do a deal with a dictator that they will stick to. That's back and it's deep. We saw Reagan beat it in the 80s with the deployment of the parachutes and the cruise missiles, but it's back and the neo appeasers don't want to deal with you. How is the committee going to get that to change? Well, the Democrats on the committee be vital to that change. Well, we're hoping to have our first set of policy recommendations out next week. We're working towards a strong set of recommendations that are focused on Taiwan, as well as a smaller set of strong recommendations that came out of our hearing on the ongoing Uyghur genocide, which leads to something that we're doing from our night. We're having a hearing tomorrow night on the CCP's ongoing economic aggression globally and how we level the playing field. We have this witnesses roger Robinson who designed and was key to the implementation of Ronald Reagan's economic warfare strategy against the Soviet Union. We have bob lighthizer, who served as U.S. trade representative and we have Eric Schmidt, who obviously was the head of Google and brings a private sector experience. And so we're hoping that hearing will then tee up our broader effort, which is the next phase of the committee's work, which is focused on selective economic decoupling and how we win this economic competition. Because a lot of the sentiment for engagement and appeasement comes from the private sector comes from Wall Street. It comes from K street. It comes from Hollywood. It comes from silly Silicon Valley, and there's this naive belief that we can just go back to the status quo ante that somehow we can go back to the good old days and return to the responsible stakeholder hypothesis or the more theme parks we open up in China, the more the better behaves Xi Jinping will become. I disagree with that, but we need to have a conversation with the private sector and get them to understand that there is no such thing as a private business in China.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Left in Denial: China Planning Invasion of Taiwan
"I had a dinner lunch last week with three smart people. One of whom is a foreign national two of them are Democrats. All three of whom agreed that China wasn't going to attack Taiwan. They would prefer to absorb it by osmosis and take many years and they'll just buy the island like they did Hong Kong. And I thought to myself, boy, oh boy, the left doesn't want to deal with the reality of the chai comes. How do you get through to people like this that we could wake up any morning and see an invasion? Well, let me start by paraphrasing what Churchill said at Westminster college in Fulton, Missouri, which is to say there's no doubt that the Soviet Union does not want war. They want the fruits of war and an unimpeded expansion of their power and ideological objectives. The same is true of Xi Jinping. No doubt he would prefer to absorb Taiwan via political warfare rather than actual warfare. Yet he repeatedly is telling us that he's prepared to use force if necessary to achieve his life's ambition. And what these people need to do is pay attention to what Xi Jinping says when he talks not to the Davos crowd, but when he talks to his own party membership. And on that point, he has been crystal clear that he is prepared to use force if necessary, particularly when, as I believe, will happen, he realizes that if achieving that objective, that objective of reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, can not be achieved via political warfare because the DPP is going to win the election in Taiwan in January of 2024. So if you crane has taught us anything, it is that we should listen to dictators when they tell us in plain language what they intend to do. And if we ignore that because we graphed our own western sensibilities on to Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and we do mirror imaging, we do so at our own peril.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Is the Verdict In Trump's Assault Case a Political Hit Job?
"The verdict in Carol the Trump is a right strike verdict to quote Luther on the epistle of James. It doesn't add up to a lawyer, 27 years later when she can't name the year. I just paid no attention to it because it's just so profoundly not corroborate it and they rejected the rape charge, but they accepted the assault charge, but they accept the defamation charge their rejected the rape charge, and they did it in three hours. I just shook my head. So a lot of people think it's just a bogus Manhattan jury. They just think it's a get Trump moment. Whether or not they like Trump, a lot of people think it's a bogus lawsuit. So David, why doesn't the media just report just report that half the country likes Trump and half hates him? Or 40% of the country likes Trump and they don't care about gene Carroll. And they put January 6th aside and they don't blame him for that. Because that's basically the fact pattern. That's just 40% of America that's a 120 million Americans. Yeah, look, I don't have an answer for you in part because I'm not a media reporter, meaning I don't ask these questions of them. I don't really look deep into it. When I try to do, is what I did in Iowa this past weekend. It's just asked questions. And in report, the answers to those questions is fairly and accurately and within context as I can, Trump is this unique figure. I will say as a reporter, I sometimes feel challenged in covering Trump because he will say things, you know, I've covered politicians now for 20 years and they all spin and they all try and make things look a particular way when they don't when they're not a particular way. Trump just happens to be the most brazen among them and then he'll say something is blue when it's white and he just does that.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Trump's Town Hall Audience Criticized for Being Too Partisan?
"Welcome back, America David drucker is the lead political correspondent for the dispatch you see him on all of the networks. Good morning, David. How are you? Good morning, you. How's it going? Good. I am struck David by it's been a week since the town hall that Donald Trump did in New Hampshire. And I'm struck by one thing in particular, which is that the audience has come in for a lot of criticism for clapping at various points along the way. Now the Republican Party is 49% for Trump. 25% for desantis and the rest is split among Mike Pence and some other folks. So the audience didn't always clap and not all of the audience clapped at certain parts, but when have you ever seen a partisan audience criticize for being partisan before? Well, I don't know if we've seen it before hue. But I think that one of the reasons some people may be criticizing the audience is one, it was impossible to tell from watching on television whether it was a partial audience applause or a full audience applause. So you just hear the it's like watching a sitcom, right, where you hear the laugh track. And you don't actually know if everybody in the audience when they hold up that sign is laughing. But that's what it sounds like. I'd say the other thing, and look, this is open for debate here, but Trump was asked about the verdict in Asian Carroll case. And a number of things relating to January 6th and things like that. And Trump was his usual self, which is kind of half charming, half funny, half charismatic. A smattering of this or that. But some of the things that the audience was applauding and laughing at or so it appeared on television were when he was commenting on those things. So it's not like he said, hey, I'm going to cut your taxes, or hey, you know, the border's a mess. And then they clapped or laughed because, you know, set it in a particular way. It's because he was talking about E Jean Carroll in a particular way. It's because he was talking about what happened on January 6th in a particular way. And so I think for a lot of Republicans that do not like Trump for all the reasons that we don't need to repeat here because we already know the answers, they found the audience particularly disheartening because it tells them in their minds that we're still a minority in a party that Trump still leads. Yeah,
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Republican Leader Slams Biden's Handling of Debt Ceiling Crisis
"This is Kevin McCarthy in the house hallway yesterday, cut number three. It just seems that they want to look like they're in a meeting, but they're not talking many times serious. In the meantime, we just watched the CEO come out and say we're a $100 billion further in debt. And so do you think it's more like we wanted default than a deal? And then more Kevin McCarthy at a press conference cut number four. And the only body in all of Congress or the Republicans who raised the debt ceiling. And we did it way in advance before Janet Yellen told us when the deadline was. Because we didn't want to be here. So no, I don't think we're in a good place. I know we're not. This ignoring the problem, thinking it's going to go away, he could bumble his way just into a default like he did on the border. That's what we didn't want to have happen. So we raised the debt limit. We're protecting. I don't know. Maybe his secret plan is to wait till the last minute and pass our Bill. I'm okay with that. Bumbling Joe Biden, and that is about right. Couple of
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Durham Report Exposes FBI Misconduct in Trump Probe
"You hear it live inside the beltway. I must tell you, 7 years is all it took for us to get John Durham's report and to tie a bow on FBI, misconduct during the investigation into Russia, Russia, Russia. That's the headline today. Durham reports sharply criticizes FBI's 2016 Trump campaign probe. Wall Street Journal, FBI faulted for its probe of Russian meddling in 2016 campaign. New York Times in final report, Trump era special counsel denounces Russia investigation over across the pond in Great Britain, FBI quote should never have investigated Trump's links to 2016 election report fines. This comes along at the same time that New York Post reports that the IRS has removed the investigative team in diving into the Hunter Biden tax fraud. The whistleblower saying it's clearly retaliatory. So what do we know? We know that the permanent government is very anti Republican very anti Trump and the crippled the Trump presidency from the beginning, we have here Devin Nunes, who is head of the Intel committee for a time under president Trump before Adam, the lying guy shift took over, cut number 11, Devin Nunes yesterday talking on newsmax with Chris Alfredo. No, and look, Chris, this is just breaking now and it's over 300 page report and one of the things that we need to do is and I need to do as somebody who worked on this for many years. I need to go and read that report and so far it looks like there is a lot of it's brought a lot of clarity to some issues just to my first read of it. But you've asked this, you focusing on the right thing. And that is, who's going to pay a price? And the answer is no one's going to pay a price. But that was always the case. I think I had said this earlier this year that the longer Durham was there, the better it was, hopefully, Durham could get as much as he could in this report. But here's the thing at the end of the day, the Biden administration controls what Durham does. And until Durham speaks, it's we're not going to know, did he make these decisions or did someone in pressure him? But it was always kind of a head scratcher when they brought these brought these indictments that where they into Washington D.C. and really Durham put the FBI and the DoJ on trial there.
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NY Times Denies History and Border Stats
"Times this morning, a direct quote. Historically, there is no conclusive evidence that more aggressive enforcement and more punitive sanctions deter mass migration. It took me 5 minutes to find the stats from customs and border Selena in 2020, fiscal year, 458,000 migrant encounters at the border in fiscal year 2021, 1 million 734,000 in fiscal year 2020 2 million 379,000. How does The New York Times say there is no historical evidence that enforcement matters? Because they want to not because they're, I mean, I don't know there used to be fact checkers in newsrooms. I'm not quite sure what happened there. It's just so absurd. Absurd. And so I just wonder if you talk to people, who do they believe in, you can't believe The New York Times. You just can't believe NBC. You can't believe people anymore. Yeah. You know, this has been this has been building for a while. You remember Brad and I wrote about this in our book. It was part of what started to form the conservative populist coalition before Trump, but also you see it on the left as well. You know, there is a reason why voters are on a bit of a bender. And that has a lot to do with the fact that the institutions and the cultural curators that we trust is most of our lives and our parents trusted our grandparents trusted have proven in this past two generations to then full of doo doo.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Did Trump Bail on Rally Due to Bad Weather or Low Turnout?
"Karl rove summed up, by the way, I want to play this. Donald Trump did not go. They were going to have dueling rallies. Donald Trump canceled his allegedly because of bad weather. A lot of people thought he might have looked at the crowd and didn't like it, but there was bad weather. There were tornadoes, and you don't hold outdoor rallies in tornadoes. So Ron DeSantis showed up at an Iowa restaurant in Des Moines about a mile from where the former president was a no show and repeated that basic message cut number 23. Republicans have lost a lot of elections recently. You've had disaster on our border crime. An administration that's totally festival and people think that the country's best days ahead, but I think Florida and Iowa source of hope because we show you can get it done. Requires leadership requires commitment to principle requires some courage, but if you're willing to do that and you're willing to deliver results, the people are there. They'll follow because they just want to see a better future. So we've done that in Florida. They've done that in Iowa. You know, we're going to have a chance pretty soon to make sure that's done in every state in this type.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Joe Biden Shuts Down Oil Production in Alaska
"Go now to Joe Biden's White House speech? I wish you would. We're going to the president is in complete control of the border. There is no open border and he's not worried at all. He gave a speech at The White House yesterday, cut number 7. I declared the entire U.S. article off limits to new oil and gas development period. We ran the process and protect more than 13 millionaire, 13 million acres of significant natural historic value in the Alaskan national petroleum reserve. And I protected the boundary waters of canoe area, wilderness, surrounding wetlands in Minnesota. Look, that's the most serialized we are we have energy inflation. We have energy inflation and the president is bragging on shutting down oil production in Alaska. And we want electric cars for which we need rare earth minerals not from China or dug up by ten year old boys in the Congo. And that actually is in the boundary waters. Tidal basin. It's in the watershed of the boundary waters. It's not inside the park. And he won't let Minnesota twin mining or twin mines, I believe it's called. They won't let them dig. So
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
President Cancels Debt Limit Meeting
"Cut number ten. Pardon as the president departs. All the kids under the age of 15, come on up here. Yeah. Kids under the age of 15 come on up. And this is the president at peak performance. Meanwhile, he canceled the meeting today on the debt limit. Cut number one, speaker McCarthy at the house yesterday. Tomorrow will be the 100th day since I first sat down with the president on February 1st. To identify a problem. To know the deadline would be coming. We all know that the deadline for default is June 1st. Why are we in this situation? Because inflation, Democrats added $6 trillion. They harmed every single-family by bringing inflation to our country. And now three of the four largest bank failures in American history has happened just in a couple months.
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A Personal Invitation for Chris Christie to the Mark Levin Show
"Let's say this to Chris Christie how long are you going to run and hide from me How long are you going to run and hide You're on Hugh Hewitt show today you're on Brian kilmeade show yesterday It's not because I need you for ratings my ratings will sink if you come on But I want to confront you I want to debate you How long are you going to hide How many more years You're out there Shooting slings and arrows They're out there throwing mud balls You only going to go on friendly platforms Is that it Is that your plan What is your plan
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
McConnell's Secret Plan: Stop Radical Judges & Biden's Spending
"All right, now I want to switch over to the judiciary committee. I'm writing a column for the post about leader McConnell and he got a lot of nicknames like cocaine Mitch in midnight Mitch and the grim Reaper. They ought to call him Mitch. Didn't I already tell you the answer, McConnell? Because he told the Democrat. He's not going to help them pass judicial nomination. And dianne Feinstein said it's not even a problem. You're on that. Committee, what is the situation? Well, he was just a tie though on the debt ceiling matter. Since then, McConnell said it earlier this week that we don't have a secret plan in the Senate to bail out Joe Biden. I'd go a step further. We don't have a secret plan to have a secret plan. Like no one is sitting around thinking that if we get to this day, okay, Mitch McConnell and Republican senators are going to swoop in and undercut House Republicans and save Joe Biden. It's not going to happen. Senator McConnell and I and Republican senators have said since January, the American people send a Republican majority of the house to put the brakes on Joe Biden runaway spending. The sooner Joe Biden gets on with it and sits down with Republican House members. The sooner we can raise our debt sale in a responsible fashion. Now, to your point about senator McConnell and judges. When Sarah Feinstein came down with a case of shingles, she was not able to attend anymore. Democrats began to climb, oh, this is paralyzing the judiciary committee. We can't confirm any of our judges. We need to do her the courtesy of temporarily removing her from the committee. Never been done before as far as I know. The only reason it would be necessary, the only reason it would be necessary to replace our temporarily or permanently is so the Democrats can confirm judges on a party line basis. We have confirmed or I'm sorry, we have voted out of committee numerous judges over the last three months in senator Feinstein's absence on a bipartisan basis. The only thing her absence has prevented Democrats from doing is confirming radical, unqualified judges on a party line basis. And senator McConnell several point was why would we encourage the Democrats to do that?
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Debt Default Blame Game: Is Biden Responsible?
"What did you think of last night's town hall generally? And then let's get to the debt specifically. I'll confess that I watched the Sox beat the braves last night to once again win their road series to go back home to finlay. In the playoffs ahead of your guardians, I've seen some of the coverage this morning on the default question in particular, there's no reason to default speaker McCarthy and senator McConnell on both side. We shouldn't default. But it's really on Joe Biden's shoulders. House Republicans passed a good bill that would raise our debt ceiling in a responsible fashion by reducing spending up to $5 trillion for ten years and Joe Biden has continued to pretend like that didn't happen and that he has no responsibility to either support that legislation or propose an alternative, I know that they've begun negotiations this week. I hope those proceed and orderly fashion and that Joe Biden accepts the reality that the American people sent a Republican majority to the House of Representatives in part to stop the runaway spending in Washington.
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Governor Says Biden Family Living Off Influence for Decades
"Now I want to have you made your decision yet. You got another week to go. You told me last week, two weeks ago you got one week to go. When are we going to hear something? Well, it's got a week. Okay. You know? You know, I don't do math. I'm a lawyer governor. I don't know. Thank you. So it might be two weeks. Who knows, you know? All right, the house a couple other issues. The house oversight committee lays this out yesterday. $10 million in LLC's money flying around from Romania, Ukraine and China, my goodness, but it stinks to high heaven. What do you think? Look, I think exactly what you think. I think it's the I am. And I don't think anybody should doubt this simple fact that at a minimum, Joe Biden's family has been living off Joe Biden's influence for decades. And whether it's Jim Biden or whether it Hunter Biden and a number of other Biden that are in the family, they live off of Joe Biden's influence and he has let them do it. If not encourage them to do it. And I think it's something that needs to be looked at even more closely. Not only by congressional oversight, but also by law enforcement. You know,
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Trump Sides With Putin Over Ukraine
"Said about Ukraine that it was not prudent to call Putin a war criminal. Do you agree with him? No. No, I think he's a coward, and I think he's a puppet of Putin. I really do. I think I don't know why. I say the truth. I can't figure it out. But there's no conclusion to come to. He wouldn't say last night that you've created win the war. I mean, I was stunned, it was to me it was the most stunning moment of the debate. If you won't say that you think Ukraine should win the war, I don't know where you stand with Putin. And the city that he could settle it in 24 hours is the same kind of bravado that we heard 8 years ago when he said that he would build the wall across the entire border of Mexico and the United States and Mexico would pay for it. And we have a wall that's about a 5th of what we need after his presidency and Mexico has paid their first peso to us yet.
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Former President's Hypocrisy on Debt Limit Exposed
"The most significant policy position taken last night was his throw down on the debt limit, meaning it would be mostly psychological if we did not raise the debt limit and that eventually we're going to have to breach the debt limit unless serious $5 trillion of spending is done. Your reaction to his marker, which I think was intended for the House Republicans more than anyone else. Well, look, my reaction is, you know, doctor hill thyself. I mean, he did more to add to that problem during his four years as president than any president until Joe Biden. And the two of them both should be thinking about what they've done to add to the absolute critical mass that we have here in the country. And so I love and he said, I love using the debt limit as leverage when I'm not president, but I'm totally opposed to it when I am. You know, look, he calls himself the king of debt when he ran in 2016 and the problem is that we're now seeing the ramifications of that. Enormous inflation that kills the spending power of the American people.
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Discover the Most Efficient Way to Support US Senate Candidates
"I got a very technical question for you, senator James. When I try and find somebody's website, I don't give money because of Washington Post rules, but I just try and find it so I can post their website. I end up going to win red. And that's fine. When red is good, but is it taking the place of individual candidates because money given to an individual candidate goes a lot farther than money given to a pack? Yeah, that's absolutely right. And the reason that's the case is when you get into the last 60 to 90 days of an election, the laws require that candidates get the most preferred rate when they're buying media. Versus a super PAC. So we need to have super PAC help of course, but candidate dollar spend the most efficiently. Sometimes ten times more efficiently on average two to three, sometimes four times more efficiently. We have some site effects called Senate 24 dot com as an example. Senate 24 dot com, that is a site that people can go to and they can find out more as it relates to what's going on in the United States Senate and key races.
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Senator Reveals Shocking Event at Air Force Base
"Glory, America, bones, roar, high Canada, and Hugh Hewitt here live inside the beltway. I'll be joined by Nikki Haley ambassador Ali joining me at the bottom of the hour, but I start this hour, was the United States senator Steve daines from the great state of Montana, senator. I keep track of Montana news because I'm still barred from the state after fishing out the Madison a couple of years ago. But I noticed that at malmstrom Air Force Base, there was a drag show for the kids. That's your Air Force Base. What's going on? Keep in mind we put some perspective around the Air Force Base. There are three bases in the nation that have responsibilities for intercontinental ballistic missiles. The most massive weapons of mass destruction known to mankind. We are very proud of the fact that one third of those missiles, a 150 of those ICBMs are in Montana. The best challenge going to have ever received came from the commander there from years ago and said scaring the hell out of America's enemies since 1962. It goes back to Ronald Reagan peace through strength. It's the greatest deterrence we have to keep authoritarian crazy leaders around the world in check because they fear what the United States could do. So it's an important peacekeeping mission. So as important as that mission is, we were shocked, shocked to find out. Back in June of 2021, the mouse from Air Force Base promoted a drag queen show for children on the base.
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"hugh" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Okay, and on the hawks going to lose four in a row to the Celtics. I don't follow pro basketball. All right, just checking in. I want you to say, hey, you hawks fans, cheer loud. Make the Celtics use up, so they can't sit around and just coast in Edgar, Texas. What do you think Edgar? Tim Scott, you, and the reason why a couple of weeks ago you guys read it all and you can think at 11 as a happy warrior and I think that's what we need. We need a lawyer, but we need them to be able to bring them both. And get us what we need. We're waiting for senator Scott. We have the invite out. I'd love to have mine often early. We will find out Edgar, thank you. You're the first Tim Scott vote today. And I got to say it's now there have been three or four ramen swamis, two or three hayles, half dozen or so desantis, one Tim Scott, nobody else except the former president Paul in Delaware. What do you say, Paul? I'm definitely for Trump. I'm only the 5 miles away from the stellar. It's the economy. Jobs bring back factories, lower taxes, the Supreme Court and also treat Trump was betrayed. All right, all right. I got it. You're in. Elaine, Tennessee. Are you there? Yes, I am. I'm for president Trump, and I wish Jim Jordan was going to run for vice president. Well, that's up to whoever the nominee is to pick. Correct. Yep. And I don't know if it's Donald Trump. I wouldn't be surprised if he picked a young military mind by cotton or Gallagher or Mike waltz in Florida. I would not be surprised if he went that direction because it's sort of like the Clinton gore approach in 1992, double down on your strength. Doctor agria in Houston, what do you say, Doc? Hey, hey, good morning, morning, glory here. Morning go to you. I'm a desantis supporter. I think that Trump tends to stop, stop, Doc, it's only positive. Why are you for Dan? Okay, I didn't mean to drop him, but listen friends don't tell me why you're getting someone. Tell me why you're for someone, Nicholas, Pennsylvania. Good morning, kind sir, Trump for me to reason he's turnkey, his policies were amazing. He's a painter, he did great things for the country. The other reason is that he's going to be a one term president. So he has no vested interest other than doing what's right for the country. There's no financial motive. There's no political mode of not that there was really, but there's certainly no political motive. All right, so I want to get another state in. West Virginia, John, go ahead, John in the mountain state. Thanks. Hey, I'm voting for desantis. He's got a phenomenal record of accomplishment in Florida. He's right on all the issues. He's willing to fight against the woke elements and education culture everywhere. And it doesn't have the personal baggage. Thank you so much, John. Brett, you get the last call. It's from Cleveland go calves. What do you say, Brett? Okay, Brad is not clean yet. You got 30 seconds, buddy. Good morning, glory Hugh. Donald Trump. Why? Yes, he has the experience and the temperament to deal with the new Democratic Party. All right. Cabs in 5. Captain three. Well, you mean three more. We got to win four, but that's a total of caption 5. Brett, thank you, friend. Just want to make sure we keep our priorities straight here. No cabs. And if you want a little take now, I just have discovered Mark price for three podcasts, terrific, short breakdown and NBA Finals. And go subscribe to that great, great great. Mark prices, I'm a live with his voice. I really haven't heard it at length before. Thank you, Adam. Thank you, Jacob. Thank you, generalissimo. Thanks, all of you for listening. Grand old pot will be later today over at the universe. Go and sign up, subscribe, get the text messaging going, come back tomorrow..
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"hugh" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"The answer. Good morning, Rochelle. How about you? Hey you, the person for whom I'm voting is Donald J Trump because he's the best. My second choice would be Vivek. Okay, but we're not looking for second choices because, you know, you're going to vote in March, I think. Yeah, yeah, Donald J Trump all the way, definitely. He's my first choice. All right, thank you, Rochelle. Let's go to gym in winter garden. Hey, Jim. Hello, Hugh. Hey, my parents sent me down here to Florida from Pennsylvania when I was when I was ten years old, but I'm still a Cleveland guy and as a matter of fact, I consider Jimmy Brown the babe Ruth of football. Well, yeah, greatest football player ever. But you gotta tell me who you're voting for in a hurry. I'm gonna tell you right now. I told I had been telling everybody that Donald Trump stopped Jim, are you voting for Donald Trump? I don't want to hear a negative. I only want to hear a positive. It's not negative. I just think his negative is too high. All right, Jim, I got to let you go. Really friends I got rules. You can tell me why you're for someone. See what Jim said is against Trump. And so I never heard of he's four. And the way to persuade us to be four things, not against things. Greg and Iowa, good morning, Greg. Who in about four? We're just saying this because of the ad he ran yesterday about composing the transgender males that can't compete against male so that they have I will go find that ad Greg and we'll play it. Thank you from Iowa. Stay tuned America. Welcome back, American flew by the first presidential Thursday has flown by and take a few more calls. But from New Hampshire to alcohol, we have heard from voters across the country tell us who they would vote for if they were voting today. And I'm going to do this every Thursday in order to channel the desire of people to speak out on their candidate choice. Which is always and everywhere there. I mean, I could do this every day. But I'm not. I'm going to do it every Thursday. And it's not going to conflict. But I love to get, look, we got calls from Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida this morning. And right now we're going to go different places. Let's go to Indiana, John. What do you say, John? Oh, John. Cut 9 6 line four in Indiana. Okay, John in Pennsylvania, go first. Yeah, Trump. Definitely. At which part of PA are you in? The northeast corner in the phone sale. Okay, so you're locked in. Why Trump? Well, I take it as another shot at them all. All right, good answer. Thank you. John, Indiana, line four. What do you say, John? Yeah, it's morning glory. Hugh. And to you. Well, I'm a desantis guy. And why? Well, why I'm actually the county chairman here in a conservative state in a very conservative county and one thing I've noticed and one thing that we've talked about at our meeting is people who are getting things done and getting things like accomplished and I think Trump was wonderful at that. I think again, desantis is number one on your list for that. Yes. Yes. And by the way, Jim banks doing well. Jim banks are doing great. I actually had lunch with him the other day. Hey, you're going to win. Give me a great senator. John, thank you. Daryl in Atlanta. What say you, Daryl? Mickey Haley. She could bring the crossover votes. We need in the general election. And which is suburban women voters and she's got bona fides as a former governor and also has foreign policy experience..
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"We need to be energy independent again. All right, thank you. Dennis and Utah what say you, Dennis? Thank you, Hugh. I'm voting for Trump because he's the best one to teach the entire nation that the entire nation won against socialism. All right, thank you, Dennis. Raymond and Orlando, Florida, let's see you, Raymond. If he runs one desantis, if he doesn't, Kim Scott. Okay. Interesting. Why Rhonda said as if he runs? He's been a great executive for Florida. Everything from the economy just the operations of government. All right, thank you. By the way, did you learn gas lines and you mentioned operation in the government? I don't blame Ron DeSantis for this. I did not know that there was gas lines until I saw Marco Rubio clip yesterday. A lot of lefties immediately said he was shooting it to Santa. No, he wasn't. He was saying there are gas problems down here. He's talking to the Department of Energy, I think. Gloria, in Georgia, Gloria. First time caller, I am. Well, then we really need the glory in music. I just want you to know Gloria. Gloria was a big name when I was a kid. And I. Okay. I just love Gloria. Thank you. Welcome first time. All right, you can make me think of how I'm always dancing with president Trump. Anyway, I am voting for president Trump, T is for Trump and because are you can rest on what he says only if you are under his umbrella, not because he's a true man, but he means what he says and pay because he's phenomenal with what he does. Well, said Gloria, that was a good call. Thank you. Chula Vista, California, to go from Georgia to chill of vista is quite the trip that we make it quickly. Good morning. Good morning, sir. It's a pleasure to talk to you. Thank you. If you'll allow me to just say one sentence and I think the people in Florida will get this. Remember my roles will dump it if it's negative. We'll play it if it's positive. No, I promise you, it's nice. All right. Who's the leader of the club who's made for you and me? DON, ALD, tea, are you? I'm not heard that before Ed. I'm glad I made that up. Thank you, sir. Talk show hosts are like comedian. If you say it, I own it. Thank you, Ed. Let's go to Norfolk. Cory. I'm in the navy. How are you, Corey? Hey, I'm actually in fort Polk, but I'm voting for Vivek Rama Swami. I think he's got the plan when it comes to crypto when it comes to all the culture war type things. And we need somebody fresh. I think Vic is there. That's the second one today for Ronda Swami. Thank you, Jeff in Michigan, but we really don't care what mission Anders think, but we let him on anyway. Good morning, Jeff. Well, thank you. I'm voting for Donald Trump because I believe he is the one that the left fears the most. All right, good reason. That's sort of in the same vein as his enemies. Mick, Kentucky..
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"I'm a question you come back to this committee soon and tell us how you're going to follow the law. That's your only option, mister secretary, another cape study, we did the study. We told you what to do and you need to do it. The comment on agrees with us, this committee agrees with us. So what is your answer to this question? You're violating the law right now. In your shipbuilding plan looks to say, hey, we're going to violate the law for the next 30 years. That's totally unacceptable. And in my view, you haven't been hit hard enough by members of this committee. You're ignoring us. Worse you're ignoring the law. What's your answer to that? And I do want your commitment to come back here with a statement on how you're going to fix this. Senator, you have my commitment that I will come back to you with the statement on how we can fix this. And follow the law. Yes, sir, it is my intent to follow the law. And I hope that hopefully by the president's budget 25 submission, we'll be able to be back in place with the multiyear procurement that actually looks at not looks at. That's not your option. We looked at it. Like I said, sir, as we developed the president's budget 25, I will look at that as an option that we can pursue to get us back on track with multi procurement for LPD. It's not enough. It's not an option. Senator Sullivan is right. The House and the Senate agreed and the president signed into law, the authorization to build multi contract and fibs, and they're not doing it. They're just, it's astonishing to me. Absolutely, it's nice to me. Ned and Missouri, who you're looking for Ned. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'm going to vote for Trump and I'll tell you why as well. Go right ahead. I believe I believe we do not have the time to wait for someone else to prove yourself, even though I believe some of the candidates could Trump's got the great to get in there because if we don't these foreign countries are going to treat us like the safety kid that was in high school and put us in a locker and the United States is going to stay there till they lay it down. All right, thank you very much. Ned, I'm coming back with doctor Michael Oren and then more calls on presidential Thursday, one 805 two O one two three four. By the way, if you're in a vote for Biden, you can call me and tell me that too. Democrats are always welcome. Here on the Hugh Hewitt show. I'm going to get to you by the end of this program. Some results of the war game conducted by the House select committee on the engagement with the Chinese Communist Party. They ran a war game last night and they attended a war game run by, they participated in a war game run by the center for national and strategic studies. But I don't know what it stands for. And they're very good at this. And they're a center left group. So it's not like they ran a right-wing group. Apparently, China successfully got 80,000 people. On to Taiwan in this exercise, despite the blue team, house and Democrats and Republicans working together took very aggressive moves and to try and stop it and they still got the island and to quote my source, many people died. So I'll get you the results of that. While we wait for that, I want to go back, this is presidential Thursday and I will repeat this feature most Thursdays between now and November of 2024. Who are you voting for?.
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"We've been speaking with Wesley Smith discovery institute chair of the center of human exceptionalism, read his great essay at national review dot com on this particular subject. Thank you so much for being with us. When we come back, we'll be talking with Brian westbury about the markets. What's going on in the markets this week? I think Q is wrong. I think there's a lot going on. We'll talk more about that. I'm Ed Morrissey filling in for Hugh, we'll be right back. You see freedom. Welcome back everyone. I'm Ed Morrissey of hot air dot com filling in for Hugh Hewitt today should be freaking out at the market or is the market freaking out or is the market doing anything? Joining us right now to talk to us about that is Brian westbury senior economist at first trust portfolios at westbury on Twitter and Brian Hugh says nothing's happening in the markets this week. I don't trust, I don't trust you, I trust you. You tell us what's happening in the markets this week. Well, you know, the market still trying to figure out whether we will have a recession in 20 23, I think we will, and I think earnings profits are going to fall. So the problem that the markets had and 2022 this year, which is almost over now, was that interest rates went up next year, the problem is that it's going to be hard to maintain profits because we them during COVID. And add the way I the analogy that I've used is the COVID lockdowns that they were well, I think I don't know if you agree, but they were wrong in my opinion. But that's like, that's like having a car accident. And then the ambulance shows up and they pump your full of morphine, you get to the emergency room, the Doc says how you feeling and you say, I feel great. And he says, no, you're not. You have a broken leg. And so the point I'm getting to is that we got used to these profits going up, but it was all because we borrowed from the future and printed all this money, and that's going away in 2023. So I don't think the markets are going to have a problem to digesting it, but it's not going to be fun for investors. Well, I mean, let's talk a little bit about that too, because a lot of the money that was dispersed, some of it went to companies, some of it went to individuals. And some of that was sheltered. I mean, people were kind of putting some of that away. But that's pretty much dissipated at this point in time, right? The savings rate has gone back down to pre-pandemic levels and put simply, the reserve isn't there any longer. And I think people are still almost expecting to get another tranche of free cash here to help them through this. And I don't think that there's any will in Congress to do that right now. And it's a bad idea. I'm not suggesting it. I'm just saying, I think that people are still kind of expecting a little bit more of uncle sugary to step in here. Yeah, you know, we have this phrase we use quiet quitting where people just don't want to work. We have this new bohemian class or however we want to think of it. And I do believe you're absolutely right that it's because people keep waiting for the next round of checks to come. But at this point, I agree with you. They are over. There isn't we just passed this huge Bill, but it didn't include any direct payments to individuals, and that's going to slow things down. One of the morphine, if you will, that the injections that we had is that we kept services closed down, but we especially allowed the big public companies, Amazon, Home Depot, target, Walmart, all of them were allowed to stay open and because we were handing out all those checks during COVID were locked down 30 billion hours of work were lost and yet we spent 1.3 $1 trillion more on goods than we would have if COVID never happened. And that's what happened. We borrowed from our kids and we spent it all on ourselves during 2021 and early 2022..
The Eric Metaxas Show
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"It is absolutely fascinating. Doctor Hugh Ross, thank you. My pleasure. Hey folks. Yeah. We interrupt this program with Hugh Hewitt, by the way. Is he not insanely amazing? Hugh Ross, you mean. I'm sorry. I was just with Hugh Hewitt. That's right. I was with, I remember I was talking about the beginning of the program I was on the Salem talkers tour. Yes. So it was Brandon Tatum, the officer Tatum. Oh yeah. It was Mike Gallagher. Oh boy it was Hugh Hewitt and some other folks that you may or may not know, but it was amazing. So I've got Hugh Hewitt on the brain. But this program, the genius Hugh Ross, and we're going to have much more of him in our two just because we can. And because he's just, it's next level. I'm going to get to, I'm going to ask him about the young earth creation versus old earth creation. I need to ask him about that in hour two. But before we go back to him, I want to remind you of two things. First of all, when I was recently in Houston, somebody came up to me and said, I do this thing where every day at a certain time, I and everyone I know I'm on a text stream. We pray for the country. Yesterday, I read a tweet that somebody said that at the Trump rally at 9 p.m., everybody broke out and singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Why? Why? Because the J 6 protesters who have been imprisoned. This is despicable. It is so despicable and unjust in America. Those patriots unjustly imprisoned. If you don't believe that, you're wrong. I don't have time to get into it right now, but this is a scandal of our time. Every one of them who can and they can hear each other, they sing The Star-Spangled Banner at 9 p.m. every night. And I said, you know what? Every one of us at 9 p.m., I don't know what you're doing. Stop and pray for the J 6 protesters and for the United States of America. Every night at 9 p.m., we're going to mention that more and more prayer is the way out of this abyss. Into which we have fallen. And I want to ask you, folks, to join me in this, every night, 9 p.m. when it's 9 p.m., you can set your alarm, pray for the J 6 protesters that justice be done and pray for this nation. We need deliverance by God from where we are. There is no other hope. It doesn't mean there aren't things you can do. There's a million things you can do. But without prayer without God's help, none of it will happen. I just want to say that bluntly. One thing you can do, besides pray, we're doing a campaign for the lines defending freedom. These folks, again, their heroes. There's lots of folks like this out there, not like the alliance defending freedom, but I'm saying like, you can give money. You can give time. You can pray. We need to be all in. And we are asking you, we've only got a few days left. 5 days left, we are way behind. I don't know what's going on this month, but I want to ask you, folks, if you can go to metaxas talk dot com, support the alliance offending freedom. When I say their heroes, I don't say this lightly. I know these people. I know Kristen Wagner, who is the head of lines. And she's an amazing lawyer using all of her abilities. And energies to help this nation and she is working with a raft of other amazing lawyers to fight for religious liberty. They're fighting for you. Because everything that's falling apart in this country affects us. And they are taking this on. They do it for free. They really need our help. So you go to metaxas talk dot com. Folks, please do what you can. Just do something. It doesn't matter what you do. Yeah, and your gift is matched. So you give $50, it becomes a hundred, a hundred becomes 200. So please give what you can and by the way, if you don't give, it is not matched, okay? So for the other half to kick in, you have to give something. So please do that. You go to metaxas talk dot com or dial 8 5 5 385-059-6855 three 8 5 O 5 9 6 and don't forget new traumatic 30% off with the code Eric this month only traumatic 30% off with the code Eric only in October..
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"What do you mean by the redemptive piece? I'm not getting that. Well, you've got passages in the Bible that say things like, you know, the grace of God that we now experience was put into effect before the beginning of time. The hope we share in Jesus Christ was given to us before the beginning and time, which implies that God began his works of redemption before the universe even existed. But how would he scientists track with that? I mean, I understand that, but I mean, it's very theological, but when you say to a scientist that he ought to take that into account, how could he take that into account? Well, you could do research in astronomy and physics, for example, you say, well, if this feature I'm seeing in the universe, how can I explain the speech here and I'm basically saying the best explanation will be, what do you need in order to make possible the redemption of billions of human beings in a short period of time on one planet? And so in that sense, I'm arguing that this fine tuning argument has predictive power is that you can use this fine tuning argument in a redemptive context to discover more fine tuning. And this means that you're going to be able to be more successful at making scientific discoveries about the structure of the universe, our galaxy, our solar system, et cetera. I mean, the very fact that in this book, it's what, 280 pages long. And it's all based on discoveries of the last three years, and so I have basically shared with my scientific peers. I mean, just read the scientific literature. Every day that goes by, we see a scientific discovery that's best explained in a biblical redemptive perspective. So why not use this as a guide in your ongoing research and see if indeed you'll be more efficient in making discoveries about the realm of nature? I take your point about fine tuning generally, but I don't know why you need to leap to the redemptive piece. In other words, it's one thing to say, hey, assume that there's a God and he wanted to create a planet where human beings could live. It would seem to me that that would have enough predictive power and that when you're looking for fine tuning everything comes together to create us. I get that. And that accounts for so much. So the next piece of it where you talk about redemption and so on and so forth. I want to get to that when we come back because, again, folks, there's so many layers here. It's amazing. There's so much you can read. Go to reasons dot org if you have a bright high schooler, send him or her to reasons, dot org. There is so much there. It's astonishing and it's very, very exciting. We'll be right back. We had so much fun together I was sure that you were my hey, get rid of them. When you get the blues, come on, get rid of them. When you get the blues, get folks welcome back. I'm talking to doctor Hugh Ross with reasons dot org is the website. So doctor Ross talked to us about that redemptive piece. I think this is, in some ways, hard to grasp, but you're making the case that not only is the universe fine tuned for life and for us, but you go way beyond that. So talk about the way beyond because I just want to see if we can track with that. Well, the anthropic principle, the idea when we observe the universe, we see it's been fine tuned, designed to make our existence possible. This was so disturbing to my peers who weren't believers, that they basically evolved the anthropic principle into the prebiotic principle. What do we need to explain how we get a universe with amino acids, nucleobases, and sugars? And there you have a much lower level of fine tuned evidence because we're just talking about the building blocks of life molecules. And the point I'm making in my books is, well, the goal from the prebiotic principle to what you need to have bacteria existing universe, we see that the fine tuned case rises exponentially, then if we go from bacteria to plants and animals, we see another exponential increase and how fine tuned different features of the universe must be. And then if we go to the equivalent of human beings, it's exponentially greater than the fine tuning you need for plants and animals, but the greatest exponentiation is kind of fine tuning you need in order for billions of humans or the equivalent to be redeemed from their sin and evil. So in that sense, I'm making the point that where you really see the evidence for fine tune designs is when you put it in the context of how the universe must be designed and all of its subcomponents and all of the events in the history of the universe and the subcomponents in order to make possible billions of human beings with the adequate technology it's necessary that the good news is Salvation through the crater of the universe can be communicated to all of them in such a way that billions of them can be redeemed from their sin and evil..
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"You will understand that I ripped off a lot of that stuff from my next guest. My next guest is the man who, without realizing it, in 1991, was my introduction to what we might call science apologetics. To the idea of the fine tuned universe, I was a new believer, and I don't know how I found it, but I found doctor Hugh Ross's books or how I found them. And since then, I've been following his work. And have incorporated a lot of what he writes into my own books in case you don't know who Hugh Ross is. Let me simply say officially he's founder and president of reasons to believe an organization dedicated to demonstrating the compatibility of science and the Christian faith. He is an astrophysicist. He's a pastor and he is my guest right now. Doctor Hugh Ross, welcome. Well, thank you for inviting me, Eric. Well, it's always fun for me to talk to you. It's just a joy to talk to you. You really were my introduction to the whole world of the fine tuned universe and all this stuff you got me started on this stuff. And you have written so many books on these subjects. The one we're going to talk about today, your new book is called designed to the core, so you talk about fine tuning on another level. I know this is always hard for people to grasp, but I always feel like I want to give context folks when we're talking about fine tuning what we're talking about. Well, let me ask you since you introduced me to the concept of fine tuning doctor Hugh Ross. Explain to my audience when we talk about the fine tuning argument, what are we talking about? Oh, it is the oldest scientific argument for the existence of God. It goes all the way back to the early church fathers and it refers to the fact that we live in a universe and on earth where we see hundreds of features that must be exquisitely fine tuned to make possible our existence. Well, there are so many levels of fine tuning. It almost becomes funny when you think about how amazing God is. It's almost, when I talk about my book as atheism dead, and I get into some of this stuff, at some point, I usually say, if you're honest and you really begin to understand what we mean by how much how much fine tuning there is, it almost becomes frightening. You start thinking, God is so much bigger, it's almost too much to take in what he has done in creating the universe. I mean, just to start there, most of us don't think about that. What it takes to create the universe out of nothing, it's numbing to consider it. And then you get into the idea that, oh, and that's just the beginning, literally and figuratively, and it goes on and on and on and on and on to where God's sovereignty and his hand and his planning are in everything. And I just don't know if you don't seem to like to be the kind of person who ever becomes overwhelmed. But I have found myself becoming overwhelmed by it. I mean, the fine tuning evidence not only establishes that the God of the Bible must exist. It reveals to us just how big that God is. You can't come away from investigating the fine tuning argument with other recognizing just how infinitely powerful, loving and caring, the one that created the universe must be. I mean, it's kind of funny to me like Zeus couldn't design a pocket watch. Who are we kidding, right? Ganesh, these other pseudo gods. We're talking about a God that is just, I mean, when we think about atomic structure, when we think about the galaxies, it is just, it is almost, as I say, overwhelming, and so at some point, we have to just decide, okay, what part of fine tuning are we going to discuss?.
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"I don't think the people of this country would stand for it. Now, I want to go to China, which you just mentioned. You're a real estate guy first and forever. Have you looked at the Chinese real estate market? Do you think it's going to collapse? Well, it could very well collapse. China is not doing very well right now. One of the reasons is because I put on tariffs the likes of which nobody's ever seen before, not one president took in ten cents of tariffs or of taxes or if anything, no money ever came from China to the U.S.. What I did is I put on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tariffs coming into the United States that pay tax. And Biden, as much as he wants to do it for his friends, pays his son and him a fortune, Biden is finding a hard time taking those tariffs off so much money is coming in. And if they took it off, we'd lose our steel industry almost immediately and would lose a lot. So because of what I've done, they're having a hard time. And China would love to get those tariffs taken off that. If the real estate market begins to crumble in China, as it is already beginning to crumble. It's an Alice items this morning, the news items by John Ellis, and I just think it's a very dire situation. Will it impact the United States real estate market? Do you think? It could, and it could also make it better. But also make it better. People are going to invest in the United States. If we're smart, it'll make it better. People will want to be in the United States. We can not let China continue to rip off. You know, when I came in, they were doing $536 billion worth of deficits with China. And I turned things around and those tariffs have been a godsend and it's really, I mean, it saved our steel industry. I still you could speak to anybody in the steel industry. They'll tell you Trump saved us. We wouldn't have a steel plant open. If I didn't put 25 and 50% tariffs on all the steel coming in from China, where they were dumping it in order to destroy our cylinder industry. They were dumping it so that our steel industry would be destroyed. It wouldn't be able to compete. And when I did those tariffs, we saved our entire seal industry and now they're doing well, actually. Hey everyone, this is Dwayne Patterson, producer of the Hugh Hewitt show. I've known for a while now that there's been far too much of me here in the studio and I finally needed to do something about my weight. My excuse was always that I couldn't follow a plan with the crazy schedule that I keep. I heard about PhD weight loss and nutrition in how they customize their program for each client, and I decided to call. This was no problem for Rachel in the PhD team. They had me map out what my day looks like and created a plan to follow. And so far, I've lost 16 pounds already and I'm just two weeks in on the way to my goal of losing 45. Call PhD weight loss and nutrition at age 6 four 6 four four 1900 and make your appointment for your consultation. The plan is simple, it's based on science and nutrition, there's no pills or injections, and they even include 80% of your food if you want it. Call them right now at 8 6 four 6 four four 1900 or find them online at my PhD weight loss dot com. And tell him you heard about it from Duane that producer Hugh actually has on the Hugh Hewitt show..
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"The rest of us might not even find out about it till after the election. Elon Musk says this is all to help you. Morning, glory and bonjour high from France, I am due Hewitt at my side is Pierre. Pierre. In fact, if you turn the camera you can see Pierre with his beret, his baguette and his what do we call that that you have on? We call that an apron. An apron, a dash, a Pierre, and you gotta sit down to see your head though. Mona Lisa. He's totally gone native on me. I don't know if we're ever going to get it back. From Texas comes Ed Morrissey. Good morning, Edward. How are you? It's actually, I don't know what time it is in Texas. What time isn't that 5 a.m. in the morning? Yeah, so people in the world have no idea where we are. So I was off the area yesterday going to the sacred space that is Normandy to Omaha beach to the American cemetery to ponta hakon. We'll talk a little bit about that in a second. And there's lots of news to go over, but Edward, I got to ask you first about Ari melber, I know that Kurt schlichter talked about this a lot yesterday. I've gained about 400 followers overnight at Hugh Hewitt on Twitter, and by the way, I'd encourage everyone every single person listening to this radio show to go and follow me and follow Ed Morrissey and follow radio blogger and follow all conservatives. Let's see if in fact it's true. But I have never believed in shadow banning Edward. I've never believed in it, but Ari melber is now afraid of it. And I know you talked about it yesterday and people, but do you believe a that it's happened be that it's ended and see that it might happen again? What does Ed Morrissey of hot air dot com think? Do I think that shadow banning exists? Yes, I think that what we're seeing is the dials being turned back now that the new boss is coming into town here and they're trying to set the dials back to zero so that it can claim when Elon Musk comes in. See nothing was. We weren't doing anything, so they've said all the dials on the dashboard back to zero. And I think Ari melber understands this, which is the reason why he's panicked that the same tools that the current Twitter management has been using to impose viewpoint suppression on their platform could be turned against them. And the thing is that Elon Musk is saying, no, we're going to make the algorithms transparent so that you can tell whether or not people are tweaking around behind the scenes. But that's not enough. I mean, did you see Ed Markey talk about algorithmic justice yesterday? Yes, I did. Algorithm, by the way, is code for I don't know what I'm talking about. So I'm going to use a word that suggests that I do. When in fact, it's all the stuff in the back room. Dwayne is running the algorithm right now, for example, on the Hugh Hewitt show. Algorithm justice is Hugh Hewitt trying to explain how to do radio. Right. And so there is a technical side to Twitter that involves dials, which is a very funny boomer kind of thing, right? Dials. You turn the dial on the volume. And they don't exist in this world. Getting us onto iPhones with tough enough, right? The boomer generation. But I have to read. I remember the commercial about beer. I don't drink beer, but when I drink beer, I drink whatever it is he drinks. Dulce. Okay, I don't usually read Politico because it's a left leaning left. Biased platform. But I kind of headline on Twitter. So I want to read this to you and get your reaction. Monday was an emotional day at Twitter, even for its executives. Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer, vijaya Gotti called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal team she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them. Gotti was worked at Twitter since 2011 is the key executive charged with overseeing Twitter's trust and safety legal and public policy function. She is seen internally as Twitter's moral authority and the executive task with handling sent to them issues like harassment and dangerous speech. Edward, have you ever in your life heard.
The Eric Metaxas Show
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"And it's thanks to the great mass of the moon and its proximity that it indeed stabilizes the Earth's rotation rate, slowed down to 24 hours at exactly the time when the sun had the optimal stability for advanced life. And when you say that you're saying that the gravity of the sun was kind of like acting like a drag on the rotation of the earth so that over the millennia and eons, it slowed it down to where we are now. Yeah, the moon, the sun has an effect as well, but the. I'm sorry, I meant the sun. I meant the moon's gravity upon the earth acted like a drag on it and that it slowed it down to where we are now. So that's true. That's true, and it's still slowing it down. If we were to wait a little few more million years of B 25 hours a day, but 2020. That'll be the day. But okay, so you say it slows it down to about 24 hours per rotation. So how is it that the moon, sorry, that the sun is now better than it would have been three billion years ago in terms of where life is on earth? How is the sun different during this time? Well, stars are kind of like human beings. They're unstable when they're young, they're unstable when they're old. They're maximally stable in their middle age. Only the case for stars is far more extreme. We humans are stable for a long period of time, but for stars, there's this extremely narrow window in their lifespan where they have the stability that makes advanced life possible. We're talking about a 100,000 years in the four and a half billion year history of the hundred that's it. Well, that's where you get the optimal stability that permits advanced global humans. And where are we in that 100,000 year clock at this point? Halfway through. We're about halfway through holy cow, better wrap up our affairs. We're talking to Hugh Ross. My new book is atheism dead. I hope you'll preorder a copy, it owes its existence in some large.
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"Heroes and John Lennox and James tour Stephen Meyer and many others. And I wrote it in part to introduce them to you, because the evidence that has been piling up in recent years and decades for a designer for a God is simply astonishing and we need to understand it is astonishing, you should look into it. You should familiarize yourself with it. It is just a wonderful time to be alive when all this stuff comes out. You mentioned that comets are 85% water and that they are replacing the water that naturally evaporates from earth, not much does, but what does is replaced by comets and you're saying it's roughly a one to one ratio? Roughly one to one and keep in mind where we get struck by a lot of miniature comets. So they don't do any damage to us. They come into the atmosphere. They break up and distribute the water quite evenly over the earth. And then we get the asteroids which deliver valuable metals to us. But you're typically taciturn about how amazing this is. I mean, the idea that we lose water, but whoops, it's replaced by these heavenly snowballs that come in at just about the rate we need them to. That just seems crazy. I mean, that's an amazing thing. I don't think I've ever really processed that. Well, you don't want too much delivery because having too much water on the earth is a problem, having too little water on the earth is a problem. We're now finding planets beyond our solar system that are quite similar to the earth. But they got 500 times as much water as we have. And with that much water, you're going to get a layer of ice between the water and the rocky planet, which it basically eliminates the possibility of life. And we have dry planets and we have very wet planets, our planet has just the right amount of water. Well, we talked again about asteroids and things hitting earth. I only learned fairly recently that if not for the extraordinarily massive planet that we call Jupiter, many, many more of these objects would be hitting earth. And so when you tell somebody, do you see that tiny pinprick in the sky, you can barely see it, but sometimes you can see it. That is the gigantic planet, Jupiter, and by the way, it is so massive and has so much gravity that it pulls away 99% of the things that would hit us and make life on earth impossible. That's another argument from design that it's very tough to take in. That's something that far away if it weren't there. We wouldn't be here. Eric was phenomenal is our solar system has a unique distribution of comets and asteroids. When we look at other stars, we see that they either have comet asteroid belts that are a thousand times bigger than ours or they got none at all. And on my next book, I explain why that almost always happens. Earth is the one exception. But we also have these gas giant planets. Jupiter Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. And in order for us to get the optimal gravitational shield, it's crucial that the most massive of these gas giant planets be the closest to us, the second most massive be the next closest to us, and then you want two smaller ones beyond that, that's exactly what we have in our solar system. You also need the right distribution of rocky planets to break up the mean motion resonances that are generated by the four gas giants. We literally need every planet in our solar system to be exactly the orbit that it has the mass that it has so that we could have Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner here on Planet Earth. So when our family celebrates Thanksgiving, we thank God for Mars. We thank God for mercury. We thank God for Neptune. We need all those plan to speak exactly the way God designed them in order for us to be able to enjoy life here on Planet Earth. And it's a good thing there are only 8 or 9 planets otherwise the Turkey would get very cold. Let me simply say that I had not heard the part about the did you say the magnetic resonances of the four gas giants, we need rocky planets to offset that. I wasn't clear on that. Those are mean motion resonances because you're going to get nasty collisions, for example, if you've got Jupiter, making two orbits around the solar system for exactly one orbit of Saturn. That sets up a one tune to mean motion resonance. And that gravitationally destabilizes the common and asteroid belts. But fortunately, the four gas giant planets are oriented just the right way that we don't get any dangerous mean motion resonances. And the small ones we do get are broken up by the rocky planets. And what's unique about our rocky planets, we are seeing rocky planets going around other stars, but they're all smaller than ours and closer to the star to break up these mean motion resonances. You want the rocky planets to be relatively massive and orbiting fairly far away from their star. And our solar system is the only one we found amongst thousands of and what are these huge rocky planets? Is Neptune one of them? No, we're talking earth. We're talking Venus. Because when we look at rocky planets, orbiting other planetary systems, they're either they're typically orbiting really close to their stars, and when orbiting that close, they don't have much influence. Motion resonances. So you're considering Venus earth and Mars to be far enough away to be part of this. And they're massive enough. And by the way, the moon plays a role in breaking up the mean motion resonances. So the fact that we got a massive moon orbiting the earth is a crucial factor as well. That's another design feature of the muno is recently discovered. I mean, when I share with atheists, I talked to atheists frequently, as you know, I tell them you're not convinced today, wait one month and watch the evidence pile up. Every day, scientific research papers are published that make the fine tuning argument more persuasive than it was the day before. Well, that's why people talk about silly things like multiverse theory, which I have to laugh. It's so silly and all it reveals is that some people have anything but that attitude. If God comes into the picture, they're willing to they'd be happy to accept the flying spaghetti monster. Anything but the God of scripture. We'll be back folks. I'm talking to Hugh Ross, my new book is atheism dead. We hope you pre order a copy, don't go away. Hey there folks, I'm talking to Hugh Ross. He is the head of reasons to believe I recommend you visit reasons to believe tremendous resources there. Hugh, we haven't talked about anything on the nano level..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"hugh" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Meant the moons, gravity upon the earth acted like a drag on it, and that it slowed it down to where we are now. So that's true. That's true, and it's still slowing it down. If we were to wait a little few more million years, it'd be 25 hours a day, but 20. That'll be the day. But okay, so you say it slows it down to about 24 hours per rotation. So how is it that the moon, sorry, that the sun is now better than it would have been three billion years ago in terms of where life is on earth? How is the sun different during this time? Well, stars are kind of like human beings. They're unstable when they're young, they're in stable when they're old. They're maximally stable in their middle age. Well, the case for stars is far more extreme. We humans are stable for a long period of time, but for stars, there's this extremely narrow window in their lifespan where they have the stability that makes advanced life possible. We're talking about a 100,000 years in the for and a half billion year history of hundred that's it. Well, that's where you get the optimal stability that permits advanced global humans. And where are we in that 100,000 year clock at this point? Halfway through. We're about halfway through holy cow, better wrap up our affairs. We're talking to Hugh Ross. My new book is atheism dead. I hope you'll pre order a copy, it owes its existence in some large.
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"hugh" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"He's someone of whom I've been aware for over 30 years, but I've only got to know him personally much more recently. His name is Hugh Ross. He's an astrophysicist, founder and president of reasons to believe an organization that researches and communicates how discoveries about nature harmonize with the words of the Bible. Well, who knew? I confess that it was probably about 1990 that I discovered the books of Hugh Ross and they launched me on a journey that I am still on. Some of you know, I've just come out with a book called is atheism dead. The first third of which deals with the very subject of science and the Bible and God and all that great stuff. So it's a thrill for me to have Hugh Ross on the program. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show, Hugh Ross, great to see you. Good to see you, too. Thank you. Well, I mentioned in the beginning of the book that it really was you who got me thinking about things, for example, like the fine tuned universe. I had literally never heard about that until about 1990 when I read your book, maybe it was fingerprint of God. I can't remember which book it was. But I was astonished to read this, having never heard about it. And over the decades, I have been quietly amassing more and more evidence as it piles up as science draws us closer and closer to the idea it's obvious and intelligence created the universe there's no way this just happened. When did you in your career first notice these things or become acquainted with the fine tuned argument? It probably goes back to my teenage years. I mean, I started getting serious, but astronomy, when I was 7 years of age and wait a minute. That's no teenager. That's a very early, you're probably the world's youngest teenager, you're smart. You probably achieved teenage dumb at age 7. Okay, so at age 7, what happened in your life to get you thinking about this stuff? Well, I was looking up at the stars and wanted to know why they were hot and my parents said go to the library. And that started me on reading four or 5 books on astronomy and physics per week. And during my teenage years, I actually launched a research study in astronomy with my telescope, looking at newborn stars and different gaseous nebulae. I wound up winning the British Columbia science fair, went on to the Canadian science fair and then I decided, hey, I'm going to continue that. I've been fascinated with astronomy ever since. But I've got struck by the fine tuning, probably beginning at about each 15 is when I realized wow. Now hang on, when you say the British Columbia science fair. How old were you when you won the British Columbia science fair? I was 17. You were 17. So you obviously knew what you wanted to do. What kind of a telescope did you have as a teenager to be able to see some of the things that you saw? I was only a four and a half inch telescope. So I was kind of constrained to the brighter objects. And because I was in Vancouver, I had to stay up late every night to catch a few moments when the clouds would part. That's the problem with Vancouver. Yes. So you at 17 or 15 you said you started thinking about the fine tuned universe. I write about it at length in this book because obviously the evidence for it only increases. That's to me the great irony and the thesis of my book that the more science we know, the more it points to God, the opposite of the God of the gaps theory, which we've been laboring under as a culture for a long time. So what were the first things at age 15 that you noticed along such lines? The structure of our solar system, everything that had to be designed in the different planets or moon, the sun in order to make advanced life possible here on earth. Just looking at our galaxy and realizing all of fine tuning the needs of takes place there. And you talk about this evidence expanding. I think it's exponential. I mean, we see an exponential growth in the fine tuning evidence. And I think it's a thrill Erik to be alive in the 21st century. No other century of humanity has seen such an explosion of new evidences from the book of nature for the existence of God and fine tunic as a remarkable example of that. I mean, we've been documenting this for four decades now. How the evidence for fine tuning gets approximately a thousand times stronger every month. I mean, that's no joke. I mean, I've realized that myself just following your career in your books and what I read, it just gets more and more crazy. When you said that at age 15 or so, you notice that the solar system, which you could see with your four and a half inch telescope bespoke fine tuning or creation being created intelligently created, what are the kinds of things that you noticed with your young mind that led you to think about that? What was it about the solar system, for example? The sun has to be almost exactly middle age. That's when you get the necessary stability and the minimal flaring activity that makes advanced life falls by a particular mass, stars more massive and less massive are more active. So that has to be fine tuned. You need the planets to be distributed in a particular way in order that earth get the just right delivery of comets and asteroids, not too much, not too little. The moon has to be the appropriate distance and mass so that it's stabilizes a tilt of our rotation access. And as I've gotten older, I realize what we call this fine tuning argument has predictive power. That the first thing we discovered about the moon is that it's the fact that it's so very massive compared to our planet, stabilizes a tilt of our rotation axis, but this is evidence for purposeful design rather than accidental design, if we study them with a more detail, we should discover more fine tuning evidence and indeed that's been the track record of the past 50 years is that the more we study the moon, the more features we find must be fine tune to make our existence possible. Give us another example. We can understand how the mass of the moon would stabilize the earth's axis and prevent wild temperature swings and that sort of thing. But what other aspects of the moon have we discovered that bear on life on earth? Well, there is an astronomer in Britain who noticed that, hey, the moon does stabilize the tilt of a rotation axis. But we're at the very top end of where that stability we exist. He says, why are we so close to the top end of the mass? If the moon were even 2% more massive, we'd be unstable. And so he says, there must be something special about the high mass of the moon, any published of paper making a point. That the earth began with a rotation rate of about two and a half hours. And in order for how we to exist on this planet and have global civilization, the rotation rate has to slow down to 24 hours. And it's thanks to the great mass of the moon and its proximity that it indeed stabilizes the Earth's rotation rate, slowed down to 24 hours at exactly the time when the sun had the optimal stability for advanced life. And when you say that you're saying that the gravity of the sun was kind of like acting like a drag on the rotation of the earth so that over the millennia and eons, it slowed it down to where we are now. Yeah, the moon, the sun has an effect as well, but the I meant, I'm sorry, I meant the sun..
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"Tomato and welcome to bite here on the f. t. podcast network and so parenting in apocalypse. It's it's not the same way that we would do. You know how it works. Any views usually two to four minutes long but sometimes they can be a little longer. When you when you live long enough. All kinds of strange things happen very right in saying that. The greek heroes. Where the original superheroes in part because of the hopeful nature of genes vision but also because of its message of diversity and inclusion hugh jackman plays nick banister in reminiscence..
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"Miss. The saturday ed's draw. It's all lit de with hugh dog get around much anymore. Thought i'd visit the club as far as the joe's good and barrett with you. I don't get around much anymore. yes paddy last. Why stir up memories owned dates.
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"Hugh Hewitt. Salina Zito is America's commas. She sits there Inienger land in the middle of it all, and you know, pines and sometimes reminds us of things like Eric Holder's big plan. To change the redistricting process which failed. Failed failed. Good morning, Selina. How are you? Good morning. How are you? Great. I love your new column, and I like you remind me that Pennsylvania was the site of the last decades. Redistricting struggles the liberal Supreme Court, eventually overturning the will of the people. What do you expect is gonna happen this time around? Well, the expectation was that was the Democrats will God when the statehouses state Senate in in Pennsylvania in my state, and that it was gonna be smooth sailing? Where the Democrats, um To be able to draw all the lines. Eric Holder dumped millions of dollars in the state. So did Michael Bloomberg. People forget about that as well? Not only did they not win any news hates they look, they didn't expect to win. No, but I know the Republicans have the upper hand in terms of controlling how the lines are drawn. Now with the caviar. Because of what the Supreme Court did, Uh, Tom Wolfe does have a beak. Oh, power on this, and they set up a commission as well. That has former chance. Where Mark Norton burg of pits. As part of a zoo lead on that. Having said that the Republicans still have the upper hand. If drawling it, they still have the the the most power and how these seats work. And, um, I suspect and in Pennsylvania loses a seat. Um, as as rumors become more predominant that Connor Liam Is not is going to run for the Senate, as opposed for his house seat. The one he barely beat Sean Parnell for, um I think his seat may be the one that goes. Not. My expectation is that the Republicans in the State House and the state Senate will get because they have majorities in both correct. Yes. Okay, so they will get together and they will produce the traditional maps they will be got. They will be vetoed by Wolf. And then then I think they're in deadlock in a federal court ends up getting it If Pennsylvania Supreme Court tries to redraw them again, I expect the new Supreme Court will strike down that folly. Uh, the weekend court under Scalia could not with with the Scalia death could not do so. But I don't. I think they're five votes to stop. The shine. Shanghai ng of The map process again. Selena, do you think your Supreme Court knows They're on a very, very far out on a lamb, that branch that is cracking. Yeah, I think they go over the ability to get what they wanted. With being one Supreme Court jurist down. They now know that that's not the case. And, um, I think they were the Republicans in the Senate, the state Senate and stay house. Um, we're work, too, You know, in terms of You know, keeping certain seats. As you know, Democrats see, but there's opportunities in terms of. Well, that happens with that loss eat and how more Republican these seats become. I'm going. I'm going to keep an eye on The P A 17, which is the one that can't corner land currently holds, but also that Cartwright seat which is up in the Lackawanna Luzern County area, um that that seat will also It doesn't have a choice but become more Republican. Yes, specialist told me over the weekend. Oregon picked up a seed in the redistricting, and they have an independent commission that's likely to help the Republicans. I don't think the Republicans conduced worse than what the fella Pennsylvania Supreme Court did to them in the last cycle. I don't think it's possible to do worse. No, I There should be a book written about about what? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court didn't 2018. That was they had. There is no way they should have been able to do that. And yet they did. That's what I wanna ask you quickly. Have you been vaccinated? Yeah. Okay. So why do you hear when you report? Why did people mostly not get vaccinated in your life and your network when people don't get back to me? What is the reason they cite most to you? Because Trying to persuade people to get back to me, but I gotta identify the concerns first. This is there. There's there's a good amount of people who just don't like needles period and they won't admit that. So, um, because you know that you know, people will Two. The count can tell themselves a big that they're terrified of needles, but they're probably still crazy. Tells someone else's. They're afraid of needles. Um, on by people, I think Already and under or 35 under. Even. I think they believe that, Um, um their questionable about the need to get it. You know, we gotta work on that because they still are vectors. They're still transmission pass to every other other person out there. You know, the needle doesn't hurt E mean it's not even a pitch. It's not about the hurt. It has nothing to do about how is hurting its The needle. It's the literal needle going into yarn. There is something people psychologically just cannot deal with this thought. Don't even look. You know people if you don't look, you won't know there's a needle. Yeah, I don't have a problem. I would love to find out if you've heard any of the conspiracy theories or the bad fake news that it changes your DNA's A and stuff like that. I would love to know what you hear in your network. Salina Zito..