Hugh Hewitt

Left: President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address on Jan. 30. Right: President Richard Nixon speaks during a March 15, 1973, news conference.

Hewitt: We’re about to hear a lot about Watergate; here’s how to tell if you’re getting the real story

October 22, 2019 at 4:31 p.m.

Some of the people I admire the most in journalism have lost their balance. President Donald Trump has so repeatedly pushed around the Fourth Estate and so often bloodied their...

Protesters wave U.S flags outside the ...

Guest Commentary: Playing the “long game” with China

September 8, 2019 at 9:16 p.m.

"You say, 'Away with you Communists.' We say, 'Away with you imperialists.' Sometimes we say things like that. It would not do not to do that." That was Mao Zedong...

President Donald Trump stops to wave ...

Hewitt: The 2020 election isn’t going to be close

April 28, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

Small wonder that President Donald Trump dominates the GOP with an approval rating above 80 percent.

FILE -- In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, members of the Kurdish internal security forces stand on their vehicle in front of a giant poster showing portraits of fighters killed fighting against the Islamic State group, in Manbij, north Syria. The planned U.S. troop withdrawal opens a void in the north and east of Syria, and the conflicts and rivalries among all the powers in the Middle East are converging to fill it. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

The red line in Syria is still there. In fact, it’s a darker red.

January 6, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

John Bolton moves and talks with the air of confidence of a man who enjoys the confidence of his boss. President Donald Trump is right to invest confidence in the...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) heads to the Senate floor for a vote, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 3, 2018. If he fails to secure Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s ascent to the Supreme Court, McConnell may bear the brunt of the blame from both President Donald Trump and those conservatives who have always viewed him with suspicion.

Hewitt: Vote to increase Republican majorities

October 8, 2018 at 12:51 p.m.

The left, we saw this week and last, is now a snarling, enraged collective scream. To give it power would be to risk fraying even further the common bonds of...

People vote inside Chaparral High School in Parker on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Douglas County school was one of many polling places across the county. Many people were turning out in Douglas County but lines were not too long. Election officials at the school thought that early voting helped. (Kenneth D. Lyons/The Denver Post)

Hewitt: Across America’s political spectrum, there’s a purple drought

July 27, 2018 at 12:01 p.m.

The color purple is in short supply.

Hewitt: 2017 launched our addiction to outrage

December 29, 2017 at 12:00 p.m.

Addiction is the story of 2017. And the centerpiece addiction of this year, widespread and growing, is to outrage itself.

Rod Rosenstein, the deputy U.S. attorney ...

Hewitt: It’s clear why President Trump had to fire James Comey

May 10, 2017 at 4:32 p.m.

As Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recognized, confidence in the FBI could not come back until a new director is in place, and that, of course, required that James Comey...

The federal judiciary of the United States

Hewitt: The U.S. Constitution isn’t a restaurant menu

March 10, 2017 at 3:22 p.m.

There is a deep divide in the U.S. between those who believe in applying the law as it exists and those who think they have the right to ignore laws...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, of Connectictut is among the Democrats calling for a special prosecutor to investigate Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

Hewitt: Democrats demanding a special prosecutor should be careful what they wish for

March 8, 2017 at 11:54 a.m.

Democrats are lined up demanding a special prosecutor into Russia's interference with our election, but they should be careful what they wish for.

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