Getting Serious About National Security
Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Townhall Review – March 15, 2025
🔹 Deporting Hamas Supporter Mahmoud Khalil – President Trump moves to deport Mahmoud Khalil, leader of violent Columbia University protests. Bret Baier (Fox News) and Border Czar Tom Homan join Hugh Hewitt and Joe Piscopo (AM970, NY) to discuss, noting low border crossings as progress.
🔹 Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire Push – Secretary of State Marco Rubio leads talks in Saudi Arabia. Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson (AM560, Chicago) talk with Fred Fleitz (America First Policy Institute) about Trump’s efforts to end the war.
🔹 Breakup of Syria – Michael Oren, ex-Israeli ambassador, joins Hugh Hewitt to analyze Syria’s collapse post-Assad, highlighting threats to Kurds, Christians, Alawites, and Druze.
🔹 China’s Threat and Jimmy Lai’s Fight – Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery tells Hugh Hewitt why the CCP is the greatest threat since the Cold War. Sebastian Lai, son of imprisoned Hong Kong pro-democracy figure Jimmy Lai, shares his father’s plight.
All this and more on Townhall Review with Hugh Hewitt.
🎧 Subscribe & Listen: SalemPodcastNetwork.com
📲 Follow Us: @TownhallReview
A production of the Salem Podcast Network.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm Seth Leipson in this week for Town Hall Review. |
| 0:08.1 | President Trump moves to deport Mahmoud Khalil, the Hamas supporter behind the Columbia University protests. |
| 0:14.3 | We'll hear from Brett Baer. |
| 0:15.6 | You know, it could be a 90-10 issue. |
| 0:17.8 | And borders are Tom Homan. |
| 0:19.2 | Trying to incite riots, that's not free speech. That's a prime. |
| 0:21.9 | With a look at the progress at our southern border, we're off from 12,000 to 202. We'll also look at a push for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. |
| 0:30.4 | The challenge now is to get this to Putin to get him to agree to this. And from Israel, Michael Oran looks at the breakup of Syria. The only way Syria ever was held |
| 0:40.1 | together was by preponderance of central, brutal force, like the Assad family. The minute you |
| 0:45.8 | remove that force, the country falls apart. We've got all this and more. I'm Seth Leapson in this |
| 0:51.7 | week for Hugh, coming to you from Phoenix and AM 960 The Patriot, |
| 0:55.6 | where I host each weekday afternoon Monday through Friday. Learn more and listen to my program at |
| 1:00.2 | 960 the patriot.com. And take a moment to follow me on X at Seth Leibson. That's Seth, |
| 1:06.8 | L-E-I-B-S-O-H-N, and follow this program and podcast as well at Town Hall Review. |
| 1:13.6 | We're going to begin in New York City in the case of Mahmoud Khalil. |
| 1:16.7 | He's one of the principal leaders of the campus protests on Columbia University and elsewhere. |
| 1:21.9 | Protests against Israel, and yes, in support of Hamas. |
| 1:26.1 | These protests, you'll remember, have become threatening to Jewish students and on a number |
| 1:30.4 | of occasions have been violent, causing damage to properties. |
| 1:34.4 | President Trump announced that Khalil had been arrested and we'd be deporting him. |
| 1:38.7 | U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in New York temporarily blocked that deportation. |
| 1:43.7 | Hugh Hewitt turned to Brett Baer of Fox News. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -16 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Salem Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Salem Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.