{"id":1245,"date":"2019-10-31T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salemmedia.com\/?post_type=talk_shows&#038;p=1245"},"modified":"2023-06-16T21:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T21:28:48","slug":"the-hugh-hewitt-show-2","status":"publish","type":"talk_shows","link":"https:\/\/salemmedia.com\/nationally-syndicated-talk-shows\/the-hugh-hewitt-show-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hugh Hewitt Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Waking Up America!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-luminous-vivid-amber-to-luminous-vivid-orange-gradient-background has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/hughhewitt.com\/listenlive\/\"><strong>Listen Now<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-midnight-gradient-background has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/hughhewitt.com\/watch-the-show\/\"><strong>Watch on Salem News Channel<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/salempodcastnetwork.com\/podcasts\/hugh-hewitt-podcast\"><strong>Subscribe to Podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s no easy task to wake up an entire nation,&nbsp; but&nbsp;Hugh Hewitt is a broadcast pro who does it with ease.&nbsp; He is America\u2019s true East Coast-West Coast man,&nbsp; doing the show most of the time from inside the Beltway of Washington DC, but other times from his studio in Southern California,&nbsp; where Hugh is a professor of law at Chapman University\u2019s Fowler School of Law, teaching Constitutional Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he\u2019s inside the Beltway, Hugh will often appear on&nbsp;the panel many Sundays on the NBC\u2019s Meet The Press. &nbsp;You\u2019ll also see him popping up on MSNBC giving much needed conservative opinions.&nbsp; Hugh received national exposure when he was selected by CNN as one of the panelists for four of the 2016 debate stage for President of the United States. Hugh is the author of 14 books,&nbsp; including his most recent \u201cThe Fourth Way\u201d outlining what America must do now that we have elected Donald Trump to the presidency.&nbsp; Now heard on around 400 affiliates,&nbsp; Hugh is one of the fastest growing shows on the Salem Radio Network. He is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post and all his writing appears at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/\">Townhall.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hugh began his radio career on KFI in Los Angeles in 1990, and spent a decade as co-host of the nightly news and public affairs show on PBS\u2019 Los Angeles affiliate KCET before launching his nationally syndicated show on 8 original stations on July 10, 2000. He moved to mornings in April 2016 and never missed a beat.&nbsp; Hugh and his wife, \u201cThe Fetching Mrs. Hewitt\u201d as Hugh calls her on the air, live in northern VA. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, and spent six years in the Reagan Administration, including stints in the White House Counsel\u2019s office and as Special Assistant to two Attorneys General. Hugh has also served on The California Arts Council, the South Coast Air Quality District and The Orange County Children and Families Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3595,"template":"","class_list":["post-1245","talk_shows","type-talk_shows","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Hugh Hewitt Show - Salem Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salemmedia.com\/nationally-syndicated-talk-shows\/the-hugh-hewitt-show-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Hugh Hewitt Show - Salem Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Waking Up America! 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