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Hugh Hewitt

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first: 2016-07-18
most recent: 2016-07-18
sittings or episodes: 1
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“There's so much people don't know. And you were so much closer. It's all I know. I'm a junior lawyer. Yeah. Briefcase carrying lowest ranking lawyer in the White House counsel's office, but you still see stuff every day going up to Fielding who takes it into the president and you just shake your head and say, wow, what a day they're having.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He had a half dozen talk show hosts to the Oval for an hour. And he opened it up by saying, I asked you here because I want you to go easy on the new guy. He said, this is a hard job. He will grow in the job. This is an incredibly difficult job. So that's an off-the-record recalcitrant, but that's what it was. Go easy on the new guy.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I like about you and Rove and Carville, a little shining you on here, but not much, there are only three people who've won two presidential elections, been strategists, you three. And all three of you are defined by loyalty to the guy that brought you to the party. And I've never heard Robes say a bad thing about Bush. I've never heard Carville say a bad thing about Ida Clinton. I've never heard you say a bad thing about President Obama. Yeah. And what's Carbell's book called Stickin'? It's a good book”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, but I don't know that he knows them or interviewed them, and I don't think he cares. About justices and judges, but he knows that it matters a great deal to my wing of the party. In fact, we were having this discussion last night with a group of people who remain nameless, media people, about how George W. Bush presidency broke on Harriet Myers. I think it broke on Terry Shivo and Katrina broke it again, but then Harriet Myers broke it a third time. So the year of terribles was 2005. Harriet Myers was a moment where all the conservatives came out with their long. Except me, I defended the president. I don't think you ever go against your president. Do you agree with that?”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It would be my strong hope What would be my hope that they would move immediately to confirm Judge Garland because he is a liberal judge. He is not To the far left of theological spectrum. Your buddy Cass Sunstein, I think he would probably agree with me. I think Professor Sunstein as being in a Merrick Garland mode He would rebuke an administrative agency if it got out of control. Some members of the academy whom a president Clinton might be drawn to would not. And so there's some advantage to the constitutionalists in having Garland.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because you're the Senate and you don't have to do anything other than what you want to do. The Senate makes its own rules. So if Mitch McConnell brings it to the floor and they confirm him, he's on.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Want to fill the court until after. Although I think the president's nominee might be confirmed the day after the election. Do you think?”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was not a good moment institutionally. The point could have been made a different way and a different setting, but I don't think anyone actually saw it coming. If you read the speech, you wouldn't think, oh, the justices will be right in front of me. It's not one of those things you never think about the justices because they don't applaud, right? They just sit there. That was a bad moment and it's escalated from there. Now we're in a very interesting moment because I approved of, I think I came up with the hashtag no hearings, no votes because I don't.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did you review the State of the Union when President Obama challenged Citizens United and Judge Alito? Justice Alito said no. I was there.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They overlook Citizens United and a few other wonderful decisions that the chief has handed down, and they focused on that. But I taught constitutional law for 20 years, and I believe in the principle that if you can avoid making a constitutional decision, you avoid making a constitutional decision. And I don't believe it is without merit that there was an argument that you could uphold Obamacare. And he found it. It's tortured, but he found it. And there is that Marbury v. Madison sort of saved the court. And after Bush v. Gore, they didn't really need to strike down. The first African-American president, central legislative achievement ever, if they had any other way out. And we can argue about this another time, another place, about whether it's been a disaster or not. But I think the ruling will stand in centuries ahead as a very, very wise ruling.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the chief, there were seven lawyers at that time, and I got to protect the seal of the presidency of the United States, and John Roberts got to interpret the 25th Amendment how to make an acting president. And he's a genius, and he's an affable, wonderful, amiable genius. And I'm one of the few conservatives that defend the Obamacare decision.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everybody's going to go Chief, when I see him now, I haven't seen him often since he never talks. You couldn't get a political comment out of him with a crane, even in the confines of the Metropolitan Club with Fred Fielding. You couldn't get a political comment out of him. So I think. Justice Ginsburg just let slip, and she regretted it, and she said she”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of my Zeleg experience is having shared an office for a year with the Chief Justice of the United States and White House Council.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right This is the zoo Never made They were very good to me. The circuit is very close. That's when Scalia and Ginsburg became friends. My judge originally with Roger Robb, whom you won't remember, but he had a stroke right before I arrived. So what you do in that case is the other judges give you cases until your judge recovers, in which case he never permanently recovered, so I was permanently assigned to George McKinnon, who's a great, became my de facto judge. Judge Ginsburg, now Justice Ginsburg, Judge Scalia then, then eventually Justice Scalia, Judge Bork, Judge Starr, Judge Skellywright, they all gave us cases. And we were great. They were terrific. And they were judges. Most of the time, this is not controversial stuff. It's most of the time it's tax law and administrative law and administrative procedure act. So they were wonderful and scalia was the same person you see in Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the powerful intellectual who was sweetest person you'd ever want to sit in a chambers.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know the names. That's why I like Pence. He did 12 years on foreign affairs. So he will bring, and he's already brought some people with him to the campaign who will be more fluent in national security matters”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm going to Robert O'Brien's got a new book out who was Bolton's deputy at the UN called While America Slept. And it's about foreign affairs because I don't think Trump spends a lot of time on national security stuff at all. How much time did you spend briefing up for the president”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Five times on a national ticket, only FDR did that. And so we would talk about other people. He just wouldn't talk about Watergate. So he would talk about the world, the book we were working on was a foreign affairs book looking forward. And Reagan would carry it around in the 1980 campaign to signal to people that he had a worldview that was both. And I think Trump could do this nicely as well, that he had a worldview that was a book.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Good for That's absolutely true. And he lived a perfect lesson that you're never out. You know, you can always take another at bat because in 1974, just before I got there four years, he almost died of bitus and he was deeply depressed. But just worked his way out of it, had to work, had to make some money, didn't have any money. San Clementia Casa Pacific has just got put on the market by Gavin Herbert, who bought it from RN for $67 million. He didn't sell it for $67 million. Oh, sure, not $1978.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because once he got out of exile when he went to New York, and I moved back to New York with him in 1980, he then would, he took to the road and he went everywhere. And I thought maybe in your tribune days he might have come.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just saw Brian Cranston in the infiltrator. Terrific movie. He's just an amazing actor. You wouldn't know it for Malcolm in the middle, right? You're kind of expecting a light comedic. Well, we”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he was terrific. Kevin Spacey was good in Elvis Nixon as well, but Langella got the awkwardness of President Nixon and the geniality, the forced geniality because he was such a shy man. Yeah, it's just.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, always forward. It's an interesting thing. We wrote a book called The Real War. I came on after Frank Ann and Ken Kachigan and Diane Sawyer wrote with him RN, the memoirs. And after the Frost Nixon interviews, Frank Langella. Such a terrific job of physically being, I have to ask you. Did you feel that?”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Best boss I've ever had without question, the most solicitous of and protective of my career. Nixon always had young people working for him in his exile. And then when he went to New York, he had John Taylor and other Monica Crowley and other young people always working for him because he knew there would come a time. And I don't know if President Obama has done this where you've got, he's been dead for 20 years, but there's still people like me kicking around who can give a first-person interview and tell you he was wonderful. Mrs. Nixon was wonderful. Julie is still a very close friend. David will be here this week, in fact.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He needs to hire a guy to be a research assistant in DC. So I called up made appointment, went down, saw Ray, and he had forgotten I was coming, which is not a good sign. And he had accepted a job from RN, President Nixon, and San Clemente. But he took me along via David Eisenhower. So I ended up working for Richard Nixon and David Eisenhower first, but then Nixon and San Clemeny.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And have you ever considered? I know a guy named Ray Price, whom you may have come across, Ray was president Nixon's chief speechwriter.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So there is a Zelling thing, and the follow on to that is I didn't have a job at the end of college and I didn't get into Michigan Law School where I wanted to go or Harvard. I got turned down. So I'm sitting on the step in Harvey Mansfield's son walks by and says, what are you going to do? I don't know. I haven't got a job. He said, I know a guy, which I think are the foremost important words in America. I know a guy”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Grover John Brady, another political Grover lived across the hall from us in Winter Pouse. So Harvard in the 70s was actually kind of ambidextrous politically. There was a big, strong conservative movement. Carl Rove came and taught me field school because he was the chairman of the College Republicans. So in 1974 he came to Harvard and he taught field school to 50 freshmen on how to organize. And this was kind of a Camelot thing because you couldn't possibly win an election in Massachusetts in 1974. But we tried. And so Robe showed up”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the nuclear proliferation, obviously. And so, Dan, maybe the smartest guy I know, Mark. And I just went to his 60th birthday and we were... In a room full of people saying, This is the smartest guy we've ever met. So that's Panaman.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mark Guerin was Bill Clinton's deputy chief of staff, then his comms director when Georges Stefanopoulos took a different job. Then he became his Peace Corps director, still very close to the Clintons. Dan Poneman was on the National Security Council for George Herbert Walker Bush for Bill Clinton, and then came back as your Deputy Energy Secretary of State.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had so many classmates go to Notre Dame. Keelan Garvey, O'Neill, and Molly Maguire, who maybe listened to it. I mean, they all went. It was first sure they admitted women, first four-year class of women to get through. And it was a very powerful lure. But my brother had gone to Harvard beforehand. And so I'd gone to the campus and liked it and thought, this is more fun. My dad had gone to Oberlin as had my oldest brother. And Oberlin had gone crazy. That wasn't on the picture.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Folks like that. That's it. He could not understand what had happened to me. AT was the last man in America named Adolf. He's a German Catholic. And he... Change his name after the war began, but he became this Democrat, my other grandfather, for whom I'm named, was a Republican judge, and their kids got married. One was Protestant Catholic, Protestant Irish, one was Catholic Irish. So it was kind of a merger of opposites at the beginning. But Warren is a great place to grow up. Tight Irish Catholic community, as you have in Chicago. I went to Catholic schools, nuns, the whole deal, the priests. Followed my brother to Harvard.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, there was an FDR connection. He had a job during the Depression, and that was everything. So he was a union Democrat fireman.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Warren, Ohio is a steel town of about now 40,000, maybe 70,000 when I was born in 1956 and left town in 1974 to go to school. Irish Catholic, my dad's a lawyer, and my mom was a nurse, and my dad was part of a firm that's been in Warner in Ohio for 150 years. All four of my grandparents are from Ashtabilla, Ohio, which is Port Town. One was a fireman, never voted for a Republican in his life. He lived to be 101, so I have to go another 40 years to catch up and offset him.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unfortunately, he retired in 64, and I can't remember seeing it. I had Leroy Kelly and Ernie Green, a little bit of Frank Ryan, but not Jimmy Brown.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Had a million people downtown, David Axelrod, a million people, and not one arrest for drunken disorderly during the parade. The night of the championship, they had five, but I'm actually from Warren, Ohio, but I came to every Browns game from 1965 to 1974. So I know my rail in downtown a little bit. So you got some.”
2016-07-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 67 - Hugh Hewitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source