The Hugh Hewitt Show

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker pulled off another big win in his home state today, getting his legislature to turn Wisconsin into a “right-to-work” state where unions cannot oblige members to pay union dues.  This is the sort of timely win that allows momentum to continue to gather behind the current frontrunner for the GOP nomination.  That is sure to come up when I talk with Chuck Todd today.

Also on tap, the regular Friday Hillsdale Dialogue and a visit from author C.J. Box, whose new book could not be more timely, given this story in the Washington Post last week.

C.J. always seems to hit the target on timing and his latest Joe Pickett novel, Endangered, is in that tradition and like all that have gone before a wonderful read.

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Yesterday, Hugh called Hillary, “Two Rules” Clinton, noting how the Clinton’s have long operated as if the rules for everyone else were not necessarily the rules for themselves.  Tuesday, I drew a line from the how the Clinton’s tended to get away with that to the extraordinarily imperial presidency of Barack Obama.  This morning Daniel Henninger, discussing Obama’s approach to trying to get a nuke deal with Iran wrote something extraordinary:

As the Obama administration moves toward the March 24 deadline for a nuclear-arms deal with Iran, what becomes ever more clear is that no other American president has so confused personal entitlement with political trust.

Henninger goes on to make the case that Obama’s past track record on international dealings is such that trust is eroded, which is a good case to make.  But that phrase “personal entitlement” keeps ringing in my head. Continue Reading

One half of the Smart Guys, Erwin, a man of the left, is very troubled by the news of 50,000 emails, and wants an explanation for why she violated the law.

The Audio:

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The Transcript:

HH: Joined now by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Irvine law school, half of the Smart Guys, John Eastman unavailable today. Erwin, welcome, it’s always good to talk to you. The big story of the afternoon, of course, is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton avoiding the Government Records Act for four years, sending 50,000 emails that were in a private account. What questions does this raise in your mind?

EC: I think it raises serious questions. There’s a federal law there. It’s a federal law that’s really important. It’s how we assure that matters are public record, and that they’re available at the time and also for history. And I think there needs to be some good explanation for why she violated the law here. Continue Reading