Exclusive: One-On-One With Dr. Condoleezza Rice

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From the heart of our nation's capital, Washington, DC., backed by the trusted voices of Team Fox, a clear fresh voice cutting through the noise to tell the truth. It's The Guy Benson Show with Guy Benson.

Guy Benson (0:31)

It is Thursday, November 12th, 2026, I'm Guy Benson. Welcome everyone to The Guy Benson Show.

We're so glad to have you along for the next three hours, between 3 and 6 p.m. Eastern, every weekday. Noon to 3 here on the West Coast, where we are spending the week at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. And it's been a real pleasure being here for the last couple of days. And we've got an amazing lineup for you here today as well. We'll get to that in just a moment. I'll just remind you first, I'm a political analyst at Fox News, senior columnist at The Washington Examiner. You can reach us here, gbs at fox.com. You can go through our website as well, get all the content and podcasts there, as I've mentioned many times, guybensonshow.com.

You can also follow us on social media, at Guy Benson Show. You can follow me as well, at Guy P. Benson.

On the program today, we'll get to our first guest in just a moment. Later this hour, Dr. Abbas Malani is one of our favorite experts to talk to specifically about Iran.

He has a deep understanding of the situation on the ground, the history, the people. He's very, very well connected inside Iran. Of course, that is a very significant place always, but especially right now. So we will pick his brain about what's happening over there among the populace, how people are seeing things, the conflict, what might come next. That is later on this hour. We will also, in our next hour, our middle hour today, the entire hour will be our exclusive one-on-one interview with Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the former US. Secretary of State, former National Security Advisor. She is the Director of the Hoover Institution, and we had a chance to catch up with her and sit down with her. For that full hour, we recorded it earlier, and boy, we cover quite the landscape of topics, from getting a reaction to the midterm elections from last week, to foreign policy in some hot spots, to relationships with allies versus adversaries, and also snuck in some sports. We always do. We're both big sports fans. Cannot wait to share that interview with you, with Condoleezza Rice in our middle hour. And then in our last hour today, Professor Eugene Volek of UCLA Law, he's also a senior fellow here at Hoover, talking about among other things, the future of the US Supreme Court. Are the Democrats really going to try to, quote unquote, reform the institution? Court packing, we'll get into a lot of that, plus some interesting First Amendment questions and age of AI, that's coming up in our last hour today. And then boy, we've had a day. It has been a day here for us with some issues, technical issues, both here and then also just globally, I guess, with some outages with Microsoft. So it has thrown this team into quite a pickle, quite a predicament, but we're pushing through. And we are bringing you this program very proudly as we are coming to you live from Stanford University here today. With that, I do want to address a few things happening in one of the most important political states in the country, something that has been brewing now for a number of days in Philadelphia, and then some other Pennsylvania related issues. And who better to walk through some of this with than Rich Zioli, host of the Rich Zioli podcast. He's a PA guy, knows Philly and Pennsylvania politics backwards and forwards. He's a familiar voice, of course, on this show as well. Rich, always good to have you.

Rich Zioli (4:09)

Guy, it's great to be back on your show. Thanks for having me today. There's a lot going on in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania. It is a crazy time, my friend.

Guy Benson (4:17)

Yeah, it is. And I've been watching and I meant to get to it earlier in the week. We've just been so busy out here. This whole boycott, counter boycott thing that happened just days ago in Philadelphia where there was this pro-Palestine mob that had planned this major boycott movement to not just boycott but like protest Jewish owned businesses in Philadelphia. That was scheduled, I think, not coincidentally, on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, that terrible night. And then there was a big counter protest that kind of overwhelmed what the Palestine Hamas people were planning.