Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hanson show this is our weekend episode so we will do a little bit of cultural things as Victor has said on the Friday news roundup we'll be looking at Xenophon and his history his philosophy he was a soldier as well

So stay with us for that but we're gonna look at a few news stories first, so we'll be right back.

Welcome back. I would like to remind everybody and for those of you who are new

Victor is the Martin and Ili Anderson senior fellow in military history and

classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished

Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

You can find him at his website, Victor Hansen.com.

The name of the website is The Blade of Perseus and we hope to see everybody there.

So Victor, before we get to Xenophon, I want to talk about the most recent news stories and we just had

Biden give a news conference after the investigation report was revealed about his

keeping secret, top secret documents in his garage and various other places

and I was wondering if he had some thoughts on that news conference.

Yes, this is Thursday night. It was very short and he went out because for 18 hours the Special Counsel Report had been public.

In the Special Counsel Report, and it's over 300 pages, I only skimmed it, but it said on numerous occasions

that he had willfully, willfully and knowingly taken out classified materials.

However, the prosecutor said that he did not think

that a jury would convict him of that what the prosecutor felt after his

investigation and analysis was an actual crime and he said that because he gave

repeated examples of what he said was a diminished state or a

senality or confusion or lack of memory. He didn't know when his son died. He didn't know what year he was

vice president. This comes upon, you know, he didn't know that Helmut Kohl died. He didn't know that,

I mean he thought he was still alive, same thing with

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