Hello, you've joined the Victor Davis Hatton Show. Victor is a commentator and analyst of current political and military affairs.

He's also a classicist and a historian and has written 27 books.

He is then no surprise that he works at the Hoover Institution.

He is the Martin and Nile Anderson Senior Fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution

and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College.

This is our Friday news roundup. So we'll look at the news of the week and we've got lots of things out there to look at.

Tucker was fired as was Don Lemon. So we're going to start off with those two. So stay with us and we'll be right back.

Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hatton Show. I know that Victor, we often start off our show these days with something positive.

So I was wondering if you had a something positive or something positive as I scan the horizon.

Yes. Well, here in California, this is a very strange onset of hot weather because there's water everywhere.

And there's lush wildflowers in this area. The snow is still 60%, 70% more so in the high country, not melted.

But that means in the scorching dog days of August, we're going to have full reservoirs.

And there's going to be the rivers are going to be running to the sea, unfortunately, but there's no storage.

And we're going to have something we've never seen in 40 years is the recreation. Unfortunately, if to Larry Lake, the largest freshwater lake this side of the great lakes, it's already a hundred square miles.

And at one time, it was huge. And of course, it's the lake bed of some of the biggest corporate and most rich farmland in the world.

And a lot of it's going to be flooded and more is going to be flooded. But all in all, it's a positive development.

Otherwise, when you look at the national scene, Sammy, how about the economy? No. How about this goal responsibility?

No, wasn't Afghanistan like the Biden set a success? No. The border isn't it? No. But energy. No, I filled up today. Diesel was almost $6 a gallon and gas weight was $5.58.

So it's back up back up. And he's already taken 40% of the strategic petroleum reserve out for the midterm advantage.

So I'm looking for it with this crown Biden, but I can't see any positive things. I'm just worried that how we're going to exist the next two years.

Yes, this is becoming a rabbit hole and a conundrum. This not so positive. I think that our first topic is might be in some ways positive.

Tucker was fired from Fox News and there's lots of speculation on the internet as to why. And there's been sightings of him as on the golf course with his wife having a good time.

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