Hello ladies, hello gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hanson show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host, the show's name for Victor Davis Hanson, who is the Martin and Ali Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the way Namarsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College.

His official home on the internet is Victor Hanson dot com. That's the address. The title of his great website is the blade of Perseus and I'll talk to you a little more about that later in the podcast. The formal home, the happy home of this podcast is John Solomon's just the news dot com. Check that out.

We will we will begin our conversation today shouldn't be a conversation. I'll ask a question. Victor will share his immense wisdom. But we'll talk about the border issues.

Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas held a hearing the other day. Now this late March and Homeland Security cabinet, whatever the hell he is, misfit.

My orcus, well, oh my gosh, it was a carpet bombing a fist fight. It was not not a literal fist fight. But it was a tough hearing. We just learned he's coming out on 60 minutes this weekend to say, oh, there's trouble at the border. I didn't know maybe he got religion courtesy of Ted Cruz.

But we'll talk about that some issues with the Marine Corps, the terrible terrible murders school shooting in Nashville and maybe another topic and we'll get to that all that right after these important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show Victor. So I know you saw the clips from the the hearing last last week last Tuesday. It was the in the Senate and Ted Cruz went at Homeland Security secretary Alejandro, New York.

Alejandro, my orcus, I mean, he just like ripped into him his let me just read this briefly Victor from this is the Texas Tribune. It says that the hearing my orcus was grilled by Republicans as he has been for the past year over border issues, including the increasing number of migrant crossing fentanyl deaths and sex traffic and Cruz was been an art and critic of the Biden administration official was particularly

fairly on his line of questioning blaming the secretary directly for crimes against children, the children raped. They are at your feet, Cruz told my orcus. And if you had integrity, you would resign. You're willing to let children be raped to follow political orders, Cruz continued. This is a crisis. It's a disgrace.

By the way, Victor, there was a lot more of that. My orcus gave back to it was not how I guess we exactly want to see democracy in action, but Ted Cruz needed to call him out and did.

And finally, I will shut up here in 15 seconds, Victor, so we can get your take on all this. But I just as we're recording just before we recorded an article came out on the hill.

The website is by Julia Shapiro. It's titled my orcus the number of people that are arriving at our border is at an extraordinary height. So this is from a piece that's coordinated with him appearing on 60 minutes. It seems like my orcus who has this none. There's no there. There's no problem. I don't see any problems. Finally, in making some admission to little too late. Maybe seven million legal people over the border.

How many of them are terrorists? How many people have died there? Victor, gosh, almighty. It's a horrible thing. Your thoughts, Victor.

Well, you got to remember that he was appointed by Barack Obama and he was appointed to be, I think, the head of the what we used to call citizenship and immigration. And his purpose was to give a front to green light illegal and the great.

Green light illegal migration. So let's start with the basics. The Democratic party feels that they flip California, they flip Nevada, they flipped Mexico, they flip Colorado. And they still feel they can flip Georgia and Texas.

And maybe Arizona, they're close by changing the demographics and then watering down restrictions on Balody. So here in California, there's 10 million, there's 10 million missing ballots. We have half of all of the illegal immigrants. They look at California and they say, wow, that state used to have eight years of Reagan, eight years of Georgia,

George Ducmation, eight years of Pete Wilson, eight years of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was kind of a rhino. Wow, that was 32 years of desolation. And then we had eight years of Jerry Brown, two years of what's his name, the guy that got recalled.

Ray Davis Ray Davis and then we've got.

Newsom, so we're we're halfway there and what they look at is California's a model and the model was.

Change the Democratic party for an open borders get as many poor people as you can to come in water down the election laws.

Have them as loyal constituents because of your generous entitlements and appeal to very wealthy people who are exempt from the consequences of their own ideology. That's the California formula.

Can I add can I add Jerry Mander?

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