Hello and welcome to the listeners of the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is a

commentator and analyst, an analyst of current political affairs and

military affairs. He's also trained as a classist and even more so a

philologist or more specifically a philologist and has written much on both the

ancient and modern world. So for everybody who's a new listener out there,

that's Victor's background in a nutshell and he is also the Martin and

Naly Anderson senior fellow and 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 and we've got a lot of

things on the agenda, lots of testimony going on in the Congress and we'll get to

that right after these messages.

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Well Victor, I know that I start with positive news each time and I would like

to say that have you heard of this organization? I'm sure you have but the

moms for Liberty they had a Philadelphia conference. I was impressed. Yes.

They're often maligned. Yeah. I was really impressed by their lineup. They had

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