Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hanson show. I am Jack Fowler.

The first, you are here to listen to the star in the namesake.

That is Victor Davis Hanson.

He is the Martin and Ealy Anderson

senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow

in History at Hillsdale College.

We are recording on Friday the 9th.

I tell you the state because it's essential to know what just happened and this particular episode will be up on the

worldwide web on, I don't know, Victor, I think the 13th, the Mardi Gras, but lots of stuff has happened yesterday and the day prior.

So just giving a little context, I know everybody wants context in the world now Victor. What are we going to talk about on this episode?

Well Tucker Carlson's interview of Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden's press conference, and your reaction to that, you've

written about that today on Twitter, and we have a very infamous trial that just ended yesterday in Washington between Mark Stein,

the columnist, the conservative columnist, and Michael Mann the revered leftist ideologue climate

scientist. We'll get your thoughts on all these things and maybe even a little more Victor right after these important messages. We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show.

Say Victor, before we get into any of these matters,

here we sit all and I said in Connecticut and see these videos of the rains and the

floods affecting California and I'm curious two things.

Is any of that hitting the Central Valley?

And what about your place up in the hills that Boja have 20 feet of snow last year what's

happening up there with the well you know we had a drought jack and it was

looking very bleak and then we started to get these southern storms.

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