Hey, welcome back to the Bill Bennett Show, thoughtful conversation about the news of the day and we address

the existential threats to America and Joe Biden thought he did that last night at the State of the Union.

Mm-hmm. We'll talk about that. did that last night at the State of the Union.

We'll talk about that.

In our monthly special, Scholars, and Cents.

So joining me today, joining us today, Conrad Black,

author, columnist, and media contributor

and Victor Davis Hanson,

Senior fellow at Hoover, focuses classics in military history.

But first, a few things I want to get off my chest.

Did you watch any of the speech last night? I know we're going to get in it with

Victor Davis Hanson and Conrad Black, but what are some of your initial thoughts?

Yeah, yeah, I did watch about half of it.

Feisty, he held his energy, showed some energy, which will congratulate him on.

But not the unifier, that's for damn sure.

Came out with, you know, fists, double fists aimed at Republicans and supporters of Republicans,

aimed at the MAGA crowd, if he calls it, all 74 million of us I guess. And he was angry and angry tone and we're going to pass this, we got to pass that.

I had his supporters in the House and Senate roaring. They were very excited to see such energy in this old guy.

Made a few muffs, of course, we expect that of him.

But I have to give a performance grade that was pretty good in terms of sticking to his, you know, getting his energy up and punching away,

but that's all I think of is punching. He was really punching. Your impressions?

So, number one, I agree with everything you said, I'll get to that in a second, but the first thing I thought

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