Hey, welcome to the Bill Bennett show, thoughtful conversation about the news of the day, and we address the existential threats to America.

Today's a special scholars and sense edition of the show. So join me today, Conrad Black, he's an author, columnist and media contributor, and as well, the very famous Victor Davis Hanson.

Senior fellow to Hoover, it's to his focus academically is classics and military history. He knows a lot about what's going on.

All right gentlemen, let's let's jump in. Let me tell you two things on my mind and you can dispense with them or we can talk about them for a minute or two.

One is a trial, the Murdoch trial. I didn't want to watch, but as Plato points out and then later we have people mentioning every time there's an automobile accident, you don't want to look at it, but you do.

So I ended up watching part of it, justice, I think was served here. A lot of lawyers were commenting on TV about how complicated the jury system would be the straight forward and simple folks at Callett and County South Carolina.

Didn't have any such complications. They knew they were dealing with a liar, ball face liar, and they came back in two hours. That's what it seemed to me.

Yeah, I watched it. And I mean, I watched some of it. I watched the verdict coming in, but and they looked like a nasty family to me. I mean, we watched one.

Yeah, these things, but you know, the boat acts for the girl died and that sort of thing. But with that said, I didn't think the idea that he murdered these two to distract attention from his financial problems made sense.

So I wondered about that part of it, but, but certainly I have no standing to criticize the verdict. And I certainly don't think that the system misfired.

I've been a frequent and very vocal critic of the way the criminal justice system works in the US having encountered.

Yep. Yeah.

This is a corrupt case at all. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good. Good day.

Well, missing bodies, Bill. I mean, the housekeeper died under mysterious circumstances.

And then the boat accident was under mysterious circumstances. There was even a young gay man that died under mysterious circumstances.

So they were all connected. But I didn't watch the actual trial, but I every once in a while when you watch the news, you get these talking legal heads,

like Michael Evan, Eddie figures, and they only these astounding proclamations that just because he lied about every aspect of his life doesn't mean he lied about the killing.

And that's why the jury will probably either be hung or have a lot. Yeah.

Well, nobody believes that everybody is that if you lie about everything, why wouldn't you lie?

Exactly. They were really terrified that anyone would murder his wife and his son.

You know, see it. No, no, Victor is, I think exactly right.

That this is common sense. And that's at my point about, you know, we live about 100, 150 miles from that call it in South Carolina.

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