Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is the Martin and Ilyander

Sincere fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and

Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. He writes for American

greatness and we do these tantalizing episodes for the podcast world and we are part of

John Salman's Just a News organization and so he is the flagship for our podcast. So we

welcome everybody. Today this episode we're going to start with Biden and a little bit more

on both Biden files and Biden's presidency but first let's take a moment for these messages.

We'll be right back.

Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen show Victor I often ask you how you are today. I want you

to know that I am in a house that does not have heat and so I'm very very very cold and I am in

the middle of California and we have unusually cold temperatures here. I just want you to know that.

That's because we are sitting on the Monterey shelf which is one of the richest natural gas deposits

in the United States and we won't tap it so we're importing I'm supposed natural gas or

propane whatever it is that's in short supply and it's very expensive. California especially

right now. So pretty crazy story of the state. You didn't even ask you didn't wait till I told you

that I felt well. Oh you asked me how I was. Yeah I drove this morning from my graduate Alma

moderate Stanford at 4 30 in the morning and I left behind a the Stanford euphemism list where you

cannot say citizen or American. I left behind the Bankman Fried faculty home with Mr. Sam himself

there with the paparazzi working around. I left the president under a controversy about supposedly

improper use of an illustration. One of his co-authored particles and they're out to dismiss him

and I went from Matt Walsh is going to visit and the Stanford student council is going to pay

for demonstrators or protesters. That's kind of like a rent a demonstrator against him and I

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