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Hello to the listeners of the Victor Davis Hansen Show.

Welcome to the Friday edition where we do a news roundup for the week and we've got a lot

on our agenda this week.

We're going to take a look first at the state of history in our country in and out of universities.

The nuclear ambitions of Putin are border situation and finally Ron DeSantis is many phases of

Ron DeSantis he's been inserting himself a lot in the news lately.

I would like to remind everybody that Victor is the Martin and Nilly Anderson senior fellow in

military history and classics at the Hoover institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky

distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College. We will get right to the agenda today but

first let's listen to these messages and we'll be right back.

Welcome back and Victor I hope that things are going well for you today we've got a lot of

news on our agenda was there anything on your mind before we start?

Oh yeah I am getting turning the corner on my 150 year old house rehab project that I've waited

40 years to do and suddenly I'm 90% done in finding every knob and tube serpent in this stupid house

it's 90% romack they cannot believe it no more circuit rickers going off and I'm just a

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