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victor davis hanson god bless you my friend.ng me. mark: we will be right back. mark: welcome back america. we have with us rebeccah heinrichs of the hudson institute fellow and an expert on russia isn't it time in america we had a little bit of a discussion about putin and russia so that we know who this guy is? he is a bad bad dude. can you give us a thumbnail sketch, who is putin? >> well, thank you for having become a market. he is a former kgb officer and he is a longtime anti- american, anti- western operative within the national security apparatus inside russia. he has said that gorbachev made a huge mistake in ending the cold war with ronald reagan the way the dissolution of the soviet union came to pass was a terrible mistake. and really, as he was been the wings of power of the federation ever since and is now back at the top, he continues to see the united states as his primary enemy. any ally of the united states as a proxy essentially of the united states and so that is really what we are witnessing when we see russ

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. >> laura: joining me now victor davis hanson senior fellow at the hoover institution. t, victor, that they were not for doesn't having the normal function of government but now doge is tweeting just moments ago that the department of education cut 29 dei training grants today totaling $101 million. i can hear the cheers across america. victor, this is awesome. christmas every day. >> i think they understand that they cannot defend these expenditures, they are corrupt. they are unnecessary. many of them are probably unlawful. so they go on offense and call elon musk names. i was shocked that we have been told, laura, for the last four years that big deal, anthony fauci only routed $600,000 to wuhan through ecohealth, it couldn't have mattered at all multi million dollars enterprise gorsuch. gain of function research, now we learned they knew u.s. aid was putting $40 millioned to the wuhan laboratory in china? and then this came out samantha power came out and said going to be happy we are cutting u.s. aid programs. they are very angry because they are not getting $40 mil

joining us now victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. , i told my staff on our call today that your speak on friday night that i had the privilege to sit and listen to off the cuff one of the best speeches i heard in i don't know how long. fabulous. great to see new person, victor. with our old friend scott atlas and other folks. did you a great job. i knew you would have great things to say about this. why should this matter touts what happened in germany? >> they have been lecturing everybody about democracy. half the electorate voted for two conservative parties and the incumbents only got 16% of the voted there was a rejection of them the way their system is rigged. disenfranchised. work for the green party and failed incumbent to shut out one out of every five german voters. then they start giving us lectures and when you step back, and you look at germany, you think wow, they are paying four times the price of electricity that we are. they are running up a $90 billion trade surplus with us. we have 50,000 soldiers and 40 bases in ge

victor davis hanson is a senior fellow at the hoover institution and he is back from pet bereavementu take for old yeller? four or five? >> i don't know, it's been a while. but kamala is in a bad position. she has no official office, she is not a vice president, she is not a senator. she hitched her wagon to the dei open borders wing of the party r donald trump has demolished that. she still has that 500 word vocabulary, wash, spin, rinse cycle of speaking. i don't see a future for her. >> jesse: when you go to a lakers game, are you more recognized than kamala harris? [laughter] >> i'm not recognized when i go to a fresno state basketball game, jesse. >> jesse: i would think all of your appearances on "primetime". >> i don't think anybody wants to admit that they are recognizing me. >> jesse: that's true, it could be dangerous. so i was just thinking, kamala harris is doing what she is supposed to do, doing the fire think that going to the games. she is playing coy. how long can this last? >> i mean she can do it forever. what her currency is diminishing every day. she is out of off

. >> charlie: joining me now victor davis hanson, hooverg institute senior fellow.peec why should weee speech in europe? >> they are a partner in western civilization and our ally and we have 70,000 troops but more importantly we are losing europe. j.d. vance's speech wasn't just directed or maga crowd at home, but it was the silent majorityed in europe. what he was saying is this elite has failed to. any time you fail, that is where you start to censor. when you fail on the border, economy, energy, immigration, on defense. on their failure they tried to stifle all forms of dissent ande free expression. that he was trying to give encouragement to all people of y europe that know that and want to write up. that is why they hate him so much. t yoheu know, miss brennan didn't understand the came to power and started to outlaw free speech, one of the mechanisms they usedo was to save the german equivalent of disinformation ora hate speech or misinformationll. i that is how it always happens. usually censorship is eight when a failure.t of when you are failing, you cannot stand the light

here now with reaction, our hoover institute senior fellow victor davis hanson and former senator and ambassador scott brown. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us. victor, the irony of them saying it's unacceptable what he said, it was just it's just too much for me. the vice president gave a great speech and they didn't quite like it, did they? >> no. >> they're the they're the. >> international version of the democrats. they're losing their power. >> in the international stage. >> vance was trying. he's been talking to them. trump has been talking to him. they're giving him good advice. open up your societies. entertain free speech, make make your nato commitments rearm, close your borders. legal only immigration, deregulate lower taxes and be europe again. you know, when the eu was formed, jason, they had about the same gdp as we do now. it's only about 60%. they're ossified, they're stagnating. and it wasn't a critical speech and it was constructive. it was like the way that trump spoke at davos to the europeans. he said, i love europe. vance was saying, we're west. this is

here's reaction, are covert senior davis hanson and former senator and ambassador, scott brown. gentleman, thank you for joining us. victorpresident grave -- gave a great speech and they didn't like it, did they? >> no, they are the international version of the democrats. they are losing their power in the international stage. vance has been talking to them and trump has been talking to them, they are giving him good advice, open up your societies, entertain free speech, make your nato commitments, rearm, closer borders. deregulate, lower taxes and be europe again. when the formed, they had about the same gdp as we do and now it's only about 60%. they are stagnating and it wasn't a critical speech and it was constructed like the way the trump spoke to the europeans. he said i love europe. vance was saying this is the same culture, join us, open up. and we have learned our lesson, we went through this dark age with biden, it doesn't work. open borders do not work, illegal immigration does not work, censorship does not work. the industrializing does not work, green power does not work. they don't want to hear that, they wou