victor davis hanson, hoover institute., author, i asked leo terrell are we a representative republic or a federal republic? or a constitutional republic? are we a republic in decline? know a ton about history, where are we. >> i don't think we're a republic any more, we're in we're in a -- a transition to radical democracy, by what anyone wants to do on any given day, if they have power or votes they do it. we don't respect immigration law. people in the administration want to get rid of it make the border open, they do it. if you want to have a warrant for a particular fbi operation, you can find a judge and do you it. what i'm getting it. if you have an agenda you feel you have elected power, you don't respect any guardrails or prohibition that constitution republic set up to protect the abuse of power. on any given day this administration can do what they want, they want to kill -- on monday and say it is legal they can. i don't see that the constitution that envisioned to prevent the outbreaks of craziness, the founder

victor davis hanson. we want to go back to the justice department. the judge has ruled that the trump search warrant will be unsealed. back to david spunt. are they giving us any time frame? >> i think it's going to be momentarily. court documents are dock sequentially. the magistrate judge said done and ordered in chambers, west palm beach, florida. it's so ordered that the motion be granted to unseal the search warrant for mar-a-largo. so he's telling his staff to go ahead and move forward. so we assume document number 42 in the order would be the actual release of this search warrant, can will tell us -- which will have charges on it as ari and mick mulvaney just mentioned. what those could be and also the rest of the content that we've been mentioning. this is coming momentarily, martha. >> martha: it will not necessarily be the affidavit, just to be clear. >> yeah. that a different thing. >> martha: the warrant that gives them the right to search. it's unsealed and we have it. we're starting to go through it right knew. david, you'll be going th

let's turn to victor davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow and author of "the dying citizen.pid and lazy and fat and not questioning a thing. don't they? >> yeah. i think they do. i mean, we have some control over higher education when we guaranteed student loans and we give grants and what do we do? we just let them off the hook. we could solve k through 12 if we told every teacher you have an alternative, jesse, you can either go through the education school monopoly and get credentialed and get brainwashed or just go get an ma in an academic subject like a community college teacher or prep school and i think there would be a mass exodus out of the school of education and they couldn't control all of these ma programs and the teachers would be much more academically rigorous. we could tell every student getting a b.a. you have to take a national just like an sat test to get. in take one to see how you do if you do any better after four years and that would quantify the ba so we would all know bas all had something in common basic knowledge of math. we need to look at tenure

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so writing pros is a pain in the tush so we have these examples of victor davis hanson and shelby steelend those who come out and even with the w best editor in the world over there. [applause] and my other secret weapon is my wife who says we have to live here. [laughter]oa >> i think the road to serfdom and common sense that in particular on my god that so clear how did i not see that before? of course the first one was milton friedman that he said to his and i'm looking forward to your thesis that cannot be more than 500 words. >> i'm sorry i don't have more time but i am not sorry about the last hour. i knew this would be a wonderful experience but it has been a long time since i go to the gun shop. [laughter] standing i in line and then says file you are in a gun shop. [laughter] [applause]

monthly viewer call-in program in depth, author historian and hoover institution senior fellow victor davis hanson talked about his recent books that focus on war, politics and citizenship in the united states. here's a portion. >> i grew up in a democratic former household. my grandparents were sort of a great populous. my grandmother got an award when she was 28 reciting the cross of gold speech by william james bryant, i would say he was a model of what i believe in but the point was they were strong democrats. my father flew 40 missions on a b-29, his first cousin who i'm named after was kind of adopted by family when his mother died, died on okinawa and we always have the flag of all the time. veterans day, you name it it's on her house. very proud of the united states. my mom was the same way and there were democrats. so what i'm getting at is there was no sense that, of conservatives or rural democrats, and they were very strong civil rights advocates. i can remember when i was 12 years old we got in the car and drove all the way up to race cathedral near to hear martin luther king speech.

victor davis hanson is senior fellow at the hoover institution and he joins us now. always great to have you at moments like this. why, why has what we watched over the last 24 hours taken place? why have they targeted donald trump? >> they are afraid in the short term but in the long term they believe they are morally superior to america and therefore any means necessary or justifiable for their morally superior ends. right now we don't have the rule of law in washington. whether you are targeted or exempt depends on your ideology. in the past when there was a dispute over the archives, the presidential papers, barack obama just said i'm not going to turn them over, freedom of information. he spent $30 million resisting efforts to do that. george bush had an executive board and said you know what, i'm not going to do this. and that was adjudicated. and now we go after a president go to his house with 30 agents. in the past when a high official was called for congressional subpoena, eric holder just said, i'm not going and i'm not turning over this fast and furious. t

let's bring in victor davis hanson. the senior fellow at the hoover institution. or, we immediately thought of you as the right guy to talk about when you see the way the left is talking about who we are as a nation. who their political opponents are and now what they're willing to do about it. it's scary for people. how can we walk back from this type of precipice? >> yeah, i think we can remember, the left projects so if christopher steele draws on sources like the chenko and toll alan, clint operative, they draw on russian sources to smear donald trump and then they call trump collusion. they are talking nonstop about the civil war. they really are. and they do things that are revolutionary. i mean, nobody on the right said let's jump the 233-year-old electoral college, 180-year-old filibuster the 150-year-old 9 person supreme court. nobody said let's bring in two more states and end the idea for 60 years of a 50-state union. and then when you look at what they have actually done. they have fade at that. but, nobody in the republican party ever tore up the state

i had these wonderful models for example milton friedman and tom sol and shelby steele and victor davis hansonso clearly. i have a secret weapon which is my wonderful assistant over there. [applause] my other secret weapon is my wife who says hey we have to live here. >> which event or book has most influenced your revised banking? >> i think it's an great credit to world of serfdom on capitalism andnd freedom and common sense. and white guilt by shelby steele in and the works of tom sol. particularly economic facts. you probably know of looks. all of them page by page he read the menu say oh my god that so clear. thatould i not have seen before and one of the people he started with was of course milton friedman. i read the friedman said to his doctoral doctoral students i'm a thesis andrd to it can be longer than 500 words. isn't that great? >> yeah. i have many more questions in no time. i'm sorry about that. i'm not sorry for the last last hour prevented this is going was going to be a wonderful, wonderful experience and on behalf of everyone here thank you so much. tonight you're welcome a

herewith reaction the author of the dying citizen, he's a senior fellow at the hoover institution, victor davis hansonofessor, i don't like a week america, i don't like to have a weak american president. i don't like america being threatened by the thug president in china for the thug running the russia or thugs in iran or kissing saudi arabia's asses for energy we could be producing domestically. why is it joe biden has a seemingly no sense? we don't need to do with any of these countries from a position of weakness. if we would produce energy domestically, why don't we do that? >> because they are captives of ideology. they would rather fail and be politically correct than succeed and deviate from their orthodoxy? nancy pelosi is the worst emissary of u.s. foreign policy. she did this in 2007. right during the surge of the dynasty sending people to kill americans, she went over and freelanced in syria and did a lot of damage to us. if she wanted to go to taiwan she should have coordinated with the white house, the pentagon, they should've had a common front. they said we are going to go what are you

victor.. davis hanson, a senior fellow at the hooveroo institution, and he joins us nowve. o have you victor, always great to have you at moments like this. why why has what we've watched over the last twenty four hours taken placeat? why has they targeted donald trump? they're afraid in the short term and long term, they believe they're morally superior to america and therefore any means necessaryo are justifiable for their morally superior ends. butjust right now we don't havef the rule of law in washington, whether you're l targeted ords exempt depends on your ideology. so in the past when there was a there was a dispute over the archives of presidential papers, barack obama just said, i'm not going toves, turn them r the freedom of information. he spent 30 million dollars resistinged efforts to do that. george bush had an executive order and said, you know what, i'm not going to do this.an and that was adjudicated and now we go afteran a presidet and go to his house with 30 agents. in the past when a high official was called for a congressional subpoena, eric holder just

the cause i have these wonderful models for example, milton friedman and shelby steele and victor davis hanson who can write so clearly, can i have a secret weapon which is my wonderful assistant and best friend in the world pam susan over there. [applause] and my other secret weapon, my wife who reads it and saysdave, we have to live here . [laughter] which event or book has most influenced your revised thinking? >> i think it's a great trinity of serfdom and capitalism and freedom and common sense onand white guilt by shelby steele and the entire works of tonsil particularly ethnic america and economic facts and policy. you probably know all the books , open page by page you readthem and say oh my god, that's so clear . how can i not have seen it before? it goes back to one of the people he studied with who was milton friedman at the university of chicago and i read it may be true that friedman said it was doctoral students, i'm looking forward to yourthesis. it can't be longerthan 500 words . isn't that great ? >> dave has 30 more questions and no time and i'm sorry about that but i'm not s

doctor victor davis hanson. [applause] can you hear me okay? the first t event i went to was about more than 25 years ago and we were each assigned a student. we've kept up over the years and in fact, thank you. he once showed up at my house and said i need to be inculcated in the arts of agriculture for a month so that was my first connection. thank you very much for the award. i thought i would speak 25 or 30 minutes about the dying citizens, but for the entire movement i added afterwards i've been recently in downtown denver and downtown seattle it looks like t hiroshima. and venice beach i was in san francisco not long ago and a billion dollars had been invested in solving the homeless problem and it's worse than it's ever been as i said to another group this evening. people have signs in their cars that say nothing here or unlocked. when we talk about these scenes of the border, we are going to see a lot this summer. people see the border is poor. there is no border. how can it be porous when it doesn't exist any longer. i have to go as ma

. >> you can watch the rest of this interview with victor davis hanson along with all prior episodes of in-depth on our website tv.org. just click on the "in depth" tab near the top of the page. >> i am so please introduce today's speaker. james carroll is a busy man. he's been a priest, playwright, a professor with honorary degrees from several universities. and sometimes between all but he's at time to write 12 novels and it works of nonfiction including the cloister and constantine sword. his op-ed ran from 1992-2015 in the "boston globe", and his other writings have appeared in the new yorker, the atlantic and among others. he is the recipient of the national book award, the p/e and award and the scripps howard award. he is jointed night in conversation by mike rezendes. mike is a senior investigative reporter with the global investigation team at "the associated press." previously he worked for the "boston globe" spotlight team where he shared a pulitzer prize for revealing the cover-up of sexual abuse in the catholic church. you might see him played on the silver screen and spo

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monthly viewer call in program, in-depth, author, historian and hoover institution senior fellow victor davis hanson best recent books that focus on war, politics and citizenship in the united states. here is a portion. >> i grew up in a democratic farmer household. my grandparents were agrarian populists. my grandmother got an award reciting the cross of gold speech by william james bryant. not that i would say he was a model for what i believe in. there were strong democrats. my father, he flew 40 missions on a b-29. his first cousin i'm named after was adopted by my family when his mother died. he died. we always had the fly got all the time. veterans day, you name it was on our house. very proud of the united states. my mom was the same way and they were democrats. so, what i am getting in there is no sense of conservative or rural democrats. they were very strong civil rights advocates. hike and a member when us or 12 years got in the car and drove wildly up to grace cathedral to hear martin luther king speak. my mother detoured because she found a list of african-american people who might not

and for that we go to a much smarter man, victor davis hanson. sm, ha fellow hoover institution who joins us tonight. professor, thanks so much for coming on . do you think when elections don't go the way that cnn wants them tohe go , that that'sm a threat to democracy? -have to have a special term fr democracy, eyes and darkness. "the washington post". that's what they always say or they say there's a civil war,se there's an insurrection on the horizon. any time they think they're going to lose politicallyly because i don't think they believe in democracy. but liz cheney, tucker, is kinde of a riddle. the quote, church controversial, wrapped in a mystery because she voted 93% in her two terms with a trump agenda. that's what catapulted her from a first term congresswoman to the third ranking republican . r heran rock solid support for donald trump and you know, that's why they put out number three . so she had four years,s three years to see what donald trumpp was. he w knew his strengths and weaknesses. it didn't bother her, his personality orh

with reaction, the author of the dying citizen is as senior fellow at the hoover institution, victor davis hanson. you know, professor, i don't like a weak america. i don't likee to have a weak american president. i don't like america being threatened by the president in china ort the running russia or the thugs in iran. the mullahs in iran or kissing saudi arabia's and opec's. and venezuela's asked for a energy that we canss be producig domestically. why is it joe biden has seemingly no common sense? we don't need to deal with any of these countries from a position of weakness. if weun would produce energy domestically, whyy don't we do that? professor? because they're captives of ideology. they would rather fail and be b politically correct and succeed and deviaterect from their orthodoxy. pelosi is they worst emissary of u.s. foreignol policy. she did this on in 2007. she right after the lebanon war in 2006, right during the surge of the assad dynasty, was sending people in to kill americans. she went over and freelanced into syria and didid a lot of damage to us . and soif if she wanted to go

armey dillon , chairwoman of the republican national lawyers association, as well as victor davis hanson, hoover institution, senior fellow. congressman jordan, let's start with you. house minority leader kevin mccarthy released this statement just moments ago. he said, i've seen enough. the department of justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponizes politicization when republicans take back the house will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts and leave no stone unturned. attorney general garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar. congressman, republicans promise a lot of accountability ,but a lot of times we're disappointed. is that going to change now? >> it is going to change. and i appreciate the leaders statement and that's exactly what needs to happen. but even before that, this friday we're going back to vote on this stupid bill that the democrats passed out of the senate yesterday. so we will be there all day. i'll be in thursday night's merrick garland, chris wray, come to the judiciary committee this friday and answer our quest

rachel: victor davis hanson said the fbi is the person the biden family goes to get laptops, diaries,l this stuff and seems to be they are working for the biden family and their troubles but part of biden's family from. donald trump running again so this could be another case of them doing that. pete: america's soaring crime crisis, the man accused of sucker punching a man was found in a coma after first being released without bail. rachel: that man, a convicted sex offender, was arrested after the governor demanded he be taken into custody. will: ashley strohmeyer joins us with this and other shocking crimes. >> reporter: 55-year-old man who died was taken back into custody friday direction of governor kathy hohul.. >> took action in my own hands, directed the department of corrections and community service commission to immediately examine whether this parole violation occurred. minutes ago, we did that. >> reporter: the da's office is reviewing the case but did not rule out additional charges. the nypd is looking for 7 brazen thieves after $30,000 in merchandise in the meatpacking

joining us right now, victorr davis hanson, hoover institute senior fellow. victor, is hen right? there's no new taxes in this. no, he's wrong. you're right. there's new taxes. there's new regulations. there's an expense. spend , expansion of government. somehow we're som in a rock anda hard place. we're in classical stagflation. we have nine one nine point one percent annual inflation and we have twola quarters of negative growth. and you've got to pickld your poison. brian , ronald reagan brokeroket and he was very unpopular in eighty one in eighty two . very courageous. broke inflation. so t the interest rates to break inflation have got to go up. spending has to go down. and you've got to deregulate and encourage the economy. but when you do that,no and interest rates go up, weet could get two, three , four, five , six quarters of negative growth. we've broughtat back stagflation that a whole generation hadn't witnessed for two generations. ioon hsince 1980 in the carter y they keep pointing to this three point t six unemployment rate. they say you no, don'tose use the recessi

joining me now is richard davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow, and daniel turner, founder and executive director of power the future. now, victor you say that class plays an enormous role in this entire discussion. explain. we have a rarified class, a bicoastal class. as you said, they're never subject to the consequences of their own ideology. their lifestyles are much different than the people that they dictate to take california sounds great to have electric cars and brand gas cars, but we import 25% of our electricity from out of state and that's almost all generated by fossil fuels. and we only produce about 20% of renewables and we have natural gas and we have the highest gas prices and the highest electricity prices already in the continental united states. and yet we have about one out of every three people in the united states that's on public assistance in california. and we have 21% of the people live below the poverty. so you have a feudal society of this coastal city and they don't have to commute a long way. they live in 60 , 80 degree weather and they have all these ideas and they're dictating to a vanishing midd