publicly on february 27th, listening to his president trump's phone day in vietnam. >> shannon: a very busy news week. thank you. for more on some of tonight's top stories, top nursing a political analyst brit hume joins us. great to have you with us. >> thank you, shannon. glad to do it. >> shannon: i want to go back to the story where we got a lot of breaking news on this actor jussie smollett. a lock has been made about what we do know and what we don't know in this case but there's been this big discussion about this idea of victimhood and how it's become very attractive to a lot of people out there. i want to read something from jason many. the author of the rise of victim culture. quoted in the national review article saying this. perpetrators might not even think of them as false accusations because in many cases they see it as an attempt to draw attention to a real problem. to the extent that modern society increasingly valorize his victimhood claiming victim status throughout light lies will become more attractive. what you make of that?