Killed homer the origins of the west and what happened to history. He is the martin and Ellie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution focusing on classics and military history. He is also the wayne and marcia buskey distinguished visiting fellow in history at Hillsdale College and he combines the very rare ability to be one of the foremost scholars in his field of classics, but also to be a popular pundant who regularly appears on fox news and rights of weekly column with National Review as well as american greatness. He has received a ba in classics from university of california santa cruz. He was a fellow at the American School of classical studies in athens and received his phd from the university of stanford and his book the dying citizen how progressive elites tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of america is this years conservative book of the year. Please join me in welcoming, dr. Victor david hansen. Can you hear me . Okay. I might have been. The first
Its my honor to invite the keynoter speaker tonight. Doctor hansen is a longtime friend and a faculty associate going all the way back to the d90s. Asua i mentioned earlier, he actually wrote a book in 2002 called bonfire of the humanities rescuing the classics and an impoverished age. He also lectured the students on who killed homer the origins of the west and what happens to history. Hes the senior fellow at the Hoover Institution focusing on classics and military history. Hes also the fellow in history at Hillsdale College and the rare ability for the classics and also to be a popular abundant whoar regularly appears on fox news and writes a weekly column with National Review as greatness. Hes received the classics from the university of santa cruise and was a fellow at the school of studies in athens from the phd of the university of stanford and his book the dying citizen and the globalization are destroying the idea of america. Doctor victor davis hanson. [applause] can you hear
Millions of amazing, hardworking people. Mike pence reacted a short time ago, as well, at the valiant voter summit in washington. The bottom of my heart, hillary, they are not a basket of anything. They are americans and they deserve your respect. So that is where we start this day with those three words. Basket of deplorables. Secretary Hillary Clinton describing half of trumps supporters in a speech last night like that. The sharpest words yet this cycle from the democratic nominee toward her opponent. Ly clinton was at a lgbt event in new york city where Barbara Streisand performed. You can put half of trumps supporters into a basket of deplorables. Homophobic, islam phobic, you name it. Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. Some of those folks, they arer redeemable. Thankfully they are not america. Msnbcs kasie hunt covering the Clinton Campaign joins us. As was said some of the sharpest words we have heard from the democratic nominee. Tell us more. H
Announcement, concerning the southern border. A source tells cnn the president is expected to propose extending protections for Daca Recipients in exchange for the wall. Something the president is not willing to back down on. The wall. I hope that Speaker Pelosi can come along and realize what everybody does, i mean no matter who it is, they know that walls work. And we need walls. And whether its personal or not, its not personal for me, shes being controlled by the radical left, which is the problem, and you know, shes under total control of the radical left. I think thats a very bad thing for her. I think it is a very bad thing for the democrats. Everybody knows that walls work. Meanwhile, House Democrats are not willing to budge on the border wall. We saw that in their latest plan. They will propose to, which offers no fundsing for the wall, so where does all of this leave the shutdown, and the thousands of federal workers . Lets check in with cnn White House Reporter sara westwood