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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I want to talk about our so-called experts.

We know they’ve been wrong when they sign these collective letters—51 Intelligence authorities assured us Hunter Biden’s laptop was pretty much made up in Russia. But recently, in some of the marquee newspapers, sites—Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, of course, The New York Times—they made a series of statements by so-called experts that are absolutely confounded by reality.

Let’s take Iran. We get all of these stories that the combined Israel and the later United States strikes on the three key sites of uranium enrichment in Iran may not have done very much. We had a leak from the Pentagon, of course, that the media picked up that there was marginal damage.

Anybody who looked at the post-operational photographs could see that there was substantial damage. And so, we had David Albright, one of the most prestigious analysts of nuclear proliferation, he said there was serious damage. We had the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi: serious damage. We had Israel: serious damage—Israel intelligence. And our intelligence agencies said serious damage except for this outlying one from the Pentagon that the left-wing media picked up.

So, there is serious damage. I don’t know why the Left, especially,........

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