In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson answers additional questions from listeners, including one on the undue influence of our intelligence agencies on U.S. policy.

This content was recorded prior to Hanson’s major surgery on Dec. 30.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

JACK FOWLER: I guess the second part of the question maybe can be boiled down to an assessment of our intelligence agencies in the last decade. Secretive intelligence agencies, per Scott’s question, having undue influence, and is Donald Trump grabbing the bull by the horns here?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Yeah, the way to answer that is by commission and omission. If we start the omission, let’s ask ourselves, what did the CIA or the Defense Intelligence Agency [do]? Did they predict 9-11? No. They had no idea it was coming.

Did they know about the Yom Kippur War? No. Did they know Pakistan was going to let off a bomb? No. They had no idea.

Did they have any timetable that was accurate about........

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