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the victor davis hansson show this is our saturday edition where we do something a little bit different in the middle segment.

And today, Victor is going to be talking about the Great Depression.

And I think that kind of works well with the top news stories, which are over Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech.

And then, of course, the topic of that,

which are tariffs. And we'll get to that after these messages.

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