I'm John Baucher. This is the new John Baucher show, CBS Audio Network. I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and in addition, he teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago.

Writing most recently at the Las Vegas Journal

about the Biden administration, the early days of the Biden administration.

A hundred days have not passed and yet there are large presentations by Mr. Biden that suggests that he has a

theme.

The theme is bigger than FDR, bigger than FDR and LGB together.

Well maybe that's an exaggeration, but trillions and trillions and trillions.

Richard, a very good evening to you.

Mr. Biden, his campaign and his inaugural speech talked about bringing us together.

That's an old phrase from the 20th century.

He also talked about the era of good feelings,

which you quote in your Las Vegas review journal Peace, Mr. Biden would have a tough task given the enmity in this country after the most recent election.

However, the puzzle is what's he doing about it and right now as I understand it satisfies the Biden

administration to to claim bipartisanship is a fact if a Republican anywhere

on the planet back to program they're advancing at any time in the

last hundred years. Good evening to you, Richard.

Well, I mean, there was an era of bipartisanship. For example, if you go back to the Cold War policies in the post-war era in 1945,

1955, saw Democrats and Republicans embracing a cautious internationalism, which led to the foundation of NATO and the UN at the time both

sensible moves led to a collective action with respect to Korea, led to a

Berlin-Alist and so forth forth but this current situation there's

absolutely no overlap between the parties and you think about the Civil Rights Act

of 1964 which I referenced at that point You had 29 Republican votes or 27 Republican votes

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