Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xtons Show Podcast.

Our three of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xtons show is underway, everybody. Thanks for

Hagen with us. Thanks for joining, for just tuning in.

For an Andy McCarthy with us now, he is at National Review, also a Fox News

Configurer and Spence over 20 years as an assistant U.S. attorney at the Southern District,

the mighty Southern District of New York. Andy, thanks for calling in. Andy, do we have?

Fuck. Yeah, there he is. There he is. There he is. There's the man.

So, well, I'm good to have you. So, tell me this. I'll start with one of the big ones that we

can get in some of the details. Why shouldn't there be a special counsel assigned to look into

Hunter Biden and possible corruption and payments to Joe Biden, whether he was vice president,

or whatever. What's the case for? What's the case against?

Well, the case against, which I've made any number of times before, I was radicalized by the

intolerable double standard on this. I say that simply because we all know that if Biden were

Republican, there would have been a special counsel like three years ago. But the good reason

not to have one is that the institution is a pernicious institution. That is the institution

of a special counsel. It doesn't function like an ordinary prosecutor. It targets one target.

You know, most prosecutors that they don't have time to make a case, they close the file and move

on to the next case. Special counsels notoriously spend too much money and too much time and they

generate a lot of process crimes. Those are crimes that are caused by the investigation instead

of the crime. The investigation is meant for. So there's a lot of downsides to it. And, you know,

to the extent that people delude themselves into thinking that special counsels are independent,

they're not. They report to the Justice Department because in our system, ultimately prosecution is

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