0:00.0	Welcome back to the Dersh show.
0:07.2	You know, I've been a lawyer now for almost 60 years in Nevada to attend the 63th reunion
0:14.7	of my Yale Law School class.
0:18.5	And I've often been asked, what have I learned in 60 years?
0:23.8	Well, a lot of things, but I think much of it can be summarized.
0:30.3	In a sense of distrust, distrust.
0:35.7	The United States Constitution is based on distrust.
0:39.7	It's based on checks and balances.
0:42.6	It's not supposed to be an efficiency mechanism.
0:48.4	It's based on, we're not sure.
0:50.8	We're just not sure.
0:51.8	Americans show me.
0:54.1	We're not sure.
0:55.3	Prove it.
0:56.6	And I think the one specific thing I learned in my 60 years,
1:01.7	particularly since I've been practicing in courts all over the world,
1:07.2	is never credit a witness who is not subject to cross-examination and confrontation.
1:16.9	Never, ever credit such a witness,
1:20.8	as the great Blackstone, the man who basically founded the law on which the United States
1:28.0	is based once said, cross-examination is the greatest engine of truth ever invented
1:35.3	by human beings, which is precisely why the Democrat majority on the House Committee
1:44.7	on January 6th has abolished cross-examination and confrontation.
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