How do we weigh those kind of considerations of we want to heal people.

We want a nation to come together and not feel like we are punishing our political enemies from one administration to the next.

That just because you lose an election doesn't mean you're about to go to jail.

We don't want to live in that world where that becomes expected.

The people who just got voted out are now going to be targets of criminal investigations, but actually did things that justify a criminal investigation.

Is that something we should demand?

I think you have to.

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Welcome to Outstanding, where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and the ideas that shape us. Great to have you

with us. I'm Joseph Backholm, your tour guide for this and most episodes here on Outstanding. And today

we're going to have a critical conversation about presidential

transitions. There has been a flurry of activity, both from the outgoing Biden administration

and the incoming Trump administration. We're going to try to understand what parts of it

are good, what parts of it are bad, or is it all just politics.

Joining me today to break it all down are Jared Bridges, the editor-in-chief of the Washington Stand,

and Chris Gasek, Senior Fellow for Regulatory Policy, who also monitors all of the happenings in the nation's capital gentlemen thanks for

taking some time today it's a pleasure to be here yeah good to be back well good to have you

kind of be a free flowing um something of a roundtable i think on just what is literally hundreds

of actions that have been taken that have taken place on i

guess depending on how you can't pardons it could be thousands of actions um i'll start by asking

you what's been the most surprising development either of the end of the Biden administration

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