This is the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution.

I'm your host Tom Church and I'm joined as always by the Libertarian Professor Richard Epstein.

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

He is the Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at NYU and he's a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

Now Richard, we're rounding out the year here. at the University of Chicago.

Now Richard, we're rounding out the year here talking

former President Trump, some problems with

for President Biden and for his son Hunter Biden.

But we'll start with former President Trump because Special Counsel Jack Smith recently

revealed that his investigation into former President Trump's behavior on January 6th.

We'll use cell phone records from Trump

when he was in office, along with another individual

from the day of January 6th.

This will, ostensibly used in this upcoming trial set to begin March 4th. Now however of

course set to begin March 4th just on Monday Smith filed a motion with the

Supreme Court to bypass the normal appellate

court process and fast track the Trump trial basically to make sure that this

trial goes on instead of being delayed post-election.

Now, if it's not expedited, well, then,

well, the likelihood is that

former President Trump will run for office, we will everything out and if he wins he would be able to use the

Justice Department to ostensibly shut down this investigation.

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