This is John Batcher speaking with my colleague Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution,

teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago.

Looking back at the debate between former President Trump and Vice President Harris.

Richard measures neither candidate positively and that he gives the choice that we see in context of the American historical choices for the presidency at the beginning

of the 20th century.

Richard Epstein lamenting what was then is not now. More of this tonight.

So the question you have to ask, you want a thoroughly flawed Kamala Harris as

president, or do you want a thoroughly wounded Donald Trump supported by some

able staffers running your office? This is not the choice that we want to have and as I

think back to the period that you talk about, this is what occurs to me.

You mentioned Teddy Roosevelt.

You mentioned Woodrow Wilson, right?

You mentioned William Howard Tan.

And McKinley.

You go further with Roosevelt, who is Vice Presidential nominee in 1920 and so forth, and

Hughes, the people who ran for president and vice president in the first third of the

century were the most qualified statesman that this country could put forward.

You have to remember that Hoover at that time was a great man because he wasn't yet president

where he messed everything up and then he became a great man again after he left office with the Hoover Commissions and everything else.

What we have is a bunch of run-of-the-mill people taking over these office.

Kamala Harris is an utterly total intellectual non-entity compared to these kinds of folk and she's held as

the conquering heroin.

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