This is John Bachelor. I spoke with Professor Richard Epstein, a senior fellow of the Hoover

Institution, teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago, about the indictment of former

President Donald Trump, and we focused, at one point, specifically on the prosecutor,

Jack Smith, who signed the 41-page indictment. Richard had high praise for Jack Smith,

saying he's a focused and rigorous prosecutor. Here's Richard.

Well, I gather he was very active in dealing with prosecutions and war crimes in the

hate or something of that sort, so he is a very seasoned and very tough-minded prosecutor.

I think the choice of him by Garland was not an accident. The Biden administration would like

to get Trump, and this is something which doesn't so many particular sign of obvious bias and so

but it is a very determined guy. There is still the ambiguous question as to what extent Garland

can, should or would, exercise any control over this particular case. We don't even know at this

point whether or not the indictment is going to be filed, we see they review and approval from

the Attorney General. We have 30 seconds, Richard. Go ahead. We don't know whether it's got that

kind of approval, so that all this is mystery, but what we do know is unlike Bragg,

this man is a professional prosecutor, not a professional politician, and you will assume that

he will not make any rookie mistakes in terms of the way in which he starts to handle the case.

The Trump people may try to say, this is really selective prosecution, and that's always a way

to throw doubt on a particular prosecution, but it's not a way to stop.

I'm John Bachelor.