Welcome to Beg to Bueg to Differ the Bullworks weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil

conversation across the political spectrum.

From center left to center right, I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork.

I'm joined by our regulars, Damon Linger of the Week, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution

and the Wall Street Journal, and Linda Chavez of the Niskanid Center. Our special

guest this week is Eugene Volk. Gary T Schwartz's Distinguished Professor of

Law at UCLA and founder of the Legal blog The Volk Conspiracy.

Professor Volk is the author of a textbook on the First Amendment

and many law review articles, an immigrant from the USSR at age 7.

He graduated from UCLA with a degree in math and computer science at the age of 15.

Professor Volk will be sitting out the first segment and joining us later in the program and we want to jump

right in with the momentous news of the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. It was a argument. the get a conviction of a police officer. So Damon I'm going to start with you.

Is this possibly a unifying moment? The polls show that the vast majority of Americans

believe this was the correct verdict?

Well I certainly hope so but you know as the kind of jaded cynic I am I'll say I'll

believe it when I see it and by see it that means more than the first

couple of days after the verdict and the main reason why I'm a little skeptical

and longer term is because as is a frequent theme on this podcast

The right has decided that its interests lie in denying the justice of the verdict and seeing

this as some kind of a triumph of left-wing mob rule and you we'll see, we'll be able to tell within the next week or so

if the right backs off that narrative

because they're seeing from their constituents and then polling that this actually is not helping them.

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