I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Professor Richard Epstein of the Civitas Institute.

Within these last hours, the President of the United States chose to change attorney generals. The significance here

is all politics. The presidents fire AGs routinely. Ags leave their office. In this particular

instance, Richard, your response to this. In baseball,

you can't change the team so you change the manager. Is it that simple? No, it's not quite that

simple because it's not clear that the team is doing badly. What happens is there many things,

and basically Trump seems to think about two of them.

One, which I think is a credit to Ms. Bonding, she has not been as gong whole with prosecuting his political enemies with a legal system as he would like them to be.

And I think to the extent that she resisted him, there's a reason to praise her, not to condemn her.

She probably should have done less those kinds of senseless prosecution.

But the other thing are the Epstein file, no relation, thank you.

The professor refers to prosecution of Lettish and James of New York and James Comey and the FBI.

Those are just ridiculous prosecutions and so forth, and you should not have any

more of them, all made up in some very terrible way. But the Epstein papers, it turns out this guy

was an absolute trauma. We don't know what he did or who did with him, but there's always the

notion that there's something slightly swarmy about any association with this particular God.

And there's no question that Trump was in some sense associated with him in the 1890s, before there was any of the trial stuff that took place starting around 2008.

But they were buddies, and then they broke off.

And, you know, what does it mean to be a buddy when Trump is himself, shall we say,

a bit of a wag when it comes to women, and Epstein is the champion?

Nobody knows about all of this.

But the association is necessarily bad, and he can't swelch it.

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