This is the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution.

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

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow here at the Hoover Institution. He's the

Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at NYU and is a senior lecturer at the University of

Chicago. Now Richard we just found out that a few classified documents were found in

President Biden's private office in Washington back in November and then a few days

ago a few more classified documents were found in his home and his garage in Delaware.

Now all sets of documents date back to his time as vice president. They're not current to this

this term as far as we know. Now all sets of documents were voluntarily returned

to the National Archives

and the Department of Justice was notified.

And then on Thursday, Attorney General Garland

appointed a special prosecutor, Robert Herr,

who's a Trump appointee, to look into Biden's handling of classified documents.

Now, the obvious starting point here has got to be figuring out the differences, if any, between President Biden and these classified documents

and former President Trump and his handling of classified documents at Marilago.

Can you take us through that?

Well, I can try, given the fact that the record in the second case is very sketchy.

The one difference that's most apparent is what happens when the improper placement of the documents has discovered the

Biden administration and his lawyers have immediately sent them over to

the National Archives and Records Administration and has purged

themselves as the doctrine.

...