Welcome back to the Libertarian podcast from the Hoover Institution.

I'm your host, Tom Church.

I'm joined, as always, by the Libertarian Professor Richard Epstein.

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

He is the Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU, and he's also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

Richard, we're one week out from the 2024 presidential election.

We know who the winner is.

We know who the next president's going to be.

And President elect, Trump, is proposing his cabinet and various other main players in his staff.

And I'd love to lay out for our audience who has been nominated, not nominated, who has been, you know, thrown out there and we'll have to go through a vetting process and who won't.

And what that might mean.

So I think we'll start maybe with some of the more palatable, the more, oh, okay, that makes

sense, Kenneth, if that meant.

Okay, let me just sort of begin with the first sentence from the tale of two cities.

It is the best of times, it is the worst of time.

It is the age of belief.

It is the age of incredulity, right?

We're not quite at the Spanish regulation, but the key point to understand is that the variance that we're talking about here is extraordinarily high. It does seem to be high starting today

or yesterday or so, but let's go maybe less controversial. Starting off, Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles,

a longtime political operative, helped run his campaign, helped run more campaigns in Florida. Any

quick reaction there, Richard? Yeah, I mean, you don't want a chief of staff to be somebody who has

very strong policy inclination. You want her or him, as the case may be,

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