In a matter of hours as we record this, a trial of the forty-fifth president will begin

in the Senate.

But is this trial wise?

Are the charges sound?

For that matter is the entire proceeding constitutional.

Today on Uncommon Knowledge, three brilliant legal minds.

I'll, too, anyway, I'll let you decide which one I have my doubts about, three brilliant

legal minds on the trial that is about to begin.

Richard Epstein is a professor of law at NYU, a professor of law emeritus at the University

of Chicago, and a fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and a National Review

Contributing Editor.

He served as assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Note that.

He is the man here with practical experience, putting people in the slammer.

A fellow at the Hoover Institution, John Yu, served during the administration of George

W. Bush as deputy assistant attorney general in the office of legal counsel at the Department

of Justice.

Mr. Yu, as a professor at the University of California Berkeley Law School, our online

host, so to speak today, and also a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Richard, Andy and

John.

Welcome.

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