"The rise in the crime rate," WFB begins, "brings us to reconsider existing legal dogma and protocols, and a while ago Thomas Dewey startled the legal profession by recommending the outright repeal of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which has lately been interpreted by the Supreme Court as an absolute guarantee to anybody to be uncooperative." A deeply instructive program, in which Mr. Buckley invites his guests to explain to a lay audience matters such as the different protections granted witnesses in a civil and a criminal trial, the reason why the Fifth Amendment applies to witnesses as well as to the defendant, and how pre-trial discovery works.