Counsel jack smith. The 45page indictment accuses the former e president of three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Culminating in the january 6th attacks on the u. S. Capitol. Heres the Special Counsel tuesday after the charges were handed up. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 20211, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. If lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of clerking, counting and certifying collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Paul lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnists dan Dan Henninger kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, its interesting, he cited the riots at capitol, but thats not really in the indictment, per se, nothing that links to the rioters in par
people off to the insurrection or lied and defamed people in ways that damaged them or their companies. now, the people who have sued aren t always fox haters or critics, the voting company that got over half a billion dollars out of them didn t have longstanding grievances with the company. they were just able to get so far in their punishing lawsuit that they got over half a b out of rupert murdoch and tucker carlson was fired. i say that before i bring in james carville because this comes from a trump supporter, ray epps. he says that tucker carlson, the former fox host, ousted after a different lawsuit, was at an illegal or defamatory level, peddling knowingly false conspiracy theories, specifically against him. he says, quote, carlson was telling a fantastical story in which epps was some sort of undercover fbi agent responsible for the actual mob that broke into the capital. so what you re about to see is what we warned you before, not offered as true, not offered as
to arrive at the d.c. appeals court. three-judge panel will hear arguments whether or not the former president is immune from prosecution. this in connection with special counsel jack smith east election interference case. the hearing we ll hear it by way of audio inside the court. so stand by for that. it will start in about 30 minutes from now. we ll get to that. from last night check it out. biden is not talking to his secretary of defense every single day. when i was at the u.n., we knew the intel, we knew the health of everybody in every country. they know what s happening to secretary austin. what bothers me is while our adversaries may know our own president doesn t know. the one thing that keeps me up at night is what happens between now and election day. biden is making america very vulnerable and putting us at risk. bill: nikki haley calling america s military readiness in question over a lack of transparency and couldn t come at a worse time. strong comments th
dana: i was in his hometown over the break. there is a lot of nadal gear around as there should be. check this out here. what we are experiencing at the southern border is not unique to the southern border or to the united states. dana: dhs secretary mayorkas defending his record at the border as house republicans move to impeach him for allowing the crisis at the southern border to spiral out of control. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: busy day today. bill hemmer. good morning. secretary mayorkas passing the buck and blaming congress, accusing lawmakers of failing to make the necessary changes needed to fix the immigration system calling it broken. national border patrol council president brandon judd last hour saying he puts the blame on mayorkas and president biden for the open border policy of the past three years. what he is not telling people is that these individuals nobody has a right to be released into the united sta
came anyway. so this is perfect. keep doing it. have a great show, my friend. the impeachment clause of the united states constitution seems to be headed to the supreme court if don trump s criminal defense lawyers can get it there. we re going to consider the impeachment clause tonight from two perspectives, first, a lawyer and law professor, andrew weissmann, and then, a historian, stanford jack greg of who is an expert on the impeachment clause. his book, original meanings, politics and the ideas in the making of the constitution won the pulitzer prize. you will hear from both of them. year both of those perspectives. next tuesday you will hear dame trump s lawyers tell the circuit court of appeals in washington and lee, see, that he cannot be tried for crimes leading up to and on january 6th because that would amount to double jeopardy after donald trump faced an impeachment trial in the united states senate on essentially the same charges. 57 senators voted guilty ag