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
a recent interview with alito in the opinion pages of the wall street journal in which the justice says congress has no authority to regulate the high court. comments that senate judiciary committee chairman dick durbin criticized this week as unwise and unwelcome. let s bring in james she around tone she ran toe, co-author of that interview with justice alito. so, james, tell us about that interview with justice alito. it was very unusual for a justice to sit down for what was four hours with you and david rivkining who s a frequent contributor to the journal. i should add that, for transparency s sake, i was in on the second e of those interviews. yes. paul: is why do you think he decided to talk? well, he told the us in the second interview that he normally when judges are under attack or the court is under attack, the organized bar, the professional lawyers association, defends judges. that isn t happening, so he s decided that he s going to defend himself, and he did so w