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
45 on aa. that should give you a sense of the magnitude of the problem. but i do think you re starting to see some more interest on this from republicanses. we did get some debt ceiling spending discipline even if it wasn t as much as we would have liked. i think also the fitch report, i mean, fitch is not clairvoyant, there are reasons to dispute some of their assumptions, but it s forcing the biden administration to have a conversation about this. they can didn t dismiss can t dismiss fitch, and it will force them to dress things address things like their car subsidies or health care subsidies that are simply not sustainable. paul: dan, the risk isn t default here, but it is rising interest costs perhaps because they re going to charge more for our debt. i guess the danger down the road is that someday the world which lends us a lot of money will wake up and say, you know what? we re not going to do it anymore. [laughter] right. exactly right. and then they can ask janet yellen