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
unleashing energy to deal with that. and then we have a series of these debt standoffs that fitch cited. on the other hand, those are the only times when congress seems to be able to get together and turn off the money spigot just a little bit. paul: yeah. kate, the white house blamed donald trump here for part of this, and i guess it s fair in this sense, donald trump has shown no inclination to do any reforming of the big drivers of debt and spending which are the entitlements like social security, medicare and medicaid. what do you think of the argument that it s, this is a bipartisan problem? well, to some extent it is bipartisan s and there hasn t been enough spending restraint from republicans. but one thing i found really striking in the fitch report was that 115% of the economy that the u.s. is heading to to on debt, i mean, that s two and a half times the more closer to 40% average of a aaa rating and