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
fitch s decision with treasury secretary janet yellen calling the move puzzling. i strongly disagree with fitch s decision, and i believe it is entirely up unwarranted. unwarranted. its flawed assessment is based on outdate data and fails to reflect improvements across a range of indicators including those related to governance that we ve seen over the past two and a half years. paul: we re back with dan henninger and kyle pettersson peterson, also joined bidtorial bidtorialing member kate odell. i agree with fitch. the basic problem is we have debt that is about 100% of gdp, it is going only up, up, up. at the same time, we have these exploding entitlements, social security and medicare as the population are ages. we have low economic growth. the biden administration doesn t seem to be interested in pulling any of the policy levers like