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
certainly proved that. my problem with all this is this is not the way to resolve problems. if you try to micromanage tech and innovation like elizabeth warren and lindsey graham are trying to do, you ll end up killing it. paul: what about the censorship problem? that s certainly bothersome to me. we ve had some of our things, the fact checks, so-called, on some of our articles on facebook because they set up a committee full of like-minded people on the left who don t like competing points of view. i m what do you do about that problem? because they have a big tech coe chamber where they dominate the public discussion. yeah. i think censorship is a problem, and i think that can be are resolved first by competition, but secondly, by transparency. and, you know, remember, these companies, they get to invoke their own first amendment rights as part of section 230 which allowed them to host content without being sue ised.