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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The January 6th House Committee submits its final report at last, more than 800 pages, concluding two no one surprise.

The Donald Trump inspired and instigated the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and is guilty of at least four criminal charges that it has referred to the Justice Department.

Will the report and its details change any minds at this point and what does it leave out or downplay plus the 117th Congress leaves town but not soon enough to fleet taxpayers one more time.

The omnibus bill endgame at the last second here before Christmas won't help Congress's reputation with the American public, but it does spend a lot of money.

Welcome, I'm Paul Gigo and with you on this Friday before Christmas weekend with me is Kim Strossel, our Potomac Watch columnist who let the GOP have it this week in her column for its co-authorship of the Senate's 1.65 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2023 through next September.

But before we get to that monstrosity, let's talk about the January 6th Committee's final report, no real surprises in the report, except for some releases of new transcripts of witness interview showing that many of Donald Trump's allies took the Fifth Amendment in testimony before the Committee that hardly inspires confidence in them.

But Donald Trump lasted the report as part of Sun, as you'd expect and said, the Committee ignored that he had asked Nancy Pelosi to get 20,000 National Guard troops to safeguard the Capitol, which she did not do.

Kim, before we get to Trump and the respond the security point, I think the threshold question for me in all of this is whether the Committee makes the case that Trump is criminally liable for the riot.

I mean, they've really reached here in my view. Now, I believe he's morally and politically responsible for what happened. And the Committee's evidence and testimony, I think, is added to the public record to that effect.

But the Committee just wasn't happy with doing that. They decided that they would push this issue of criminal liability, and of course Congress can't indict anyone, or we'd all probably be in jail at this point.

But the Justice Department can, and they've referred to this to justice, the Committee has. What do you think about this point about to whether they've made their case that Trump is criminally liable?

Yeah, I completely agree with you, Paul. And by the way, I also agree that Trump bears total responsibility for a lot of the things what went wrong.

But that's a very different thing from saying he is criminally liable. And if you look at the four charges that they are putting forward obstruction of proceedings, conspiracy to defraud the United States, false statements, insurrection, all of it hinges on this claim that needs to be made.

The Donald Trump, in my mind, somehow coordinated with or planned for the people to actually attack the Capitol that day. Now, the January 6 Committee report tries to make that case. They argue that Trump's lies mobilized a number of very CD right wing shadowy groups, the proud boys, QAnon followers, oath keepers, and that these groups were themselves in contact with each other.

And had some sort of plan for going after the Capitol, that's sort of the basis of their argument. Only the problem is Paul that there's absolutely no evidence that Donald Trump was in touch with these people.

That was something I was waiting to see in the report, would they make that argument? And that the Justice Department had not pulled up in all of its investigations, showing some actual link that Donald Trump ordered people to go and attack the Capitol.

It's just not there. And once you do that, those four other charges that they're bringing really fall apart. And I don't know how a prosecutor would feel comfortable at all suggesting that or bringing that up in a court of law.

Well, you may remember Kim that the start of this investigation when the committee launched, we had a background session with one of the members of the committee.

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