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Good evening. Today, an indictment was unsealed, charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring

to disenfranchised voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding.

The attack on our nation's capital on January 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.

It was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function

of the U.S. government, the nation's process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential

election. That was the voice of Jack Smith. He's a special counsel. He's a career prosecutor,

not a politician. And it is so rare that you will hear his voice. He has shunned the limelight almost entirely. But that message

that he brought to the American people last night talked of Donald Trump creating an intense

national atmosphere of mistrust and anger. And accompanying what he said was the third indictment of Donald Trump this year, the second

federal indictment, which talks about conspiracy to defraud the American public. So on today's show,

what this indictment means for Donald Trump, for the United States, of course, for the presidential election next year.

It's the United States of America versus Donald J. Trump.

Welcome to the newsagents.

The news agents.

It's Emily.

And it's Lewis. And later on on the show today, we're going to be talking about a relatively rare thing,

which is Rishi Sunak, putting himself up for questioning for a prolonged period,

in this case for 30 minutes on Nick Ferrari's show on LBC.

And characteristically, the Prime Minister was, well, characteristically awkward.

But we're going to start with the really massive news overnight, breaking late last night,

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