Welcome to the Need to Know podcast. I'm Amanda Carpenter, filling in for Charlie Sykes.

And thank you so much for hanging with me today. We tried this concept a few weeks ago,

and this time I'm going to do it just a little bit different where we're going to go

deep on just one topic. And today we're going to talk about what I think is shaping up

to be Donald Trump's first 2024 campaign promise. And what is that?

Donald Trump's, for the January 6th, writers.

In a sort of under the radar podcast interview last Thursday, Donald Trump said he would issue

full pardons and quote, official government apologies to the writers who stormed the capital.

And he told this to a mega personality. She's not a Pittsburgh. Her name is Wendy Bell.

And oddly enough, she was taken off the air in 2020 when she called on park rangers to

shoot anyone on site who defaced Confederate monuments. And so I tell you that just to give

you a flavor for what kind of broadcaster she is and what kind of broadcaster Trump is speaking with.

And let's listen to a clip of her back then. My easy solution for the park rangers and hopefully

snipers who are going to be watching for this is to shoot on, shoot on site. Shoot done.

No more messing with monuments. You want to mess with the monument? Done. Get out.

And now here she is on rumble talking with Donald Trump about pardoning the writers.

I want to ask you, I'm certainly concerned about these January 6th defenencer.

There are hundreds of people who have been dragged through hell and some are still locked up in the DC

Gitmo. I am sick and sir, how do we write this wrong? What can you do?

So I met with a number of fans, but I met with and I'm financially supporting people that

are incredible. And they were in my office actually two days ago. It's very much on my mind.

It's a disgrace what they've done to them. What they've done to these people, it's disgraceful.

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