Okay, let this sink in for a second.

Today started with the outgoing president, Joe Biden, who's still president at the time, obviously, preemptively pardoning the people who investigated the January 6th attack on the Capitol and the

officers who defended the Capitol that day. Now, just a few hours later, the person who incited

that attack took the oath of office for the second time in the very same building, the Capitol,

where the attack took place.

And just moments ago, literally in the last 15 minutes, in the Oval Office, which is a choice,

Trump issued pardons for approximately 1,500 people convicted of crimes related to that attack and commuted the sentences of six others as well.

And we're going to spend a lot of time talking about that

through the course of this evening with a lot of people who know a lot about it. But I want to

catch you up just in case you're just tuning into what happened today, because it was not exactly

a normal inauguration day in any way. Senator Adam Schiff, who played a key role in investigating

the insurrection, who was therefore the recipient of one of those pardons I mentioned from President

Biden, is going to join me in just a moment. He was also at the Capitol today, where he watched

the man who has threatened him repeatedly be sworn in as president once again. And in some of those

truly mind-bending dynamics I've just gone through, there were moments today that

bizarrely seemed kind of normal on the surface. And that was by design. President Joe Biden and

Dr. Jill Biden greeting the Trumps before hosting them for tea. That must have been quite a tea.

Biden and Trump also rode over from the White House

to the Capitol as outgoing and incoming presidents have for generations. That was between all of these

pardons. But some of the visuals were also very different than what we are used to through Democrats

and Republicans who have been inaugurated. For one, the inauguration was held inside, and that meant the audience was much smaller

and far more exclusive.

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