Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. The most unpopular promise that Donald Trump made as a candidate was to pardon the men and women who stormed the U.S. Capitol and physically assaulted cops.

So unpopular that his own VP said one week ago, he would

never do it. Well, J.D. Vance, welcome to your new life. Yesterday, Donald Trump commuted the

sentences of and pardoned everyone from the most violent criminals who participated in the

insurrection to those convicted of lesser offenses.

More than 1,500 pardons or commutations in all for the people who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol,

leading to the deaths of five police officers and injuring 140 others.

Insurrectionists who threaten the lives of every member of Congress and Donald

Trump's own vice president. In light of all that, we begin with the testimony of someone who

was in the room at practically every stage of the plot to overturn the 2020 election.

I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the president say something to the

effect of, you know, I don't effing care that they have weapons.

They're not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the

capital from here. Let the people in. Take the effing mags away.

Let my people in. I can march to the Capitol from here.

The violence that Donald Trump unleashed on the men and women of law enforcement and the U.S.

Capitol is seared into the minds of those officers who were on the receiving end of it,

the officers who fought to defend the Capitol

from Trump supporters. Here's what they said at the first hearing of the January 6th Select

Committee. In January 6th, for the first time, I was more afraid to work at the Capitol

than my entire deployment to Iraq. I too was being crushed by the other riders.

I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, this is how I'm going to die,

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