Now let's turn to congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin, who was in the Capitol during that insurrection four years ago and joins us now. Lisa, what are you hearing in terms of how lawmakers are reacting to those pardons?

That's right. Democrats on Capitol Hill openly outraged over those pardons. Republicans also, privately most of them that I talk to are also very unhappy and frustrated, but they're

navigating this world where Donald Trump is the president and the leader of their party.

They've been navigating the idea of how do they express this in public.

Remember, these are people who personally were fearful for their lives by these same attackers.

They know police officers, as do I, who were harmed,

over a hundred of them harmed.

These are people who were pardoned,

who smashed police officers with bats and the like.

So today we did hear some Republicans coming out a little bit more,

trying to navigate this world and expressing

that they are openly frustrated.

I'm about to file two bills that will increase the penalties up to and including the death penalty for the murder of a police officer

and increasing the penalties and creating federal crimes for assaulting a police officer.

That should give you everything you need to know about my position.

It was surprising to me that it was a blanket pardon.

Now I'm going through the details.

Senator Tillis also criticized President Biden for his pardons, but this is a lesson to members

of Congress, that Donald Trump, his priorities is not them.

His priorities is him, his supporters, and that he doesn't compromise and he doesn't

care if they tell him he shouldn't

do this.

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