Thank you for joining us tonight. We have so much to get to in the next hour of the readout,

including Donald Trump defending the indefensible. His pardons of the violent criminals who attacked

police officers at the Capitol on January 6th. Four of those officers, Harry Dunn, Akulino-Gone,

Daniel Hodges, Michael Fanon, as well Mike Fennon's mom, join me tonight.

And as Trump rolls back transgender protections, I'll also be joined by freshman Congresswoman

Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress.

But we begin tonight with Donald Trump, stumbling out of the gate in the first week of his

second administration, making his top priority, stumbling out of the gate in the first week of his second administration,

making his top priority not the economy or the high cost of living, but rather issuing a blanket

pardon to 1,500 participants in the January 6th insurrection.

That includes pardoning hundreds of defendants who were convicted of violently attacking police officers,

who were protecting the Capitol during the assault.

Defendants who were armed with firearms, stun guns, flagpoles, fire extinguishers, bike racks, batons,

a metal whip, office furniture, pepper spray, bear spray, a tomahawk axe, a hatchet, a hockey stick, knuckle gloves, a baseball bat, a massive Trump billboard, Trump flags, a pitchfork, pieces of lumber, crutches, and even an explosive device.

To perhaps no one's surprise, the decision by Trump is wildly unpopular. Polling shows that only 24% of Americans approve of pardoning all of the people

convicted of crimes during the Capitol attack. And it's not just the American people who disapprove.

Some of the federal judges who oversaw

these cases are blasting Trump's decision. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, writing in a scathing

order, no process of national reconciliation can begin when sore losers whose preferred candidate

loses an election are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated

proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity, adding, this court cannot let stand the

revisionist myth relayed in this presidential pronouncement. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chuckin

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