January 6th Pardons Explained (with Claire Meynial)

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Justin Robert Young

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4.6 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump, on his first day back in office, issued pardons and commutations to over 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. This action nullified the efforts of the Justice Department’s extensive investigation and prosecution of the events.

The clemency measures included full pardons for the majority of those convicted, effectively erasing their criminal records. Additionally, sentences for 14 prominent figures, such as Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, were commuted to time served, leading to their immediate release.

La Pointe reporter Claire Meynial has been covering the trials and incarcerations of many of these cases and joins us to talk about the reality of the cases and we guess about the political fallout.

Also:

* The vibe inside congress during the indoor inauguration.

* A plea for digital services like YouTubeTV to carry C-SPAN

Chapters

* (00:00:01) Introduction

* (00:01:22) The Battle for C-SPAN’s Future

* (00:07:06) Update: Hegseth Secured? Ratcliffe Confirmed. JFK Files Declassified

* (00:15:57) Claire Meynial on J6 and Inauguration

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0:00.0	On this episode of the program, the Battle for C-SPAN,
0:03.2	what happened inside the inauguration and everything you want to know about the January 6 pardons?
0:09.7	Claremont, joins the show.
0:11.9	It's all coming up.
0:13.8	The following is brought to you by Just Another Pilot.
0:20.6	Politics, politics, politics.
0:22.6	Hello and welcome everybody to the politics, politics, politics, politics program for January 24th, 2025.
0:46.1	Your old pal, Justin Robert Young here.
0:49.4	We're going to be joined by Claire Mignon of Le Poise in a little bit to talk about.
0:56.7	She was inside Congress for the inauguration,
1:00.9	and she's been covering the January 6 cases.
1:04.7	She's been out there talking to some of the pardoned January 6th people who have been in jail.
1:10.1	What's real, what's not real when it comes to that.
1:14.0	But before we begin, I want to have a little conversation with you guys about C-SPAN.
1:21.8	Now, full disclosure, I have come to know some of the people at C-SPAN, but I think that they're at a very interesting
1:28.1	crossroads right now. If you're not really familiar with C-SPAN beyond the fact that it's the
1:35.2	place that airs Congress, let me give you a little refresher. C-SPAN was launched on March 19,
1:41.0	1979. It was the brainchild of Brian Lamb. And his vision was to bring,
1:48.1	through the magic of television, an unfiltered view of Congress. And so it began with just the
1:54.1	House of Representatives. And lo and behold, over the years, it expanded to the Senate, the White
1:59.4	House and general public affairs programming,
2:01.9	including a lot of campaign coverage.
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