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Anderson Cooper 360

Keeping Them Honest: Back The Blue?

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump defends his blanket pardons of January 6 rioters, even the violent individuals he once suggested would not go free. Donie O'Sullivan, who was outside the Washington, DC jail last night when this all went down, spoke today with some of the pardoned inmates, and New York Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman joins 360° with his reaction to the President's pardons and defenses. Plus, Ed Lavandera visits the small Texas panhandle city of Cactus, where a sense of fear and uncertainty looms after the President issued new executive orders cracking down on immigration.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tonight on 360, the president defends his blanket pardons of January 6 rioters, even the violent

0:36.8

ones he once suggested would

0:38.2

not go free. We're keeping them honest. Also tonight, with the president's new immigration policy

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Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, keep it am honest with President Trump defending the blanket partons and sentenced commutations

1:03.0

he granted last night to more than 1,500 Capitol rioters, including the most violent offenders, people who attacked and badly injured police officers.

1:11.6

You would agree that it's never acceptable to assault a police officer, right?

1:16.6

Sure.

1:17.6

So then if I can, among those you pardon, DJ Rodriguez, he drove a stun gun into the neck of a DC police officer who was abducted by the mob that day.

1:25.6

He later confessed on video to the FBI and pleaded guilty for his crimes.

1:29.3

Why does he deserve a pardon?

1:31.3

Well, I don't know.

1:32.3

Was it a pardon because we're looking at commutes

1:34.3

and we're looking at pardons?

1:35.3

Okay, well, we'll take a look at everything.

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