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Let's go to Vince in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Vince, how you doing?

Good morning. I want to make two quick points. One, the inspector generals were fired because Trump said he wanted his own people. And he said, it's very normal to do that, and that's why he did it. The next thing is, I don't want to hear another word from people talking about the January 6th pardons. First of all, that committee was pardoned because they fabricated evidence.

Wait, you're jumbling up stuff.

The committee has nothing to do with the pardons.

Well, that's what I'm saying.

And the people that were accused of the January, how can you believe any of these people were tried? You're conflating different things.

The January 6th committee, no connection to the convictions or anything. But the argument for the pardons, 1,500 of them. Now, you could go case by case by case by case, but it would have taken months and months and months and tied up a lot of people. They just don't want to waste the time. So that was why it was a blanket pardon. What about the ones that assaulted cops? Well, that's terrible. But they all served three and a half years in prison. And if you look at the facts, a normal case, just a normal guy assaults a cop. If he were convicted, would not get more than three and a half years. So they served a normal term. Now, as O'Reilly points out, one of them, turns out it was not a first-time offender, had a terrible record. So that case may have been different, but I could understand why you just pardon them all. And the assaulting the cop stuff at the Capitol has been greatly exaggerated. I mean, you punch a cop.

You know, in New York, that's pretty much legal.

Alvin Bragg said he won't consider that a crime, won't prosecute for resisting arrest anymore.

So it's, under the Democratic DAs, it's perfectly legal to do it. So that's the argument.

Now, the problem is, you know, it's a blanket pardon.

Trump wanted to just get it over with the people fired in the Justice Department.

Apparently, where it got way, way, way out of line with that law affair.

So you don't want people like that around.

Anyway, let's go to Bernard and Long Island.

Bernard, how you doing?

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