Hi, good morning. I'm Ali Velsi. It's Sunday, January 26th, and moments ago, the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina spoke out on NBC's Meet the Press about President Trump's controversial January 6th pardons.

Do you believe that President Trump was wrong to issue these blanket pardons to the January 6th?

Number one, he had the legal authority to do it, but I fear that you will get more violence.

Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently, I think,

was a mistake because it seems to suggest that's an okay thing to do.

I'm going to dive more into Donald Trump's pardons and the new Republican investigation into

January 6th or really into the January 6th committee coming up with the ranking member of the

Homeland Security Committee and the former chair of the original January 6th committee, Benny Thompson of Mississippi.

Now, as we enter the second week of Donald Trump's presidency, his cabinet and his national security team are being installed.

And this morning, the White House is ramping up the pressure on Senate Republicans to confirm the remaining nominees,

as some of Donald Trump's most

controversial picks are set for hearings this coming week. A senior White House official tells NBC

news of Senate Republicans thinking about breaking with Trump over his nominees, quote,

it's pass-fail. You either support everyone or you don't. Noting that a well-funded

consortium of outside groups that are allied with

the White House will, quote, exact consequences against those who do not support the president's nominees,

end quote. I'm going to come back to this exacting consequences thing in just a minute.

The warning to Republicans comes after former Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth was confirmed by the narrowest possible

margin with Vice President J.D. Vance giving him the tie-breaking vote. That's only the second time

in history that's needed to happen, and it's the first time in history it's ever been needed

for a defense secretary. Yesterday, Christy Noem was easily confirmed by the Senate as Homeland Security Secretary.

She was later sworn in. But this coming week, we'll see hearings for a trio of Trump's high profile

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