Tonight on All In.

If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned.

January 6th, full pardon.

A full pardon for the violent mob that attempted Trump's coup.

Tonight, Daniel Hodges, one of the police officers almost killed on January 6th, and Alex Wagner on Trump's jailbreak.

Then, Senator Cory Booker on the first day of the second Trump term, plus which one of these executive orders helps bring down the price of groceries.

And John Favreau and Tim Miller on what resistance 2.0 can learn from the first Trump presidency.

But all in starts right now.

Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes.

The first full day of Donald Trump's second term is coming to a close.

And until this moment, the president explicitly directing prosecutors in the Justice Department to drop active cases would be an administration-consuming scandal for any president and for good reason. That kind of interference,

that was the core of the degradation of the rule of law embodied in the Watergate scandal.

The president of the United States attempting to wield the Department of Justice as a personal

tool for corrupt and abusive ends. It ended Richard Nixon's presidency. It permanently tarnished his

reputation. Donald Trump is starting his second term by doing just that, and he is not trying to

hide it. According to a tally by reporter Brad Heath from Reuters, the DOJ just in the past 24 hours or so, has now dropped

more than 300 pending cases related to January 6th, prosecuting people for their involvement

in that violent interaction. And they're doing it because the President of the United States

reached into the Justice Department and told them to do it. And I want you to just think about this precedent for a moment because it doesn't just stop there.

Let's say your elderly father was ripped off along with thousands of others by a scammer,

only for the scammer to finally be indicted by an enterprising local U.S. attorney.

This happens all the time.

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