four of those officers, harry dunn, aquilino gonell, daniel hodges, michael. >> fanone. >> as well as mike vernon's mom, join me tonight. and as trump rolls back transgender protections, i'll also be joined by freshman congresswoman sarah mcbride, the first openly transgender member of congress. but we begin tonight with donald trump stumbling out of the gate in the first week of his second administration, making his top priority, not the economy or the high cost of living, but rather issuing a blanket pardon to 1500 participants in the january 6th insurrection. that includes pardoning hundreds of defendants who were convicted of violently attacking police officers who were protecting the capitol during the assault. defendants who were armed with firearms, stun guns, flagpoles, fire extinguishers, bike racks, batons, a metal whip, office furniture, pepper spray, bear spray, a tomahawk ax, a hatchet, a hockey stick, knuckle gloves, a baseball bat, a massive trump billboard. trump flags, a pitchfork, pieces of lumber, crutches, and even an explosive device. to perhaps no one's surprise,

. >> daniel hodges is one of 140 assaulted officers. his head was slammed in a revolving door, his emotions. >> still raw yesterday as he reacted. >> to the pardons, vividly describing the brutal assault. >> i was beaten. crushed, kicked, punched, surrounded. someone reached underneath my visor, tried to gouge out my eye and all these people were just pardoned by donald trump. he says that they were the real victims. that they were the patriots. >> also. >> today. >> there is. >> a troubling. >> new detail about the latest accusation against defense secretary nominee pete hegseth. as we are awaiting a full senate vote, first actions on that procedural votes on his pending confirmation starting this afternoon. but we begin with nbc news senior white house correspondent garrett haig, usa today washington bureau chief susan page. ashley parker, now a staff writer at the atlantic and former republican congressman from pennsylvania charlie dent. so, garrett, the president has the ear of the world business and tech leaders. he was questioned

i'm sitting here, chris, with daniel hodges. he's a metropolitan police officer who was attacked by the mob on january 6th. and yesterday he helped protect trump's second inauguration. i should note he's speaking today in a personal capacity. officer hodges, it's really so essential to have your voice in a moment like this. and i just wonder, from the experience you had on january 6th, i think a lot of people remember the violence that was perpetrated against you. it was on a lot of newscasts to having to go protect the man who in many ways instigated the mob that sought to hurt you on january 6th. what has the last 24 hours been like for you? >> it's obviously not where i was hoping we would be at this point in time. but, you know, that's the thing about democracy is you have to believe in it even when the other guy wins again, just believe in it when your guy wins. yeah. so and part of my job is providing law enforcement services to everyone in d.c. visitors and residents and, you know, members of congress, the president, vice

day, of course, one of the most searing images, the most brutal assaults, was against officer daniel hodges. you can't forget the disturbing way he was attacked. and as he was being attacked, one rioter ripped off officer. officer hodges gas mask. another hit him in the head with his own baton. one tried to gouge one of his eyes out. and it was patrick mccaughey that you can see here who pinned him in that capitol doorway and assaulted him with a police shield. a judge sentenced him to seven and a half years in prison for his role in that attack, but tonight he is free. his mom tells the connecticut insider he's on his way home. and officer daniel hodges joins me now, which i should note is happening in your personal capacity when you saw that trump pardoned all of these people, virtually everyone who is charged and convicted, even those who still have their cases ongoing, even those who pleaded guilty, just what went through your mind? >> i mean. >> it wasn't. >> a surprise. >> this is what trump. >> campaigned on. >> the die was cast for this on november 5th. right? so this is what the pe

metro police officer daniel hodges. you'll recall and you can see it here, he was assaulted by rioters during the 2021 attack, crushed in a revolving door. january 6th committee member congressman adam schiff wants to remind the country what really happened that day. we begin with capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles, investigations reporter, and the post senior and national political correspondent, ashley parker, and former republican national chairman and co-host of msnbc's the weekend, michael steele, and correspondent lisa rubin. thank you for joining us. ryan, first to you. until four years ago most americans paid little attention to the date january 6th. so what do we expect this time, both inside and outside the house? >> reporter: andrea, i think it will be somewhat of a regression to the meme, this is going to be a lot like it used to be for decades on capitol hill where the simple certification of the electoral votes that were cast is given the thumbs up by members of congress and that paves the way for the

let me start. >> with danielle hodges, one of the officers.urreal on inauguration day, having all these people wearing maga hats, they saw me and they saw my uniform. they recognized who i was, and they thanked me for my service. and it reminded me of january 6th, 2021, because on that morning they thanked me for my service to. and once they went to the capitol, they didn't thank me anymore. they called me a traitor, telling me to remember my oath. i was beaten. crushed, kicked, punched, surrounded, and all these people were just pardoned by donald trump, who says that they were the real victims, that they were the patriots. >> it's hard to. >> watch ryan rally. but i'm not even sure that on trump's side of the disinformation spectrum, on the experience. >> of the blue is conveyed. >> just talk about this sort. >> of post-truth, post-fact. >> moment in american politics. >> yeah, i mean, that's been one of the frustrations, i think, over these past four years. and i've been thinking a ton about this because why didn't this break through? and i

uh, beating officer daniel hodges, and the list goes on and on.se are violent criminals who have now been released into our communities, and i fully expect that some of them will commit additional violence. and it's on president trump. >> and, congresswoman, i did want to ask you, because we heard that sound from stewart rhodes a few moments ago, the founder of the oath keepers, he was convicted of seditious conspiracy. and we were showing this earlier on in the program. there's there's a there's a photo of him eating in one of the capitol cafeterias yesterday. apparently, the january 6th rioters and insurrectionists are allowed to just roam the halls of congress. what's going on here well, because of trump, they have they're free and they can go. >> their convictions have been erased, and they can go wherever they want. i think they are, um, i think it's wrong. it's immoral. but you know what? what trump is doing, aided by some of his enablers here, the republicans in the house, he's trying to erase history. it's an audacious effort to try and un

police officer daniel hodges, who was beaten in a doorway during the riot, attended today's session as a guest of democratic senator adam schiff. >>>>it's be my honor to make it as uncomfortable as possible for the gop members who try to whitewash that day and lie about what happened and pretend that we didn't save them. >>>>nearly 1600 people have been charged for their roles in the january 6th attack, some carrying weapons like bear spray knives and flagpoles. of those, 1000 have pleaded guilty and 600 were charged with assaulting or resisting police. with president elect donald trump set to take office in a few weeks, the federal election interference case against him has been dropped on the eve of today's certification. supporters of the january 6th defendants held their nightly vigil outside the washington, dc, jail. >>>>it was not an insurrection. it was the people going to the capitol to voice their opinion. >>>>trump has pledged pardons for the rioters, but he's yet to specify if it will be for all, or just some critics warn that would undermine the criminal justice system and

this one, of course, you are looking at daniel hodges getting stuck in a door. of those who pleaded guilty to being there and being in part responsible for this is patrick mccoy. he was found guilty on nine charges in 2022, including seven felony charges assaulting metropolitan police officer daniel hodges with a dangerous weapon. well, he is his sentence is now he's now pardoned. one more. scott. fair lamb. he swung at an officer outside the capitol, swung at an officer outside the capitol. he was sentenced to three plus years in prison. he, too, was pardoned yesterday after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and obstructing an official proceeding. we're going to go sneak in a quick break. up next, president trump says immigration raids will start as soon as today. the new white house border czar will be here to explain their plans, including some that could be illegal. >> i've got good news and i've got bad news. what do you want first? the bad. the news is newsom even more than ever. >> what's the good news? >> we're doing another season of have

enforcement officers injuring more than 170 of them including two who are here today with us officer daniel hodges and retired officer harry dunn. the pardoned defendants convicted criminals all of those who were convicted of course were convicted by either a unanimous jury of 12 or they admitted guilt and it included more than 600 who were charged with violent offenses. yet on monday donald trump decided he wants to whitewash history, pretend the riots of january 6 never happened and that it was simply a peaceful walk through the capitol. unfortunately for him video and photographs don't lie. we have all seen the video. we have all seen the video of officer hodges in the well of the capitol having his gas mask ripped off. we have seen the video of officer for known who was carried outside and tased by one of the defendants, one of the criminals who was released. and not surprisingly those who have been released have made their intentions clear. these are far right violent extremists who have engaged in political violence. now set free by the president of the united states and encouraged emboldene

>> reporter: capitol police officer daniel hodges screaming for help, crushed by surging rioters. and now, all of those rioters pardoned, or their sentences commuted by president trump. in an interview tonight, officer hodges, who is still on the force, telling me it's a miscarriage of justice and a slap in the face. the president's pardons covering some 1,500 people, including the more than 600 charged with assaulting or resisting law enforcement. >> so, this is january 6th, these are the hostages. approximately 1,500 for a pardon. >> yes. >> full pardon. >> thank you, president trump. we're coming home. >> reporter: abc's jay o'brien was outside the washington jail with supporters of the rioters, called the prisoners inside to break the news they'd soon be free. a former police officer publicly testified about what he went through on january 6th. >> i arrived at home at nearly 4:00 a.m. on january 7th. i had to push my wife away from me, because she wanted to hug me -- and i told her no, because of all the chemical that my uniform had on. >> reporter: today, former officer gone

. >> reporter: washington, d.c., police officer daniel hodges, beaten in a doorway by the mob, attended and accused republicans of trying to ignore or whitewash the insurrection. >> it would be my honor to make it as uncomfortable as possible for the g.o.p. members who try to whitewash that day and lie about what happened and pretend that we didn't save them. >> reporter: four years later, nearly 1600 people have been charged with felony or misdemeanor crimes for their alleged roles in the attack. though some trump allies have claimed the rioters were unarmed, a "cbs news" review found guns, tasers, chemical spray, bats, and dozens of other weapons were brandished. >> they should immediately be released, immediately. the j6 hostages. >> reporter: president-elect trump has pledged at least some pardons as early as inauguration day. >> it would be offensive to everyone who risked their lives, who fought and sacrificed their blood and sweat that day to preserve democracy. >> reporter: a cbs news investigation finds nearly 160 of the capitol riot defendants sentenced so far had criminal pas

>> reporter: capitol police officer daniel hodges, who the world saw screaming for help, now joining other officers and democrats to denounce the president's move. >> i was beaten, kicked, punched, surrounded. someone reached underneath my visor, tried to gouge out my eye. and all these people were just pardoned by donald trump. who says they were the real victims. that they were the patriots. i don't understand how anyone can believe that. >> reporter: but tonight, an astonishing sight on capitol hill. the leader of the oath keepers, stuft rho stuart rhodes. he was serving an 18-year sentence for his role in january 6th before trump commuted his sentence. rhodes telling me he is here meeting with republican members of congress. do you have any regrets for any of your actions on january 6th? >> my actions, no. >> reporter: tonight, in a rare move, some of the federal judges who heard the cases of some of the 1,500 january 6th rioters speaking out. judge tanya chutkan saying, trump's move cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake. andt cannot repair t

. >> congressman adam schiff invited daniel hodges to the capitol. he is the police officer who was attacked, and crushed in the doorway during the riot as you see. i want to play what he said about attending the certification. >> it will be myab honor to make it as uncomfortable as possible for the gop members who try to white wash what happened that day and pretend that we didn't save them. >> 174 republicans voted taoverturn donald trump's election loss in 2021. eight of the senators are currently in office. so are 139 house republicans. do you think they will be uncomfortable? >> you are dealing withhe one of the darkest days in american history for those who had a role in that, even if it was a minor role, certainly it has to be uncomfortable. i think today is not only a day to remember the horrors of four years ago but to celebrate the fact that the losers of this election, the outgoing administration in this case have reminded americans of what this day should be, a celebration of democracy. the reason that so many people have come to this cou

i invited daniel hodges, one of the metropolitan police officers to remind people what that day was likeabout it, but if the president goes forward with pardoning vast numbers of people involved in that violence he will begin his new administration the way he ended his last administration and that is by celebrating violence against our democracy. i think that would be a terrible start, send a terrible message about our democracy and lawlessness, about people when attacked police officers. it would be exactly the wrong message and the wrong way to start out the administration. >> let me ask you about something else the president-elect said to me. he believes everyone that was on the committee should go to jail. that includes you. senator schiff, are you bracing to be targeted by the president-elect, by his incoming administration? >> i don't think any of us really knows what he means by any of that, whether he's serious about it or whether it's trumpian hyperbole or whatever it is. the committee is very proud o o the work that we did. we stand behind it. i'm glad to see president biden ac

. >> officer daniel hodges seen screaming during the capitol riot denouncing trump's pardons. >> i was beaten. crushed, kicked, punched, surrounded. >> trump working to crack down on immigration. today in seattle, a federal judge will hear challenges to trump's order ending birthright citizenship, a guarantee under the 14th amendment declaring anyone born on u.s. soil an american citizen. attorneys general in four states requesting the judge to block the order. trump now sending 1500 troops to the southern border. the pentagon says it includes military police units, combat engineers and intelligence specialists. they will help construct physical barriers along the border. a military official says none will participate. law enforcement. >> you will be returned home. you will be arrested. you will be prosecuted. do not come. >> as another wildfire starts in southern california. trump also critical of fema. >> fema is getting in the way of everything. >> the federal agency is responsible for helping people before, during, and after disasters. according to fema, in the last four years, it

i invited daniel hodges, one of the metropolitan police officers who was being crushed in that revolvingr to remind people what that day was really like given all the revisionist history around it. but if the president goes forward with pardoning vast numbers of people involved in that violence, he will begin his new administration the way he ended his last administration, and that is by celebrating violence against our democracy. i think it would be a terrible start, send a terrible message about our democracy, about lawlessness, about people who attacked police officers, exactly the wrong message and the way wrong to start out an administration. >> let me ask you about something else the president-elect said to me. he said that he believes everyone who was on the committee should go to jail. that includes you. senator schiff, are you bracing to be targeted by the president-elect, by his incoming administration? >> you know what? i don't think any of us really know what he means by any of that, whether he is serious about it, whether it's kind of trumpian hyperbole or what it is. all of

police officer daniel hodges, one of many who tried to keep rioters from entering the capitol. someone reached underneath my visor, tried to gouge out my eye. and all these people were just pardoned by donald trump. more than 140 officers were injured during the attack, some beaten, shocked with tasers and sprayed with chemical irritants. the pardons troubling even for some in the president's party. you just blanket pardon all of them without consequence. i think that that sounds sends a horrible message to our law enforcement officers. but for president trump, it's a campaign promise made and a campaign promise kept. and the nation's largest police union, which did endorse president trump, said that these pardons send a dangerous message. marcus. all right. another busy day ahead. chris pollone in washington for us this morning. thank you. chris. well, today marks a somber anniversary. it's been two years since a gunman shot and killed coworkers at the half moon bay farms, where he worked. today in the bay's kris sanchez joining us from the newsroom this morning. and, chris, y

he also joined the larger mob that crushed officer daniel hodges in a capitol doorway. you see it right there. there's also daniel rodriguez, who got 12.5 years for assaulting police officers, including officer michael fanone, who suffered a heart attack after rodriguez tased him, something rodriguez bragged about to his friends, saying, quote, tagged, tased, tased. excuse me, the f out of the blue. joining us now, nbc news justice reporter ryan riley, also msnbc contributor paola ramos, who is in miami. all right. ryan, so there were these really violent ones. there were also the ones that were convicted on the most serious crimes, seditious conspiracy. it's everybody. >> yeah. it's everybody. i mean, it's just a full pardon for everyone. i mean, you know, so there are those ones specifically that they've carved out where they're going to, you know, where they've given them a commutation rather than a full pardon. but if you committed a crime at the capitol on january 6th, you got to get out of jail. free card here. and a lot of people are going to be able to cash that

. >> that's dc metropolitan police officer daniel hodges. rioters pinned him against a door, ripping off his gas mask as they assaulted him, resulting in a concussion. >> i was beaten, crushed, kicked, punched, surrounded someone reached underneath my visor, tried to gouge out my eye, and all these people. were just pardoned by donald trump. who says that they were the real victims, that they were the patriots. i don't understand. >> joining us now to discuss michael warren, senior editor for the dispatch, molly ball, senior political correspondent for the wall street journal. kendra barkoff, former press secretary for joe biden when he was vice president, and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign. welcome to all of you. mike warren watching. it is so hard to watch that, to watch that police officer who was trying to defend the lives of everybody inside that building that day. talk about what has happened to him. he's obviously not the only one. he was standing there with other members of various police forc

on the mob that crushed officer daniel hodges in a capitol doorway. >> and there is david dempsey, who. >> was serving 20 years for. >> assault on law. >> enforcement with. >> a. >> deadly or dangerous weapon. in his case, he was using a. flagpole and police shield against the police. >> the get out. >> of jail free cards also extended to those from extremist militia groups who helped plan the attack. enrique tarrio, the former leader of the proud boys who was serving a 22 year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy, pardoned elmer stewart rhodes, the leader of the oath keepers who was serving 18 years on the same charge, had his sentence commuted. no harm, no foul, right? of course, i'm sure that these now pardoned insurrectionists are showing contrition for their actions, right? oh, no. you may remember jacob chansley, aka the qanon shaman. his response to receiving a pardon and no longer being a felon was, quote, i'm going to buy me some mother effing guns. feel safer yet? and what about those police officers who were on the receiving end of the attacks by the very people who trum

of the most violent offenders, including patrick mccarthy, who assaulted metro police officer daniel hodges with a police shield. >> in the tunnel. >> of the capitol. robert palmer threw a fire extinguisher at a police officer and attacked police with a wooden plank and pole. kyle fitz-simons, accused of committing five assaults against law enforcement over an approximately five minute span. peter schwartz, who threw a folding chair at law enforcement and repeatedly used pepper spray on police. enrique tarrio, a former leader of the proud boys who is convicted on the most serious charge seditious conspiracy for his role in directing the violence that day from afar. he was one and a half years into his 22 year sentence. tarrio praising trump for the pardon in an interview tonight with right wing host alex jones. >> i had no doubt he was going to release us. he gave. me my life back. 22 years. >> is not a short sentence. >> that's the rest of my life. >> trump also commuted. >> the. >> sentences of 14 defendants. those cases are being reviewed and they still could get pardons, including stewa

today i think of officer daniel hodge whose gas mask was ripped off his face as he was punched in the face and was stuck in between two doors. america saw the film. america saw the video of him crying for help. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. espaillat: and today we will continue to fight for sanity and against any political theater that's -- that happens here on our floor. thank you. i yield back. mr. raskin: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mcclintock: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from iowa, mr. feenstra, the author of sarah's law that's incorporated into this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. feenstra: thank you. mr. speaker, i rise today in strong support of the laken riley act. which includes my bill, sarah's law, as an amendment. in the early morning hours of january 31, 2016, michelle and scott root received the call that every parent never wants to hear. their daughter, sarah, had been killed in a car accident. what's worse, is tha

this one, a police officer, daniel hodges, screaming in pain and screaming for help as he was being deliberately doorway with a stolen riot shield as members of the mob ripped off his gas mask and pummeled him and screamed in his face. several members of that mob were ultimately tracked down and arrested by the fbi, charged as a group by the justice department, convicted in courts of law, and they were sent to prison. the man who crushed officer hodges with a riot shield was sentenced to over seven years behind bars. the judge in the case was a donald trump appointee, described him as a, quote, poster child of all that was dangerous and appalling. about january 6th. telling the man, quote, your actions are some of the most egregious crimes that were committed on that dark day. the man who ripped off officer hodges gas mask as he was pinned against the door and screaming for his life. the man who proceeded to hit officer hodges with his own baton and scream and swear in his face. he also got seven years from that same trump appointed judge, sentencing another attacker from the tunnel to four year

now, the officer he assaulted was daniel hodges, a metropolitan police officer. and then really, probably the biggest surprise on the pardon list was enrique tarrio. he is the leader of the proud boys. he had one of the most significant charges. seditious conspiracy. what's notable about him is he wasn't actually in dc on january 6th, but he was directing the violence. and that was an example of why it's hard to just make the distinction violent versus nonviolent. but he got a full pardon. now, as we know, 14 people received commutations, which means their sentence is is eliminated. but they're reviewing those cases to possibly give them a pardon. among those you have dominic pezzola. he was. he smashed a window to the capitol with a police riot shield. it allowed the first wave of rioters to enter the building. but then there's also stewart rhodes. he's the leader of the oath keepers. he was also convicted of seditious conspiracy. pamela, it's hard to find kind of the pattern or the rhyme or the reason for who got a commutation as opposed to a pardon, especially

. >> officer daniel hodges. >> gas mask. >> and at one point. >> during the assault, he said. >> and>> quote, how do you. >> like. >> me now. >> mother? effer pardoned by donald trump david dempsey sentenced to 20 years. he stomped on police. >> officer's heads. >> struck an officer in the head with a metal crutch and attacked. police with pepper spray. >> and broken pieces. >> of furniture. >> he also attacked a fellow writer who was trying. >> to. >> disarm him, and. >> he has a demonstrated. >> history of political. >> violence pardoned by donald trump. enrique tarrio. >> sentenced to 22 years. >> former national. >> leader. of the proud boys, a domestic terrorist far. >> right militia. >> he was found guilty of seditious. >> conspiracy, helped plan the january 6th attack and made sure it was violent. pardoned by donald trump. guy reffitt sentenced to. >> seven years and three months. >> he brought a gun, zip ties, body armor and a. helmet to the capitol, presumably to try to take hostages in an attempt to keep trump in office after he lost. pardoned by donald trump, daniel joseph

. >> officer daniel hodges seen screaming during the capitol riot. denouncing trump's pardons. >> i was beaten. crushed, kicked, punched. surrounded. >> trump working to crack down on immigration. today in seattle, a federal judge will hear challenges to trump's order ending birthright citizenship, a guarantee under the 14th amendment declaring anyone born on u.s. soil an american citizen. attorneys general in four states requesting the judge to block the order. trump now sending 1500 troops to the southern border. the pentagon says it includes military police units, combat engineers and intelligence specialists. they will help construct physical barriers along the border. a military official says none will participate in law enforcement. >> you will be returned home. you will be arrested. you will be prosecuted. do not come. >> as another wildfire starts in southern california. trump also critical of fema. >> fema is getting in the way of everything. >> the federal agency is responsible for helping people before, during, and after disasters. accordi

. >> before you come in here, i just want to play daniel hodges.e was the officer the metropolitan police officer in dc. who is the image of him? is. is unfortunately iconic. i think it's infamous of him getting squeezed in those doors. he spoke to kaitlan collins last night if people know that, there are not going to be any consequences for their actions, particularly their crimes, and they would like to further a certain agenda with extreme violence, then all they have to know is that they've got a wink and a nod from a man in office who doesn't have any integrity, and they're good to go, right? >> trump says he's the friend of the police. do you think that's true? >> trump says a lot of things. um, sometimes lies are more reliable than truth. >> again, this is going to show up in democratic ads. the party that says they backed the blue, they have a president who, forgive me, is screwing the blue. this video of what happened to those police officers on that day. but to jasmyn's point, donald trump is inconsistent on a lot of things, right? he cha

speaking on capitol hill at a press conference, here is officer daniel hodges with a reminder of what happened to him. >> i was beaten, crushed, kicked, punched, surrounded. someone reached underneath my visor, tried to gouge out my eye, and all these people. were just pardoned by donald trump. >> and so people like that are still speaking publicly at the same time. stewart rhodes, the leader of the oath keepers, is up on capitol hill. here's what he had to say when he was there yesterday. >> so bottom line, no regrets. >> well, i don't. regret standing up for my country. i don't regret calling out the election as what it was which was stolen, illegal and unconstitutional. >> i'm happy that the president. >> is focusing. >> not on retribution and focusing. >> on success. >> but i will tell. >> you that i'm. >> not going to play by. >> those rules. >> the people who did. >> this. >> they need to feel. >> the. >> heat. >> roads in ontario, ontario. the leader of the proud boys out many, many years, decades before they were supposed to because of donald trump's clemency toward them. jon.

that's daniel hodges. officer hodges was the one that the video has become well known. he was. he was jammed inside a capitol, a door. this clearly for those officers, a very difficult moment in time. and of course, president trump still trying to explain this because there was a point where the trump team, when it was still the transition, was looking at making a distinction between violent offenders, people who assaulted police officers on that day and others who ended up doing time or being convicted or pleading guilty to, you know, entering the capitol and yet not doing anything violent. what is the like the long term impact of all of this? >> yeah, and that's right. there were certainly people in his orbit. >> saying, maybe we shouldn't. >> do. everybody should. >> vice president was out on tv very. >> publicly saying this. yes. this wasn't a private conversation. and you saw on that on. inauguration day, the outgoing and incoming president both taking different actions. related to. january 6th, with the former president biden issuing pardons for folks associated with the

that scream of help was from dc metropolitan police officer daniel hodges as he was crushed in a door while defending the capitol that day. now, the men he testified against in court are free, along with hundreds of others accused or convicted of attacking law enforcement officers. in total, more than 140 officers were injured by rioters, disrupting the certification of the 2020 election. five officers later died, but vice president vance is now defending the broad pardons that were handed down by president trump. >> the pardon. >> power is not just for people who are angels or people who are perfect. and of course, we love our law enforcement and want people to be peaceful with everybody, but especially with our good cops. that's a separate issue from what merrick garland's department of justice did. we rectified a wrong. and i stand by it. >> i stand by it, he says. our panel has returned. matt gorman i mean. he's standing by saying it's okay for people to attack police officers. >> yeah. i mean, look, he was put in a tough spot, especially when you contrast with what he said on fox

today i think of officer daniel hodge whose gas mask was ripped off his face as he was punched in the face and was stuck in between two doors. america saw the film. america saw the video of him crying for help. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. espaillat: and today we will continue to fight for sanity and against any political theater that's -- that happens here on our floor. thank you. i yield back. mr. raskin: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mcclintock: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from iowa, mr. feenstra, the author of sarah's law that's incorporated into this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. feenstra: thank you. mr. speaker, i rise today in strong support of the laken riley act. which includes my bill, sarah's law, as an amendment. in the early morning hours of january 31, 2016, michelle and scott root received the call that every parent never wants to hear. their daughter, sarah, had been killed in a car accident. what's worse, is tha

who had beat up cops on that day using their own gear, in some cases against them, like officer daniel hodges, who i spoke to about this last night. and so there are certainly people who are in that white house that hold this belief that that, no, that this shouldn't have been as carte blanche as it was. but the only person who really matters is the president himself, and he has not expressed any regret about who he pardoned here and how wide the scope of this is. and he's also defended them, even the ones who did assault law enforcement officers on that day who weren't all just convicted at trial. a lot of these people pleaded guilty. i should note, with these prosecutors, and they had evidence of what they did. but trump has been defending it, saying that he believes they were treated unfairly by the justice system and not really giving any ground on whether or not he should have pardoned those people, including the ones who beat up cops that day. >> president trump announced yesterday a $500 billion investment in a.i. then last night, elon musk publicly criticized it, saying that the you k

capitol police force and we we played quite a bit of it yesterday where we heard from officer daniel hodgestalked about and he's in some of that best known footage from the day where he's jammed in the door, you know, literally screaming for help, you know, and he talked about how the rioters tried to gouge out his eyes. and at the end of his comments, he simply said, you know, i don't understand. and i think, you know, for me, i've covered the republican party for a long time. and, you know, the sort of trajectory it has taken in the age of trump. but even with trump and the difference that, you know, he i started covering mitt romney's campaign, right. i'm not sure there could be two different people, let alone republican politicians. but i never imagined, even as that transition was happening, that we would see a republican party, that that was pardoning people who were specifically violent against police officers. is that the piece of it that you think is ultimately going to be a problem here? there's officer hodges, by the way. >> well, that's what i find to be. that's what i find to b

is they don't deserve to be in jail for this i just think of patrick mcauley, who used officer daniel hodges own shield against him. >> he was sentenced to seven and a half years. he had served less than three years of that. i mean, do you think that that's enough time served for someone like that? >> i don't, i think the sentences that the judges gave are the right senses. those judges worked hard on those sentences. i know what it's like. you read the pre-sentence report, you get letters you hear from both lawyers. you think hard about a sentence. it just doesn't happen with no work. so when these judges made these decisions, they were thoughtful. they were right. i don't think they were too long at all. and i think people should have served them. i thought these these pardons are overly broad. >> the judge who presided over stewart rhodes case said the notion that he could be absolved, the judge said, was frightening and ought to be frightening to anyone who cares about democracy in this country. there's a lot of people, though, who say, i'm glad stewart rhodes is out of prison. i mean, a

daniel hodges still serves at the capitol. >> i was beaten, crushed, kicked, punched. surrounded.y: imagine looking at your doorbell camera and seeing this, a guy wearing a out really scary dental mask and it's not even halloween. that's what happened to a mom in texas. she and her neighbors are freaked out. >> talk about spooky and scary. this is what a terrified moms are on her ring camera. he pretends to knock on the door but never touches it. he stands there holding a handmade sign with a bible verse from revelations about the end of days. no doubt this is one scary mask. the homeowner who saw the creepy site says she has no idea who was trying to scare her family. police came out and took a report that they said no crime has been committed. police did say they would be stepping up patrols in the neighborhood outside dallas. the homeowner got the alert on her cell phone. she posted that scary ring camera footage on facebook. "it is so creepy and disturbing. has anyone else had this happen to them? he set off our driveway ring first and then walked to the side of the house to t