kara swisher, bill stepien, wendell pierce, and s. e. cupp it's the weekend. join the conversation at a table for five. good morning. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about, the trump roller coaster and what a roller coaster it's been. it's been a wild week for the new president, and it's a sequel of returns. and while the flood the zone strategy was on full display this week, one move rose far above the others. the release and the pardons of all of the january 6th criminals. just two weeks ago, his own vice president insisted the violent ones would not get free passes and set free. but with a sharpie, they are now all roaming, literally the halls of congress, most notably, those militia leaders convicted of masterminding violence and those who attacked and bloodied officers attacks. the president then downplayed. >> some of those people with the police. true, but they were very minor incidents. okay. you know, they get built up by that couple of fake guys that are on cnn all the time. nobody watches. they were very mino