How GOP leaders are reacting to Jan. 6 pardons

President Donald Trump’s first week back in the White House came with a flurry of executive decisions and sweeping pardons. Hours after he was inaugurated, Trump pardoned about 1,500 defendants charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and commuted six sentences, including those convicted of violent crimes and seditious conspiracy.

Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg asked panelist Leigh Ann Caldwell, chief Washington correspondent at Puck, what she heard from Republican leaders this week about the controversial pardons.

"Publicly, they’re not saying that much about it. Privately, Republicans are uneasy about it. They’re queasy. They think that he went too far," Caldwell said, adding that they were not "expecting the ones who actively beat police or charged and convicted of serious crimes to also be pardoned as well."

At least 140 law enforcement officers were injured that day and one Capitol police officer, Brian Sicknick, died in the days following the attack.

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