The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood,

CNN’s Abby Phillip and her colleague Scott Jennings had a tense standoff on News Night over President Donald Trump’s pardoning of around 1,500 people for convictions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Vice President JD Vance defended the pardons of Jan. 6 rioters Sunday on “Face The Nation,” going against his comments earlier this month when he said violent rioters should not be pardoned. Vance told “Face The Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan that violence against a police officer is “not justified,