MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell speaks to California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a former member of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, about Donald Trump's blanket pardons for those convicted for their actions in the January 6 Capitol riot.

Just hours before leaving office Monday, Jan. 19, President Joe Biden pardoned potential targets of Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, including Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-San Bernardino.

Sen. Adam Schiff, who accepted a pre-emptive blanket pardon from President Biden yesterday for his actions related to House Democrats' investigation into the 2021 January 6 riot, told MSNBC in December 2020,

President Biden preemptively pardons to former Gen. Mark Milley, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney and Sen. Adam Schiff to protect them from Trump inquiries.

California Senator Adam Schiff reacts to former President Biden's preemptive pardons, as well as President Donald Trump's pardoning of 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants.

The question … especially as he heads to the Golden State, is which Trump will show up: the one who delights in trolling Gov. Gavin Newsom, or the one who looks to marquee media events as rare opportunities to burnish his image and rise above the fray?

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said President Trump showed a disregard for police officers after granting roughly 1,500 Capitol insurrectionists pardons on Monday. “One thing is abundantly

"You would be hard-pressed to find a country that has gone from a democracy to a dictatorship without finding this step of essentially pardoning people who commit violence on behalf of the would-be dictator.

In the final minutes of his term, Biden pardoned Kinzinger and other members of the Select Committee on the January 6th Attack. “I am not nervous, I’m not scared, and I will not back down,” Kinzinger said.

The nine former members of the January 6 Select Committee appeared to accept preemptive pardons issued by former President Biden

President Joe Biden granted preemptive pardons to leading government officials that President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to punish, fending off potential retribution by his successor against those he has labeled as political enemies.

Hours before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden issued more pardons to ward of potential "revenge" by President-elect Donald Trump.