MSNBC's Joe Scarborough dared House Republicans to subpoena the individuals whom president Joe Biden pardoned on Monday.
The outgoing president issued preemptive pardons to 51 government officials and other Donald Trump critics, whom many believed would be targeted for prosecution or other persecution as retribution for the former president's own legal troubles, and the "Morning Joe" host questioned the wisdom of holding congressional hearings on their actions.
"If you're a strategist thinking about what's best for the incoming president, the new president, do you really want to go back over the handling of Covid?" Scarborough said. "Because, yes, you can point to one issue or another issue, but I guarantee you the Jan. 6 committee, I guarantee you [Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is going to have every clip of every unfortunate statement said by then-president Trump and, I mean, it would unfurl something that is politically more advantageous for him to leave in the rear-view mirror. Same thing with Jan. 6."
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"Does [Rep. James] Comer (R-KY), does [Rep. Barry] Loudermilk (R-GA), do any of these men really want to invite Liz Cheney to Capitol Hill to let her to give her a microphone?" Scarborough added. "We learned this in Congress, like, every time we would go up against Newt Gingrich about balancing the budget, and we had trouble, you know, he always made the mistake of handing us the microphone, and then they'd get up and have the microphone and, and it was game, set, match. So same thing, are these people really going to give Liz Cheney the microphone and ask her questions and let her talk with 20 million people watching about Jan. 6? I don't think so, and Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee there, saying, you want to run back the Jan. 6 subcommittee hearing? We can do that, so we'll see. This is a we heard from [Sen.] Rand Paul (R-KY), [Sen.] Ron Johnson (R-WI), [Rep.] Chip Roy (R-TX), some Republican, some who said, 'Okay, they're guilty – let's go get them.' We'll see if Donald Trump really wants to head down that path."
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