from the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi,
and this is the daily
breach of the Capitol since the riot on Capitol Hill four years ago.
They were peaceful.
They were orderly and meek.
These were not insurrectionists.
They were sightseers.
President elect Donald Trump and his allies have set out to sanitize the events of that day.
They're not destroying the Capitol.
They obviously revere the Capitol, changing it.
From a day of violence into, in.
Trump's words, that was a day of love.
A day of love.
And it was love and peace.
As he prepares to take office for his second term,
Trump said he plans to issue pardons to some of those responsible, throwing hundreds of criminal cases into doubt.
As everyone knows, it will be my great honor to pardon the peaceful January 6th protesters,
or as I often call them, the hostages, that hostages.
Today,
my colleague Alan Foyer talks to one of those rioters