Former members of the January 6 Committee are pushing back at President-elect Trump's threat to throw them in jail for their work on the committee. The Morning Joe panel discusses Trump's threats and why jailing members of Congress and Liz Cheney would be bad for multiple reasons.
This is an adapted excerpt from the Dec. 11 episode of “Morning Joe.” During an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” President-elect Donald Trump said some members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack should be imprisoned. “Everybody on that committee … for what they did, yeah, honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump told Welker. Trump’s plan to jail his political enemies once he returns to the White House is incredibly short-sighted.
If he tries sending former or sitting members of Congress to prison, I doubt Democrats will want to work with Trump on his legislative priorities. Number two, it would actually draw attention back to the attack on the Capitol. Now, as we get further and further away from Jan. 6, many people may be buying into the propaganda Trump and other Republicans pushed on the campaign trail. But we should remember, at least 20 million Americans tuned in for the Jan. 6 committee’s first prime-time hearing.
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