A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who attacked the U.S.

President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden issued sweeping pardons that left both parties steamed and pointing fingers as to who pushed their pardon authority too far. In the minutes before his presidency ended on Monday,

RCP's Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon, Monday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, discussed the implications of President Biden pardoning five members of his family on his way out of the White House.