Sanders on Trump's Jail Comment: Looks Like 'Dictatorship'

President-elect Trump recently said members of the House of Representatives committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot "should be in jail," and President Biden is reportedly considering preemptive pardons for them and others Trump may target. Is that a good idea? "Well, I think he might want to consider that very seriously," said Sen. Bernie Sanders on NBC News' Meet the Press on Sunday. "This is what authoritarianism is all about. It's what dictatorship is all about," Sanders said regarding Trump's jail comment, which he called "outrageous."

Earlier Sunday on the same program, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham responded "no" when asked whether he thinks committee members should be jailed. On another Sunday program, ABC News' This Week, however, a Democrat who was on the committee said he doesn't want a preemptive pardon. Adam Schiff, now a senator, said "the precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the way out of an administration, I think is a precedent we don't want to set," and added that he has communicated that to the Biden administration. (Here's what Liz Cheney thinks about Trump's "jail" comment.)