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WASHINGTON (AP) â Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, was sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S. president, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the countryâs institutions.

Inauguration Day Latest: Trump issues pardons for Jan. 6 rioters and signs more executive actions

ARE THE HOSTAGES, APPROXIMATELY 1500 FOR A PARDON. >> YES. >> FULL PARDON. >> FULL PARDON OR COMMUTATION. >> FULL PARDON. WE HAVE ABOUT SIX COMMUTATIONS WE ARE DOING FURTHER RESEARCH. NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. SO THIS IS THE BIG ONE. ANYTHING YOU WANT TO EXPLAIN ABOUT THIS. WE HOP THEY COME OUT TONIGHT, FRANKLY. THEY ARE EXPECTING IT. APPROXIMATELY 1500 PEOPLE SIX COMMUTATIONS. >> ANYTHING YOU DID NOT COMMUTE FOR A PARDON IN WE ARE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT THINGS BUT, THE COMMUTATIONS WOULD BE THE ONES THAT WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AND MAYBE IT WILL STAY THAT WAY OR WILL GO TO FULL PART. >> AND THE ORDER REQUIRES THE BUREAU OF PRISON TO ACT IMMEDIATELY ON RECEIPT OF THE PARDONS AND COMMUTATION ORDERS. SIR THIS IS. >> WHY DOESN'T WE GET THAT DOWN SO THEY CAN GET THEM GOING RIGHT NOW IS THAT OKAY. >> ABSOLUTELY. THIS IS A PROCLAMATION GUARANTEEING THE STATES INFECTION OF THE INVASION BASED ON CRISIS AT SOUTHERN BORDER AND INVOKES POWERS REGARDING THE INVASION AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER. >>> PRESIDENT TRUMP YOU HEARD HIM PARDONING 1500 PEOPLE CONNECTED TO THE JANUARY 6th RIOTS. THE PRESIDENT REFERENCING HE WANTS IT TO HAPPEN AND THE WORDING HE ANNOUNCED IS THE REQUIREMENT. WE HAVE A LIVE PICTURE FROM THE FEDERAL PRISON NEAR D.C. WHERE THE MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE BEING HELD. I AM JOINED BY MEET THE PRESS MODERATOR KRISTIN WELKER AND NBC NEWS SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT HALLIE JACKSON. NO SURPRISE, WE KNEW IT WAS LIKELY HE WOULD DO IT BUT 1500 IS VIRTUALLY EVERYONE. >> IT'S VIRTUALLY EVERYONE. I BELIEVE IT WAS 1600 PEOPLE TOTAL WHO HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF CRIMES ON JANUARY 6th. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE 172 OF THEM WERE CONVICTED OF ASSAULTING POLICE OFFICERS. SO WE WILL HAVE TO SEE IF ANYONE ON THAT LIST IS ACCUSED OR PLEADED GUILTY TO ASSAULTING POLICE OFFICERS. WE WILL ALSO LOOK TO SEE IT APPEARS AT THIS POINT, IT WILL INCLUDE FORMER PROUD BOYS LEADER ENRIQUE TARRIO ACCORDING TO HIS LAWYER, HIS CLIENT IS CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED FOR RELEASE FROM FEDERAL PRISON BECAUSE OF THIS ACTION BY PRESIDENT TRUMP. WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER ABOUT HIM IS HE WAS SENTENCED TO 22 YEARS IN PRISS FOREIGN CONSPIRACY AND HE WAS NOT THERE ON JANUARY 6th. BUT HE WAS CHARGED WITH PLANNING THE ATTACK AGAINST THE CAPITOL. THIS IS PART OF WHAT CANDIDATE TRUMP, CAMPAIGNED ON AND HE SAID HE WOULD PARDONED THOSE CONVICTED ON JANUARY 6th. I HAVE TO SAY ALL THE POLICIES THIS IS NOT A POPULAR ONE ACCORDING TO RECENT POLLING, 2/3 OPPOSE HIM PARDONING THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF CRIMES ON JANUARY 6th. >> A REMARKABLE MOMENT CONSIDERING AS KRISTEN PUT OUT HE SAID IT WAS SOMETHING WE DO. DURING AND USE ENRIQUE HIS ATTORNEY PINNED THE BECAME FOR THIS ON PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. FOR SUGGESTING THAT HIS SUPPORTERS GO TO THE CAPITOL AND SO YOU SAW THAT HAPPEN. YOU SAW THAT PLAY OUT AND NOW HERE YOU HAVE THE PRESIDENT CONDUCTING PARDONS AND HE SAID 6 COMMUTATIONS. THAT OF COURSE MEANS THAT YOU ARE SENTENCE GOES AWAY SO YOU ARE RELEASED FROM IMPRISONMENT BUT CONVICTION IS A WIPES THE SLATE CLEAN. SEEING ANOTHER RATHER INTERESTING MOMENT WHERE IT SOUND LIKE A REPORTER ASKED PRESIDENT TRUMP IF FORMER PRESIDENT BIDEN HAD LEFT HIM A LETTER AS IS TRADITION IN THE OVAL OFFICE AND RIGHT THERE THE PRESIDENT SAID HE WAS NOT SURE OPENED THE DRAWER AND THERE IS THE LETTER. THERE'S LOT OF ACTIVITY A LOT OF ACTION IN THE JANUARY 6th PARDONS VERY SIGNIFICANT FOR THE SCOPE AND SCALE. THERE'S A QUESTION MARK AS TO HOW MANY PARDONS OR COMMUTATIONS WE HAVE AN ANSWER AND WE ARE LOOKING TO SEE THE PAPERWORK FOR MORE SPECIFICS IN LET ME TURN TO NBC NEWS SENIOR LEGAL COURSE END. SOME HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON. >> Reporter: YES, SOME OF THEM HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF MISDEMEANORS AND NEVER WENT TO PRISON AT ALL. OTHERS NOW THAT SO MANY YEARS HAVE PASSED, ARE ALREADY OUT. BUT THIS PARDON WILL STILL APPLY TO THEM. BUT THAT WAS ONLY AROUND 700. SO THAT LEAVES ANOTHER HALF FROM THE ROUGHLY 1500 PEOPLE THAT HE REFERENCED THERE WHO DO NOT FALL INTO THE BUCKET. THE MOST SORT OF PROMINENT BUCKET IS ROUGHLY 200 PEOPLE WHO WERE ACTUALLY BEHIND BARS. SO THOSE PEOPLE YOU HEAR THEY ARE BEING DIRECTED BY THE BUREAU OF PRISONS TO GET THEM OUT NOW. IMMEDIATELY. AND I SHOULD MENTION NO ONE CAN CHALLENGE THIS. HE HAS SWEEPING PARDON POWERS AS HEAD OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. NOTHING ANYTHINGONE CAN DO TO STOP THE INDIVIDUALS FROM GETTING OUT OF PRISON TODAY. >> THAT WAS MY FOLLOW-UP QUESTION WAS THERE'S NO -- THERE'S NO APPEAL PROCESS HERE? >> NO APPEAL PROCESS. AND IT IS ONE OF THE PRIVILEGES THAT THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ENJOYS HERE IS HE HAS A SWEEPING AUTHORITY TO EITHER COMMUTE AS YOU MENTIONED SIX COMMUTATION AND MORE RESEARCH IS GOING TO BE DONE ON THOSE AND THE REST ARE GETTING A FULL PARDON. >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES THE NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT. WE WILL HAVE MUCH MORE COVERAGE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT ON THE STREAMING CHANNEL, NBC NEWS NOW. AND TOMORROW, ON TODAY.

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