Mike Pence: “This is no time for distractions. We need leadership on day one.”

It was a bad idea from the start and should be dropped.

But for anyone who assaulted a police officer, anybody that violated and vandalized the seat of our government and sought to disrupt the counting of electoral college votes, those people never should have been pardoned and they should…

My only purpose was to keep my oath.

I will never minimize what happened on January 6, and I'll always believe, by God's grace, we did our duty that day to the seat of the peaceful transfer of power under the Constitution.