Sen. Adam Schiff, who accepted a pre-emptive blanket pardon from President Biden yesterday for his actions related to House Democrats' investigation into the 2021 January 6 riot, told MSNBC in December 2020,

There aren't many in politics as predictably appalling as Nancy Pelosi -- but Adam Schiff is close. On a day when newly inaugurated President Donald Trump used his new powers to pardon many of those swept up in the mania that followed the Capitol incursion of January 2021,

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sharply criticized President Trump for issuing a sweeping pardon to nearly all defendants charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Schiff, a

Schiff, D-Calif., was an outspoken House member at the time and part of the committee that probed the insurrection. Among those also pardoned from the committee were former Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.

California Senator Adam Schiff reacts to former President Biden's preemptive pardons, as well as President Donald Trump's pardoning of 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants.