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.

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.

The extraordinary wave of pardons Monday — from Joe Biden as he left the White House and from Donald Trump as soon as he returned to it — demonstrate the potency of the Constitution’s pardon power, but also expose its perils,