'Ridiculous and false': Cheney, Schiff push back after Trump says Jan. 6 committee members should be jailed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : In his interview with NBC, Trump again promised, in the first day of his new administration, to look at pardons for those who've been prosecuted for their role on Jan. 6.
46% : I'm going to focus on 'Drill, baby, drill,'" Trump said.
45% : The January 6 Committee's work was driven by facts, the Constitution, and the pursuit of accountability -- principles that seem foreign to Trump," Kinzinger wrote in a blog post shared on Substack.
39% : Trump has long denied any wrongdoing in connection with Jan. 6 and tried to recast the violent events as a "day of love" during his campaign.
35% : "Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the second Republican on the committee, also pushed back on Trump.
28% : "For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail," Trump told NBC's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press.
26% : "The Jan. 6 committee, after an 18-month investigation including more than 1,000 witnesses and several public hearings, identified Trump as the "central cause" of the Capitol attack by the pro-Trump mob.
24% : "When Trump violated his oath, I stood up to him," Schiff wrote on X. "When he tried to overturn the 2020 election, the January 6th Committee stood in defense of our democracy.
22% : While Trump said he believed the Jan. 6 committee members should go to jail, he said he would not direct his top officials to prosecute them.
19% : Cheney, in her statement, said Trump "knows his claims about the select committee are ridiculous and false, as has been detailed extensively, including by Chairman Thompson in this July 2023 letter.
9% : "Trump specifically singled out Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democrat who chaired the committee, as well as former Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chair who was ostracized from her party over breaking with Trump and ousted by a Trump-backed GOP challenger.

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