CNN's Jim Acosta tries to get Burchett to be a good American.

Jim Acosta, CNN, interviews U.S. Rep Burchett (TN), hilarity ensures. The video is included at the link.

Acosta:
Do you agree with president trump's decision to pardon these violent people and releasing them from jail?

Burchett:
If they were truly violent, no. But, but, do I know that they were. No, I don't know that

Acosta:
What do you mean you don't know that? We're showing the footage on the air right now.
Congressman, you were there that day. There are offenders on January 6 that violently beat police officers.
There are offenders that were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
That is the truth.

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blah, blah, blah

Acosta:
Congressman, are you going to respond and say whether or not it is right to let these people out of jail?

Burchett:
I don't know if it is or not. I'm not a lawyer but I'll tell you what isn't right...

Acosta:
But, you're a Congressman, your a member of Congress, you're an elected official...
Take a stand

Burchett:
They were not given due process.
I told you if they crossed the line they were trespassing. Should they rot in jail for the rest of their lives in a federal penitentiary for [something] and never be charged ...

Acosta:
Beating police officers, tasing police officers, seditious conspiracy

Burchett:
What you are forgetting to say is the ones he didn't release. Why did he not release those?
There are several that he did
This blanket thing you all are talking about is not a blanket...
It, it, it is not a blanket pardon.
There were several that he didn't for those very same reasons
Why are you not focusing on them?

Acosta:
Congressman, we're talking about the leader of the oath keepers, the leader of the proud boys.
They should be released from prison?

Burchett:
What about the leader of the FBI?
What about the FBI agents that were on the ground, that were in that mess?

Sigh...