Donald Trump sat down with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Wednesday night for his first TV interview since returning to the White House.

The president took questions on everything from his controversial decision to pardon almost all January 6 defendants, even those who had assaulted police officers, the future of TikTok and the federal response to the Los Angeles wildfires.

Here’s a selection of choice clips:

Andrew Feinberg has this report on the president’s threat to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for “getting in the way” of disaster response.

CNN anchor Jim Acosta accused Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on Wednesday of “engaging in a game of whataboutism” and refusing to “take a stand” on President Donald Trump’s blanket pardons of January 6 rioters, all while wondering if Republicans were now “betraying the blue.”

After months of flirting with the idea of releasing what he called the “J6 hostages,” Trump returned to the White House and decided to issue sweeping pardons to nearly 1,600 defendants who were convicted of crimes related to the violent Capitol riots, which were sparked by Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral loss.

Among those given clemency included over 600 people who were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers. Additionally, Trump either pardoned or commuted the sentences of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and 13 of their acolytes who were convicted of seditious conspiracy or other violent crimes related to the January 6 attack. This was despite Vice President JD Vance assuring the public that nobody who “committed violence that day” should receive a pardon.

“We’ll have to see,” Trump said.

Prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman’s office because he was upset with the federal TikTok ban with multiple counts on Wednesday, including arson.

Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney filed a complaint against 19-year-old Caiden Stachowicz charging him with felony arson, making terrorist threats, attempted burglary and property damage. He would face more than 50 years behind bars if convicted on all counts.

Stachowicz, of Menasha, was scheduled to make his initial court appearance Wednesday morning. Online court records did not list an attorney for him.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman told Donald Trump early on Wednesday that Riyadh was planning to invest at least $600 billion into the US over the next four years, according to the Saudi Press Agency.

Bin Salman was reportedly the first foreign leader to have a phone call with the newly-installed Trump.

The leaders also reportedly discussing potential partnerships to combat terrorism and further cooperation to promote peace and stability in the Middle East.

During his inauguration on Monday, Trump said he would make Saudi Arabia his first international visit if the nation bought at least $450 billion worth of American-made products. He made the same deal in 2017, and when Saudi Arabia hit the goal, Trump kept his word and visited the kingdom before he went anywhere else.

What big ticket items did the crown prince buy from the US to convince Trump to visit?

Then-Representative Tulsi Gabbard criticized the move, citing the nation’s record of human rights abuses, The Hill reported.

At the time, she said the kingdom was “a country with a devastating record of human rights violations at home and abroad and has a long history of providing support to terrorist organizations that threaten the American people.”

In the present day, Gabbard is awaiting confirmation to become Trump’s Director of National Intelligence.

Senator Adam Schiff responded to Donald Trump’s interview with Sean Hannity, calling three of the president’s claims lies, and then suggesting the 78-year-old was “slowing down.”

Trump suggested that Schiff begged former President Joe Biden for a pardon, that someone taped his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and that his call with the leader was “perfect.” “’Schiff begged for a pardon’” Nope. Quite the opposite. Trump’s phone call with Zelensky was taped. Wrong again. ‘It was a perfect call.’ Oh please, not that again. 3 lies a minute. Trump must be slowing down,” Schiff wrote.

A federal judge revived a lawsuit challenging access to the abortion drug mifepristone just days before the 52nd anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022, anti-abortion advocates launched a barrage of litigation, including a federal suit in Texas aimed at mifepristone, one drug in a two-drug regimen used in medication abortions.

Months after the Supreme Court threw out a challenge to mifepristone’s FDA approval, a federal judge in Texas on Thursday allowed a 2022 lawsuit to be revived, potentially opening the floodgates for restricted access. The widely-used drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration 25 years ago. However, the FDA has eased restrictions on the drug.

Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI — the company that created ChatGPT and is racing to bring about the Singularity — offered Donald Trump praise today, suggesting he was duped by the media’ portrayal of the president, but sees clearly now.

His post comes after Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Tesla and X CEO all fell in line behind the president.

Altman and Musk had a public tussle on X earlier on Wednesday after Trump celebrated the “Stargate Project,” which is a privately-funded infrastructure building effort to help speed up the development of AI tech in the US. Altman is a partner with Trump in the project, but Musk dismissed it.

“They don’t actually have the money,” Musk said in reply to Altman’s post announcing the project.

You can follow the tech spat below:

Donald Trump told Sean Hannity that the attacks on police officers during the Capitol riot are just “minor incidents,” downplaying the injuries sustained by DC Metropolitan Police and Capitol Police during the attempted insurrection.

Trump also downplayed what happened on January 6th. He said the people who stormed the Capitol and attacked police officers were simply there to “protest the vote,” which he says should be allowed.

“Number one, they were in there for 3.5 years. A long time. And you know what they were there for? They were protesting the vote. You should be allowed to protest the vote. You should be allowed to,” Trump said.

In 2020, when protesters were demonstrating against the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Trump unleashed federal agents on them and openly threatened to deploy the US military to quash marches.