Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent

Our Washington Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy has been getting reaction to the President’s latest decisions and joins us from Capitol Hill.

The former leader of the extremist Proud Boys group and the founder of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers – have been released from prison as part of President Trump’s sweeping clemency for those convicted over the violent January 6th attack on Capitol Hill.

He may be the first convicted criminal to occupy the White House, but Donald Trump says he was saved by God to make America great again. 

An ascension that many believed impossible not long ago. Yet today, two impeachments and four indictments later, he’s remarkably pulled it off, taking back the keys to the highest office in the land.

In Washington the preparations are well underway for the return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office.

Donald Trump, still not quite President, was quick to claim credit for the deal – although the Biden administration had been racing to get it agreed before he leaves office in just five days time.

Jimmy Carter’s single term in office was followed by the longest post-presidency in history.

After a week in which his death became a lightning rod for many Americans’ frustration with their healthcare – and his suspected killer became a cult hero for some on the internet – a 26-year-old man is now in custody and charged with murder.

While US bombers were targeting ISIS targets in Syria, President Biden was saying the fall of the Assad regime presents an ‘opportunity’.

The killing of the boss of one of America’s biggest health insurers on a Manhattan street hasn’t prompted an outpouring of sympathy online but an outpouring of hate. 

In the US, Donald Trump’s nominees for key positions in his next administration have been pressing the flesh in Washington, as they seek to persuade Senators they can be trusted with the most powerful jobs in the land.

President Biden repeatedly said he wouldn’t interfere in his son’s legal proceedings.

Mr Trump has portrayed his tariffs as an effort to force China, Mexico and Canada to crack down on illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the US.

Next week Donald Trump was due to face his reckoning with the law – sentenced before a Manhattan court for 43 counts of falsifying business records. Instead, that’s on hold – and he’s deciding who should oversee America’s justice system.

One of Donald Trump’s contentious picks for cabinet, Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration as Attorney General.