"Of course not. Oh my goodness, no!"

In a Sunday morning segment of CNN’s State of the Union, anchor Dana Bash played the clip of Trump’s remarks from the rally held at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Conroe. Bash then asked Sununu for his response.

“Folks that were part of the riots and, frankly, the assault on the U.S. Capitol have to be held accountable,” Sununu, who is up for re-election this year, replied. “There’s a rule of law,” the GOP governor asserted.

Sununu went on to compare the pro-Trump rioters who attacked the legislative branch of government to those who rioted across the country in 2020 amid the massive Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. “Everyone needs to be held fairly accountable across [the board]—that’s part of leadership,” he said.

Bash interjected, asking: “They shouldn’t be pardoned?”

“Of course not,” the New Hampshire governor responded. “Oh my goodness, no!”