As President Donald Trump issues a flurry of executive orders during his first week in office, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reacts to his blanket pardons for Jan. 6, 2021, rioters. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.

The GOP senator called two of President Donald Trump's first presidential moves a "mistake" during Sunday morning television appearances.

Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who were charged for their actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That number includes 172 who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers. Graham, however, points out that Trump said he would grant the pardons if he was reelected.

The South Carolina Republican told CNN that he “did not like” how Trump pardoned people who “beat up cops,” and suggested he would be open to curtailing the presidential pardon power.

President Joe Biden will spend part of his last full day in office in South Carolina on Sunday, according to the White House. The news came Tuesday morning and details remain forthcoming, but this will be the president's final visit to the state that propelled him to the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2020 primary.

The republican senator also laid into former President Joe Biden for pardoning "all of his family going out the door."

Sen. Lindsey Graham said in an interview that he thinks it was a “mistake” for Trump to pardon those who committed violent acts on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Senator Graham said while President Trump had the legal authority to issue the pardons, he thought it was a mistake to pardon people who "beat up a police officer violently.... because it seems to suggest that's an okay thing to do".