"My family and I are deeply grateful for the President's action today," Milley said in a statement to USA Today provided by a spokesperson.

Former President Biden’s preemptive pardon for retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will give the retired military official a shield against any action

The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”

President Biden said the pardons are not an "acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing" but rather protect individuals from "unjustified and politically motivated prosectutions."

President Donald Trump’s pardon of those that attacked the Capitol to stop what he called the fraudulent and illegal counting of votes is fair. They were following the orders of the president of the United States.

Ashley Akers, in her first interview since resigning her post as a federal prosecutor earlier today, talks with Rachel Maddow about prosecuting January 6 rioters and her reaction to Donald Trump's blanket pardon that included violent offenders who attacked members of law enforcement.

But use of the presidential pardon in the last few days was not restricted to the incoming president. On his last day in office, outgoing president Joe Biden signed a number of pre-emptive pardons in an effort,