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.”

That is because the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told The Hill he will to accept the preemptive pardon President Joe Biden gave on Monday. Fauci wrote in an email the White House approached him about the pardon and he did not ask for one. Fauci insisted he did not commit a crime.

Outgoing US President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and members of a House committee that investigated the Capitol Hill riot on 6 January 2021 in an unprecedented move aimed at protecting those impacted from potential revenge by the Trump administration.