President Biden pre-emptively pardoned Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House Jan. 6 committee, hours before Trump's inauguration.

Thompson encouraged Americans to pay attention to how Trump is starting his second term after he issued 1,500 pardons to Jan. 6 rioters.

In his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration, President Joe Biden issued pardons for members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.