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On the CAFE Insider docket this week: 

– The Washington Post report that confirmed, for the first time, that the Department of Justice is investigating former President Donald Trump’s role in the attack at the Capitol and other efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election;

– The reported cooperation of key January 6th witnesses, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and former DOJ official Ken Klukowski, with DOJ’s investigation;

– The missing January 6th text messages from former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli; and 

– The reported involvement of Trump’s lawyers in the fake electors scheme.

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