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Preet spoke with Carol Leonnig, a reporter at the Washington Post, about her recent story confirming that the Department of Justice is investigating Donald Trump's actions on and around January 6th. For a full transcript of the interview, head to the CAFE website.

In this bonus from Stay Tuned, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III discusses his harrowing experience on his first day in Professor Elizabeth Warren’s Harvard Law School class. Plus, he talks about the other important way that Warren’s class changed his life.

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Joyce Vance is a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, a professor at the University of Alabama Law School, and an MSNBC legal analyst. Notes from Joyce are exclusive to the CAFE Insider membership. For the text of this note, along with the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE's website.

On the CAFE Insider docket this week: 

– The news that two aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, former chief of staff Marc Short and former chief counsel Greg Jacob, testified before a federal grand jury in the January 6th investigation;

– The January 6th Committee’s eighth public hearing, which focused on then-President Donald Trump’s 187 minutes of inaction while the Capitol was under attack;

– The investigation into the missing Secret Service text messages from January 5th and 6th, 2021; and

– Steve Bannon’s conviction on two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a January 6th Committee subpoena.

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