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On the recordMay 11, 2021
I pushed very hard on the Department of Justice to make sure they were not just challenging the people who came through the windows and doors of the Capitol but looking upstream to who might have been behind it.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse emphasizes the need to investigate the organizers of the January 6th Capitol events.

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