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Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the Trump administration's settlement fund for January 6 defendants and related legal issues.

On this week’s Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss: – The Trump administration’s new $1.776 billion settlement fund to compensate January 6 defendants and allies the administration claims were victims of DOJ “weaponization”; – Allegations that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked to recuse from Trump matters at the Justice Department;  – A DOJ lawsuit seeking to block a D.C. Bar ethics investigation into Jeffrey Clark and other Trump administration lawyers; and – A federal judge’s criticism of the Justice Department for allegedly lying to the court. We hope you’re finding CAFE Insider informative. Email us at letters@cafe.com with your suggestions and questions for Preet and Joyce.  Join Preet and Barb McQuade live at the 92NY on May 31st: cafe.com/barb Watch livestreams on YouTube or Substack . This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network.  Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Supervising Producer: Jake Kaplan; Associate Producer: Claudia Hernández; Senior Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; CAFE Team: Celine Rohr, Nat Weiner, Jennifer Indig, and Liana Greenway.

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Hosts: Preet Bharara, Joyce Vance

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