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Hi from CNN.

This is Madeline Thompson with five things you need to know for Thursday, December 12th.

A Justice Department watchdog has found that there were no undercover FBI employees at the

U.S. Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riot.

Allies of President-elect Donald Trump have long suggested that the violence that day was

provoked by federal agents.

CNN's Evan Perez has the latest.

Of course, the FBI has been pushing back on this for the last few years, but that hasn't

really satisfied members of Congress.

And it's frankly one of the reasons why they had a beef with Chris Ray and why Chris Ray is no

longer going to be FBI director.

What we do find, though, is that the Inspector General found that there were 26 members of these extremist groups that did attend to stop the steel rally, 26 of them, who were being paid as informants for the FBI. Now, these are members of the proud boys, the three percenters, other groups that were here that day. And what we learned from this report is that 26 of them had been specifically told by the FBI,

send us any information on possible violence and so on.

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