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Bombshell: star witness's full Jan. 6 testimony released

The Beat with Ari Melber

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The Usable Past

David Remnick: Russia lacks a generation in place of mature politicians and thinkers who are readily adaptable to democratic norms. He says the new generation had very little to rely on that was positive, right? A thousand years of autocracy and 70 years of totalitarian communism was not a usable past," he said. "That's where we are. That's what politics are in Russia today"

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