It's really good to have you here.

Before he became the editor of the most important

English language magazine in the world,

David Remnick was Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post.

He, in fact, won the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark 1993 book

about the last time Russia fell apart

at the end of the Soviet Union.

David Remnick is gonna be here joining us live

in just a few minutes as we all try to make sense

of this latest news that burst out this weekend.

Everybody in the world trying to figure out

whether Russia may be falling apart again,

whether Vladimir Putin may be teetering at long last

after 23 years of increasingly consolidated,

increasingly dictatorial power in Russia.

Again, David Remnick will be joining us live

on that story in just a moment.

We're also keeping eyes tonight on our own Supreme Court,

where in the midst of their own serious

and expanding ethics scandals among conservative

injustices on the court,

that court is nevertheless expected to issue yet another round

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