i m pretty sure. so there just isn t there isn t the social media in which messages can get through but more than that, people don t believe what they see when they do accidently come across it and we re seeing it from people communicating, trying to communicate with relatives, ukrainians trying to communicate with relatives in russia saying that s fake. you re lying when they re talking to their own family members living through it. more than anything else, this assumption that the truth can somehow destabilize the putin regime from the understanding the nature of the regime is a totalitarian society at this point. it s a matter of survival for russians to buy into the picture of the universe that state television broadcast into them and by buy into, i don t mean to perform something they don t believe. i mean, to actually give up the
one moment in time, and then any of the variables that were the collective catalyst for what we saw on january 6th aren t present today, that you don t have the president saying the election was stolen, that there isn t the social media element from these small groups, that you don t have people in congress egging them on. all the elements that led to january 6th are in place today. such a great point. this just into cnn, facebook says former president, donald trump, will not be allowed back on its platforms until january 27, 2023. that s two years from the date he was suspended following the january 6th capitol riot. let s bring in cnn chief correspondent brian stelter. explain how they re explaining this decision. they say, okay, we heard the oversight board, we want rules and now we re putting rules in place. they say president trump s conduct up to january 6th was so irresponsible that a two-year ban is appropriate. then the window opens and he could be back again, with plent