In his first interview with NBC News since returning to the U.S., Whelan, who had been imprisoned in Russia for more than five years by the time of his release, said “it was devastating.” ...

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That sets up a onetime critic who evolved into one of the president-elect's fiercest defenders to become the nation's top ...