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Around, the triangle as well, the bureaucrats who have been in the state department forever cold warrior, i believe im a cold wire in many ways. theyre trying to handicap the foreign-policy. look at the list a diplomat channel, george washington, and rudy giuliani, woodward wilson, warren harding, james logan, franklin roosevelt, richard dixon, next jimmy carter, ronald reagan, william wilson, bill richardson, barack obama, donald trump, rudy giuliani. there are many, many more. ladies and donov...

President has long-standing bureaucrats hes trying to get around, the triangle as well, the bureaucrats who have been in the state department forever cold warrior, i believe im a cold wire in many ways. theyre trying to handicap the foreign-policy. look at the list a diplomat channel, george washington, and rudy giuliani, woodward wilson, warren harding, james logan, franklin roosevelt, richard dixon, next jimmy carter, ronald reagan, william wilson, bill richardson, barack obama, donald trump, ...

John paul ii, and of course reagan. together, mostly -- but more reagan and pope john paul ii -- first of all, they believed it was their divine destiny to defeat soviet communism. second of all, they marshaled everything in their powers. radio vatican, radio free euro europe, arming the labor union movement in poland. the velvet revolution in czechoslovakia. giving more support and financial support, giving organizational support through the cia to bill casey, who was an underappreciated, great...

Katty kay and national security reporter ken dilanian. >> we got ken? >> yeah. >> how did we fare so well? >> okay, youre punchy. its friday. >> no, im still focused on seth good morni gorkin. i was a right wing cold warrior for a very long time. thats why dr. brzezinski and i got along very well. i know it would be a shock to dr. brzezinski, though, were he still with us, god rest his soul, to find out he spent hissin tihis entire life trying to defeat stalinist russia when he thought it was ab...

Pro-putin because of old contacts to put it lightly. the dossier and et cetera, et cetera and the hotel or is he another cold warrior. what are they telling limb. >> well i think since the chief resident here in washington, d.c. would be a conduit back to moscow, to the handler of donald trump and that the the ex-kgb officer who -- former community who spent his life under the soviet union and now a billionaire oligarch for vladimir putin who is the handler of donald trump. this is a president w...

And i think they do it because theyve kind of cracked the code. they know it really sets the president off, and the media didnt go to helsinki to find out whats going to happen with ukraine and crimea or syria or kaliningrad or even nuclear proliferation or nuclear modernization. they went there with a gotcha question, they went there and they got exactly what they were looking for. and it was disappointing for me. >> hold on a second, michael. whats disappointing is you excusing what the pres...

Theyve kind of cracked the code. they know it really sets the president off, and the media didnt go to helsinki to find out whats going to happen with ukraine and crimea or syria or even nuclear proliferation or nuclear modernization. they went there with a gotcha question and they got exactly what they were looking for, and it was disappointing for me. >> hold on. whats disappointing is you excusing what the president said as if he were baited, that he was set up by all these others who know ho...

And some in russia are saying the u.s. president is doing what vladimir putin has been doing and not been able to achieve. all that said, it is important to see what comes of the meeting. maybe there is a chemistry that resets the clock. perhaps the wrong word to say. also we are in helsinki which has had a tradition of bringing the two sides together throughout the years of the cold war until now. we will see what happens. i think putin goes in with a planning advantage. >> president trump earl...

Bit of the 1985 meeting with reagan and gorbachev. that got on well. is there any way you see these two very like minded leaders seeing something in each other that will benefit these tensions and decrease tensions? or are we still in an era of maximum disruption? >> i think you can say some potential benefit. we are talking about the countries of the two largest nuclear arsenals of the world pointed at each other. there is some interest of mankind to have relationship there. with the reagan/gor...

The iranians that we were not able to do that. the international atomic energy agency, which was doing the inspections, was very reluctant to talk to the iranians against this and expect military sites. this is critical. >> that is unbelievable to have that power of the international committee.gordon, thank you. >> thank you eric. >> meanwhile the new book 3 days in moscow purebred bear takes a look at the role played by president ronald reagan. and the cold war and the inevitable end and the co...