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Now? >> reporter: great to see you. this is another flash point of u.s. russia relations. secretary of state pompeo said that earlier in december, the u.s. gave russia 60 days to get into compliance. pompeo says it is more than that and russia had not been complying with this treaty. the inf treaty stands for nuclear forces treaty. the name explains what it does. the agreement requires a destruction of any land based crew missile that can strike roughly to 300 miles. it was signed by reagan and ...

>> it does risk a new arms race, it is not going to happen over night but overtime. what this does is it takes relationships between the united states and russia has been in decline for more than a decade and removes some of the outer boundaries so if we have a crisis with russia years from now, nuclear weapons and the prospect of escalation is yet another thing that we have to think about. you know another way of saying how did we get here? for russia it is only claiming to super power status, ...

Actually implement that into policy unless policy is not the objective. >> i think historically, of reagan. reagan used to romanticize his relationship with gorbachev. if it was a wider picture, theres like 20 people around them assisting in the process so there is a romance, a mythology to presidents being able to have these intimate conversations with enemies but only when its actually based on functional behavior, actual change and thats what were not getting here. >> keep going, but let me p...

Because we had wanted this for 40 years and now its happening. >> the long-time communist party leader of bulgaria, todor zhivkov, suddenly and surprisingly today announced his resignation. >> it turns out that these regimes are more brittle than gorbachev understood and it also turned out that these regimes couldnt find many gorbachevs. he tried to encourage people like him to rise to the fore in these countries. they werent successful. >> had gorbachev decided to use force, this whole scenario...

Its that reagan magic that he had. and it was real. it was magic but it was real. >> on the big issues, the revival of the american spirit, the reignition of the american economy, ronald reagan succeeded beyond anyones expectations. as for his critics, many still frustrated, even angry, but they do concede that ronald reagan leaves washington an enormously popular figure and in this day and age, that alone is an historic achievement. on the next "80s." >> there is one sign the soviets can make...

>> a reagan administration move to sign an arms deal with the soviets was criticized today by former president nixon and former secretary of state henry kissinger. they said it would be a profound mistake to allow medium range missiles in europe. >> many conservatives thought that reagan had been charmed by gorbachev, and reagan actually had more problem dealing with his hard-right than he did the left. so reagan had to constantly let the right know, i know what im doing. >> reagan was being acc...

>> i am lou dobbs along with myron kandel. >> jessica mcclure trapped for almost three days in a dry artesian well. >> the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. >> im pat buchanan, the conservative on "crossfire." >> the american people appreciated the new television. they certainly came to cnn in droves. >> mr. gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between the peoples of the soviet union and the united sta...

Of that time. it was an incredibly excess i-time. it was really about a huge economic place and what was happening in america. it was the bigger the hair and the closer to god and it was about big dramatic sequins and gowns and shoulders. it was the era of dynasty. but that really defined that time. . >> style is how you project yourself. >> style is whats happening in the larger society. economy, culture, politics. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> its how we express ourselves through o...

Administration fact bust that for us. >> its an astonishing claim. harry truman, berlin airlift, mr. gorbachev calling the soviet union the evil empire. theres this word game being played by his defenders. youre talking about the soviet union as if all of his top minions arent people who came directly out of the soviet union and the fact is that every tough measure that the administration has taken against the russians has been done over the presidents hysterical objections. the sanctions that w...

Your country. i shall not seek and will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. thats all i can remember word for word in full sentences from the last 90 years of the american presidency. it is not about the eloquence of the president. weve had no more eloquent president than barack obama but his sentences were not sound bites and perhaps more importantly he was never at the cen...