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To go back to the final days of the country vladimir putin loved. >> i think that down deep in putin there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union. because it wasnt just the soviet union, it was the russian empire. >> putin returned home from his kgb posting in 1990 to a country he did not recognize. >> the ussr had had been transformed by gorbachev and his policy of openness known as glasnos. >> a lot of things happen very quickly. >> a romance with thin...

The actor leaving the stage. 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. >> announcer: on the next "80s." ...

Banning nuclear weapons. >> a reagan administration move to sign an arms deal with the soviets was criticized today by former president nixon and kissinger. the two men said it would be a "profound mistake" to eliminate medium-range missiles in europe. >> many conservatives thought 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 ac...

Cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. >> people love news, and we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much. so choice and quantity won out. >> new york city, hello. >> a major catastrophe in americas space program. >> 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 "cross...

>> our joy was just watching germans roll through that wall and knock it down and start making souvenir slices and it was just a truly exciting night because we had wanted this for 40 years and now it had happened. >> 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...

And i will meet october 11th and 12th in reykjavik, iceland. the meeting was proposed by general secretary gorbachev, and i accepted. >> any agreements at the meeting next week? >> i dont know. all weve agreed upon is were going to have a meeting. >> gorbachev needs a show of progress overseas to boost his stature in moscow. the irony of reykjavik will be that when reagan, the leader of the free world, meets gorbachev, the autocrat, it will be gorbachev who most needs the publicity back at home....

All of us kind of grab it, we looked it over and it was a holy cow moment. this guy really wants to reduce nuclear weapons. here was a soviet leader who was not going by the script. here was a guy that wanted to do business. >> the first indication that some progress may have been made at todays talks at reykjavik came at a white house briefing here a few minutes ago. theres no prediction yet on the outcome of these talks, but they give rise to some optimism. >> i was up there as the clock was t...

And this was contagious. >> one of our producers from primetime live went into east germany posing as a tourist. our producer took a home video camera, went to leipzig and found an incredible scene there. >> in east germany you see a series of demonstrations for change and the question becomes, are these demonstrations going to be repressed and wiped out? what is gorbachev going to do? >> this was the show of mikhail gorbachevs show and tell day. guests of east german leader erich honecker in a ...

About the state of u.s.-russian relations under president trump? >> i think from both sides, our relations are the worst they have been since the height of the cold war. this is a real tragedy. one of the great things that ronald reagan did was sitting down with gorbachev. one of the highlights for me, i got to sit down for an hour with former president gorbachev and talk about his recollections with ronald reagan, but also talk about how both sides, both ronald reagan and gorbachev, had to defy...

Met with the equivalent of their legislator, what can you tell the american people tonight about the state of u.s.-russian relations under president trump? >> i think from both sides, our relations are the worst theyou have been since the height of b the cold war. this is a real tragedy. one of the great things that ronald reagan did was sitting down with gorbachev. one of the highlights for me, i got to sit down for an hour with former president gorbachev and talk about his recollections with r...