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Eastern european communist history, 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 e...

Astonishment and, beyond that, fear of what reagan has talked about doing, banning nuclear weapons. >> 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. the two men said it would be, quote, a profound mistake, unquote, to eliminate all medium-range missiles in europe. >> many conservatives thought reagan had been charmed by gorbachev and reagan actually had more problem dealing with his...

Mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. his own advisors wanted to take those words out of that speech, and you compare bill clinton gave kim jong uns father $3 billion in energy subsidies. >> president trump: tremendous amount of money. to be when the mullahs in iran, worst history -- >> president trump: worse than after. worse in the wto, which frankly, both china, in addition to thehe money that we gave them all the time. these were terrible deals. i would say that the iran deal was one of the wo...

Intentions of following up. they clearly hope to get out of sanctions and we have not started that. so its really important for the secretary to get full disclosure from the north koreans. they need to come to the table and say heres the weapons we have, heres the facilities and heres the facilities that are secret that weve lied about. full disclosure. sort of that, i dont think we should release any sanctions and michael is right, that we should keep up the pressure. >> david, you think well s...

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 states. >> we began to realize that the best way to get a message to a foreign leader was to have the president go in the rose garden and make a statement. because everybody was watchin...

>> abby: there was a reason why he ultimately came to that negotiating table. that may come from the pressure. the president and it very clear early on, the expectations, everyone is going to walk a solid. this is going to take some time. we have to learn from history. i was reading this morning back in the 80s in the meeting that reagan had with gorbachev, they met a number of times. in the "new york times" pieces, the ray that reagan was handling those meetings with gorbachev, i was trying to ...

Was russia, but i think we also were hacked by other countries people. >> the move may have been aimed at building confidence with russia ahead of the summit as he did with north korea. russia hopes the meeting will yield results. >> it will be devoted to the state of our relations. we desire to be much better to put it mildly. >> president trump will meet with putin in finland on july 16th. thats where president bush met with gorbachev and where clinton met with yellsin. >> we have been around ...

Reykjavik, what made gorbachev nervous is the star wars. he wanted reagan to stop. its interesting because reagan went back said are we that far along? not as far as gorbachev thinks we are. well dont say anything. but they are nervous because they dont have the goods or the technology or the money or the arsenal. >> president trump likes goading media and the press and pokes them in the i he is the dude that drives by the house and blows the car horn every night to make you angry. he loves it. ...

This dichotomy of the president meeting with someone seen as an adversary of the united states right at the time he is meeting with countries considered allies of the united states. >> you first go and consult your allies, get your notes together, your talking points together, and then go and meet putin. we dont want him to go and burn more bridges with nato. im less concerned with the timeline than the lack of any sense of what it is hes meeting putin for. when regan went to meet gorbachev, he ...

America with 37% of our cargo going into the midwest on rail, it is really about reducing prices for consumers. >> she also says the federal and local investment will create more than 54,000 jobs. both in virginia and across the country. on the james river, douglas kennedy, fox news. >> now to the new book three days in moscow, our bret baier takes a look at the role played by former president ronald reagan in bringing the cold war to its end and the subsequent collapse of the soviet union. bret...