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The g-7 and the president makes decision and acts. the world knows that. they were watching reagan and gorbachev and reagan two hours into the meeting in the summit got up and walked out and the entire world said we walked away from our best chance for peace and reagan was an actor and called him a cowboy and sdi was a fiction and he knew what we know now is he knew what the soviets feared most. >> bill: everybody wants sdi. you guys are great. well put you in the refrigerator for a moment and b...

Understand a little bit about where hes coming from more than just the briefings that he gets. i think thats going to be a big opportunity for this president to comey wit a understanding of who he is and what hes about and thats just very similar to reagan and gorbachev. they had a meeting where they just got to know each other. good things came from it. it took a little while . >> sandra: its a great point and its one thing in how hell read kim jong-un and he said a lot of this will be about at...

There and get a burger but whatever is going on they decided to break out of the hotel and nothings open. >> sandra: what do you think is the moment well eventually see from the summit. what do you think the meeting will look like? >> i dontwe as assign somethin special. we remember it was a nervous first greeting when gorbachev and reagan got together as the reykajavik talks got on and reagan walked away and months later getting a deal. we remember how very antsy it was when there was the meeti...

Tomorrow just begins to be a meeting about more meetings than its actually not, its a long, long process. >> bret: i dont mean to obsess about reagan and gorbachev, honestly i dont, s just i spent a lot of time studying it and geneva started like that too. they sat in tm and they said wow, they just need to sit there and the eggs were going to interrupt. it was only supposed to be 15 minutes and suddenly it went an hour and it was just the two leaders with t translators. that was the meeting to ...

There would be a transcript, but there have been other summits, reagan and gorbachev in geneva when they met for an hour by themselves with translators. there have been times before when that has happened. i want to ask you about human rights and the question of the issue. heres the former ambassador bill richardson on those. >> the president should not leave human rights aside in this negotiation. the gulag issues in north korea, the remains of our soldiers from the korean war should be returne...

Easter, no more crazy talk. he is a colorful language with that but no more crazy talk from anybody in the administration and thats when little rocket man -- ainsley: i was watch your show yesterday. you had the video of you covering gore chevy and president reagan. decades from now is the media going to be talking about this? is it that big? >> the answer, ainsley, its a very good question. the answer is it depends on what happens. nobody would be talking about reagan and gorbachev if nothing h...

For nixon to reach out to china like that was to in a way embarrass theoviet unn and make them defensive. understand what reagan began negotiating with gorbachev, then the soviet union was put in a hole because regan pushed against that high soviet military budget. the soviets couldnt go on with their massive weapons program. >> neil: that was all going nicely until really near the final day where ronald reagan discovered that the russians had snuck in that line about the space initiative was ne...

Reagan was an ex-lentz -- excellent me gauchator. i can imagine reagan thinking that about gorbachev. he isolated gorbachev. i can imagine him thinking that but i cant imagine reagan saying that. trump may be right. its odd he would say that. but in a way hes trying to project to kim that hes strong and that kim is not going to be able to get away with any maneuvers against donald trump. >> neil: yeah. keep them guessing as you say. >> exactly. >> neil: thanks, burt, for your perspective and tha...

Gorbachev. you had geneva was first, and that led eventually to reykjavik and washington and moscow. i think this is a gena-ty meeting that sets up others. the question is how far down the road they can go. and how far the north koreans are really able to get to denuclearize to get economic benefits for their nation. >> dana: juan williams. >> juan: brad, interested in what you said at the top about the president leaving later today, obviously last week they were discussing the possibility of th...

>> yeah. that was 1986. gorbachev wanted to undermine the sdi, the strategic defense initiative that reagan was proposin proposing. that would outmode his whole weapons arsenal. so the soviets were anxious to avoid that. gorbachev made that clear. reagan was trying to push human rights violations by the russians, to put gorbachev at east. reagan wasnt going to eliminate the sdi initiative and not go forward. but they did meet in washington. it was a postponement. they respected reagan. reagan wa...