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What would it take to get me in to the kgb. he ended up as a lieutenant colonel. he was not perceived to win the best, most elite assignments. vladimir putin did not go to london. he was posted in dresden, a relative backwater. he was not an undercover spy during james bond-like missions over the berlin wall. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> in november of 1989, remember, is when the wall opened in berlin. people were taking to the streets. vladimir putin thought they were coming for hi...

Right for that job in my opinion. im glad hes in that position. >> i agree with you and i also think hell be the one to advise the president for some realistic expectations. remember, as you pointed out, weve got over 20 years of misguided, and effective policy to clean up and that doesnt happen in my view at least in one summit. some realistic expectations are important. i dont expect a cd denuclearize korean peninsula after the summit. it will take a little bit of time but again, i think we ha...

President wont let him get away with that. he will want to do it as rapidly as we possibly can with complete verification. if he is not serious at all, i take the president at his word he is going to get up and leave. this much i believe. i think the president has inside information here that he is not sharing us with kim jong un. i think he got that from director pompeo in his discussions with him he keeps talking about something dramatic. if it doesnt happen, im going to leave. we have a major...

A long time. hes a monday of principle and character. hes so right for that job in my opinion. im glad hes in that position. yeah. >> i agree with you. i also think he will be the one to advice the president for realistic expectations. as you pointed out, we have over 20 years of misguided, ineffective policy to clean up. that doesnt happen in my view at least in one summit. >> sean: agreed. >> i dont expect to see denuclearized north korea after the summit. it will take some time. we have the r...

Back then, many on the left were also predicting the worst, that reagan would bring us to the brink of nuclear war. and what happened? the berlin wall came tumbling down. >> there is one sign the soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. ...

Refuse to placate the soviet union, the former evil empire, as he described them. back then banana and left were also predicting the worst, that reagan would bring us to the brink of nuclear war. and what happened? the berlin wall came tumbling down. >> there is one sign the soviets can make that would be unmistakable. that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if ...

It. he walked out of the meeting. we remember the second meeting with reagan and gorbachev. not the first. the second. if the first meeting goes well, its the first of many. this isnt going to be were going to have a meeting and have an end result. >> thats right. >> all right. well leave it there. democrats are reportedly facing a growing split over the partys message when it comes to the mid-terms election. could an anti trump agenda backfire? and more trouble for the democrats and hillary cli...

Im not sure. i think its still up in the air. hes doing more meetings and i also think absolutely one of the reasons that this meeting leaked out that he had with kim jong-un was to push along the confirmation. >> maybe. no say hes doing something. >> its not like its not true and something that we wouldnt want. madeline albright was secretary of state. she went to meet with kim jong-ils regime under clinton, part of the criticism is the nation didnt understand the front game. did they lay down ...

Kim jong un wants to travel. also maybe geneva, switzerland. reagan and gorbachev met there. still a possibility, it might be vietnam. vietnam had fairly good relations with north korea. though, recently, theyve been a little more rocky. the big issue when it comes to the meeting is how far is kim willing to travel and also, how far does the president want to travel? if he flies almost all the way to go see kim, its a big p.r. victory for north korea. >> harris: the president said if it doesnt w...

>> the worst case is that trump didnt listen to advisers who say you have to have a long-term inspection process. hell say, no, no, i have a deal, its done. is it possible that kim kicjong wants to join the world and reup i -- reunite his peninsula and the only way to do it is to move west, make himself not so scary and win a peninsula-wide election? >> i dont think his model is the west. if hes got a model in mind, its china where he can maintain absolute control hereby gets to keep his nuclear...