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Since i know nothing about that, i wouldnt speculate what comes next. >> do you think a summit is a good idea? you tell a story about being with ronald reagan across from gorbachev, and about your army training. gorbachev makes it known, hes going to let the soviet union dissolve. so do you have any reason that, like a gorbachev, he would be willing to walk away from his grandfather and fathers history? >> i would be surprised if he walked away from 70 years of kim family occupancy leadership of...

Through it, she helped shape it. i think she was very aware of what a crucial time that she and the president spent in the white house.nt that was really a hinge point, post-world war ii, the catalyst had been set for the collapse of the soviet union with ronald reagans buildup of u.s. defense, but george w. bush was the one that really had the very delicate diplomatic skills to pull it off as d a smoothly s it was pulled off. collapse of the soviet union and the reunification of germany. and sh...

I think she was very aware of what a crucial time that she and the president spent in the white house. that was a real hinge point. george h.w. bush was the one who had a very delicate diplomatic skills to pull it off as smoothly as it was pulled off. the collapse of the soviet union and the reunification of germany and she was a very active part of that whole process. her relationship with mrs. gorbachev was important. her relationship with the other first ladies around the world was part of th...

We havent had a diplomatic -- potential diplomatic achievements since the end of the korean war. so it is really extraordinary what the potential is here. >> fascinating. general, always good to see you. >> good talking to you, martha. >> martha: now, with mark, bill bennett, former security of education, he is also a fox news contributor. he has been through a few confirmations of his own. what do you make of the fact that mike pompeo could potentially have a very uphill battle here, bill? >> i...

She was always worktion aing an leaning in, if you will. the thing about thes wily speech there had been a protest among graduates that she shouldnt honor someone who is only famous because of who her husband was. and she courageously went, took mrs. gorbachev, they were in town for an important summit and confront head on, shed is he there are different paths here. its not -- you know, sometimes times change quickly, sometimes they change slowly. the thing is focus on your kids, love your frien...

United states had fine relations with russia reagan and gorbachev got along and there was close relations between clinton and yeltsin. and certainly it is not beyond the realm of possibility. but the president was correctly articulating in the tweet when he said relations between the united states are low and surpass those of the cold war. there is no question that the united states, that the united states and russia are not seeing eye to eye here. but as he did with north korea and speaking to ...

Others in the uk. he did not, however, exactly lead the way. shortly before the expulsion, mr. trump congratulated vladimir putin on winning what was a rigged re-election. on the same call, he talked about them meeting at the white house. as for the presidents claim to be the toughest president ever on russia, that might come as a surprise to his predecessors. >> it shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from cuba against any nation in the western hemisphere as...

Winning an election. >> be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched as an tack by the soviet union on the united states requiring a full retaliatory response upon the soviet union. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down these walls. >> has president trump been tougher than that, tougher than president truman. it wasnt the only hyperbole, the president said this about the border with mexico. >> it is like we had no border because we had obama make

And as you can probably imagine, after i heard that about ten times, i thought they were blaming me. >> dana: right. yes, i know exactly what youre talking about. you feel like you have a responsibility. another good friend of both of us, the press secretary for the reagans, he told a story about a wardrobe malfunction with gorbachev. he said i thought nancy reagan did more about that. not many people know the story. >> he said it was the first time he everold anybody that story. there was parti...

The not-too-distant future to discuss the arms race. >>chris: senator, do we need a trump/vladimir putin summit meeting or do we need president trump to take stronger actions against russia? >> lets go back to the reagan playbook. do you stand up in front of the berlin wall and a tear this wall down and on the other side is an evil empire. then he wound up meeting with gorbachev to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons. i think pressure is running wild. whatever we are doing is not working in the...