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Starting as a local anchor, then as white house correspondent during the nixon years, anchor of the "today" show and of course the longtime anchor of "nbc nightly news." no one was better at chronicling the history of our times. whether it was conducting the first television interview with gorbachev as the soviet union was about to break apart. capturing the significance of the greatest generation on the beaches of normandy. bicycling through tiananmen square after the media were banned. or decl...

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 now in a dry artesian well. >> the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come 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 desir...

>> it is interesting. he is trying to make the budget more transparent by opening it up and, of course, it it revealed how much money was going to syria and how much money was going to ayatollahs. he pushed for faster internet. is he the gorbachev of iran. >> thats the question since the day he was elected in 2003. because to reform -- revolution always has to adopt or collapse. the key is often when you look at communism in the soviet union or apartheid in south africa, the key is economics. ca...

Date back to the iran-iraq war. this is a long standing issue that has to be dealt with fortis l -- for the islamic republic to survive. >> it revealed how much money was going to syria and how much money was going to ayatollah. he pushed for faster internet. is he the gorbachev of iran. >> thats the question since 2003, because true reform -- revolution has to adata point or collapse. the key is often when you look at communism in the soviet union or apartheid in south africa, the key is econom...

Think back to when i was growing up. i would watch mtv videos that made ronald reagan look like a buffoon. im sure there was a lot of gnashing of teeth when he told gorbachev to tear down the wall, but when i went to berlin, theres a statues of reagan there. i have to agree with my colleague tom cotton, it only seems that this mental stability question comes with republicans. my meetings with him are definitely showing something different. >> theres a tweet from president trump when when preside...

Diplomatic action. and the tweets, truthfully, in my view, did not contribute hopefully to expanding that opportunity. >> you know, its interesting, david sanger, though. we had jack kingston, former congressman from georgia on, who said that president trump tweeting about buttons is akin to ronald reagan standing in berlin saying, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. i think a lot of people will bristle at that comparison, soaring rhetoric on the one hand versus, you know, 280 characters or less...

I think what the president is doing is giving the rhetoric right back to him. at the same hand, working with the international community, trying to get china, trying to get russia onboard. and hes trying to get tillerson and south korea to try diplomatic solutions, as well. so i think what the president is doing is right, and i think these were the same people who were appalled when ronald reagan said, mr. gorbachev, tear down that wall. theyre always the same armchair academic types from think ...

There is only one same policy for your country and mine to preserve our civilization in this modern age. a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. >> that warning from president reagan a reminder that of course led to gorbachev and a war. that was related to trump saying he has a bigger and better button than kim jong-un. this after he said he might be

>> 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 watching cnn. >> cnn w...

So choice and quantity won out. >> new york city, hello. >> the major catastrophe in americas space program. >> i am lou dobbs along with myron kandel. >> jessica mcclure trapped for almost three days in a dry well. >> the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come 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 ...