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Former president nixon and kissinger. the two men said it would be, quote, a profound mistake unquote to allow medium range missiles in europe. >> many conservatives thought reagan had been charmed by gorbachev, and reagan had more problem dealing with his hard right than he did the left. so reagan had to constantly let the right know, i know what im doing. >> reagan was being accused already of getting soft on communism, but he hadnt forgotten the problems we still had. europe was still divided...

Not going by the script. here was a guy that wanted to do business. >> the first indication that some progress may have been made at todays talks at reykjavik came at a white house briefing a few minutes ago. theres no prediction yet on the outcome of the talks, but they give rise to some optimism. >> i was up there as the clock was ticking down. they had worked and worked and worked on an arms control agreement and at the last minute it fell apart. >> mr. president. >> do you have an agreement,...

Germans roll through that wall and knock it down and start making souvenir slices and it was a truly exciting night because we had wanted this for 40 years and now its happening. >> the long-time communist party leader of bulgaria, todor zhivkov, suddenly and surprisingly today announced his resignation. >> it turns out that these regimes are more brittle than gorbachev understood and it also turned out that these regimes couldnt find many gorbachevs. he tried to encourage people like him to ris...

>> donald trump is -- his instincts are not going to change. you see that on twitter. i was really struck in watch and reading more about reagan. i covered eight years of ronald reagan. the change from the man who talked about the evil empire and the man who cut deals with gorbachev and talked about the vision of a world without nuclear weapons is so extraordinary, and it was jim becamer, and george schultz and other smart advisors. i think having kelly and mattis around him has been critical. >...

Banning nuclear weapons. >> a reagan administration move to sign an arms deal with the soviets was criticized today by former president nixon and kissinger. they said it would be a profound mistake to eliminate medium range missiles in europe. >> many conservatives thought reagan had been charmed by gorbachev, and reagan had more problem dealing with his hard right than he did the left. so reagan had to constantly let the right know, i know what im doing. >> reagan was being accused already of g...

Overwhelmed them but it wasnt anticipated. it was a surprise. >> our joy was just watching germans roll through that wall and knock it down and start making souvenir slices and it was a truly exciting night because we had wanted this for 40 years and now its happening. >> the long-time communist party leader of bulgaria, todor zhivkov, suddenly and surprisingly today announced his resignation. >> it turns out that these regimes are more brittle than gorbachev understood and it also turned out th...

This is nothing that anybody didnt already know. >> but it is significant, ambassador, that youre not willing to say, the old city of jerusalem or east jerusalem is part of israel. you say, thats still open to negotiation. is that what im hearing? >> wolf, why would the united states say that? when were pushing a peace process, thats really for the palestinians and the israelis to decide. if we decided that, we would be picking a side. there has been a lot of time and effort thats been put in by...

Who have done their education to go and grow pumpkins. they want real jobs in the city. theyre on twitter, theyre on facebook, and they insist on their voice being heard. the loudest voice is we want jobs. >> hopefully he can start to create that. he reached out to the world saying were open for business. one journalist we spoke with said he was a tad the disappointed he didnt work alongside -- in this hope. >> very difficult because, of course, he was involved in the genocide of the 1980s again...

Zimbabwe. this would have him in the hague especially. you everybody when gorbachev came into power and boris yeltsin, they simply changed the future. >> geoff hill, thanks for joining us. still ahead on "cnn newsroo newsroom", the biggest shopping day of the year. consumers fought lines and retailers fought the competition. stay with us.

And we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much. so choice and quantity won out. >> new york city, hello. >> the major catastrophe in %-p 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 desi...