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>> we had good meetings, and even where we disagreed we were disagreeable. >> i watched him very carefully and you said a great line, you know. you said, as an actor you could see when somebodys acting and reacting. but you know what i loved? he might have acted, but you know what happened? because youre a good actor, you had him react a couple of times. [ laughter ] >> could i just hold this up, presenting this to the president? >> thank you, mr. president. >> thanks. >> good afternoon and happ...

Was the only photographer in the room outside of the official white house photographer and the soviet photographer. gorbachev was looking at him with love and admiration. it was kind of genuine. he really liked him. they hit it off. they had a long conversation one on one, and thats when it wrapped up. i was very, very glad to get that moment because it underscores the value of personal diplomacy and sitting down with people. >> so you have these gorgeous snapshots of an era, and we have this do...

His sort of template for the job and for the role was that of a hero in hollywood saving the day in the third act as he does in his dealings with gorbachev around the inf treaty. trumps template is much more of a sort of reality tv template. hes -- with trump i always feel like the question is who is going to get voted out of the white house this week, you know. >> there have been some comparison to the show "the apprentice". >> sure. >> as you reflect back, we were discussing, you havent taken ...

>> 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...

In the old days in politics, that guy is the guy they use, gorbachev would have dwayne andrews, theyre american. in this case their american is manafort. their american becomes michael flynn. >> thats exactly the question to figure out. is manafort a man that happens to be in the middle. is there that connection, that collusion that sets all of these dice falling. >> he made 17 million bucks, thats a lot of money in moscow, i would say he is driven by that just guessing. >> the other thing is ma...

I think were at our lowest moment with the russian government. you may have to go back to the mid-80s before gorbachev took over the soviet union to find when theres been so much distrust between moscow and washington. president trump doesnt talk about diplomacy, hes never honored the foreign service. hes dismissive of them yesterday. it would behoove him to plug into the state department. >> the president seems to put a lot of stock in the military and its incredibly important. but most militar...

Inventory of nuclear weapons. the united states, russia and united kingdom and pakistan and india and since 2006 north korea. these inventories range from 7,000 roughly for the united states and russia. by treaty supposed to be the same number. some of them are old and we replace them but they drop down to the hundreds for the rest of the list and down to 84 israel and about 10 and 20 for south korea. these are by the way just midpoint estimates, israel may have more, north korea may have less. ...

Whether those are human intelligence efforts, theyve got lots of russian intelligence officers in this country, ruthlessly targeting our people here and their efforts to target us through cyberspace as well. i think we need to educate our people about that threat. i think thats the first step. then we need to counter them and counter their themes. >> do you think the white house has done a good job of being transparent and presenting that evidence to the american people? >> ill leave it to other...

Where thousands of people have gathered in defiance of the new soviet government >> gorbachevs >> gorbachevs whereabouts are unknown. there are thoughts he is under house arrest. he certainly isnt able to act as he wants to. >> every year he liked to holiday on the black sea. and his aides showed up at his home and cut off communications and took away his nuclear codes. >> the kgb chief, the military commander, the minister of the interior and the prime minister joined forces to mount the coup. ...

President herbert walker bush? how did that impact his legacy? >> we tend to be blessed with superb leaders. harry truman was the president to have at the start of the cold war. and george herbert walker bush was the right man to be the president at the end of the cold war. one of the things that george bush understood was that he had to work closely with mikhail gorbachev. if he made it politically difficult for gorbachev, it would be much harder to achieve a unified germany and nato. a soviet ...