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Independence. in a kgb pathhouse six senior soviet officials hatched a plan to restore the glory of the soviet empire. >> the leaders hold on against a popular uprising. we still dont know the where about thes or the condition of gorbachev tonight. >> he refused to step down. boris yeltzin showed surprising to deliver a fiery speech. the hard liners failed. gorbachev wasnt toppled but by christmas 1991 he resigned and just like that the soviet union was no more. the russian federation took its p...

Which was applauded by many. heres what he said. "so i go to poland and make a speech. enemies of mine in the media, enemies of mine, are saying it was the greatest speech ever made on foreign soil by a president." ever made on foreign soil by any president. what do you make of that? >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall? there are a lot of contenders. look, it is the kind of hyperbole that is common to this president pip mean, the larger picture, first, is that we know from the pew data that tr...

Advantage. when senators want him to push a certain policy for his legislation have gone out there and said, the president says this is a good thing -- >> hes covered all the bases. phil, i want to change -- were not going to put -- thats not your wheelhouse, shall we say. phil, i want you to talk about this conversation, though, that we now know the president had with vladimir putin. the white house did not disclose it. theyre trying to say -- i mean, this is just -- hes socializing. but this i...

Russians. he was nice to mr. gorbachev, mr. putin in the g-20 meeting openly. then when they had the meeting, they sat with him just his own, putins own translator, interpreter. he brings out this new overture in terms of supporting assad by opposing, or giving no more funding to assad. the side weve been on. that adds up to me as sxoopgs collusion. >> it is very he concerning to me that this appears to be going on. i understand it is a good thing to look for areas where our interests converge. ...

>> is cable news network just going to be a new means of delivering the same kind of fare? >> no. it already does provide different fare. cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. >> people love news. 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 americas space program. >> i am lou dobbs along with finish editor myon kandel. >> jessica mcclure trapped for almost three day...

Tonight, the end of an era. gorbachev said sfru to go, you have to go. its that time. >> tonight in moscow at the kremlin, the red flag of the sailed if you soviet union after the last came down and the flag of russia rose. a symbol now of a new experiment here. >> after the collapsest soviet union and in the frenzied race from communism to capitalism that followed, the russian government scrambled to unload major state oenld assets. everything from factories to gas and oil companies and newly m...

It, that he was going to be looking to renegotiate it in some way. >> its 174 countries, the chance that you would have a renegotiation is zero. as everybody who was involved in this has said. the important thing to remember is, you know, we take presidential rhetoric very seriously. >> words coming out of the -- >> the words coming out of the presidents mouth are very important. think about ronald reagan saying to gorbachev, tear down that wall. george bush sr. after the invasion of kuwait, the...

But the chinese can renege on it as can the united states. so trumps reneging on it was just about sending a signal to his base. so it wouldnt make any sense to renegotiate it. to come back in. >> the president did say, to be fair, when he announced that the u.s. was going to pull out of it, that he was going to be looking to renegotiate it in some way. >> its 174 countries, the chance that you would have a renegotiation is zero. as everybody who was involved in this has said. i think the import...

Office. whats heart breaking to when, lawrence, as somebody who put my entire adult life as a result is the fact that the republican party has become donald trumps enablers. they are complicit in what he is doing to our country. shame he is guiding us through. even today when we see that donald trump jr. welcomed the help of the russian government to win the election, republicans are still making excuses for them. most republicans are refusing to distance themselves from this white house. that i...

Happened. just step back and think about this. this is the first time in american history when there are credible allegations that our president colluded with a hostile foreign power to win office and is quite possibly subject to blackmail by the same foreign power today while in office. whats heart breaking to when, lawrence, as somebody who put my entire adult life as a result is the fact that the republican party has become donald trumps enablers. they are complicit in what he is doing to our...