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To doubt themselves. that happened with the soviets in the 80s, gorbachev was the first who realized this was a rotten system that didnt have a future. that was inhuman and impractical, and thats when it fell apart. >> tucker: so if you articulate a short list of precepts of beliefs that every person coming here or living here ought to share in common, what would they be? >> i think its a day she find people floating in the south china sea on the raft, having escaped the country and they want to...

That happened with the soviets in the 80s, gorbachev was the first who realized this was a rotten system that didnt have , future. that was inhuman and impractical, and thats when it fell apart. >> tucker: so if you articulate a short list of precepts of beliefs that every person coming here or living here ought to share in common, what would they be?wh >> find people floating in the south china sea on the raft, having escaped the country and they want to come here why? free speech. the ability ...

Was a truly exciting night because we had wanted this for 40 years and now its happening. >> the long-time communist party leader of bulgari suddenly and surprisingly today announced his resignation. >> it turns out that these regimes are more brittle than gorbachev understood and they it also turned out that these regimes couldnt find many gorbachevs. he tried to encourage people like him to rise to the fore in these countries. they werent successful. >> had gorbachev decided to use force, this...

Americas space program. >> i am lou dobbs along with myron kandel. >> jessica mcclure, trapped for almost three days now 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 freer and more extensive personal contact between the peoples of the soviet unio...

Soviets was criticized today by former president nixon and kissinger. they said it would be a profound mistake 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 stil...

Why? why were they wanted to fail? >> its kind of pornography, justice like theres no law against -- there is no american interest. as a historian, let me tell you the headline i would write instead. what we witnessed today in hamburg. potentially historic new, anti-cold war partnership, begun by trump and putin, but meanwhile attempts to sabotage it escalate. he said it was an expert. isc actually do have one expertise. ive seen a lot of summits as we call meetings between american and russian ...

Meeting between our president and the russian president to fail. why? why were they wanted to fail? >> its kind of pornography, justice like theres no law against -- there is no american interest. as a historian, let me tell you the headline i would write instead. what we witnessed today in hamburg. potentially historic new, anti-cold war partnership, begun by trump and putin, but meanwhile attempts to sabotage it escalate. he said it was an expert. i actually do have one expertis expertise. ive...

Press is rooting for this meeting between our president and the russian president to fail. why? why were they wanted to fail? >> its kind of pornography, justice like theres no law against -- there is no american interest. as a historian, let me tell you the headline i would write instead. what we witnessed today in hamburg. potentially historic new, anti-cold war partnership, begun by trump and putin, but meanwhile attempts to sabotage it escalate. he said it was an expert. i actually do have o...

The old communist guard was watching it all in horror. in a kgb bath house in moscow, six of yet officials hatched a plan to topple gorbachev. >> we still dont know the whereabouts or the condition of mikhail gorbachev tonight. >> mikhail gorbachbachev refuse step down. showing surprising medal cri climbing on a tank to deliver a speech. the hard liners failed. mikhail gar ba chof wasnt toppled but he resigned and just like that the soviet union was no more. the russian federation took its place...

Reagan met president gorbachev. and what happened was there was a real breakdown over the issue of star wars and there was feared that that could happen again particularly given the fact that at that point president reagan was deep into his presidency. at this point, president trump is not. and so -- so the deal was well -- well make it a little bit longer meeting, president trump will have rex tillerson with him, give him another adult, or un-adult in the room to kind of monitor the nature of t...