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The feeling was we didnt have to prepare all that much. according to everything we knew, it would be howdy, hello, handshake. turned out to be anything but that. after the first morning when reagan and gorbachev met, we were called into the embassy which was right nearby. reagan says gorbachev really wants to reduce nuclear weapons, so he hands a piece of paper to no one in particular. all of us kind of grab it, looked it over, and it was a holy cow moment. this guy really wants to reduce nuclea...

>> 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 freer and more extensive personal contact between the peoples of the soviet union and the united states. >> w...

Terms of what hes allow today discuss? >> hell have advice from secretary mattis and tillerson and how the president should conduct himself. its an opportunity for the president, he needs to meet president trump. theyve never met. this is an important relationship. we may be at the lowest point in the u.s./russia relationship -- i should say the relationship with moscow since before the end of the soviet union, way back before gorbachev came to power in 1985. the russians are violating the nucle...

Building mutual security several years ago, presented both to president putin as well as president obama that the tensions and distrust were alarming because we, the united states and russia, have 90% of the nuclear weapons in the world, 90% of the nuclear materials, responsibility for taking the lead on preventing dirty bomb attacks. all of those things mean we have to work together, but the distrust has been built -- has been really increasing and now has reached a new level of danger. so we f...

Thats the balance we have to strike, and i dont hear what i just said said hardly at all during the course of this health care debate. its all about, theyre taking insurance away from people or democrats want government to run it. health care policy is complicated for the reasons i just stated and many more. we need an honest discussion about it. look, america does not have the best health care system in the world and we havent for quite some time. we need to look and learn from what other count...

Fall of the berlin wall. the beginning of the end of the cold war. west german chancellor helmut kohl in the limelight. behind the scene there was suspense. >> the night after the fall of the wall was the most decisive moment. >> reporter: it was a make or break moment. how would the soviets react? helmut kohl said he and then u.s. president george h.w. bush assured the soviet leader gore was chof that soviet forces in the east wouldnt be attacked. >> gorbachev trusted our work, decided not to s...

>> martha: on this day 30 years ago president ronald reagan delivered a speech that was seen as possibly a big, antagonizing mistake. overall, it was barely noted in the press at the time, although "the new york times" did run a story that day about scuffles between the parlous police and workers. both that and the speech were signs that big change was coming. gorbachev later wrote that he was not angry at president reagan later that day, he saw that it was named more at the west germans. heres ...

Nato speech and surprised those around him, members of the nsa there?ho thought that was in >> reaganesque thing and why he left in, mr. gorbachev, tear down that wall. i think the president is trying to send a message to fellow allies you have been under as it relates to national defense expenditure like germany 1.2% and sign add contract they would be at 2%. i think the presidents trying to send people a message he wants people to be accountable to the treaty and so then by taking that out -- ...

Been lied to with nato expansion as a key element. they were told at the end of the cold war that were not going to expand verbal, it was nothing legal -- >> not even the baltic states were going to join nato. was ukraine really on the verge -- >> gorbachev and reagan. tip oneal was involved in terms of helping push this forward. in terms of helping to encourage steps forward. >> you felt that was a threat to russia? >> well, i think if the was a better relationship, could you imagine if tip one...

Theres sort of an interesting rubber hitting the road. nato is one institution, but the trump vision seems sort of skepticism of all of them. >> right. this isnt just about nato. this is an attack on europe, and it doesnt take into account, for example, the deal that was made in 1990 at the end of the cold war, when the first bush administration and gorbachev agreed in return for the now russia, formerly soviets accepting the idea that reunified germany would join nato, that the agreement was na...